The Lost Bay Podcast

The Lost Bay Podcast episodes:

• 04.14.2024

  Yochai Gal, designer of Cairn 2e Boxed Set

  Yochai Gal is the designer of the forest fantasy RPG Cairn. Right now, Cairn second edition boxed set is live on Kickstarter. In this episode we talk about how Yochai grew the first edition of Cairn into this new expanded...

  
• 04.04.2024

  Chris McDowall, designer of Mythic Bastionland

  Chris Mc Dowall is the designer of the rules light flavor heavy trifecta of games Into the Odd, Electric Bastionland and Mythic Bastionland. In this episode we talk about Chris' latest game Mythic Bastionland, its sources of inspiration, design process,...

  
• 03.26.2024

  Samantha Leigh, designer of Outliers

  Samantha Leigh is a multi-faceted tabletop RPG creator and has released some of the coolest solo games of the indie scene. She’s been recently kickstarting Outliers, an award-winning game inspired by her own experience as a lab researcher. In this...

  
• 03.21.2024

  Watt, designer of Cloud Empress, Life and Death

  Watt is the designer behind the Nausicaa inspired ecological space fantasy game Cloud Empress. After a successful launch in 2023 Cloud Empress returns to Kickstarter in 2024 with two new books/settings. In this episode we talk everything shop, from writing and...

  
• 03.12.2024

  Evangeline Gallagher, dark fantasy illustrator

  Evangeline Gallagher is an illustrator with a taste for dark fantasy and horror. Their art is inspired by 80s and 90s media. Evangeline is one of the most productive and striking artists of the TTRPG scene and beyond. In this...

  
• 02.01.2023

  watt - Cloud Empress

  watt is the designer of Cloud Empress, an ecological science fantasy tabletop RPG inspired by works like Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind, Dune, Full Metal Alchemist. Cloud Empress is both a hack and a campaign setting for the...

  
• 11.23.2022

  Pelle Nilsson & Johan Nohr - Mörk Borg

  Mörk Borg is a Swedish tabletop role-playing game by Pelle Nilsson & Johan Nohr with a strong pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy vibe. The fantasy setting features a dying world, where all is dark and gloomy, even the characters you play. The...

  
• 10.15.2022

  Emiel Boven - The Electrum Archive, DURF

  Emiel Boven is the writer, illustrator and designer of the games DURF and The Electrum Archive. Emiel has stumbled across the tabletop indie scene only a couple of years ago, and since then he's been extremely productive: He wrote several...

  
• 09.10.2022

  Goblin Archives - Liminal Horror

  Liminal Horror is a modern horror tabletop RPG. It started a year and a half ago as a hack of the game Cairn, and since then its ecosystem has significantly grown. It has been published in print, counts two official...

  
• 06.30.2022

  Iko - and The Weekly Scroll - Skyrealms

  Today I have a very special episode for you, where for once I get to be interviewed. I’ve been a guest on the Weekly Scroll. It’s a super cool stream part of the Adventure Archive where Hunter and Ryan interview...

  
• 02.13.2022

  Alfred Valley - Thousand Empty Light

  Alfred Valley is the writer, designer and publisher of several TTRPGS characterized by unique setting and mechanics. In particular he wrote Lay on hands, a solo RPG in which you play as a healer in a post apocalyptic RPG, and...

  
• 01.27.2022

  Ian Yusem - Hull Breach

  Ian Yusem is publisher editor and writer of Hull Breach, an anthology book, collection of adventures and articles for the Sci-Fi horror RPG Mothership. In this episode we talk about Ian's experience both as an author and as the editor/publisher...

  
• 01.07.2022

  TTRPG IRL Community copies - with Sean Patrick Cain - Yochai Gal - Caverns of Heresy

  This is the second episode of a three part mini series on TTRPG zines, the physical objects, we love, make, read and use to play role playing games. The first one is and interview with Leo from L.F. OSR, maker...

  
• 12.16.2021

  L.F. OSR - publishing RPG zines

  Leo is very active in the RPG scene, particularly on the OSR side of it. He writes, makes art, he even just has released a dungeon synth album called Lost Fellow. But Leo also makes zines, like in crafting and...

  
• 12.08.2021

  Zines as Paper Objects

  Today what I have for you is a very short episode, I’m working on several episodes of a mini-series that require intense editing. This is why I don’t have the usual interview to offer this week. But I didn’t want to...

  
• 12.02.2021

  Paolo Greco - The Book of Gaub

  Paolo Greco is the writer and designer behind the RPG press Lost Pages. They have recently successfully finished the Kickstarter campaign for The Book of Gaub, a game neutral spell book, and anthology of horror micro fictions. In this episode...

  
• 11.17.2021

  Zedeck Siew - A thousand thousand islands

  Zedeck Siew is the writer an co-author of the zine series A thousand thousand islands. These TTRPG fantasy game neutral zines are inspired by South Asia.  In these episode we talk about being nerds, South Est Asia, writing as a craft,...

  
• 11.10.2021

  Sean McCoy - Mothership

  Sean McCoy is the author of the SciFi horror tabletop role-playing game Mothership. Winner of a 2019 Gold ENnie Award for Best Game, and heavily inspired by classical horror movies like Alien or Event Horizon, Mothership is redesigning, and giving...

  
• 11.03.2021

  Seb Pines - Dwelling

  Seb Pines is the designer of the solo journaling horror RPG Dwelling. The book is amazingly beautiful and playing it literally gave me the chills, both in a scary and in a pleasant way. In this episode we talk about...

  
• 10.27.2021

  Season 2 lineup preview

  Discover the lineup preview for the upcoming The Lost Bay Podcast season 2. The show becomes weekly, and will give space to talented creators, writers, designers, artists, who make amazing games and zines. You can help The Lost Bay Podcast grow by...

  
• 08.19.2021

  Ava Islam - Errant

  Ava Islam is the designer of Errant a med fan rpg she has successfully kickstarted during Zinequest 3 - The system totally rethinks and rebuilds the D&D; game engine in a fascinating and innovative way. In this episode, we talk about...

  
• 07.29.2021

  Perplexing Ruins - Broken Luck/Darkess Moves

  Perplexing Ruins is an illustrator and a writer. This episode might be a little different from the previous ones, maybe a little longer, and a little more intimate. Because Perplexing is a friend. He is one of the first members...

  
• 07.06.2021

  Sam Leigh - Anamnesis

  Anamnesis is a journaling RPG for one player designed by Sam Leigh. In the game, you wake up with no memory whatsoever of who and where you are, and through a series of beautifully designed questions, and with the help...

  
• 06.23.2021

  Batts - My body is a cage

  John Battle, aka Batts is the designer of the RPG My body is a cage. In the game, there are two worlds, the one you live in during the daytime, very much like the one we live in ourselves, and...

  
• 06.16.2021

  Ian Yusem - The Drain / Picket line tango / Moonbase blues

  Ian Yusem is the designer of the Mothership rpg adventures Moonbase blues, Picket Line Tango, The Drain. Ian has also a great blog called Uncanny Spheres in which he writes with a lot of honesty about his experience as an...

  
• 06.02.2021

  Anna Blackwell - Delve/Rise/Umbra

  Anna Blackwell is the designer of the solo RPG Delve, or rather the solo RPG series Delve, Rise and Umbra. Delve is a map-drawing game in which you run an underground dwarven hold. As you dig underground you encounter magic, treasures,...

  
• 05.19.2021

  Vi Huntsman - Collabs without permission

  Vi Huntsman runs a Crazy youtube channel called Collabs without permission. They do great video reviews of TTRPG zines. In March they shared a review of the game Mothership filmed at Bonneville Salt Flats. It’s a super brilliant review of...

  
• 04.21.2021

  Chris McDowall - Electric Bastionland

  Chris McDowall is the creator of the RPGS Into the Odd and Electric Bastionland. Both games share a fascinating weird industrial early XXth century setting and have been extremely influential to the indie RPG scene for the way they handle...

  
• 04.07.2021

  Ben Milton - The Waking of Willowby Hall

  Ben Milton is behind the popular YouTube channel Questing Beast where he does reviews and flip throughs of RPGs and OSR books and zines. Watching his reviews, I've been struck by the constant attention he has for the layout or...

  
• 03.24.2021

  Leo Hunt - Vaults of Vaarn

  Leo Hunt is a multi-faceted creator. He wrote four novels, and in the last year, released two issues of VAULTS OF VAARN, a science-fantasy rpg. In this episode we talk about his inspirational sources, the difference between writing a novel...

  
• 03.07.2021

  Yochai Gal - Cairn

  In October 2020, Yochai Gal released CAIRN, a fantasy tabletop roleplaying game. Cairn is, among other things, inspired by Yochai's love for the forests and forest-fantasy fiction. Actually, from the window of his own house, one could see the edge...