RPG: Possum Creek’s ‘Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast’ And More Now Available At Steve Jackson Games
Possum Creek brings its collection of cozy and haunting RPGs to Steve Jackson Games for the first time after their team up!
Earlier this year, Possum Creek joined Steve Jackson Games as an imprint of the tabletop titan. And it was more than just an enmeshing of entities. Editorial director and designer Jay Dragon joined as both a member of the Board of Directors and Lead Game Designer at Steve Jackson Games. Now, the fruits of that partnership have started to bloom, in the form of Possum Creek (and Jay Dragon’s) oeuvre hits the SJG webstore for the first time, with surprises literally in store.
Possum Creek at Steve Jackson Games
There are seven new games all in all. Starting with the two big names in Possum Creek: Wanderhome and Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast. Wanderhome is a game of pastoral fantasy and wandering animal folk setting out on journeys. It’s somewhere between Wind in the Willows and My Neighbor Totoro in terms of the kinds of stories it has to offer. Idyllic, leisurely life with mossy shrines, buzzing bees, and opossums getting up to all sorts of little weirdo things. It’s great.
Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast takes the cozy vibe and runs with it. If you hear the name and start thinking Spirited Away, you would be on the exact right track. This is such a beautiful little game; I can’t recommend it heartily enough. It is a game that you keep coming back to and playing for its slice of life, finding new wrinkles each time as you create your own version of the book together.
But there’s more to Possum Creek than just that. In fact, the cozy vibes are hard won – one of Jay’s better-known other games is Sleepaway, set in a summer camp for misfit kids, beset by a monster known as the Lindworm. It’s haunting and ominous and tragic in the best ways:
“The Lindworm is a shapeshifter, or so the stories go; a creature that flays the skin of humans and hides within. As counselors ofthis summer camp, you’ve each been traumatized by the Lindworm, in your own ways.
You remember little of that time.
Just that you don’t want anyone else to experience it either, and you’ll keep this camp safe no matter what.
Alongside those three games, you’ll also find The Flower Court (a game of cyberpunk pop stars and their schemes), Uncanny (a Sleepaway expansion), Wickedness (a game of a coven coming together or falling apart), and Esoteric (a collection of Secret Games).
You can find all of the games in digital format at the link below!
Seriously, you should check out Yazeba’s if you want something for your friends to come together around!
