Battle over Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast contracts leaves the book, relationships, torn apart [Updated]

UPDATE Feb. 10, 11:14 am GMT: This piece has been updated to reflect details published in a Medium post from Jay Dragon on February 7, 2026, with additions in bolded brackets. The original article continues below.

Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast is an acclaimed tabletop RPG from small press Possum Creek Games, collecting the stories of several residents of the eponymous house into 48 chapters with distinct rules. Its writing was nominated for a Nebula Award in 2024 and won an Origins Award in the same year for best core product, alongside four ENNIE nominations in 2025 that include best writing and cover art. Its original IndieGoGo campaign raised over $300,000 from roughly 3,600 backers, making it one of the most successful tabletop projects on the platform. Following up on the cultural and critical success of Wanderhome, this book was a big deal.

And yet, you cannot find Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast anywhere — at least, not in print. Physical copies were fulfilled to backers, and a few lucky people purchased extra stock from Possum Creek Games’ booth at a handful of conventions throughout 2024. Otherwise, empty storefronts. Following a link for physical books on the company’s official itch.io page offers a single clue: “Possum Creek is a pupa right now. We've paused all shipments of physical books while we sort out our backlog and resolve various issues.”

When Possum Creek Games partnered with Steve Jackson Games in February, 2025, it seemed possible that the chunky, pink-covered RPG might finally have found a path to publication, but the arrangement produced no such movement. The reason for such delays was unclear until, in July of 2025, a group of five writers and artists who had been hired to produce significant work in the original version of Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast emailed Rascal. They believed that the new arrangement between the two companies triggered a renegotiation of their original contracts, and possibly constituted a legal breach of those contracts. 

What Rascal uncovered through interviews and documents was a strained working relationship between the five creators and Possum Creek Games co-founder Jay Dragon, completely soured by the auteur's poor communication, minimal transparency, and perceived betrayal. Dragon has disputed both of the groups’ allegations in emails and messages since January 2025. Steve Jackson Games never explicitly denied the aforementioned claims, instead doggedly pursuing buyouts via a lawyer and killing nearly all other negotiations. The three parties are now snared in a legal tangle that may fundamentally alter Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast if it is ever to grace a game store shelf.