Birthday sale and retrospective
MEGA SALE AND LOTS OF LINKS/RESOURCES
In this exceptional Friday Dispatch announcement, we’re celebrating 2 years of The Lost Bay Studio zine trading, and a “certain number” of Iko years today, October 25th!
Truly, the support and encouragement you have given to The Lost Bay Studio has helped us fulfill our indie ttrpg dreams. And to give back, a small thanks you to all of you, starting today and until Sunday Oct 27 save 25% on the whole TLBS catalog!
BIRTHDAY SALE
Solo games
Explore Seb Pines’ haunting journeys with Dwelling: Expanded Edition and Curios: Jasper Park.
Open Alfred Valley’s Letters from Valley Mini-Bundle, dive under the ocean in Thousand Empty Light, and go on your healer’s journey in Lay on Hands.
Visit the imaginary cityscapes of Jimmy Shelter’s Hiria: the Eternal City and A Visit to San Sibilia.
Venture into the Polish Carpathians with Corny Groń, by Jakub Skurzyński (and no need to go alone with the group play expansion Beyond Corny Groń).
ECO MOFOS!!
Trek through the hopepunk future of ECO MOFOS!! in search of your peaceful Glade in this gorgeously written and illustrated Mark of the Odd ttrpg. Choose among three covers, and check out the ECO MOFOS!! Adventure Bundle with six A5 zines and two pamphlets!
Leo Hunt Zines
Discover the science fantasy Dying Earth setting of the Vaults of Vaarn, through all four volumes of this incredibly crafted setting and the fully illustrated bestiary.
In Bloodheist, Dracula reigns supreme. The world is a vampire haven of Great Houses, ruling over humanity. Inhabit scumbag vampires and humans living on the outskirts, the perfect people to steal from this demonic aristocracy in this 56pg ttrpg zine for 3-5 players. Fully illustrated by Lewis Garvey with art that captures the comedic gothic vision of Leo Hunt. Steal from the rich of the Undying Empire and get your copy at The Lost Bay Studio.
More vampires, demons and witches
Snag Amanda Lee Franck’s Vampire Cruise, monster-filled You’ve Got a Job on the Garbage Barge, and haunted submarine of Crush Depth Apparition.
Hell Night, a Doom Biker RPG rule/artbook set in the god damned 80s.
Black Mass by Will Jobst, a witchy tarot-based ttrpg for 4-8 players.
Montford Tales epistolary games, The Dead Letter Society and The Almanac of Sanguine Paths, for vampire & werewolf pairs.
The Lost Bay
And of course, The Lost Bay RPG itself! All of the TLB zines and Preorders for The Lost Bay RPG and Urban Legends books are 25% off!
BIRTHDAY RETROSPECTIVE
The Lost Bay Studio has been busy this year, we have two major projects in the works and close to completion: Outer Rim Uprising a riot-themed bundle for Mothership and The Lost Bay RPG our admiral ship RPG, the one we intend to keep growing and supporting in the years to come (yes, years, you heard me well, there’s a lot of content for it).
Aside from our publishing activity, we’ve released several resources: free tools, podcasts, and videos. Here’s a quick retrospective for you. It might be helpful if you missed some of our content.
ALL FLESH IS SURPLUS
The first online convention dedicated to The Lost Bay, featuring lots of games, releases, and a game jam. It’s still running! Create something frightening and join us!
La Bahía Olvidada, release
The Spanish version of The Lost Bay RPG Quickstart is available PWYW on itch, adapted and released by El Refugio Editorial.
Tools for The Lost Bay RPG
Vibe Framework: Build new powerful and weird playable classes.
Urban Legend Framework: Build low-maintenance and high-impact modern horror point-crawls.
Urban Legend Notebook: Free 20 page note-taking tool for your modern point-crawl adventures.
Designing low-horror adventures, Magical Realism: How to get scared without shedding blood.
Dungeon drop generator: Drop a few d6s and generate random dungeons on the fly. A procedure so simple you’ll need to read it just once.
Blog, Shifter Preview: Endlessly mutate your flesh with a new Vibe for The Lost Bay RPG.
Videos
The Lost Bay RPG character creation video
Chris Airiau, Samantha Leigh and Allen Hall show you how to generate a character for The Lost Bay RPG. As a bonus, get the three pregen characters our cast creates for you.
A Night on Rose Hill
Toru, the character created by Chris Airiau in the previous video, returns for a one-player memory and graveyard crawl in this one-night adventure designed and run by Allen Hall. And check out the designer interview with Allen!
Podcasts
Evangeline Gallagher, Illustrator: The pen behind The Lost Bay art, one of the most iconic artists of the RPG scene.
Watt, Cloud Empress, Life and Death: A deep dive into Cloud Empress game design secrets and a cross-designer interview.
Samantha Leigh, Outliers: Retrospective chat with one of the most eclectic creators of the scene: designer, editor, content creator.
Chris McDowall, Mythical Bastionland: A short post-mortem of the latest iteration of the Into the Odd games series and Chris’s personal take on Arthurian myths.
Yochai Gal, Cairn 2E: Two years after the first episode of The Lost Bay Podcast, Yochai returns to the recording room to present the Cairn 2e Boxed Set and the forest crawl framework.
Goblin Archives, The Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow: A conversation about designing modern horror supplements and building community.
David Blandy, ECOMOFOS!!: From visual art to tabletop RPG, David shares his origin story and the design process behind the weird-hope post-apocalyptic ecological super punk RPG ECOMOFOS!!.
Côme Martin, Meanwhile in the Subway: A trip to Paris, France, and a conversation with the most English Parisian RPG designer about how writing and playing RPGs in France is different or not.
Concluding Thoughts
Too long to list everything, this is a select retrospective. As always, this could only happen thanks to the generous support of TLB third-party designers, GMs, players, friends, customers, and The Dispatch readers.
A big thank you to our new team members Chris Airiau, Wren the Forrester, to Laura Elle our new chief editor for the Podcast, to the publishers who trust us with carrying their zines and our fulfilment partners.
In the next few weeks and months, you can expect more zine releases, a gazillion ton of The Lost Bay modules, as well as modules for other systems or games.
I’m particularly excited about the upcoming cross-interview we’ve been prepping with Goblin Archives, the designer of Liminal Horror.
At the end of the ALL FLESH IS SURPLUS Game Jam (deadline extended to mid-November!), we’ll share the names of the recipients of The Lost Bay Creator fund and recap all the cool submissions to the jam.
That’s all we got for you today, gotta get back to designing and scheming the next big project. I can’t wait to announce it because oh boi! There are only a handful of members of the TLB tribe who know what it’s going to be. It’s going to be this, and that, and this and that, all condensed in only one thing.
Stay tuned.
Iko
Happy birthday bro! 🎂 🥳