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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:

🔓 Dice Unlocked! Let’s Hear from The Archivist!
over 1 year ago – Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 12:11:31 PM

Hello, backers—

Thank you so much for unlocking this stretch goal so quickly. It’s normal for crowdfunding campaigns to level off in their middle weeks, but you’ve really kept up a nice pace. Please keep spreading the word—there are many thousands of gamers and The Magnus Archives fans who haven’t even heard about this campaign. Reaching them is how we reach new stretch goals!

We’re Making Dice!

We are so excited about this goal, and really appreciate your help in reaching it! Every backer at the EVERYTHING INCLUDING AMAZING EXCLUSIVES! (PRINT AND PDF) pledge level is now getting DICE! These will be high-quality resin dice with a lustrous green interior, custom faces, and markings for special Cypher System results.

Not backing at the EVERYTHING level? You can now also get the dice set as an add-on. (But really, consider upgrading your pledge level. It’s a great deal for everything it includes—and it’s only getting better!)

The Archivist Reads

Let’s hear from the Archivist!

Make Your Statement will contain ten adventures—and thus ten statements. We’ve already added props of the statement documents through a previous stretch goal. Now let’s give them voice: let’s have Jonathan Sims, the voice of The Archivist on the podcast (as well as the mind behind The Magnus Archives), read the statements to your players!

We already offer this for the two adventures included in The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game corebook (there’s a link on page 355 and 367 to download the audio files). This goal unlocks similar downloadable audio files for all ten adventures in Make Your Statement. When you get the book, simply follow the link you’ll find within to download your audio—and have The Archivist himself read each adventure’s statement to your players!

We’ll unlock these audio files when we reach 4250 backers—so please: Keep spreading the word!

And, of Course, a New Sticker!


Every time we unlock a stretch goal, we also unlock a new sticker as a free bonus—and every backer gets these stickers! Once again, we’re calling on you to help us make a choice. Here are two designs we’re considering: Which one should we unlock next?
We’ve opened a poll in the comments for your votes. Let us know which one you prefer, and it’ll be added to every backer’s rewards as a bonus for unlocking this new stretch goal.

Keep Spreading the Word!

This campaign has been unlocking so many stretch goals because you are reaching new backers. Please keep sharing this campaign, and we’ll unlock the Archivist’s statements, and add the new sticker to your collection, and move on to even more stretch goals!

Here are some things you can do right now to help reach new backers:


Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

🔓 Actual Play Unlocked! Time to Roll Some Bones!
over 1 year ago – Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 03:13:49 PM

Hello, backers—

What a great week we’ve been having! This middle section of a crowdfunding campaign is traditionally a bit more sedate that the opening week, but thanks to you continuing to spread the word, we continue to unlock stretch goals. As of today, the actual play by the gang at Rusty Quill (the producers of The Magnus Archives podcast) is unlocked!

And of course every time we unlock a stretch goal, we also add another vinyl sticker to your collection. We asked you to help us pick between three variants on a Confession design. Here’s the winner:

Every backer gets this sticker, along with the seven other designs we’ve unlocked so far—with hopefully more to come!

Let’s Roll Some Dice—and Unlock a HUGE Reward!

The Cypher System—the game engine that power The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game—uses a d20, a d6, and percentile dice. We made a special deluxe set of dice for the crowdfunding campaign that funded the creation of the game, but it was a limited-edition design just for those backers. But we know that there are always new players joining us through this campaign as well as those who could always use another set of great gaming dice.

(Just to be clear: you don’t actually need special dice—any d20, d6 and d% will do. But the Cypher System gives you special results on certain rolls, so dice that are marked accordingly are very nice to have. And what dice goblin doesn’t like having cool dice that really fit the mood and look of the game you’re playing?)

So we’d like to make this set of The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game dice, which will be more widely available for all of the game’s fans. (This is a mockup; the final design might differ in small details.) These won’t be quite as high-end as the dice we made for the original campaign—though they won’t be nearly as expensive, either. And they won’t be limited-edition, so we can make them available to every player of The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game.

They’ll be high-quality resin dice with a beautiful interior design, custom faces, and markings for special results.

Every backer at the EVERYTHING INCLUDING AMAZING EXCLUSIVES! (PRINT AND PDF) will get these dice as part of their rewards. They’ll also be available as an add-on. (Though to be honest, if you’re interested in the extras we’re making for this campaign, you should really back at the EVERYTHING level—it’s a great deal and it’s only getting better!)

We’ll unlock these dice when we reach 4000 backers.

And, of Course, There’s a Sticker!

It’s been a lot of fun hearing from you about the sticker choices, so let’s do it again. Here are two options we’ve been considering:


We’ve opened a new poll in the campaign’s Comments tab. Please vote for your favorite. The winner will be added to every backer’s rewards when we unlock this stretch goal.

And Please Keep Spreading the Word

This campaign has really been on a roll, and we’re so thrilled to be unlocking so many stretch goals so quickly. That only happens when backers help spread the word. 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 these dice and even more stretch goals!



Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

 

🔓 Art Assets Unlocked! Let’s Play!
over 1 year ago – Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 02:02:14 PM

Hello, backers—

Once again, you’ve astonished us at how quickly and enthusiastically you’ve worked to bring new backers to this campaign and help us unlock stretch goals. We’re amazed at how fast you hit this one—in fact, the sticker poll wasn’t scheduled to end until tonight; we had to close it early so we could bring you this update!

Speaking of Sticker Polls…

The art assets package is now unlocked—we’re going to create a suite of digital images and assets you can share with your players and otherwise use to build atmosphere and immersion in your game.

And as always, every time you unlock a stretch goal, we add a free vinyl sticker to every backer’s rewards. We asked you to help choose this one, and the vote was amazingly close! In fact, for most of the voting, the poll literally showed it as 50%-50%. Fortunately, we have access not just to the results you see on the poll—which are rounded to the nearest percent—but to the actual vote tally. With a margin of literally just one vote out of 805 votes cast, the winner is:


So what about the other design, featuring a statement form and a pithy observation? Clearly it was also very popular. With your help we hope to unlock many stretch goals before this campaign ends, so perhaps we’ll have a chance to see it again!


Rusty Quill Plays!

Our next goal comes from our friends at Rusty Quill (the publisher of The Magnus Archives podcast) themselves. They propose that if we can make it to 3750 backers, they’ll run an actual play session. Imagine listening in as members of the cast and the people who created and brought you The Magnus Archives play a chilling and macabre game together. We don’t have all the details on the timing and content of this proposed game—that’s up to Alex, Jonny, and the rest of the Rusty Quill team—but if we unlock this goal, we’ll share the details as soon as we have them.

And Another Sticker Choice

As always, if we unlock this goal we’ll add a bonus to every backer’s rewards: another vinyl sticker for your collection! Look at what we’ve achieved so far:


Once again, we’d love your opinion on what exactly this new sticker will be. This time we have a design we like, but we're torn on which variation to go with.


We’re launching a new poll in the campaign’s Comments tab. Hop on over there and vote for your favorite. The winner will be added to every backer’s rewards when we unlock this stretch goal.

Remember, You Make It Happen!

Crowdfunding campaigns soar—they only soar—when backers like you spread the word. Here are a couple of new graphics you can share on social media. (Right-click to download them.) Be sure to include this link to the campaign: mymcg.info/tangled


With your help, we can unlock this goal as quickly as the last one, and move on to even more!

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

🔓 Magnus Institute Mapped! Let’s Bring You Some Art! (And Vote on Stickers!)
over 1 year ago – Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 01:50:38 PM

Hello, backers—

Thank you so much for an amazing launch week! With your effort to keep spreading the word, we’ve soared past funding and through half a dozen stretch goals already—and we still have the bulk of the campaign ahead of us to keep unlocking more!

Let’s Keep It Up!

This campaign is soaring, and that only ever happens when backers enthusiastically spread the word. You can find lots of sharable posts and links, as well as great art you can share in your own posts, on MCG’s various social media channels:


Let’s Get Visual!

Today you took us over the line and unlocked a poster map for Face Your Fears. This will feature the floorplan of Magnus Institute, and be designed by Jonathan Sims, the mind behind The Magnus Archives, himself.

If you already have The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game (or have just scrolled through this crowdfunding campaign page), you know the game has a lot of highly atmospheric art. That will be doubly true as Make Your Statement, Face Your Fears, and Do Not Open come into being.


This artwork fills the books with inspiration and fires your imagination for memorable, exciting horror adventures. But let’s face facts: 90% of the time, the GM is the one flipping through the books. Many players rarely look at the books for the games they’re playing—and even when they do, there are many sections that they shouldn’t peruse. GM’s-eyes-only type stuff.

So what do you do when you want to inspire your players, or show them a cool image that might be relevant to your campaign?


With this stretch goal we’ll take a bunch of the art from The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game corebook, Make Your Statement, Face Your Fears, and Do Not Open to create a big bundle of digital images you can easily show or share with your players. Whether showing them an interesting artefact they’ve stumbled upon, illustrating a key NPC, or simply giving them a bit of inspiration with a cool scene from the book, you’ll have dozens of images to share.

And that’s not all: We’ll take some of the best large scenes and deliver them as wallpapers in a variety of common resolutions for your computer or device.

We’ll unlock this suite of image files when we get to 3550 backers.

Help Us Choose a Sticker!

Every time you unlock a stretch goal, we also give each backer a bonus: a free vinyl sticker! So far we’ve unlocked six goals, so every backer gets six stickers.



We need your help on this next one. Here are two designs we’re considering. Which would you prefer?


We’re launching a poll in the campaign’s Comments tab. Hop on over there and vote for your favorite. The winner will be added to every backer’s rewards when we unlock this stretch goal.

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

🔓 Statements Unlocked! Let’s Step into the Magnus Institute!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 08:45:32 AM

Hello, backers—

Once again, your enthusiastic help spreading the word about this campaign has paid off. Make Your Statement, the adventure book with ten new adventures (some written by Jonathan Sims, the mind behind The Magnus Archives, himself) is now getting handouts for its statements. These will be added to the book as a link to a downloadable PDF—and all backers receiving Make Your Statement in print will also get a special, campaign-exclusive pack of physical statements!

(And everyone gets another vinyl sticker—this one featuring a Magnus Institute cassette tape—as a bonus for unlocking this goal!)

Let’s Explore the Archives

As we just mentioned, Jonathan is contributing adventures to Make Your Statement. That’s not all, though: he’s also contributing to Face Your Fears with, among other things, a detailed writeup of the Magnus Institute itself. The book will include a map of the institute.

We’d like to really do that map justice. Through this stretch goal, we’ll add a poster map to Face Your Fears based on the map of The Magnus Institute. Explore the building, use it as a game aid, or hang it on the wall and admire its architectural—splendor? Mystery? Oddity? We won’t know for sure until Jonathan shares his map with us!

We’ll unlock this poster map of the Magnus Institute when we get to 3350 backers.

Plus a Bonus Sticker!

As we do with all our goals, we’ll add another vinyl sticker to every backer’s rewards as a bonus for unlocking this stretch goal.


Keep Spreading the Word!

It’s been an exciting launch week so far, and that’s thanks to one thing: All the buzz you’ve created by sharing this campaign and spreading the word. As of this writing, we're already almost 20% of the way to this stretch goal. Keep it up!

Right-click to grab this image and share it along with the link mymcg.info/tangled.



Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG