I love the concept of taking something familiar and with minimal modification fundamentally changing the way you interact or think/feel about it. Having finally gotten through House of Leaves for the first time recently, these bookmarks come at the right time for me to have similar fun with seemingly innocuous books ^^

Classifieds!

Skillfull genre mix of weird, whimsical, funny and disturbing. Great use of the medium’s format.

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That's some excellent old document noise and the slight tilt hurts my brain the exact right amount  😵‍💫

Sounds fair enough, that's why I thought I'd ask beforehand.

With all those cool small indie TTRPG servers on Discord and my scatterbrain I tend to lose sight some of the time, but I guess the TLB community seems like a fun new addition to my roster—see you over there ^^

Love the way you portray the progression of whatever poor Bill is going through 🤘
(Also, had to edit to say I really dig the GIF thumbnail)

Hi folks (and especially IKO) 👋

While I’m still considering making a wholly original zine for this jam, I already went ahead and submitted a fragment I had originally created for the latest Tiny Library jam. The theme (Modern Fantasy) fits The Lost Bay well enough and I was lucky that “mxtp” was already designed as a found artifact.

Now, onto my question: I feel like there were a couple other entries into that jam fit that bill as well—would you be OK with me sharing this jam in the respective community (and also hyperlink the above mentioned jam here, if folks are interested)?
Don’t want to flood you with “established outside stuff” if you’d rather have entries that are bespoke to The Lost Bay.

I’m happy you think so. I was hoping that this would come across as a “real” item which has been used in the game’s world. I wonder what stories players/GMs come up with about the previous owners …

Ooh, excellent. A friend has been trying to get me into the podcast for years now but I hadn’t been aware of the book. Seems like a great place to start 👍

Thanks for the tip, I’ll add it to my ever-growing reading list 🤞

And OH  BOY, are you and your kids in for a treat—I wish you lots of fun ^^

Update: Actually, turns out, there are just so many books with this (or a very similar) name, that it seems impossible to pick the one you suggested—you wouldn’t happen to have some more info on like the author, release date or publisher?

Haha 😂

I mean, if the print comes out symmetrical enough, that should work in theory…

I’m not sure the card will fit back in the deck that  way, but I love the thought of folks making this artefact their own—be sure to send me a pic of the tape’s fate ;)

I’m happy you enjoy it ^^

Thank you ^^
Well, I think I missed one or two along the way, but there were just so many awesome folks participating in this jam that I wanted to reassure their work was acknowledged and appreciated  ✌️

Thanks, that's nice of you to say ^^

Excising a moment not only from one's memory but from history entirely has some fascinating implications for the game world and I can't wait to see how folks break reality with it  🙈

Looks fantastic, feels ominous and offers a wonderfully unenviable choice  👍

This feels like the perfect Venn intersection between anticapitalist manifesto and high-effort shitpost and I'm so here for it ^^
(I hope this does not come off as disparaging, I'm being quite sincere and enthusiastic)

All hail be to RODERE!

*ahem* Squeak, I say, squeak!

I mean, yeah, that's probably what the crypt bros would have come up with in a modern fantasy setting  🙈

Some hellish combinations in there—and some you could probably vibe with  👍

Great illustration that the space between games can, indeed, be a game as well  👍

Another great artefact that feels true to the world of the jam's setting. I'd like to believe that, wichever way one deals with the card, mysterious powers intervene and do indeed deal with the emergency at hand ^^

Very cryptic, perfectly hits the theme 👍

Super rad design, dig the colours!

Those are all excellent but the Fisherman’s Cap is by far my favourite—I love a good-spirited stereotype-turned-game-mechanic that doesn’t come at anyone’s expense for a change 👍

Cute and fun by itself—I wonder what shenanigans folks will come up with is there are mechanics to modify dice rolls (from other cards/fragments) put into the mix.

Wow, that’s a lot more mechanical crunch than I would’ve thought fits in a MOSAIC fragment 👀

(Also, how dare you deny me Minotaur Mum in my games ;p)

Like with “classic” HP and other ways to track health in TTRPGs, I find it a lot of fun to theorise what actually happens in the narrative when the score in question changes. I feel like this fragment does a great job of illustrating concepts like shock/adrenaline rush and (taken a bit further, considering how a low stat means you remain unaffected by more and more rolls) how trauma might lead you to dissociate from a situation. Refreshing and surprisingly deep 👍

Cool stuff ;)

Asks  so many more questions than it answers, allowing for so much speculation ^^

(I already have some fun scenarios in mind, with interesting consequences if the players decide to ignore one of the van’s few rules 😈)

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Some great, flavourful choices 👍

Also, I’m somehow hungry for imbiberries now? ;)

Stuffed to the brim with interesting choices—they sure look useful, but I don’t know if I’d be brave enough to have one of them accompany me on an adventure (I don’t even dare consider multiple in the same party) 🙈

I’d be interested to see how long their college-issued PlotArmour™ holds up in a Night Vale game ;)

I chose to believe that those critters are purely benevolent and the old woman simply can’t keep up with all the thank-you-letters she receives for them being helpful in the neighbourhood ;)

Cute style, conveys a wonderful mood ^^

OMG, thank you for mentioning the clever title, causing me to wonder what I’d missed initially—the accents on the first word had lead me to pronounce it in a completely different way and miss the obvious pun 😅

Thanks for the kind words ^^

Funnily enough, before I decided to rip off part of the instructions on the back side, unwinding and permanently jamming your cassette player was one of the placeholder Bad Things™, so that’s certainly one way you could take this ;)

I want players to visit all those places—especially the one that's just a big ambush off all the folks they ever pissed off 😂

There's a lot to those creatures, but I really enjoy how much their opposing vices alone are telling us about them.

This, together with the MLM magic amulet, feels like one of the few entries that really get the sort of mundanity I'd expect (or rather dread) in a “modern fantasy” setting. *Of course* there'd be legions of attorneys, specialised in magical mishaps. I can't even try to imagine what OSHA has to deal with over there  😵

That's what I love so about the MOSAIC philosophy—the text/design of each individual fragment is rather limited, but when you begin to think about their implications, your creativity can really take off in all kinds of unexpected (but completely understandable, from their respective starting points,) directions.

Thanks for the earworm…

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Now we just need another card to decide once-and-for-all who get's to form the head ;)