The Lost Bay Podcast

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 and publisher of limited editions of bespoke RPG zines. 

If you play RPGs you're probably familiar with the concept. Community copies are free copies of RPG games or adventures, people can download from the internet. It's a way for designers and publishers to support members of the community who can't afford for whatever reason to buy a game. 

In this episode, we are going to take a closer look at what some people in the community start to call IRL community copies. As in, in real life, community copies. These are physical copies of zines distributed for free in various places, mainly in Little Free Libraries. You know, these boxes one can find sometimes by the side of the road where people drop books and even other supplies. We will accompany three indie game designers, Sean Patrick Cain, Yochai Gal, and Caverns of Heresy, while they print, prepare, and distribute some in real life community copies.

Episode produced by Iko

Development and editing supervision by Laura Elle

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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 publishing them, with his printing shop/publishing house called L.F. OSR. Their publications are quite unique in the scene, one hundred percent handmade, bespoke and special editions of indie zines.

In this episode we talk about hacking printers, hand stamping zines, bone folders, being a nerdy craftsman, and the future of the indie RPG zines in these uncertain times of paper shortage and supply chain disruption.

L.F. OSR shop and newsletter are here http://www.lfosr.com/

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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 let you with no content at all, so I’m going to give you a short tour of what is going to come in the next three episodes. We'll be talking about zines, as objects, as paper objects.

And if you stick around until the end of this bonus episode, you'll hear some of the sounds I'm editing for the series.

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 we talk about magic, real magic, studying it, understanding it, and how it can help writing better RPG magic, a kid fascinated by the occult, and a lost and beautiful font.

You can buy The Book of Gaub here https://shop.lostpages.co.uk/

Subscribe to Lost Pages newsletter here https://dream.lostpages.co.uk/

And get in touch with Paolo here https://twitter.com/lostpaolo

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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, running a Kickstarter, cockroaches and The reach of the roach god, the first A thousand thousand islands campaign book.

The book is being kickstartered until the end of November 2021, several stretch goals have already been hit, be sure to check it here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/centaurgames/reach-of-the-roach-god-part-of-a-thousand-thousand-islands

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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 a new youth to the SciFi horror genre in TTRPGs.

In this episode we talk about specific game design choices, building a company, community support, being seven years old and playing RPGs until 3am, pivoting from a career in filmmaking to RPG design. And foremost, we talk about the new Mothership Boxed Set edition.

If you’re a designer, if you’re venturing into the indie RPG business, if you’re a fan of Sci-Fi and horror, this super open and generous conversation with Sean McCoy is for you.

You can back the Mothership Boxed Set on Kickstarter

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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 an old spooky haunted house, insomnia, notebooks, mourning, solo RPGs, game design and much more. 

You can buy Seb's game in its digital form on itch.io

or as a physical book from Good Luck Press

This episode is available on Youtube with English subs 

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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 becoming a patron.

Check the Scissors and Glue TTRPG Jam, it's running until November the 23rd.

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 power, race, game design, bets and wagers, Neapolitan pizza and much more.

You can preorder Errant here 

Or read Ava's blog here 

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If you want more interviews and talks with designers and game creators you can help The Lost Bay Podcast to grow by supporting it on patreon.com/thelostbay

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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 of our little indie RPG scene that I’ve met. 

In this heartfelt episode, we talk about ancient German castles, gouache paintings, witches, the Midwest, bigfoot and so much more.

You can get in touch with Perplexing Ruins here https://twitter.com/PerplexingRuins

Games https://perplexingruins.itch.io/

Patreon https://www.patreon.com/perplexingruins/

Support The Lost Bay Podcast

If you want more interviews and talks with designers and game creators you can help The Lost Bay Podcast to grow by supporting it on patreon.com/thelostbay

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