Description
Our story begins in a sprawling old house outside time and space, where it’s always September 15th and there’s always room for a new visitor. A teen girl sits on the windowsill, reading a well-worn paperback and listening to the splashy-crashy rain come down. She’s alone in the world, but soon enough the strangers who reside here will become her closest friends, family, and mentors.
If you love slice-of-life fantasy, queer found family, and cutting-edge game mechanics, then read on!
Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast is many things. It’s a bed and breakfast, of course, but it’s also this book. And this book is a book, of course, but it’s also a role-playing game—the sort of game we can play with our friends around a table, or on a voice call while hanging out, or even very, very slowly by mail.
When Ayo was a wee changeling and obligated to attend bible-schools, they learned a certain odd phrase to denote a particularly large and intimidating bible: a mule-choking bible. Meaning that hypothetically, should a voracious paper-consuming beast such as a mule or goat attempt to eat such a book, it would surely die. Those who carry such massive tomes have an aura of immense power that surround them, since not only do they wield a tool of impressive scholarship and culture, but also a formidable weapon in melee combat. Anyway, this digression is to impress upon you that this book is large. It is a mule-choking TTRPG.
Cozy, kind, charming, and bound in glorious hardcover, get ready to meet the denizens of Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast, a pastel, extra-dimensional refuge for outcasts and misfits of all flavors. Tell everyday stories with a fantastic, magical twist.
Choose from seven ‘main characters’ or, if you’re not stopping by long, from a cast of fifty weird, wonderful guests. Everyone is important! Everyone has an arc! And like the writing of the most fulfilling ensemble shows, everyone grows, learns, and has adventures.
Grab a copy of this weighty tome – all 48 chapters. Unlike other gamebooks, Yazeba’s boasts an easy-to-launch, easy-to-play rhythm immediately. No pre-made, starter adventures here, because every chapter is a quick-play chapter. Intentionally! Each a one to two hour ‘episode,’ chapters balance storytelling choice with plot flow. Diagrams, progress charts, and introspective questions abound! Mechanics vary but were designed to be quick to learn, and this ‘legacy’ book encourages players to scribble, notate, and otherwise affect the world as they play.
Yes, it’s pricey, but we think it’s worth it. Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast is waiting to be experienced, loved, and changed. By you!
- Includes Itch code for digital download with purchase
- Hardcover, full-color with two internal ribbon bookmarks
- Graphic novel-inspired art throughout
- ‘Chapter’ mechanics tell a compelling story for players of all experience levels
