Fantastic flavour, what a perfect fit for The Bay both location-/setting- as well as time-/era-wise 👏
And that custom character sheet is just *chef's kiss*
(as well as the cute pixel font on here)
I started reading this and went “All those smells seem rather on the nose—bit cheeky, no?”
Then I read on and didn't find it too funny anymore.
Finished the short story(?) and now I hope I won't have to smell either in the near future 🙈
Gets straight to the point and evokes a terrifying, actionable scenario.
Can't wait to see others go through the same progression of emotions ;)
Sorry if this is too straightforward, but, in the interest of furthering human made efforts, if you still want a rougher die instead of the current vector template, here is a quick one I just sketched for you.
100% human made, free of charge, no strings attached 🤞
(Obviously also means I won't be disappointed if it's not what you're looking for—I have no idea how long the imgur link works anyhow and I'll delete this message if you want me to)
Ooh, there’s some excellent world building going on here 👀
Besides being a great grab bag to pick and choose individualt signs from, this feels like an excellent jumping-off point for people to add their own as they see fit—the style and “language” you’ve employed works super well as guidance in this regard ^^
I don’t know how and why, but the way your poetry frames these urban legends feels like it can speak to everybody at the table in wonderfully different ways. Like, a GM could use one of these as broad inspiration for a mystery, read another to the party and drop yet others into the game world as found flyers and each time the effect at the table would differ wildly. Truly makes me question how the format/medium influences what people get from something 👍
I hope some PCs try to find out who penned these dark prophecies in-universe…
Wow, this goes really hard with how far in-universe players are invited with the magazine handouts. I love how these kinds of entries build a whole new level of reality on top of The Lost Bay’s initial fiction, weaving exponentially deeper stories with each new addition.
Also, I absolutely dig the style 🤘
Oh dang! What a perfect way of anchoring the weird to the real 🙌
While there’s some fun actual story-telling and possible interaction already baked into the text, what I’m much more interested in is the possibility for story to emerge simply from players asking questions about a quirky little phrase here or there. This catalogue reads like it could fuel a whole campaign just by the power of curiosity.
I’m blown away by the “realness” of this entry. Everything about it feels like something I’d expect to find a grainy picture of posted onto some tiny county’s obscure local forum, asking who had been hanging these all over town.
Like, I have no doubt in my mind that this poster is exactly what people would put up around The Lost Bay once the first few kids go missing around the old folks’ home. And you even managed to make it actionable for the actual game!
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 ^^
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.
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?