Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast
A downloadable Bed & Breakfast
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Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast is like an episodic Spirited Away that’s part RPG, part legacy game (Dicebreaker)
Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast is a slice-of-life legacy RPG about a magical home (GeekNative)
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.
Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast is played over the course of 48 chapters, each of which is a 1 to 2-hour scenario with its own unique but quick-to-learn rules. Players can take control of one of the 7 long-term residents of the B&B or choose from a cast of 50 quirky guests, each of whom has their own ongoing storylines.
The adventures contained within each chapter include lazy afternoons, frightful nights, insurmountable chores, and zany competitions, so every play session is full of surprises. There are bespoke game rules for overcoming mountains of laundry, picking berries, surviving a trip to the scary basement, naming constellations, and everything else that matters in a slice-of-life story. These mechanics are simple and modular, meaning you only need to know the rules for the chapter in front of you. It can take as little as 15 minutes to start playing.
After each chapter, we’ll be able to make changes to our characters and to the book—unlocking new guests and chapters and advancing the individual storylines of each character who played. Whether they've traded their heart away for magic powers or are just doing the everyday business of growing up, everything about a character can change through play, including their core identities. Over time, your copy of Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast will become a unique artifact of your group's play experience, a treasure that you can revisit and replay for decades.
Yazeba's unusual blend of premade characters, modular rules, and legacy mechanics makes it a perfect game for pick-up play: busy players can drop in and out without ever feeling lost, and anyone who wants to jump in can make a long-term impact without a long-term commitment. We’ve spent months playtesting and working with our developmental consultant Avery Alder to make sure the game is as easy as possible for new players to step into, while still offering incredible depth for the more experienced player.
(If you backed Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast on Indiegogo, or you got access to the PDF through another means, we'll be sending you a download key later this week. There's no difference between this file and older forms of the PDF. If you already have Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, consider giving us a rating on Itch!)
Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Rating | Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars (71 total ratings) |
Author | Possum Creek Games |
Tags | Cozy, legacy, LGBTQIA, Queer, Slice Of Life, storygame, Tabletop role-playing game, yazebas, yazebas-bed-and-breakfast |
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How many players are needed?
I bought a physical copy at GenCon, how do I go about redeeming my pdf code? The multiverse.come link provided with the book does not work.
Came here wondering the same!
If you go to playmultiverse.com/redeemyazebas, it'll accept the code, but as near as I can tell, it didn't actually add the material to my account.
I'd reach out to One More Multiverse — their company nearly shut down in the time between the book's manufacturing and the release, so there might be some glitches on the backend.
Sent them a ticket, I'll report back if they have an answer for me, thanks!
I had the same issue! I ended up joining their discord and filing a ticket, and they got it sorted for me 🙏
Have we heard anything? I'm in the same boat.
Any news on when physical copies will be returning?
I have run about 15 sessions of Yazeba’s so far in 2024 for upwards of 20+ different people and it never disappoints.
I have nothing but good things to say about this game, and I’m just so excited to run it more and see what else there is to discover.
Is there a French version planned one day?
Yazeba's B&B is that kind of wholesome that embodies the proverb "Even the smallest candle shines brighter in the dark." I love it for both its lighthearted early chapters, that remind me of the cartoons I grew up watching, and its later chapters and their heavier exploration of each character. It needs both to work, IMO, as this deeply endearing story about complicated people that we get to play through, and both parts of it are made complete by the other.
It also has RABBITS that wear little clothes and I love them.
I've read through the PDF and played a game on OMM (z”l) and loved every second of engaging with Yazeba's. I plan to run so many sessions of it once the physical version is in my hands (within the next month!), and would highly recommend it to anyone even vaguely interested. Zeeb is so richly unique, so beautifully complex, and I can't wait to see those legacy mechanics in play long term.
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Great to see this here! An absolutely fantastic game, and I can't wait to get my physical copy soon.
Will any of the OneMoreMultiverse exclusive content ever make it into the digital PDF at least? I'd hate to have some of those exclusive characters, scenarios and writing be lost in time, because the work is so fantastic.
Most of those characters were designed to be compatible with One More Multiverse's programming and I'm not sure how well they'd work without it. That said, we're working on preserving them and finding a new home for them once the book is available.
Yazeba's is an incredible game. The characters are dynamic, the setting is impeccable, and the format is distinct. The roleplay possibilities are endless!
This game made me seriously reconsider a whole lot of what I thought I knew about ttrpg design. Fantastic work!
Lovely game, Possum Creek team.
your childhood just arrived at your doorstep in the form of a brown-paper wrapped book that smells like pancakes and dusk. yazeba's is the perfect size and weight for an adult to stagger picking it up, a teen to prop it open on their lap under the covers, and a toddler to use it as the first brick laid in the best pillow fort ever made
Thank you for this amazing game. I really like it. If ever possible, I would love a few solo player scenarios (even as a paid DLC)
There's a solo chapter in the book, but you need to find it — I can't tell you where it is ;)