The Lost Bay RPG Digital Convention 2024

October 1st through All Living Saints Day on November 1st, The Lost Bay Studio and its online community invite you to the first Digital Convention for The Lost Bay RPG: ALL FLESH IS SURPLUS.

The Lost Bay RPG is a Suburban Gothic role-playing game set in the 199Xs where players inhabit young adults in the Bay with supernatural Weird powers, called Vibes. To spread the word on this spooky game throughout spooky month, The Lost Bay community is hosting a swarm of weird & spooky events: Actual Plays, hosted games, interviews, new releases, and an itch.io game jam. The ALL FLESH IS SURPLUS logo says it all:

Play The Lost Bay RPG

First and foremost, AFIS is about having a good time playing the game. So just how can you get in on the action and play a powerful hot mess in the weirdness of the Lost Bay?

Choose from fourteen Live Games and one Play-By-Post. Ready to accept player bookings, the games on offer are:

• Intro Sessions
• Urban Legend: Hordes
• Trapped in the Mall
• The Broken Dream, from Winter in the Bay
• Salt & Peppa
• Haus of Daus
• Urban Legend: Abductions
• De Sinu Ad Astra
• The Swine, from Urban Legends
• The Cursed Cartridge
• Pine Shallows Crossover! Prequel to Unit DH-17

Click here to learn more, and sign up for the games! If time is an issue, a new #SOLOPLAY Forum is at your service in The Lost Bay Discord server! For ALL FLESH IS SURPLUS, we plan to launch this new space for fellow TLB fans to report on, or potentially follow along your solo games.

ALL FLESH IS SURPLUS Game Jam

Want to make something for The Lost Bay RPG? Now’s the time!

Iko, the creator of The Lost Bay, has released a framework for crafting an Urban Legend adventure, put out an NPC Desert Encounter table, and has made creating new Vibes more accessible to designers. These are ripe picking grounds for your imagination, and great places to start creating for The Lost Bay RPG. Show us what new strange things have come to visit the Lost Bay! Join the Jam! 

Seem a bit daunting? Well, the Lost Bay community has amassed a wealth of resources to share with fellow designers, whether new or experienced. Visit our TTRPG channels to talk shop about game design, visual design, layout, whatever really. We’re not finicky, we adore chatting games!And if you’re a creator who plans to release a module for The Lost Bay, reach out to us so we can shout it out on the Dispatch!

TLB Community Actual Plays!

Wanna watch from the sidelines? So far, three channels are recording Actual Plays of The Lost Bay RPG for ALL FLESH IS SURPLUS. Follow and subscribe to see the game in play!

• The Lost Bay Studio is producing three AP releases on YouTube:
• A Night on Rose Hill, GM’d by Allen Hall
• Don’t Miss the Show!, GM’d by TheGreen
• The Swine, GM’d by Chris Airiau
• ReRoll plays The Lost Bay RPG, a Spanish-language YouTube channel.
• Undercommon Taste plays Trapped in the Mall. Actual Play Podcast.

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If you run an Actual Play and want to participate, contact us so we can add you to the program!

Want help getting started?

Physical editions of The Lost Bay RPG Quickstart and TLB adventure modules are now available through The Lost Bay Studio webstore at 15% off! TLB Quickstart set, yours to grab.   The Lost Bay RPG Quickstart is an abridged, 40pg zine version of the 140pg TLB rulebook, providing the essentials to begin exploring the weird and freaky in The Lost Bay. The zine contains the core rules and character generation featuring three of the six PC Vibes: The Firestarter, the Splinter and the Seer.   

This TLB Quickstart also gives an overview of the Lost Bay’s Districts, as well as a starting adventure: The Hollow Hitchhiker. This starting adventure also serves as a template for GMs to craft their own pointcrawl, Omens and Scary MoFo to escape. In addition, three TLB modules are also on sale! Unit DH-17 is a suburban horror dungeon by Iko, and designer Allen Hall’s Diesel Service and Elevator Game are also available on The Lost Bay Studio webstore while supplies last.

Happy Spooky Month!

ALL FLESH IS SURPLUS is a month-long digital convention, so there’s plenty of time to join in on the fun. Whether you’re up for playing a session or two or watching folks get into it, reading the game materials or making your own, we’d be happy to have you join us in making The Lost Bay part of your Spooky Season! Updates during the month-long convention go out over The Dispatch, the Lost Bay’s newsletter.

Hope to see you at the ALL FLESH IS SURPLUS digital convention!