
The Magus
A downloadable game
The Magus is a solo journaling tabletop RPG that takes you on a sweeping journey for power, ambition, and arcane mastery, at great personal and interpersonal cost.
The Magus is crunchy. You will use several polyhedral dice to manage four traits: Focus, Power, Control, and Scars, which shape how the protagonist overcomes their challenges and meets their denouement after seven, fateful events.
Perhaps they sail to the Enigmatic North in search of the final homonculus.
Perhaps they burrow deep underground to escape their demon overlords.
Or perhaps they go mad with power, and plunder innocent lives for M O R E
The Magus' fate is shaped by your creative writing, and the carefully calculated whims of the dice. Everything comes at a cost, however: will you spend your scant remaining time to acquire more powerful spells, or nurture the few connections keeping you human?
Overcome fantastic challenges with your fledgling power, meet strange creatures on your way: empresses with craven vulnerabilities, frog familiars seeking for masters, naive dreamers who believe in the goodness inside of you (why?).
Featuring exquisitely-designed pages, The Magus is a memorable experience about sacrifice, loneliness, and the power of magic and pathos coursing through all of us.
If you are in hardship and cannot afford this game, please contact me at hello@momatoes.com.
Purchase the companion dice at https://nat20gaminggoods.carrd.co/#collab to receive a free copy of The Magus.
Sample Plays:
- A sorcerer's climb to power, and the catastrophe that follow (credit: Kin) http://willkinchlea.com/journal-the-magus/
- An ambitious mage finds friends along the way (credit: PercyPropa) https://twitter.com/PercyPropa/status/1355422185343516673
- In which the magus aims for a better world, and finds an ally they truly care for https://twitter.com/PaulCzege/status/1357800664672264192
Updated | 1 day ago |
Status | In development |
Category | Physical game |
Release date | 34 days ago |
Rating | |
Author | momatoes |
Tags | journal, Magic, solo, tabletop |
Asset license | Creative Commons Attribution_ShareAlike v4.0 International |
Average session | A few hours |
Languages | English |
Links | Official site |
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $15 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- Session Zero Launch34 days ago
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A fantastic journaling game that balances naked ambition against the need for others. Very apt themes for people who are developing skills in our current climate.
Spell creation is a delight, as is the disconcerting art and madness layout. It's all a very tight, fun package!