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 #10 - Perplexing Ruins - Darkness Moves/Broken Luck

 

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 listen to the podcast here:

Or on Youtube with English Subs

https://youtu.be/_iwacp-b_r4

Or on the major podcast platforms:
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anchor.fm
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radiopublic.com
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Breaker

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

Games https://perplexingruins.itch.io/

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

Check also BROKEN LUCK a Troika! zine filled with Perplexing Ruins art. I've written the zine, it's about demigods, tarot cards, curses, beasts. We are taking it to Kickstarter to bring it to print, here

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thelostbay/broken-luck

BROKEN LUCK is live and FUNDED on Kickstarter!

You might have read this Spring (2021) a few blog posts I wrote about a work-in-progress zine project for the TroikaFest! Jam. Well, after weeks of tweaking, writing, editing, intense layouting and proofreading the BROKEN LUCK zine is now live on Kickstarter. We have been lucky enough to fund the zine in just 6 hours, we are now trying to hit the Stretch Goals that will give the backers more cool art and game content.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thelostbay/broken-luck

28 full-color pages filled with amazing Perplexing Ruins' art. Perplexing Ruins is an amazing artist with a unique touch. It's one of the first creators of the OSR scene that I've met. Some of the zine's art is commissions to them. Other drawings come from their patreon, as their patrons receive free-to-use original, and lastly. Some other illustrations, like the Child God below, are older pieces that I saw on their Instagram. So the creative process was like some sort of dialog. I had some ideas I needed art for. But some of Perplexing Ruins' art was also the original spark for a lot of the content of the zine.

Inside the zine you will find mythical backgrounds, magical tarot cards, spell tables, adventure sparks, NPCs, and everything you need to spice up your Troika! game with (un)godly adventures. You can use it in combination with any preexisting sphere or as an independent setting.

The project started during the TroikaFest! Jam 2021 as some kind of auto-assignment. I felt the good vibe of the Jam, and took it as an opportunity to design quickly (LOL) a simple one-sheet zine. Unexpectedly it ended up growing into something longer and more complex.

The Fest and the Jam were incredible. I was quite new to Troika! at the time, and it has been amazing to see so much awesome content being put out in such a short time. Shout-out to the folks who made the TroikaFest! Tony Vasinda, Jared Sinclair, Jarrett Crader, all the volunteer GMs and Dan Sell. It was an amazing feast, and lots of great projects came out of it, you can check them here: TroikaFest! Jam 2021 

BROKEN LUCK is my first zine, and it has been made possible thanks to the help and support of many talented and generous folks of this community, like Perplexing Ruins (who also did the art of the zine), Leo Hunt, Ian Yusem, Daniel Locke, Cleo Madeleine (who did proofreading), Spookyrusty (whose music is the Soundtrack of the zine!!!). I'm so super grateful for all that love.

So, now I am running a little Kickstarter to bring the zine to print, you can check and back the project here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thelostbay/broken-luck

Or you can even talk about it on your social media and help me bring this project into reality

https://twitter.com/thelostbay/status/1418173226505576451

Here are a few sample double-page spreads from the test print

Previous blog post on BROKEN LUCK

https://thelostbayrpg.blogspot.com/2021/04/adventure-spark-tables-broken-luck.html