GODLY CURSES TABLE

The BROKEN LUCK zine has been funded on Kickstarter in only 6 hours. And to celebrate that with the blog readers I'm sharing some content that appears in the zine. BROKEN LUCK is a Troika! zine supplement all about annoying and vengeful Gods, curses, fallen semi-immortal beings, magical tarot cards. 

A small pantheon of mischievous Gods appears in the zine. An encounter with any of those Gods would result in a curse. Here's a spread of the zine.

And in a more readable format, the table curse

WHICH IMMORTAL DID YOU PISS OFF?

1	THE FACELESS GOD.  Your dreamless nights are more frightening than your days (no Healing from sleep)
2	AISSATA THE WISE.  Your brain is messed up. You can’t count, write or read.
3	THE DEAD KING.  You attract dead-living beings like a magnet.
4	THE SUN EATER.  You can’t bear the direct light of the sun anymore.
5	ABRAHAM THE YOUNG.  You’ve lost your sense of direction. You can’t even tell right from left.
6	LUCY THE TRUESIGHTED.  You can’t recognize faces, all folks look the same to you.

In the zine there's more (un)goldy adventure tables, 5 backgrounds, a magical tarot card system and more. And we are getting closer to the first stretch goal. Stretch Goals mean more awesome art and more game content for the backers.

You can check, and if you'd like back, the project here: here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thelostbay/broken-luck?ref=10e40a

And here is a flip-through of the zine 

TLB Podcast #7 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 indie rpg designer. There, he posts detailed postmortems of his games where he addresses the financial reality of being an indie TTRPG designer and he writes a lot about community. What does that mean to belong to a community of creators ? How does one even find their own community ?

In this episode we talk about finding solace through RPGs, Dissident Whispers a charity collective RPG book in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, making a living out of TTRPG design, Kickstarter, a utopic future for the indie RPG scene and much more.

You can listen to the podcast here:

Or on youtube with English Subtitles.
https://youtu.be/xW6VR1Xiqfc

Or on the major podcast platforms:

Apple Podcasts

anchor.fm

Spotify

Pocket Casts

radiopublic.com

Google Podcasts

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Get in touch with Ian here https://twitter.com/IanYusem

Download his games here https://ian-yusem.itch.io/

And read is awesome blog Uncanny Sphereshere https://uncannyspheres.blogspot.com/

TLB Podcast #5 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 the game, and it looks amazing, like a short Sci-Fi film.

Vi has been collecting zines for years. We did the interview via a conferencing app. And as we were recording, I could see behind Vi shelves literally filled with zines.

In this episode, we talk about Vi’s collection of Zines, a romanesque encounter with Malaysian designer Zedeck Siew, a Dada clown army, Kickstarter, Mixam, risograph printing, and a possible future of RPG zines.

You can listen to the episode here:

On Youtube, with English Subtitles

Or on the major podcast platforms:

Apple Podcasts

anchor.fm

Spotify

Pocket Casts

radiopublic.com

Google Podcasts

Breaker

And soon here:

Castbox

Overcast

For more info on Riso, Sci-Fi Zines, cool Zines and more check the ZINE OF ZINES on itch. It's free for you to download, well it's Pay What You Want, if you enjoy the podcast, consider buying it!

Vi's amazing Youtube channel is here, be sure to check it:

Collabs Without Permission