Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast is an ambitious tabletop role-playing game from the publisher and creator of the wonderful Wanderhome. The game is brimming with beautiful art, delightful characters and game mechanics that promise to create fun and meaningful sessions. There will be a 500 page book and numerous additional physical items available, but the digital version is going to be accompanied by a virtual tabletop platform being developed by One More Multiverse that looks to be a thrilling way to experience the game.
A free sample playkit is available, and an actual play podcast series featuring luminaries in the RPG world has been ‘cast. Everything related to this project is exciting and I’m eager to play.
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.
Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast
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.
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.
We’re also working with One More Multiverse to create a full digital companion to Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast, a unique virtual tabletop experience allowing you to play sessions with your friends anywhere in the world.
