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A Game of Nostalgic Analog Horror

Public Access is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people in 2004—the Deep Lake Latchkeys—who find themselves investigating strange mysteries in and around the town of Deep Lake, New Mexico. In the ‘80s and early ‘90s, Deep Lake was the home of a notorious public access television station called TV Odyssey, the history and fate of which—the station literally disappeared—is the source of much speculation in certain corners of the internet. As the Latchkeys conduct their investigations in Deep Lake, they will become increasingly aware of the central role TV Odyssey plays in everything that’s going on, and will have to face whatever terrible truth lies at the heart of the infamous station...

Includes:
  • Rulebook (Spreads & Singles)
  • Character Sheet
  • Latchkey Moves Sheet
  • Reference Sheet
  • TV Odyssey Campaign Sheet
  • 20 Odyssey Tapes
  • 8 Mysteries: The House on Escondido Street, Slumber Party Summoning Circle, The Deep Lake Lurker, Xxaagreus, Starlight Kingdom, Greetings, Travelers, The Whisper, Convergence.
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Leaner. Meaner. Weirder.

Skinny Jeans & Summer Screams is a supplement for Public Access. It contains:

New Mysteries!
5 strange and spine-tingling investigations that take the Deep Lake Latchkeys to dangerous new locales.​

New Tapes!
5 mysterious artifacts of Channel 94, ranging from the unsettling to outright unnatural. Purple clamshells not included.

New Rules!
The “Skinny Jeans” ruleset tightens the base game, putting a stronger emphasis on its core themes and ideas while also centralizing the TV Odyssey mystery, refocusing the overall campaign into a more terrifying experience.

BONUS! The Original Public Access
Before TV Odyssey—indeed, before even the Whateleys, the Big Man, Deep Lake or its Great Hungers—there was a small game about a group of people watching a tape. The original 2014 version of Public Access came in at 7 pages, designed for 3-5 players, and is quite different from what the game ended up becoming. But in a way, it's not so different. As a bit of fun, and to honor the game's history, we’ve included the original version for all to see.
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