This last week I’ve been away in Italy at Play Modena, Italy’s biggest gaming convention. I was invited by Narrattiva, who did the awesome Italian Ghostlight Edition of Lovecraftesque, and was at the convention as a guest. It was a pretty interesting experience and I’m going to give you the highlights. First things first: how do you say “Modena”? This seems to be quite a difficult thing for English people. We get tempted to say “Moderna”, which is wrong. I’ve been studying Italian over the last year and it didn’t help at all. So: the word is pronounced “Moh – duh – nuh“, with a rhythm and emph ..read more

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Hey folks Just to let you know about a new resource we’ve published on the Black Armada website. We’ve titled it “making your game fun for everyone”, and it’s a collection of advice and tools for use with any game, to help you focus your game on what is most fun for the people at your table and avoid stuff that’s not fun for you. A lot of this is stuff that is usually presented under the “safety” rubric. We’ve chosen to look at it through a wider lens here. Partly this is because we think those tools are genuinely useful for more than just safety (though they’re also useful for safety of cours ..read more

Hi everyone Since we relaunched the Patreon we have had a flurry of new patrons join us. Welcome new crewmates! Thanks to this, we have hit our first funding goal, which is delightful. Thank you all for your continued support. If you haven’t spotted it already, we have a discord server that you can join, where we regularly witter about whatever we’re up to design-wise. (This is now public, so if you want to pass the invite friends who aren’t on the Patreon that’s fine.) Also, our most recent two Patreon-funded games are available at the links below. We will take The food of love down when we p ..read more

History Dig Live was our October patreon game. If you missed it, you can now get it on itch. Ahoy there shipmates!   Oh my, it is so good to be back to sailing the choppy seas with you all.   As you may know we took a break over the last 5-6 months while the schools in the UK were closed.  All our spare time was went on juggling work and homeschool. We spent a fair amount of time playing and reading games (and fulfilling the Last Fleet Kickstarter) but didn’t have the energy to create anything new.  Things are currently better and it was noticeable that after a couple of we ..read more