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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:

🔓 Audio Unlocked. Let’s Unlock More In the Exciting FINAL DAY!
over 1 year 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!
over 1 year 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

🔓 Art Book Unlocked! Let’s Talk XP.
over 1 year ago – Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 09:45:33 AM

Hello, backers—

We’re headed into the final week of this amazing campaign, and we begin it with another stretch goal unlocked! The Art of The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game, a digital art book, will be added to the rewards of every backer. (If you missed the last update, check it out for a look at what we have in mind for this cool new reward.)

And, of course, every time we unlock a stretch goal, we also give you a new sticker as a bonus! You chose the glow-in-the-dark eye design, so this will now be added to every backer’s rewards as well.



Let’s Make Some XP Cards

In the Cypher System (the game engine that powers The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game), characters earn experience points (XP) through discovery and protecting our world from encroaching horrors—and when the GM throws in a twist via a GM intrusion. XP is a sort of currency that can be used not just to advance your character, but also to power player influence over the story—to enable rerolls, for example, or trigger a player intrusion. Because XP often changes hands, it’s useful to have a set of tokens to represent XP points—and cards are particularly handy.

We’re already making an XP Deck for The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game. It’s in production right now, and should be shipping to our warehouses soon—you can get it as part of the Fabulous Bundle of Great Game Aids add-on. This deck features great art from the game on each card.

But is it fearful enough?

Javier, our graphic designer who (among many other awesome things) designed the Leitner Bookplates (also available as an add-on), suggested a set of XP cards specifically designed around the Fears and using elements of the bookplates. We think it’s a great idea, and we want to make them!

This will be a mini-deck of fourteen XP cards, each themed to a specific Fear from The Magnus Archives. It’ll be fully compatible with the regular XP Deck; you can just mix the cards in. You can even use these cards on their own, without the regular XP Deck (though, with just fourteen cards, you’ll probably run short at times).

Whereas the normal XP Deck will be widely available, this will be a limited-edition item made just for backers of this campaign. We’ll include it in the rewards of all backers at the EVERYTHING INCLUDING AMAZING EXCLUSIVES! (PRINT AND PDF) pledge level.

(And we’ll make it available as an add-on, too—though if you’re interested in things like this, you should really consider upgrading to the EVERYTHING level. It includes all the stretch goals and is a fantastic deal!)

We’ll unlock this limited-edition set of XP cards when we get to 4850 backers.

Don’t Forget the Sticker!

As we do with every stretch goal, if we unlock this we’ll also give every backer a free bonus sticker!

Early in the campaign you voted for a Breekon & Hope van sticker (see the laptop above), choosing it by just one vote out of more than 800! That means you chose not to make this statement sticker—but again, it was really close.
It’s a shame not to make this design, which we—and so many backers—really loved. So we’ll unlock it as your bonus with this stretch goal.

Keep Spreading the Word

The buzz you’ve been generating for this campaign has really made it soar. If you keep it up through the final week we can unlock this goal and probably several more!

Here are several sharable posts—click through to share them from your accounts and help reach the thousands of gamers and The Magnus Archives fans who haven't yet discovered this campaign:


Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

The Art in The Magnus Archives RPG Is Incredible!
over 1 year ago – Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 11:21:40 AM

Hello, backers—

It seems like we start every update by thanking you for creating such a strong buzz for this campaign. That buzz makes crowdfunding campaigns soar—in fact, it’s the only thing that makes them soar. Every really successful campaign gets there because its backers go wild spreading the word. And you’ve been doing it!

So would it surprise you to hear that we’re already 80% of the way to the next stretch goal? We need just 50 or so backers to unlock the digital art book.

So we thought we might share a little of that art with you. Here’s some of what you can expect to see:





And, of course, we’ll just load the art book with scores of fantastic illustrations from The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game and the supplements you’ve funded through this campaign!



Let’s Unlock This Quickly!

We’re headed into the final week of this campaign. Help keep up the pace! You can finds lots of sharable posts and art in our social media communities. Click through and share a post or three, and help us reach new backers to unlock The Art of The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game and even more stretch goals!



Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

🔓 The Archivist Will Read Statements!
over 1 year ago – Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 01:11:02 PM

Hello, backers—

Thanks again for keeping up the amazing pace of this campaign! As a result of the way you've kept the buzz going, we’ve unlocked another stretch goal—and, of course, another free sticker for every backer.

The Voice of the Archivist Is Unlocked

Jonathan Sims—the voice of The Archivist (and mind behind The Magnus Archives)—will now read the statements from all ten adventures in Make Your Statement. You’ll be able to download the audio files and begin your adventures with atmosphere and immersion as your players listen to The Archivist read the statement. It’s a perfect accompaniment to statement handouts you unlocked through a stretch goal much earlier in the campaign!

We also unlocked the "Be Nice to Me" sticker. This design was chosen by you, our backers, through a recent poll—and now it’s a new reward for every backer, along with the nine stickers you’ve already unlocked.


Let’s Talk Art

Did you know that The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game is illustrated with something like 160 pieces of creepy, cool original artwork? The three books we’re funding will just about double that volume—this campaign features some of the new art for these titles.


You’ve already unlocked a stretch goal for a collection of digital images for your game. That one’s specifically intended to help you out in play, containing atmospheric scenes to show your players; images of creatures and items they might encounter; illustrations related specifically to the published adventures; maps; and perhaps some streaming graphics for online games. But that’s just scratching the surface when it comes to the great art for this game.

So we’d like to create a digital art book. It will include a lot more art. Pieces that are cropped in the books will be shown in their entirety. Maybe we’ll include some alternate versions of art that went through multiple revisions. Perhaps we’ll have some commentary from the designers, artists, and our amazing Art Director, Bear Weiter. If you’ve ever seen one of our previous art books, you know we do an amazing job.

When we reach 4500 backers we’ll add this art book, in PDF, to the rewards of every backer.

And a Sticker, Too!

And, as we do with every stretch goal, we’ll throw in a bonus sticker when we unlock this one. Which should we choose? NOTE: The green linework of the eye sticker will glow in the dark!
We’ve opened a new poll in the comments. Vote for your favorite!

Keep Spreading the Word

Your great effort at generating buzz for this campaign has really made it soar. We only have a week or so left, so let’s keep it up! Here are some sharable graphics supporting this campaign—right-click to download them. Share them (with a link to mymcg.info/tangled) so we can reach more gamers and fans of The Magnus Archives who haven’t even heard about this campaign yet!


Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG