New Year, New Game Bundles!
Get 15% OFF a selection of exclusive bundles
New Year, New Games Bundles!
Happy New Year, folks!
The Lost Bay Studio sends you best wishes in this new year. Did you make any TTRPG resolutions? In The Lost Bay Discord server this past week, folks were sharing their 2025 TTRPG Wishes. Fun indie game challenges popped up too, like the Prismatic Wasteland’s call to Release Your Beta and Idle Cartulary’s Zungeon Jam call to make local-craft dungeon zines.
Personally (Chris Airiau, here), I’ve made a TTRPG goal to change up my games roster and try games that are new to me. Iko had a similar thought and created Starter Bundles for The Lost Bay Webstore to help folks find a quick way to jump into new games. TLBS is offering six Starter Bundles at 15% off packing together visual themes, genres, and play styles. Check out the Iko put together for y’all!
Science Fantasy Bundle
In the blue sands of Vaarn, a setting irradiated with Dying Earth science fantasy vibes, Leo Hunt’s work on Vaults of Vaarn has inspired creators Jacob Marks and Bobby Swanson with these NSR-compatible modules.
• Vaults of Vaarn #1: The initial issue packs the Vaults of Vaarn core rules, character generation, bestiary and 30+ tables to get a Vaarn campaign started.
• Vaults of Vaarn #4: The most recent issue! Enter the Great Wall, a megastructure filled with factions, maps, new beasties, traversal procedures and 20 location generation tables.
• Pariahs of Vaarn #1: Meet thirteen total creepies, each with their own spread, in this fully illustrated bestiary supplement!
• Penumbral Oasis: Under the placid surface of a lost oasis lurks an ancient, unopened vault; explore three dungeon levels in Part One of an ongoing series!
• Rezvar: In the water-rich dam city of Rezvar, PCs are stuck between water bankers and a growing cyborg faction as cataclyms grows near. Compatible with Mothership RPG and Troika!
Get the Science Fantasy Bundle
Black and white bundle
For those who love stark b&w zines, this Bundle packs work from Brandon Yu a.k.a. Chaoclypse, Adam STATIONS, Iko, and Chris Airiau
• Chaos Crawl #1: An OSR zine of dungeons, maps, classes, character sheets and zine reviews, all done up with fantastic punk zine style.
• Some Sample(d) Strangers: Stocked with character portraits by indie darling Evyln Moreau, this zine of 4d20 quirky character generator sources inspo from the indie music scene.
• The Lost Bay Quickstart: Soon to be a collector’s zine, this 2023 edition of The Lost Bay ruleset is the last print and contains all you need to play a short campaign. For one or more players.
• When in Rome: This Mothership RPG zine inspired by Alien: Romulus pits PCs against familiar xenos with entirely different goals. For two or more players.
Get the Black and White bundle
Solo Starter Bundle
Looking to get into some solo tabletop games. This Bundle is where it’s at, a Solo Starter kit featuring some of the very best to do it: Alfred Valley, Samantha Leigh, Peter Eijk.
• Lay on Hands: In this innovative diceless game, you play a talented healer in a post-apocalyptic world, and resolve your encounters by spinning a coin and attempting to complete tasks before it clatters flat on your table.
• Thousand Empty Light: A suboceanic solo adventure for Mothership RPG sends you through five modules to turn the ligths on, using the Mothership PC mechanics and an iconic semiotic oracle system. The standard edition zine.
• Anamnesis: In Sam Leigh’s debut, Ennie-nominated solo journaling game, use tarot cards to re-discover who you are and how you lost your memory.
• Outliers: Incarnate a research assistant in a world where your subjects are paranormal, from the future, and other weirdness while you struggle to keep your lab funded. Uses a standard deck of cards, and a six-sided die (though a tumbling block tower is recommended).
• San Sibilia: You’ve sought this lost city for ages, and using a deck of playing cards, you now explore its heart, discovering and changing the city you’ve sought for so long.
Investigation Bundle
Seb Pines & Will Jobst of Good Luck Press have a knack for mysteries focusing on physical articles and freeform narrative building. Whether that’s as a tabloid writer or a humble researcher of The Archive, a paranormal investigation agency. Get your noggin gears turning with these games for one or more players:
• Deadline: A tabloid writer, you have the accounts of six John Doe deaths, and their personal effects and a deadline to come up with a sensationalized version of the story that’s certain to sell gossip rags!
• Curios, Albrecht Manor: In the Curios series, you receive a manilla envelope filled with evidence. Open Alex Dunn’s never-received letters and find out what happened to him at Albrecht Manor.
• Curios, Jasper Park: Your work for the Archive continues. Late-season hikers went missing in Jasper Park, and you must determine the nature of their disappearances and recommend a course of action to your boss, the Archivist.
Norse Fantasy Bundle
Colin Le Sueur, the creator behind games studio By Odin’s Beard, brings you a Souls-like duet game for a Warden and one player soaked in Nordic Fantasy.
• Runecairn Wardensaga: This 84pg hardback TTRPG delves you into a land of Norse mythology with dungeons, bonfire ressurrections and respawning monsters. Contains support for solo and group play!
• Runecarin Bestiary: Discover 100 monsters based on the Norse mythos, illustrated by eight indie TTRPG illustrators, and including tips on converting creatures from your favorite systems into Runecairn.
Demonic Bundle
Witches and Demons and Vampires, Oh My! This Bundle delivers cursed game books from Will Jobst, Gavriel Quiroga, and Leo Hunt centered dead within the world of the occult come spewing forth.
• Black Mass: In this 56pg pointillistic tarot card game, 4-8 players play two witches driven from Salem who seek to create a new coven.
• Hell Night: So much hellacious attitude fills this 168-page Doom Biker RPG artbook set during a demon uprising in the god damned 80s, no wonder looking like a badass feels more important than saving the world.
• Bloodheist: A black comedy set in a vampire-ruled world, players inhabit scumbag vampires and humans living on the outskirts keen to theive from the demonic aristocracy in this 56pg TTRPG zine for 3-5 players.
We hope you’ll find something new and exciting in these 2025 Starter Bundles! Are there other themes you’re interested in as well? Let us know in the comments, :)