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Tabletop RPG designer and publisher. He/Them - Fuck bigots The Lost Bay RPG https://www.thelostbaystudio.com/pages/the-lost-bay-preorders Blog & Newsletter https://www.thecodedtype.com/

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 2d

New blogpost, where I talk about my first workshop, @wren-the-forrester.bsky.social 's latest module and Emergent Design

➡️ thecodedtype.com/the-workshop/

The Workshop
My first workshop ever didn't go as planned in a good way, and led me to start thinking about Emergent Design.

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 2d

Original text is all laid out and illustrated! Now I'm moving on to adding an Appendix. I have plans to print this out and use, so adding extra tools like these are a must :)

We're sitting at 60 pages, so may need to print this one coil bound

interior spread showing tables for NPCs and travel etc

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 2d

And Peter Thiel claims that luddites opposing AI are speeding up the arrival of the antichrist

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Chris Bissette 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · 2d

#MÖRKTOBER DAY 13: WEB

"THRELKIS and her seven daughters maintain the old ways. When the giants walked the earth, her ancestors spun the cables for their great bridges. Now she huddles in this castle with her children, clacking prayers to absent gods."

Words by me, art by @nohr.se

THRELKIS and her seven daughters maintain the old ways. When the giants walked the earth, her ancestors spun the cables for their great bridges.. Now she huddles in this castle with her children, mandibles clacking prayers to absent gods, still filled with the need to serve.

While they wait for the return of the giants they practice new construction techniques. Their webs span every room and structure, testing tension, and thickness, and load-bearing capacity. They keep a collection of ancient giant tools, each one a holy relic. For enough tribute, they’ll part with measuring chains that calculate impossible distances, plumb-lines with unbreakable cord that always point to the centre of the earth no matter how gravity shifts around them, iron foundation stakes as long as a man is tall.

Word has reached them that Glopstepalof seeks their expertise. They’re terrified of the frog-wizard but their purpose demands that they answer when they’re called upon to serve. They know that when the flood comes again, someone will need to build above it.

THRELKIS
HP 18 Armour -d6 Morale 7
Mandiles d8

Art shows a ruined fortress covered in spiderwebs

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 2d

Morning bump!
Have a great week everyone

Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 2d

New blogpost, where I talk about my first workshop, @wren-the-forrester.bsky.social 's latest module and Emergent Design

➡️ thecodedtype.com/the-workshop/

Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 2d

New blogpost, where I talk about my first workshop, @wren-the-forrester.bsky.social 's latest module and Emergent Design

➡️ thecodedtype.com/the-workshop/

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 3d

ALERT: NEW THE LOST BAY VIBES By Robert is Lost in the Wires
Now you can play
Zombi
Cryptid
Painter!!!
Root
aaaand
Wrestler
Yep!
Go check them, they're super fun

Robert, A Ghost In The Wires || Mr. 404 @robertinthewires.bsky.social · 3d

The Lost Bay, a TTRPG I'm Very invested in, went through a rules overhaul to include elements from the Trophy Dark system. This prompted me to redo my ZOMBI and CRYPTID Vibes from last year, but also add three new Vibes: PAINTER, ROOT, and WRESTLER.
robertislostinthewires.itch.io/vibes-v-tlb

Vibes V: Five Lost Souls for The Lost Bay by Robert Is Lost In The Wires

Five optional character classes for The Lost Bay

robertislostinthewires.itch.io

Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 4d

ALERT extremely cool uncanny setting/location.
And the first entry to the Found footage of the bay jam.
Perfect example of what a great RPG module can be, in just a few pages it unpacks un world!

Wren (Wrenothy)(Wrenevieve)(Wrenaissance) @wren-the-forrester.bsky.social · 4d

Just released Elysian Apartments, a strange, infinitely growing apartment complex for The Lost Bay RPG!
wren-the-forrester.itch.io/elysian-apar...

Elysian Apartments by Wren The Forrester

An endless apartment complex for The Lost Bay

wren-the-forrester.itch.io

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 7d

Working on perhaps most detailed and tiring piece to date- A5 splash page - commission

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 7d

It’s not an industry it’s a PonzI scheme

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 7d

#MÖRKTOBER day 8: WIZARD

I made a video of the making of this one vm.tiktok.com/ZNdnPGJMd/

Pulpy poster of wizard with their face behind an technicolour orb. Words read: THE WORLD IS YOUR ORB

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 9d

I'm having a blast updating the chargen for The Lost Bay!!
Now you can edit generated characters, save/load

And you can choose from 16 Vibes (character classes), most of which are made by the community

thecodedtype.com/character-ge...

Character generator screenshot, like a digital character sheet

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 11d

I have crossed oceans* of time** to find you

gave up waiting for our box of bags to clear Belgian customs and came back to the UK to get a copy, and I have to say I think it’s pretty, pretty, pretty good. You should buy one & we’ll make more

Shop.wyrd.science

* the English Channel
** CET - GMT

A scruffy git holding up a copy of wyrd science issue 7

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scragend @scragend.bsky.social · 11d

Crop of a sci-fi bar scene.

WIP illustration of a group of sci-fi characters focused around a holographic projection of a ship.

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 11d

For the 4th time in a week Italians filled the streets for Gaza.
Today one million marched in Rome.
Something is happening.

A tide of demonstrators under the Roman sky

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Emiel Boven @emielboven.itch.io · 12d

DURF Expanded is now live on Kickstarter! 🔥

www.kickstarter.com/projects/emi...

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Chaoclypse (Brandon Yu) @chaoclypse.bsky.social · 12d

Painted up my character in Cyberpunk 2077!

Been a while since I’ve been so immersed in a video game.

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 13d

The Lost Bay online character generator has now the first 3rd party vibe, the Mermaid by @verdantcore.bsky.social

How cool is this Vibe?

Mermaid
by:Verdant Core
The sea calls to you; you yearn to return to the surf and the embrace of the waves. This land brings only pain and pollution and you need to escape the past to commune with the currents. You’re a Mermaid, and you serve The Siren.

Name: EstebanAge: 21
Calling: Find a way out of the Lost Bay.

How did you get the weird: You unintentionally replied to the ghost of a dead relative, who was asking something casual. Offering: Rest underwater

Skills:
Stars
Speed
Streets

Gifts:
Triton’s Kiss, grant underwater breathing for one hour
Boon, give someone a piece of good luck (requires an object)

Gear: PUNK. Steel chain necklace and padlock, disposable lighter, ‘concrete hold’ hair wax

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 13d

Midnight: Spontaneous demonstrations pro Gaza and in support of the Flotilla in all major Italian cities right now
In the pic below Rome city centre

Heaps and heaps of folks in the streets of Rome

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 14d

I started making an online character generator for TLB

thecodedtype.com/character-ge...

If you wrote a custom Vibe and want it to be added, feel free too reach out, we'll add it

Character generator: Scanner
by:Iko
In your crib, it’s easier to find video tapes than food or clothes. You hack community TV streams, turn them into masterpieces, and bounce them back to their oblivious audience. The most obscure indie production co-ops, film archives, and cursed VHS dealers owe you one. You find reality dull and feast on video like a famished carnivore indulges in fresh flesh. You’re a Scanner, and you serve the Monitor.

Name: WhaleAge: 17
Calling: Find a cause to fight for.

How did you get the weird:

Weird: 3

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garin @garin.bsky.social · 14d

This is me real speed btw
Please hire me

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 15d

I want to go there

Lur Noise @lurnoise.bsky.social · 15d

wip (now in color) ~*

Sunrise-colored comic panel of an island with a brutalist building on its top, and its reflection on the sea.

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 16d

Monthly joy

Chris Airiau @chrisair.itch.io · 16d

In this month's Rokaner Report, I talk about Flatline on the Blocks, games I'm runnning for the ALL FLESH IS SURPLUS digital convention, and my work with @chaoclypse.bsky.social on All Roads Lead to Rome

open.substack.com/pub/5mwpress...

Magenta card for 5 Million Worlds Rokaner Report #21, September 2025. The 5MW spaceship is headed to Prospero's Dream.

Free Flatline on the Blocks "Spinal Crux" patch in the first 48 hours for all physical backers.
The patch is a purple-y cyborg eyeball with wires going into the orbit around it. Art by Scragend.

All Flesh is Surplus, The Lost Bay Reborn Digital Convention, Second Edition: Found Footage of the Bay. October 2025. A jawless skull sits in the middle of the text.

Cover mockup for All Roads Lead to Rome with fungal strips spreading from a skull. Four creepy, muscled alien sketches off to the left. One's a fungal squid-shark like thing, one's a square-ish flesh blob. One's a suit(?) made of meat(?). The last and biggest one is an early drummer sketch, with a huge face like a drum kit.

Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 16d

Monday morning bump

Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 17d

New post: Designing Character Classes
Or how imagining the lives of grown-ups as a kid, lead to a character/user first design paradigm in The Lost Bay RPG.

thecodedtype.com/designing_ch...

Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 16d

3/? The code of the page is accessible here
github.com/twbncon/simp...

I'll be happy to provide tips on how to design super simple self-hosted blogs, if more folks need them.

simple-blog/index.html at main · twbncon/simple-blog

Simple Blog Framework. Contribute to twbncon/simple-blog development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 16d

2/? For the sake of the demonstration I put together this in literally 5minutes. Actually simple, clean, html + CSS is the way to neat and accessible design.

twbncon.github.io/simple-blog/

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