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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've never received an advance copy of a book before. Am I doing it right?

Me eating a copy of Code and Codex by Yoon Ha Lee. It is pink!

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Becky Annison @beckyannison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In The Big H you play small-time superheroes going up against their former idol, the ultra powerful Big H! A once compassionate hero who now rules as a twisted tyrant. Now available in pdf download at RPG Trader and Itch. Fantastic art by @jesseross.com

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The Big H on RPG Trader

You play small-time superheroes going up against their former idol, the ultra powerful Big H!

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Becky Annison @beckyannison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Doing a 'blast from the past' artshare. This is one of my favourite pieces from Lovecraftesque 1e. Amazing work from Robin Scott! #ttrpg #rpg #horror

A cramped room filled floor to ceiling with books and curious. Someone at the front of the image in a wheelchair holding a book and a gun, glancing over their shoulder to the Mantis monster in the background. Art from Lovecraftesque 1e

#horror #lovecraft #ttrpg

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Becky Annison @beckyannison.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lunchtime is Dicetime! is streaming live tomorrow - 12.30pm BST Come and join me and @armadajosh.bsky.social talking all about the Games That Built Us. There will be #dnd, there will be fiasco, there will be LARP, there will The Beast and many many more. #ttrpg #rpg #indiegames #indiettrpgs

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Lunchtime is dicetime! The game that built us - Episode 8

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Innergnome @innergnome.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

First game of #Lovecraftesque. Really liked the storytelling mechanics, alternating roles and sharing the story of a single character. Got truly bizarre and climaxed with a classic sheep god claiming its offerings. We ran a pre built setting but it's only prompts on cards so very much up to you.

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Sarah Doom @scorchadoom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New post up where I start my thoughts on which game designers get to be named: www.patreon.com/sarahdoom/po...

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Who Gets to be Named, Part 1 | sarahdoom

So I'm curious after reading Sen-Foong Lim's interview about the importance of naming designers. You can read it here: https://www.ttrpginsi

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Becky Annison @beckyannison.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I expect anyone seeing this already knows that Black Armada (me and @armadajosh.bsky.social ) won't use AI in our work... But in case there was any doubt. Black Armada games are human made.

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Becky Annison @beckyannison.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

During Black Armada's holiday to Scarborough we opened the print proofs of Advent of Adventure and Advent of Abomination! Bonus picture of @armadajosh.bsky.social testing paper samples for the advent colouring sheets. #solojournalinggames #advent2026 #Christmas #ttrpg #rpg

Print proof copies of Advent of Abomination and Advent of Adventure on a garden table.

Print proof copy of Advent of Adventure with two doors open.

Josh in a sunny garden testing paper for the colouring sheets.

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Seen on hols in Scarborough. A hot dog so tasty it wants to eat itself - and so dim it puts the ketchup on its own forehead.

Statue of an anthropomorphic hot dog licking its lips while squirting ketchup on its own head.

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you're looking for an incredible list of solo (journaling) TTRPGs, take a look at this developing thread! An send along your own recommendations. ✍️

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

PS boycott Amazon* * and now, Temu et al. Johnnies come lately.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Given the state of things re books, predatory corporations, etc... it is more imperative than ever to buy your books from indie bookstores and their online sites. Exclusively.

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I hate it when my players waste time interacting in character. How am I supposed to progress my plot?

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Severe alert We are getting reports of out of control discourse. We are putting a temporary ban on shitposts. Please refrain from reposting anything spicy. Even a minor bit of snark could be trending tomorrow.

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Er, excuse me. Could you not have reported this before I wrote Ex Tenebris, Ian Sample? (Suspiciously on-the-nose name for a science journalist, BTW.)

A big wobbly red celestial thingy. Headline: Astronomers discover a new kind of cosmic object - a black hole 'star'.

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Last 24 hours for our cute advent calendar solo ttrpg!

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It's the final 48 hours! If you have questions ask 'em now!

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I've been a strong supporter of the EU and I wish we (UK) hadn't left, but recently it has felt like they do not give a crap about designing policy that can work for smaller businesses.

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arnaerr 🦭⭑｡ @arnaerr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

YOU CAN GIVE FEEDBACK ON THE OFFICIAL EU WEBSITE HERE: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

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European Commission - Have your say

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Geek Native @geeknative.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

From rescuing Santa to surviving an isolated cabin, these tabletop advent calendar games offer daily creative journaling.

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Advent Adventures: Black Armada turns traditional advent calendars into solo roleplaying games

Black Armada Games launches Advent Adventures on Kickstarter, bringing solo roleplaying games to daily physical advent calendars.

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

There's just over 4 days left to back Advent Adventures! Grab it while you can!

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Seeing talk about phone use at the gaming table. It is rude! End of story. Don't pick your nose on a date, don't doomscroll at the table. It can be bad for the game, too. IDK if all games, but it's bad for games where you're meant to be interested in each others' plot. Like the ones I run.

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Trying that again: check out @skyshark.itch.io's playthrough of Advent of Abomination, the horror advent calendar game currently on Kickstarter!

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I found this video energizing, as someone very interested in mini-games and pre-gen characters. I loved hearing their thoughts on some particular points of interest for me: (1) game structures w/ mini-games (2) similarity of mini-games & solo games (3) the importance of the game text for mini-games.

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 06/08/2026

Google seems to be training its AI on private Google Drive content. Google drive might not be safe for confidential data anymore.

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Nick Bate @ickbat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Did you know I stream lunchtime game design chats with my clever friends @beckyannison.bsky.social and @armadajosh.bsky.social? Lunchtime is Dicetime is on again, 12:30 BST today. We're going to talk about games that are heavy on creative constraints. It'll be fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWww...

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Lunchtime is Dicetime! Episode 5

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

One week left to back Black Armada's Advent Adventures! If you think August is a bit early for Christmas shopping you're right, but that's just how long it takes to print and ship an advent calendar. Back now, get a delightful creative solo TTRPG Christmas in 3 months' time.

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Black Armada's Advent Adventures

Give the gift of a whimsical, creative, solo journaling game this festive season, all wrapped up in an advent calendar.

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Listening to @doctorow.pluralistic.net talk about AI is an amazing mix of informative, horrifying and inspiring. Our regulators need to be learning this stuff. One day someone might even do something about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAI...

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AI and the Enshittification Era w/ Cory Doctorow | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

An AI-design-assisted but very much human-written infographic on Marxism.

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W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In @leisuregames.bsky.social, you can also find Lovecraftesque 2e by @armadajosh.bsky.social & @beckyannison.bsky.social. You can find a scenario I wrote in the Waves of Darkness expansion, about a fun seaside vacation in Brighton where nothing goes wrong! 🏖️ (Note: things will go very wrong 🦑)

Arthur holding the box of Lovecraftesque second edition with Waves of Darkness expansion.

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Cthulhoid Choices: Lovecraftesque A review of Lovecraftesque: A storytelling game of eldritch mysteries, roleplaying game of investigating cosmic horror published by Black Armada. rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2025/10/cthu... #reviewsfromrlyeh #rpgreview #rpgreviews #rpg #UKrpg

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Cthulhoid Choices: Lovecraftesque

Call of Cthulhu is the preeminent roleplaying game of Lovecraftian investigative horror and has been for over four decades now. The rolepla...

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Enjoyed this post. It's interesting how we talk about "fiction first" even though most "fiction first" games contain an XP mechanic which is just counting points until you get an advance. I'm largely a fiction-first designer but there's nearly always bits where it's mechanics talking to mechanics.

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Cool design mini-thread. I might add, adjusting the metaphor: if you play basketball on bicycles, that's cool and you can have fun with it, but you're no longer playing the same game. You shouldn't be surprised if the game no longer works, or works differently. (Hopefully that's what you wanted.)

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Becky Annison @beckyannison.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Had a great livestream yesterday lunchtime with @armadajosh.bsky.social and @ickbat.bsky.social. We got deep into using relationship questions in #ttrpgs, what they are for, great examples and how best to use them. As always our comments section was amazing and full of really insightful stuff!

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Lunchtime is Dicetime Episode 4

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Conor Mahood @conorvoice.com · 22/07/2026

Watching this now, it's great stuff. This is an area I'm really interested in, I highly recommend giving this a look, and it's under an hour!

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We're just over £100 off funding... will we hit it in 24 hours? 👀

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Josh Fox 🔜 Kickstarting Black Armada's Advent Adventures @armadajosh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Black Armada's Advent Adventures is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Two solo journaling games, each wrapped in an advent calendar, delivered in time for advent season. Early birds also get a free digital copy of our festive game 'Sleigh with me'! More in thread 👇 #ChristmasinJuly #Advent2026 #ttrpg

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Black Armada's Advent Adventures

Give the gift of a whimsical, creative, solo journaling game this festive season, all wrapped up in an advent calendar.

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Becky Annison @beckyannison.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I have very strong opinions about relationship drama in #ttrpgs and using good questions to juice that drama to the max! So strong I'm taking 40 mins off refreshing the kickstarter page to go live with @armadajosh.bsky.social and @ickbat.bsky.social this lunchtime! Meet us at 12.30pm BST today.

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Lunchtime is Dicetime Episode 4

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