New zines, new podcast episode, discounts, TLB news
Welcome to The Dispatch, the newsletter of The Lost Bay Studio!
In today’s issue: new zines, discounts, a podcast episode, and catching up with some TLB news.
New zines
Godspark
A one or two players game by Allen Hall that will take you through Ruina Dei, a graveyard of the gods, searching the bodies of fallen deities for the godsparks (fragments of divine power) that allow you to stay alive. A cool layout and a slick design for a dark adventure.
Hiria and A visit to San Sibilia
This two solo games by Jimmy Shelter will take you to dreamy mellow cities. Track a fugitive through a multiverse of cities in Hiria, or explore San Sibilia, a city of wonders that is not found on any maps. A tip: both books can be useful for worldbuilding fantasy, eerie, space fantasy settings.
Shipping
We ship worldwide but we have good news for all our European Union friends: now ALL our products ship to the EU with prepaid VAT, which means no customs hassle or fees on reception. We apply reduced VAT for books whenever possible. Get the books here www.thelostbaystudio.com
Lastly we have a summer 25% OFF promo on a selected list of games. Lasts until the next issue of The Dispatch. https://www.thelostbaystudio.com/collections/promo-25-off
Goblin Archives, The Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow
New podcast drop with returning guest Goblin Archives. In this episode we discuss the upcoming Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition and The Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow, a one shot and campaign module for LH, which is crowdfunding on backerkit right now. I’m over excited for this module, I backed it on day one. It provides a full fledged setting, a small town in the haunted US Pacific Northwest, and a cast of over 100 NPCs. The module offers various play modes from a series of one shots to a campaign, making it ideal for all sorts of play styles.
Listen on Spotify
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The Lost Bay RPG news
In the next few weeks we’ll have new TLB content drops, for both Kickstarter backers, Itchio supporters, and late pre orders (which are sill open), so keep your eyes peeled. But today here’s a quick recap of what has happened in the last few weeks.
We’ve released the Quickstart. If you’ve snagged the game (on KS, itch, or via pre orders), you should have access to it (if not shoot me a DM). It contains the latest version of the rules and a starter adventure.
We also got our two first official character sheets, designed by Scragend. You should also have access to them, check your itch/backerkit/emails.
I’m over excited about those, Scragend is a layout wizard and I find it particularly cool that there are two sheets and not only one. I plan to add more in the future, and I think it’s likely to expect more community powered character sheet variants, like the ASCII one put together by Ross Burton for the Phreak Vibe, you can get it here PWYW rossburton.itch.io/phreak-vibe
Community
Creator Fund
Speaking of the TLB community, the Creator Fund is live!
If you’re a designer and are working on a module, adventure or other content compatible with The Lost Bay, you’re eligible to the Creator Fund, and could have up to £300 in funding to support your work. If you’re granted the fund, you keep total ownership over the project. For more info and to submit a proposal just fill this form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWama7sZZaxRtfZ1HERtjiCz8b0UBxKE22SV1KJnjOglbiug/viewform
All Flesh is Surplus
If you’re planning to release TLB content, zines, games, adventures, podcasts, actual plays, get ready for All Flesh is Surplus, the first online TLB convention which we’ll happen during spooky month, October 2024. Come and join us on The Lost Bay server as we’ll start putting together teams and a schedule of events in the next few weeks.
Book Club
Bayfolks have initiated a book club at The Lost Bay server. Each week we pick randomly a short text, read it during the week, and discuss it via chat on Friday. Last Friday we discussed Rise of the Blood Olms by Yochai Gal who was kind enough to host an AMA about the adventure on the server. That’s my first time participating to a book club, and I find it a super cool way to discover new texts. We read only short fiction/adventures that are accessible for free online.
Cool reads from the newsletter sphere
Chris Air keeps putting out monthly newsletters packed with RPG content, mostly Sci-Fi related, including monthly freebies, that’s right!
Jimmy Shelter has detailed game design case study on the Pine Shallows solo rules. Whether you’re into solo games or a group RPG designer this deep dive is filled with food for the brain. Plus Jimmy is really good at designing solo rules, so I totally recommend it.
More stuff
Lastly I’ve shared a preview of the Outer Rim uprising boxed set, was about to forget sharing this.
I’ve been snagging pics all week to home printed A4 activist street art that has been filling the streets of Paris those past two weeks (because of the upcoming elections, round one is today, and I voted first thing in the morning don’t worry). Someone should make a zine of these things
love those a4!