Cozy Companion Zine

Settle in for tales and adventures in Volume 1 of Cozy Companion magazine, a cozy games and fiction magazine from Snowbright Studio.

This issue includes:

• Interview: Hopping Fresh with Joel Sparks

• Lore: The Great Mushby Mystery

• Science: Fascinating Fungi

• Activities: Marvelous Mushroom Art

• Fiction: Shadow in the Dark, Part 1

• Adventure: Precious Things (Verdant Isles/Teatime Adventures)

• Interview: A Night with Knight Moves

• Game Reviews with Ryla

Settle in for tales and adventures in Cozy Companion: Rad Pollinators!

This issue of Cozy Companion (Vol. 2) includes a brand new mini-RPG set in the Time Tails universe in addition to all kinds of winged friends!

This issue includes:

 • Friends: Birds of Spring

 • Interview: Buzzing Along with Paul Salomon, designer of Honey Buzz

 • Plucky Pollinators (Science Features)

 • Shadow in the Night part 2 (Spooky Mystery Fiction)

 • The Mystery of Mothcat (Time Travel Adventure)

Softcover
56 pages

Settle in for some special pirate tales and nautical adventures in Cozy Companion: All Things Nautical!

This issue of Cozy Companion (Vol. 3) includes a brand new Teatime Adventures mystery, a new ink adventure, and a new piece of Time Tails fiction!

This issue includes:

 • Interview: Behind the Bubbles with Cat & George Drayer

 • Lore: Boomerang Kittens (Time Tails)

 • Science: Sunshine, Seaweed, and Kelp. Oh My!

 • Activities: Let's Observe!

 • Fiction: Seafaring Felines of the Caribbean

 • Adventure: The Ravenous Cliffs (ink)

 • Adventure: Sea Change (Teatime Adventures)

 • Interview: A Chat with the Crafty Gamer

 • Reviews: Game Reviews with Ryla

Snowbright Studio is proud to present Cozy Companion magazine, your guide to all things warm and cozy in tabletop gaming.

Every issue features a new RPG adventure and cozy mystery fiction set in Snowbright’s worlds along with special features like recipes, crafts, board game reviews, interviews with tabletop creators, new mechanics for Snowbright RPGs, “choose your own story” fiction, and more! If you or a friend enjoys cozy games and fiction, then this is the perfect publication for you.

Cozy Companion Vol 4: Spooky Season includes a brand new adventure from the world of ink, and a new piece of Time Tails fiction!

This issue includes:
Interview: A Spooky Cute Chat with Scott Brady
Lore: The Pantheon of the Masked Nobles (ink)
Science: Invasive Species Among Us
Activities: Celebrating Evenfall in the Verdant Isles
Fiction: Seafaring Felines of the Caribbean Pt. 2 (Time Tails)
Adventure: The Morning Cathedral (ink)
Interview: Spiced Chai in the Emerald City
Reviews: Game Reviews with Ryla

This issue of Cozy Companion (Vol. 5) includes a brand new adventure from the world of Teatime Adventures, and a new piece of Harvest Hoppers fiction!

This issue includes:
Interview: Skyshiners with Britt Humphrey
Lore: The Krampus and the Midwinter Elves (ink)
Science: The Verdant Science
Crafting Corner: Crafts from Feast of Forge and Flame
Time Travel Guide: Ancient Athens
Fiction: Gifts of the Hoptops (Harvest Hoppers)
Adventure: Spirit of the Season (Teatime Adventures)
Interview: Snowed in with Back Again Board Game Cafe
Reviews: Game Reviews with Ryla

Settle in for some special pirate tales and nautical adventures in Cozy Companion: Love Cats! This issue of Cozy Companion (Vol. #6) includes a brand new adventure from the world of Time Tails RPG, and a new piece of Teatime Adventures fiction! This issue includes:

Results of the First Annual Nonbinary Tabletop Award

Interview: Let's Talk About Fog of Love with Jacob Jaskov

Lore: Boorista Bash: Party Planning in Purgatory (ink)

Science: Plumage and Mating Behaviors

Activities: Bird Calls

Crafting Corner: Deerkin Ribbon Bracelets

Time Travel Guide: Victorian England (Time Tails RPG)

Fiction: Roses for Two (Teatime Adventures)

Adventure: The Buckingham Paradox (Time Tails RPG)

Reviews: Game Reviews with Ryla

Whether you are just joining us for the first time or are a long-time friend of Snowbright, we are excited to have you with us now for this very special volume. What’s so special about New Beginnings?

In this volume, you will find yourself cast into some perplexing puppet-filled pandemonium in the new ink adventure, Puppets of the Obur. You will be able to make your very own elixirs over in the Crafting Corner to help your players along the way.

And you simply have to try one of the Puppet Smiles; they’re better than any vampire could hope for. With cookies and elixirs in hand, surely you can find a way to help some puppets (or other nocturnal residents. . .) find the new beginnings that they have been searching for.

• Adventure: Puppets of The Obur (ink)

• Recipe: Puppet Smile Sandwiches 

• Crafting Corner: Ink Elixir Bottles

• Interview: A Life of Cyles with Catherine Croft

• Lore: A Pocket Full of Cozy (Teatime Adventures)

• Fiction: Roses for Two, Part 2 (Teatime Adventures)

• Time Travel Guide: The Agricultural Revolution (Time Tails) 

• Ask Dr. Squeak: Factors that Impact Growth 

• Dr. Squeaks Lab: Fishing Net Factors

• Interview: Get Cat-feinated in Cleveland with AffoGATO

• Game Reviews with Ryla: Meadow, Snapshot, Ecologies

A new adventure awaits… in New Beginnings

This volume’s “Puppets of the Obur” ink adventure takes players to a distant key filled with mystery, danger, and… puppets? This multi-part adventure can be played alone or as a follow up to the “Morning Cathedral” adventure found in Spooky Season. Want to see the adventure played? Check out the in-progress Actual Play videos posted on Cozy Library!

New Beginnings also includes:

• New miniature garden animals for use in Teatime Adventures and Tea Pets

• A Time Tails Setting Guide for the Agricultural Revolution era

• The conclusion of the theatrical rom-com short story, “Roses for Two”, set in the world of Teatime Adventures

• Interviews with game designer Catherine Croft and cat game cafe AffoGATO

• An all-new feature, “Ask Dr. Squeak”, set in the world of Mercurio

• A guide to make your own ink elixirs and Puppet Smile Sandwich cookies!

In this volume of Cozy Companion, reach for the stars! Dance your way through Starsong in a new Teatime Adventures mystery, find new fiends for ink, a new era for Time Tails, and a constellation of interviews and activities!

Constellations includes:

• The “Mambo Under the Stars” adventure for Teatime Adventures

• A Time Tails Setting Guide for Renaissance Italy and adventure prompts for running adventures in the far future

• New fiends for ink set at the very edge of the Ink

• Interviews with game designer Ben Rosset (Search for Planet X) and game cafe Oddwillow’s Game Haven

• More questions for “Ask Dr. Squeak”, set in the world of Mercurio

• An all new wellness feature featuring Petal Wingstar

• A guide to make your own constellation jar and new Starry Sky Tarts!

In this volume of Cozy Companion, explore the crystal caverns beneath Terra. You'll find quickstart rules and a full adventure for Snowbright's new RPG, Mercurio. You are 2" tall mice exploring the origins of a mysterious signal on a nearby planet. What will you discover in the deeps?

Crystal Caverns includes:

• New quickstart rules for Mercurio that you get you up and playing as space mice quickly... ad astra, mouselings!

• The “A Signal in the Deep” adventure, the first part in a new adventure trilogy for Mercurio

• A Time Tails Setting Guide for the Middle Ages, including an exploration of the cave city of Vardzia!

• New fiction for ink following the adventures of Cassidy and Hector

• Interviews with game designer Emily Vincent (Pirate of the High Teas) and "mycohistorian" Professor Meeps from the Verdant Isles

• More lore and a new mushroom recipe for Teatime Adventures

• A guide to make your own crystals

• Board game reviews by Ryla the Cat, and much more!

In this volume of Cozy Companion, find all manner of spooky content in the second annual Halloween-themed volume! Kick things off with a visit to Fossil Park in a new adventure for ink that can be played standalone or as a continuation of the Seven Lanterns campaign path.

Fearsome Fossils includes:

• An all new spooky dino adventure for ink!

• New Tea Pets just in time for spooky season! Will you help the Chupacapybara find a home??

• A new Time Tails short story where Ari and Zoe face off against exhibits that come to life at night in Night at the Mewseum

• A time travel guide for the Cretaceous Period, take your Time Tails players wayyyy back into the age of the dinosaurs!

• Interviews with game designer Barry Joseph and the tea wizards at Friday Afternoon Tea!

• A new dino craft, recipe, Dr. Squeak article on fossils, and more!

• And of course, some wonderful board game reviews by Ryla the cat.

Cozy Compendium brings together a year's worth of cozy games and fiction, taking you from the sizzling food stalls of the Night Market to the magical greenhouse of the Amber Academy and beyond. This beautifully illustrated collection compiles Volumes 1 through 6 of Cozy Companion magazine in a 350+ page hardcover book.

There is something for everyone within these pages, whether you have a group of friends at your table or want to have a quiet night in on your own. Inside you will find cozy RPG adventures, short stories, board game reviews written by cats, interviews with cozy game designers, profiles of stunning board game cafes, recipes, crafts, and more. So grab your favorite quilt and a hot drink as you settle in for this whimsical collection.

• Multiple adventures for Teatime Adventures, ink, and the Time Tails RPG

• Short fiction taking you from Greenbranch in the Verdant Isles to the murky waters of the Ink

• Half a dozen themed recipes for you to try at home

• Profiles of game shops, eateries, designers, and more

• Crafts, cats, and a brand new foreword about the creation of Cozy Companion