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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:

🔓 Dust Jackets Upgraded! Now Let’s Make Statements!
over 1 year ago – Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 09:29:34 AM

Hello, backers—

In the early hours today you took us over the line and unlocked yet another stretch goal! We’re now upgrading the Leitner Dust Jacket Set to include a sixth title, and double-siding them to give you even more flexibility when fitting them to your books.

And as a bonus, your colletion of The Magnus Archives stickers grows to include the lovely and inviting Mr. Spider!

Our next goal really makes a statement (a bunch of them, actually!), but before we get to that:

You Are Making This Happen!

This has been an amazing campaign so far—and we’re just starting into day 3! This success, and all of these stretch goals, comes down to the great job you’re doing to spread the word. The buzz created by your enthusiasm is what makes a campaign like this soar. We can’t do it without that—without you. Please keep it up!

Statement Begins…

Every investigation in The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game begins with a statement. Make Your Statement contains ten such investigations—some written by The Magnus Archives creator Jonathan Sims himself—and, of course, ten such statements.
We’d like to upgrade that book with ten such props. Ten statements you can hand your players (rather than just reading out of the book). These will take two forms:

  • We’ll create the statements as handouts in PDF, and include a link in Make Your Statement. So the GM can download and print them out.
  • As a backer exclusive, we’ll include a set of all ten statements in print with your copy of Make Your Statement, giving you a slightly more immersive experience when you introduce them at your game table. These printed statement handouts won’t be available to future purchasers of Make Your Statement—they're just for backers of this campaign.


We’ll unlock these statements when we get to 3100 backers.

Speaking of Statements…

Throughout this campaign, as we unlock each stretch goal, we also give you a bonus: every backer gets a new vinyl sticker! So far your collection is up to four—with this goal we’ll include a fifth!


This design seems pretty fitting for a statement-related stretch goal!

Remember, YOU Unlock These Goals!

Keep the buzz going, and the stretch goals coming! Here are links to some of our social media—click through to find loads of posts, images, and videos about this campaign that you can easily share to help spread the word.


And if you’re a member of The Magnus Archives community on reddit, or any other forum where fans interact, be sure to give us a shout-out there, too!

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

🔓 Do Not Open Upgraded!
over 1 year ago – Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 06:50:24 PM

Hello, backers—

Thanks to your great job spreading the word and building buzz for this campaign, we’ve already unlocked another stretch goal! Do Not Open now gets bigger, with more descriptors and foci, more supernatural options, and more ways to make your character and campaign deeper and more memorable.

Now let’s talk about Leitners.

If you’re already a big fan of The Magnus Archives, you know how important this esoteric collection of powerful books is—how they relate to many of the horrific events in the podcast and, probably, in your games. The disparate books that populated the Leitner collection are so interesting that we made one—A Guest for Mr. Spider—when we published the corebook for The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game. And we’re making DIG, a second Leitner, for this campaign.

But Leitners are encountered more frequently than that, and we want to help you build a bigger Leitner collection. So we’re also making a set of dust jackets for five additional Leitner books. Slip them on a book you already own (or an atmospheric old book you pick up at a used bookstore), and you have an instant immersive prop. These dust jackets will be printed on high-quality paper in common book sizes, and cleverly designed so each can be easily customized if it isn’t a perfect fit to the book you want to put it on.
The Leitner Dust Jacket Set is available as an add-on, and is included in the EVERYTHING INCLUDING AMAZING EXCLUSIVES! (PRINT AND PDF) pledge level.

Let’s make it better. With this stretch goal we’ll add a sixth title—An Introduction to Higher Anatomy—to the set.

And that’s not all: each of these dust jackets will now be double-sided. The reverse side will feature a smaller version of the design. You can trim it down to the smaller size if you’d like to fit the dust jacket to a book that's significantly smaller than the primary size.

We’ll unlock this upgrade when we reach 2850 backers.

And, of course, we’ll also include a bonus vinyl sticker. In celebration of this Leitner-themed goal, it features Mr. Spider himself!


(If you’ve just joined this campaign: every time we unlock a stretch goal, every backer gets a new vinyl sticker. Every backer! This will be the fourth.)

You Make It Happen!

Remember, campaigns like this one soar when—and only when—their backers bring them to life. Share, share, share, and we’ll hit upgrade the Leitner Dust Jacket Set and add the Mr. Spider sticker to your collection.

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


Thanks for your support!

—Team MCG

🔓 Stretch Goal Unlocked—Let’s Do Another!
over 1 year ago – Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 11:21:07 AM

Hello, backers—

It seems like we just posted the latest stretch goal a couple of hours ago, and here we are again. Wait: we did just post the latest stretch goal a couple of hours ago! Wow, this campaign is on fire, thanks to you!

We have loads of cool ideas for things to bring to this campaign. For these early goals, we want to focus on the heart of our offering: the books and other items you’ll use to create and experience deep, awe-inspiring, and memorable adventures, campaigns, and characters. So far, we’ve upgraded Face Your Fears and the Prop Set 2. Now, let’s turn our attention to Do Not Open.
This book focuses on the players and their characters, with loads of new descriptors and foci, cyphers, and character creation options. It unlocks supernatural abilities for beginning characters, if you’re running a game with players who know The Magnus Archives well and want to skip straight to that phase of play. And it will introduce a very cool system for helping you build a fascinating backstory for your character. We’re really looking forward to bringing you these ideas—and this stretch goal will let them pack in even more of them.

We’ll unlock this upgrade to Do Not Open when we have 2600 backers.

And, as with all stretch goals, we’ll toss in a free bonus: another vinyl sticker.


Every time we hit a goal, every backer gets another sticker!

Help Unlock It—and Keep This Momentum Going!

The momentum of this campaign is amazing, and it’s all because of you. Every time you help spread the word, we get more backers. This sort of enthusiasm is what makes crowdfunding campaigns go big and deliver huge hauls of rewards for their backers.

If you have a moment:


Can we unlock this reward, upgrade Do Not Open, and add another sticker to your collections? We can if you help spread the word!

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

🔓 Our First Stretch Goal Is Unlocked—Let’s Do Another!
over 1 year ago – Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 07:23:27 AM

Hello, backers—

Thank you for your support! This has been an amazing launch! Last night you helped us soar over our 1600-backer goal, unlocking our first stretch goal, and we’re now going to make Face Your Fears even bigger and better. This is just one of many exciting things we hope to roll out over the next few weeks—upgrades to the books and other things we’re making, perhaps a few new items, and maybe a couple of exciting surprises!

As a bonus for hitting that goal, every backer now also gets a vinyl sticker. As we explained in our last update, we’ll add a new vinyl sticker to your rewards with each stretch goal.

More Props!

We look forward to further upgrades to the books at the heart of this campaign (as well as other sorts of stretch goals)—but the books aren’t the only things we have a grand vision for. Here at MCG we love bringing fascinating, immersive props to our game table. They really help bring a game to life—that’s why we’ve offered a prop set when we funded the original corebook, and are adding a second set through this campaign.



We’d like to increase the number of items in Prop Set 2 by about 20%. These additional items—documents, newspaper clippings, business cards, flyers, scraps torn from books, mysterious notes, and more—will be derived from or related to the adventures in Make Your Statement, though they (like the items we’ve already planned) will also be great for adventures of your own design.

We’ll unlock this goal at 2300 backers.


As an extra bonus, we’ll also add another vinyl sticker to every backer’s rewards. As we explained in the last update, we’re going to add a new sticker every time we unlock a stretch goal. So in addition to the goals themselves, your set of The Magnus Archives vinyl stickers will keep growing as we unlock each new stretch goal!

You Make It Happen

Remember, a crowdfunding campaign soars when—and only when—its backers help spread the word. Here's an image you can share or use as a social media avatar. Be sure to include a link to the campaign in your post; you can use mymcg.info/tangled



Thanks for your support!

—Team MCG

What a Launch! How About Some Stretch Goals?
over 1 year ago – Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 03:45:19 PM

Hello, backers—

What fast-paced day it’s been! We funded very shortly after launch this morning, and have been busy with managing the frenetic early hours of the campaign all afternoon. Now that things are a little less hectic, it’s time to start talking about stretch goals!

But First a Reminder!

Every crowdfunding campaign lives or dies by the enthusiasm its backers bring to it. If you’re excited about Tangled in the Web, sharing that excitement is the best way—the only way—to help us reach stretch goals. We have some shortcuts you can use to help spread the word below.

Stretch Goal: Face Even More Fears

We’re very excited to be making the three new books that are at the heart of this campaign. What’s even better than making them? Making them better!

Monte, Jonathan, our design team, and all of the TMA fans here at MCG have loads of ideas for expanding and upgrading these books. Let’s start with Face Your Fears. This title is aimed at the GM, with new artefacts, monsters, NPCs, cults, items, organizations, and other resources and inspiration for building terrifying adventures. (And did we mention that The Magnus Archives creator Jonathan Sims is personally detailing the Magnus Institute for this book?)
We’d like to make this book even bigger. So our first stretch goal will expand it by up to 16 pages with even more of this fascinating GM content and lore. Remember: we grow this campaign by reaching more gamers and TMA fans—so we’ll unlock this goal when we get to 1600 backers.

BONUS REWARD!


But wait, there’s more! In addition to the expansion to Face Your Fears, if we unlock this goal every backer will get this vinyl sticker—a creepy bit of décor for your laptop, cassette recorder, water bottle, dog, car—or wherever you’d like to add a touch of The Magnus Archives. This sticker will be added to everyone’s rewards automagically.

And it gets better. We’re going to add a new sticker every time we unlock a stretch goal. In addition to the goals themselves, your set of The Magnus Archives vinyl stickers will keep growing as we unlock each new stretch goal!

Let’s Do It!

An expansion to Face Your Fears. A vinyl sticker as a free bonus for unlocking that goal. Here’s how you can help get us there—and to the many goals we hope to unlock beyond this one:


This is going to be an exciting campaign. Thanks for your support, and for helping to spread the word!

—Team MCG