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The Magnus Archives RPG: Tangled in the Web

Created by Monte Cook Games

New adventures from The Magnus Archives creator Jonathan Sims—plus new lore and new options for GMs and players. With a complete corebook FREE with every pledge, it's a great jumping-on point if you're new to the game!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

🔓 Sticker Sheet Unlocked! And It’s Still Going…
10 days ago – Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 05:47:20 PM

Hello, backers—

YOU DID IT!

You have taken us over the $1,000,000 mark—a level very few RPG crowdfunding campaigns have ever reached. And in so doing, you’ve also unlocked our final stretch goal: we’re now making the sticker sheet, which will be included in the rewards for every backer getting the books in print. And everyone (including PDF-only backers) will get the stickers in digital form.

What an exciting day it’s been! (And the campaign is still rolling—overtime Mode keeps the campaign live until pledges stop rolling in.) And an exciting campaign! We’re excited about these three new books, and Enter the Archives, plus DIG and the new dice and the many items you’ve helped bring into being.

We want to tell you a bit about where things go from here—and we have some interesting news—but first let’s give credit where credit is due:

While this campaign has been running Monte has been working with Jonny Sims and other contributors on Make Your Statement, while also leading our design team—Bruce, Sean, Dominique, and Shanna—as they keep our pipeline of products—including The Darkest Woods and All Your Gods Are Dead (for the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game) moving along on schedule. Bear and Javier designed stickers, imaged the forthcoming products, and handled the graphic design of this campaign—and they’ll make the products you’ve funded shine! Jen, Olivia, and Kate have answered your questions (and are always available to provide support to you, our wonderful community). Teri, Dominique, and Tammie have managed the words and kept the logistics plates spinning. And Charles planned and ran this campaign.

We all thank you for backing this campaign. We love making mind-blowing RPGs with beautiful production values and immersive experiences, and your support makes that possible.

Now, here’s what to expect as we move forward from here.

The Immediate Future 

Running a crowdfunding campaign is hard work, so we’re looking forward to getting a bit of rest. You may not hear from us for a little while, but don’t worry. As we’ve said, Monte and the team is already at work on these titles. We’ll post updates any time there’s news share. 

The Next Few Weeks

BackerKit began collecting pledges the moment the campaign closed. But it takes them a full two weeks to release those funds, along with the data on our backers.

In the meantime, we will get the pledge manager fully set up. The pledge manager gives us the information we need to fulfill your pledge and lets you manage your add-ons and make any pledge upgrades you want. We’ll notify you when we open the pledge manager, which should be in about three weeks.

The Next Few Months

Once you’ve completed the pledge manager survey, we won’t need anything else from you until it’s time to start fulfilling rewards. We’ll be busy crafting Make Your Statement, Face Your Fears, Do Not Open, and the other items you funded, in the months to come. We’ll post regular updates, but if you don’t hear anything for a few weeks, don’t fret.

At the same time, please pay attention when you do get communications from us. Our emails and updates include critical information about your rewards.

When Your Rewards Ship

Every time a reward is ready for you, we’ll contact you by email to begin the fulfillment process. Generally, we’ll direct you to the MCG Shop, where you’ll log in, “buy” the product (for free, because you’ve already paid for it through this campaign), and check out.

This is an important part of the process because it ensures we have accurate delivery information for every item we send out. (With thousands of backers getting rewards, it's amazing how many people will change their address over the fulfillment period.) You'll pay for shipping at that time.

Please pay attention to communications from us—don't let our updates or emails go to your spam folder, or otherwise ignore them, because if you do you could miss out on some of your rewards.

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

A storm in Indigo is not so different than those elsewhere. Rain and wind and sometimes even hail. But the rarest of Indigo storms also drops, for just a moment or two, keys.


Keyfalls are rare—and wicked keys are even rarer. But in the hands of a vislae, a wicked key can open not just doors and vaults, but people. Memories. Lost and ancient realms. Anything.

Escape this world of lies and shadow. Enter the Actuality and discover the hidden truths of the real universe. Unlock new realms. Sign up to be notified when Invisible Sun: Electric and Indigo launches, and find an exclusive wicked key among your rewards when you back this campaign.

We’re in Overtime Mode!
10 days ago – Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 05:02:39 PM

Hello, backers—

We’ve reached the closing time for this campaign—but it’s not over yet!

BackerKit has a feature called Overtime Mode, and we’re in it. As long as new pledges keep rolling in, the campaign remains open. It ends when only when we hit a 10-minute stretch with no new pledges.

We can still unlock the final stretch goal!

We are very, very close to the $1,000,000 mark and our final stretch goal. So long as the campaign remains live, we can still hit that goal.

At the rate we’ve been going, we could unlock the stretch goal in as little as an hour. How long will Overtime Mode last? Sometimes it’s just ten or fifteen minutes, but sometimes it’s several hours—or even well into the night. It depends on whether pledges keep rolling in—and that depends on you. So please go out there, share this campaign, and help spread the word!

Here’s an image you can right-click to download, then share (along with the link mymcg.info/tangled).



You can also find loads of sharable posts and images on MCG’s social media accounts:


Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

🔓 Ex Altiora Upgraded! Feeling Like a Million Bucks!
10 days ago – Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 12:56:11 PM

Hello, backers—

Wow! In less than a single day, you’ve helped reach over 350 new backers and unlocked yet another stretch goal. The dust jacket set will be upgraded, with the Ex Altiora jacket becoming a high-end, vintage-feel faux-leather cover. This is going to be very cool!

You’ve also brought us amazingly close to a million bucks—a height reached by just a handful of RPG crowdfunding campaigns. We’re in the final day, but at the current rate, we could definitely hit it—with your help.

The stickers we’ve unlocked as bonus items alongside our stretch goals have been incredibly popular—so for this final stretch goal let’s build on that theme. The vinyl stickers are the type you might put on a laptop or water bottle—but what about your character sheet, your GM’s journal, or your Magnus Institute notebook? They’re a bit large, heavy, and thick for that sort of thing, so:

We’d like to make this sticker sheet. (This is a mockup; we’re still working on the full final design, which may have even more items on it.) This will be a paper sticker sheet, rather than vinyl, making it suitable for notebooks, journals, character sheets, and so on. And, as with the vinyl stickers, we’ll also give you digital versions of the stickers as well!


The sticker sheet will be added to the rewards for all pledge levels that include physical books. All backers will get it in digital form.

And, of course, with every stretch goal there’s also a bonus vinyl sticker (this is an all-new piece of art, and you’re looking at a not-quite-finished version):


We’re approaching the magical $1,000,000 mark, so let’s make that our goal!

Can We Do It?

YES! With your help, of course. It might be a stretch, but that’s why they call them stretch goals! Some things to remember:

  • The campaign has been on fire today—the pace we’ve seen so far today will just about get us there.
  • BackerKit has a feature called Overtime Mode. If people are still backing when the campaign hits its deadline, it stays open until the pledges taper off. So we could continue to see the campaign grow for hours after the deadline, if the stream of new backers remains steady.
  • The best way to hit goals is to spread the word and help reach new backers.
  • But if you’ve been considering one of the many great add-ons or a pledge level upgrade, now’s a fantastic time to do it!
  • The best way to hit goals is to spread the word and help reach new backers. Yes, we already said that one—but it’s worth repeating!

Right-click to download this image, then share it online with the link mymcg.info/tangled, and help us reach even more backers. We can do it!



What an exciting campaign you’ve helped us build!

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

🔓 Audio Unlocked. Let’s Unlock More In the Exciting FINAL DAY!
11 days ago – Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 07:56:18 PM

Hello, backers—

We’re just under 24 hours away from the conclusion of this campaign—and what an exciting campaign it’s been! In fact, we’re within striking distance of the mythical $1,000,000 mark—a figure that’s been reached by just a rarified few RPG crowdfunding campaigns. That’s all thanks to you, and the incredible job you’ve done spreading the word and building buzz for this campaign. 

It seems like only yesterday that we unlocked our most recent stretch goal—wait: it was only yesterday! Now we've unlocked yet another goal, and Jonny and Alex are already planning the audio they will put together for your campaign.

At the exciting pace of these final few days, we still have plenty of room to unlock more stretch goals (and stickers)—so let’s talk about that!

From the Heights

One of the items we’re making for this campaign that’s received little attention is the Leitner Dust Jacket Set. We upgraded this collection of dust jackets—designed to turn books on your shelf (or perhaps cool vintage books picked up at a second-hand shop) into cool props for your game—through a stretch goal early in the campaign. Let’s make it even better.

Ex Altiora is one of the most popular Leitners among fans of The Magnus Archives. The book is said to date to the 17th century, but was apparently rebound at some later date—perhaps the 1800s. The copy from the Leitner collection was bound in leather—and we’d like your copy to be, too!

We’d like to upgrade the dust jacket from Ex Altiora from the high-quality, vintage-feel paper of the other dust jackets to a faux leather. It will be debossed and possibly foil-stamped with a worn, vintage feel. Like the other dust jackets in the set, it will be somewhat adjustable in size, giving you some leeway in terms of the books it can be fitted to. (Due to the nature of the faux-leather material, we won’t be able to make it double-sided like the other dust jackets in the set.)

We’ll unlock this upgrade—and make Ex Altiora really soar—when we reach 5700 backers.

And the Sticker!

As always, a new stretch goal means a new sticker! You just unlocked the Mr. Spider Knock Knock sticker, which is now added to the rewards of every backer. With this next goal, we’ll add this Delivered by Breekon & Hope sticker as well!
(Every backer gets every sticker. If you’d like duplicate copies, don’t forget that we recently created a new add-on for a second sticker set!)

You Make It Happen!

Can we make it? This campaign is accelerating as we head into the final day. If you can help keep up the momentum we can absolutely hit this goal! Here are some quick things you can do to reach more backers:


Every little bit helps us reach new backers. Just one day left!

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

🔓 Fears Cards ✅. Now More from the Head Archivist—and Stickers Add-On!
12 days ago – Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 03:54:24 PM

Hello, backers—

Great job! Once again you’ve helped us reach new backers at an incredible pace, unlocking yet another stretch goal!

Fears XP Cards Unlocked

We’re now making a set of fourteen XP cards, each featuring art related to a specific Fear. You can mix these in with the standard XP Deck (currently in production, and available as part of the Fabulous Bundle of Great Game Aids add-on), or on their own.
Backers at the EVERYTHING INCLUDING AMAZING EXCLUSIVES! (PRINT AND PDF) pledge level now get this mini-deck automagically added to their rewards. It’s also an add-on, but if you’re into this sort of item you should really consider upgrading to the EVERYTHING level—it’s a much better deal than purchasing the add-ons individually.

More Magnus Institute Audio

The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game includes a link to an audio file, in which Jonathan and Martin conduct a training session for new employees at the Magnus Institute. (It’s included with the files in the link on page 355 and 367.) It’s a fun and immersive way to kick off a campaign.

And it’s not just fun to listen to—it was fun to make. So Jonathan, Alex, and the crew at Rusty Quill would like to make a follow-up: another recording for new archival assistants starting out at the Magnus Institute. What will they share with us? What interesting tidbits will it contain? We all look forward to finding out! 

This audio will be free for all backers—it will be added to the files you can download from the corebook. We’ll unlock this audio when we reach 5250 backers.

Sticker Set Add-On

You asked for it—you got it! We’re now offering the complete set of stickers unlocked through this campaign as an add-on.

As you know, every time we unlock a stretch goal, we also add a new sticker, and every backer gets it. As of this update we’ve unlocked twelve goals, and that means twelve stickers. The last week of a campaign can get pretty exciting, so who knows how many more we might add to that!

Every backer gets every sticker. But what if you want extras? We’ve just created an add-on for the complete set. It’s priced at $20, making it a pretty good deal for the twelve stickers we’ve already unlocked. The deal will just get better as we add unlock more goals, because the new stickers will be added not just to your rewards, but also to this add-on.

Speaking of Stickers

Unlock this stretch goal, and of course there’ll be another bonus sticker!
This design lost out in a backer poll earlier in this campaign, but it received hundreds of votes, and a whole lot of comments from backers who hoped to see it return. So here it is! We’ll add it to every backer’s rewards (and the sticker set add-on) when we unlock this stretch goal.

Digital Stickers!

But wait: we have even more good sticker news! In addition to the physical stickers, we will also provide every backer with PNG files of the stickers. So if you use digital stickers (for things like Remarkable), you’ll have files for those, too!

Things Are Heating Up!

Throughout this campaign, even in the traditionally slower middle portion, you’ve really kept the buzz alive. That’s how we reach new backers—believe it or not, there are still hundreds of thousands of gamers, The Magnus Archives fans, and Cypher System players who don’t even know that this campaign is happening. YOU are their only hope of finding out—and helping us reach this stretch goal and even more. Here are some graphics you can share—right-click to download them. Be sure to include this link: mymcg.info/tangled 


Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG