Ian Yusem - The Drain / Picket line tango / Moonbase blues

The Lost Bay Podcast

Ian Yusem is the designer of the Mothership rpg adventures Moonbase blues, Picket Line Tango, The Drain. Ian has also a great blog called Uncanny Spheres in which he writes with a lot of honesty about his experience as an indie rpg designer. He posts detailed postmortems of his games where he addresses the financial reality of being an indie TTRPG designer and he writes a lot about community. What does that mean to belong to a community of creators ? How does one even find their own community ?

In this episode we talk about finding solace through RPGs, Dissident Whispers a charity collective RPG book in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, making a living out of TTRPG design, Kickstarter, a utopic future for the indie RPG scene and much more.

Get in touch with Ian here https://twitter.com/IanYusem

Download his games here https://ian-yusem.itch.io/

And read his awesome blog here https://uncannyspheres.blogspot.com/

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