Kira Magrann

"To Work in a dream. If it's real, and you believe in it, you can say almost anything." - David Lynch

This is a dark dream of troubled times.

Something Is Wrong Here is a roleplaying game inspired by the uncanny work of David Lynch. It's atmospheric, emotional, and personal. You play troubled humans who struggle with their dark pasts and inner demons in order to make meaningful connections with each other.

This game can be played in one night, in the intimacy of your living room or a private convention room. The line between player and character is intentionally drawn thin, causing feelings to bleed from one to the other.

Game Stats
Players: 5-6 + Facilitator
Time: 4 hours, one session
Rating: 18+

Materials: Character Name tags, Music, Box, Mirror (floor length if possible), Game Cards, Drinks & Costumes (optional)

Keywords: Identity Confusion, Surrealism, Uncanny, Americana, Non-linear, Meta, Narrative Control, Bleed, Unsettling, Emotional, Intense, Addiction, Abuse, Suicide, Depression

Moose Trip

You’re a moose living in the human occupied wilds of Montana. You’ve just eaten some of your favorite psychedelic mushrooms with your friends. The streams are cooling, the willows ripe with delicious leaves, and soft orange moss dots granite rocks amid grassy fields. You’re settling into your favorite lush sanctuary here in the wilds for a mind altering and inspiring psychedelic trip.

A one page chill game ideally for 2-5 players but any number will do

Roll a D20 on a list of mushroom feelings, get to know your moose friends better

Here's some examples!

1. You see your reflection and get lost in all the details of your face. “What part of your face do you love the most?”

16. You take a drink of water from the stream and the taste and scent are super powered. “What sensation or feeling do you love being overcome by?”

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Body//Hack

BODY//HACK is a solo journaling game about hacking your body. It takes place in a near future cyberpunk world. You’ll imagine the possibility of changing your body by replacing a body part with a futuristic machine part, and become a cyborg. Body//Hack explores your feelings about this transformation and your body.

Every day for a month in real time you’ll keep a journal where you’ll record your feelings about this new body part. The questions regard not only your internal thoughts, but also how you feel about what others think about your new part.

Use the safety tools provided (or any others you feel comfortable with) while playing this game. The game involves some potentially intense thoughts about our bodies and how we relate to them, so please play with care for yourself.

GAME STATS

PLAYERS: One
TIME: 10-15 mins a day
RATING: 18+
MATERIALS: Game text, Journal
KEYWORDS: Body part replacement, Potential dysphoria, Body love and discomfort, Cyborg parts, Cyberpunk, Trans non-binary identity, Body part fantasy, Chronic illness, Disability

Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft

FACE YOUR FEARS

Unleash the horrors of Ravenloft in this campaign sourcebook for the world's greatest roleplaying game.

Terror stalks the nightmare realms of Ravenloft. No one knows this better than monster scholar Rudolph Van Richten. To arm a new generation against the creatures of the night, Van Richten has compiled his correspondence and case files into this tome of eerie tales and chilling truths.

Discover the mysteries of Ravenloft, mist-shrouded lands where infamous Darklords lurk among ageless vampires, zombie hordes, cosmic terrors, and worse. Then make your choice. Will you create your own Domains of Dread, settings to host endless terrifying adventures? Or will you join the ranks of haunted heroes who embrace macabre lineages, dual-edged Dark Gifts, haunted subclasses, and other forbidden powers?

Agon

I wrote an Island for this!

Heroes of Legend

Far back in the mists of antiquity, a poet sings of great deeds wrought by mighty heroes—of monsters slain and justice restored, of wise council and devious strategies, of courage, valor, and daring—defiant of the gods themselves. In Agon, you create and play these heroes, crafting their epic tale into an immortal legend.

On their way back home from the war, the heroes have become lost among strange islands populated by mythical creatures, dire beasts, treacherous landscapes, legendary kingdoms, and desperate people—all somehow cursed or abandoned by the cruel power of the capricious gods.

It falls to you to seize this opportunity for greatness—to set things right in these lost lands, overcome the trials of gods, monsters, and people, prove the glory of your name, and win your way back home.

Band of Blades

The Legion is in retreat following a failed battle against the armies of the undead. You are a member of the Legion, your bonds to one another forged in the dark by bone and blood.

But time is running out as more fall to the indomitable forces of the Cinder King. As Legionnaires, you must make it to Skydagger Keep before you’re cut off or overtaken by the undead. Paying horrifying costs, you’ll employ offensives, maneuvers, unwise bargains, and desperate gambits as the ever-ticking clock nears its final hour.

Do you have what it takes to outwit, outrun, and outlast the endless hordes of the undead, or will your band of blades break beneath the Cinder King’s iron fist? Play to find out in Band of Blades, a stand-alone, Forged in the Dark RPG of dark military fantasy.

Retropunk

Retropunk is a cyberpunk, tabletop roleplaying game in which the players embody characters in a futuristic hybrid reality—where the digital and physical have merged. Everyone experiences a world beyond augmented reality through their neurochip, tech implanted at birth. But by hacking these ‘chips, they traverse this new reality free from monitoring.

The Fall of London

The Fall of London is a Chronicle set in London in 2012, exploring the events that led to the canonical destruction of the city’s Kindred by the Second Inquisition. It is centered around a group of members of the Cult of Mithras who are awakened during the turmoil to retrieve five ancient relics of the Kindred god-ruler of Britain. This is the first Chronicle sourcebook released by Modiphius Entertainment for Vampire: The Masquerade, 5th Edition.

Kids on Bikes: Boxcar Boys

Young Adults, Small Towns...
BIG ADVENTURE!

Boxcar Boys is a setting for Kids on Bikes that takes place during the dustbowl era USA where kids would hop on trains and travel cross country, but strange and unusual supernatural friends and foes await them.

Kids on Bikes is a Collaborative World Building RPG set in small towns with big mysteries. Written and created by celebrated game designers Jon Gilmour (Dead of Winter, Atari: Centipede/Missile Command/Asteroids) & Doug Levandowski (Gothic Doctor, Seven Minutes in Hell). Kids on Bikes is a rules-light storytelling system that gets players into the action fast.

Cortex Prime: Stranger Towns

Get it Here (system book)

Stranger Towns is designed by Kira Magrann for Cortex Prime. Dark small town horror and drama inspired by Twin Peaks and Stranger Things. Setting book coming soon!

Savage Sisters

A narrative sword and sorcery RPG about powerful women making a difference in a barbaric world.

Savage Sisters is a game for multiple players. Together the group creates their Sodal – a group of powerful, warrior women who are bound together in sisterhood (whether that be through family blood or shared purpose).

Wickedness

Wickedness is a peculiar tabletop game written for exactly three players and one tarot deck, with no dice and no GM. Together, you'll form a coven between three mystical archetypes (the innocent and gentle Pure Heart, the volatile, revelrous Wild Spirit, and the uptight, scholarly Old Soul) and try to keep your world of magic and mystery in balance with the mundane world, in spite of its ignorance, poverty and violence.

Eat Trash Be Free

Welcome friends, to Smalltown!

It’s a confusing name, I know. No one's really sure why the founders called it that. For six hundred generations, fieldmouse generations—fieldmouse generations, that is—this town has stood here. It started out small, then after the county opened up the area to fracking, all these Humans came into town.  It’s the same story all across the planet. A community of animals is doin’ just fine, then those big hairless punks come into town, acting all high and mighty because they figured out fire first. Pushing out all us hardworking Critters, losing homes to modern development, and destroying local foraging spots by creating massive temples to food and merchandise. So we’re takin’ matters into our own hands. We’re forming coalitions of Critters to go out and get Grub for our young’ins and old folks. Some Critters ain’t too apt to help others but you’re not like those, right? Well even if y’are you’ll still be useful.  Well go on, now! You got some work to do before you’re  ready to get your Grubby mitts on that sweet, smelly Grub!

Aces in Space

A Fate roleplaying game about a gang of space fighter pilots.
Half Battlestar Galactica, half Sons of Anarchy, full Social Media star!

In a lawless section of space, called the Kobenibelt, aberrant pilots roam among the stars. Akin to motorcycle gangs from the past, tattoos and leather jackets are now replaced by cyberware and pressure-suits. Spacefighters are lovingly called Choppers, Jockeys are their pilots, and Highways now go faster than light.

Cut to the Chase

Cut to the Chase is an exciting two player RPG where you play out a chase scenario. The Hunter is much faster than the Prey, but the Prey has a head start and can use their wits and cunning to evade capture. The play moves in rounds where each character gets to act in a scene framed by the other player. The characters have resources they can us to aid their actions and if the Hunter catches up to the Prey there is an epic clash. The outcome of the clash ultimately determines which character is successful.

Included with the game are 16 playable scenarios that you can jump right into.

Hack the Planet

Hack the Planet is 346 pages, full-color, and graphic-novel sized. There are 64 pieces of art in the interior and it comes with optimized, highly usable PDFs (300dpi and 96 dpi for low-res). Each PDF includes bookmarks, extensive hyperlinking, a reference section, layers, and an index.

Hack the Planet is a cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game about clawing power away from those at the top while surviving extreme heavy weather. In the not-so-distant future, our environment and technological growth was impacted by Acts of God: natural disasters radicalized by climate change effects that wreak havoc on the world.

You play individuals living in Shelter 1, a massive facility for climate refugees, corporations, and the superrich. These days, the Shelter serves only the few corporations who saw these changes coming—and you’ve had enough.

While you seem powerless compared to these corporations, you use technology to forge a new way of life within and around a massive Shelter 1. You pull off daring heists using experimental weapons and armor, install cybernetics into your bodies, and hack the corporate nanites pervasive in your body, food, and culture. You deceive those you don’t trust, betraying them when necessary. You rip apart hurricanes in this cascading, sprawling metropolis.

Tragedies of Middle School: Bloody Mary

A fresh take on the Bloody Mary game… everyone else used to play at sleepovers in middle school too, right?

Changeling the Lost 2nd ed

Hearts on Trial includes:

Rules for creating and playing changelings in the Chronicles of Darkness
A selection of fae Contracts, otherworldly tricks and powers of the Lost
A complete adventure for you to play right out of the book, with five full, pre-generated characters
A preview of rules from Changeling: The Lost Second Edition and the Chronicles of Darkness core rulebook

Til Dawn

In the year 2121, nestled amidst the lush and varied natural landscapes of the world is the most progressive DJ competition on the planet: Til Dawn. These idyllic landscapes where glass and fiberplastics glint white and weave throughout waterfalls, where hovering platforms drift through the hollows of vast canyons and beyond, prove the perfect locales for creating phenomenal musical experiences.

Famous DJ Squads come to compete for the title of the Planet’s Next DJ Superstars. To create their sounds and effects DJs wear Shells: cybernetically enhanced bodies that they can switch out and customize to create fully integrated multi-sensual experiences. Til Dawnis of course broadcast live for the most ultimate real drama possible. Competitors not only have to excel at increasingly difficult music challenges, but also juggle relationships, the public perception of their personas, and sabotage from other DJ Squads.

Can you work with your DJ Squad to come out on top and win the prestigious planetary title? Or will your crew be crushed by the drama? Find out in Til Dawn, a new Fate World of Adventure from Kira Magrann.

Inside this 58-page supplement you'll find:

Character creation that focuses on designing your DJs from their music to their moods, relationships, and technologically enhanced skins.

A detailed system for staging tense, exciting, and creative musical competitions. No musical skill required on the part of the players!

A relationships system that drives the drama. Sure, you can lay down the beats — but will your squad remain friends through it all?

Sample DJs, DJ squads, and locations for your music festivals.

An example session set in the Borobudur Sky Amphitheater.

Earth Empathy Jam Games Anthology

Get It Here
This anthology of games was created as part of the Earth Empathy Jam. You'll get all 19 games created by a diverse crew of game designers. All proceeds will be donated to the Center for Biological Diversity. That's only 1$ per game for charity! The Earth Empathy Jam was created by Kira Magrann and Jenn Martin.

Trilemma Adventures Compendium

"Stop writing adventures and use these"

—Geek & Sundry

This book brings together the award-winning Trilemma Adventures: 48 one- and two-page adventure locations for fantasy role-playing games.

Each location is written to be usable separately, perfect for one-shot sessions, side quests, or to help populate your home grown campaign setting.

All have been lavishly illustrated and laid out to make them easy to run, straight from the book.

Legacy: Life Among the Ruins

Quietus

QUIETUS is a one shot, prepless RPG of melancholy horror. It’s a game for a GM and one or two players, and emulates tragic horror movies like Oculus, The Strangers, The Babadook, Inside and the Netflix version of The Haunting of Hill House. If a piece of fiction can make you cry and scream, then it’s a great model for the sort of stories that you can tell with QUIETUS.

Unknown Armies, Sacred Pharma

Sacred Pharma is about a cabal who are disenfranchised, deserted, and betrayed by the the American healthcare system’s inability to care for their bodies. These reality bruisers perform strange body magick on themselves for mystical solutions to their physical problems. They are determined to fight the system of Big Pharma that’s refused to help them for so long.

Selfie - #Feminism Anthology

Selfie - an intimate game about feelings in images. A short freeform larp for the #feminism game anthology.

Mobilize - War Birds Anthology

Ft Oglethorpe, Georgia, 1943: This story follows five queer women working together here in the motor pool, trained in the driving, maintenance, and repair of jeeps, trucks, and motorcycles. For the first time they could find each other, find community, in the Women’s Army Corps: clothes they felt themselves in, a job that let them get their hands dirty, a lover, a family, a home. The military only tolerated these women because they needed the numbers; by regulation they were still classified as mentally ill and the threat of a dishonorable discharge was real. Sometimes that threat meant making the hard choice between doing the right thing, and surviving as a queer woman in the army.

Mobilize is a semi-live larp for five players. It runs in three hours and includes workshops on gender presentation and performance to understand the complexities of identity these women experienced in 1943. Play is a series of motor pool jobs where choices are made about how characters and their new found queer community will comport themselves under pressure and the intense scrutiny of military authority.

Part of the War Birds Anthology, a collection of live action games about women in WW2.

RESISTOR Vol. 1

RESISTOR Vol. 1 features original games, fiction, and artwork focusing on the correlation between technology, magic, and social issues through a cyberpunk lens.

It's made by Kira Magrann and Elissa Leach, two friends living in Columbus, Ohio who really like cyberwitchy stuff.

RESISTOR vol. 1 features fiction, games, and art about class and access all created by diverse not-men designers and writers.

Swim Baby Swim - The Veil: Cascade

Swim Baby Swim is a cyberpunk scenario that features modded characters called Mervamps just trying to swim their way to the nightclub. A counter culture setting for The Veil.

Springfield, OH - Monsterhearts 2

Get It Free Here

Springfield is a Small Town for Monsterhearts 2.

Springfield is the bleakness of the cornfields saturated with chemicals, empty buildings in disrepair, bitter cold winds and relentless ice, old barns that have collapsed under the weight of neglect, swastikas painted on garage doors. Racist music culture, people in desperate poverty, and a willfully ignorant Christian bigotry are the very human monsters that live in this town.

Solar Slums, 2081 - Dialect

A backdrop developed for Dialect.

When the weather in the U.S. became too harsh to live outside, corporations built high tech biodomes so people could survive. Anyone unwilling or unable to work for them and live by their laws were stuck in urban slums full of pollutants, fake food, solar burn, and gangs. It's here where you live, a group of rebels who refuse to cave to the cultural suicide that is corporate life. Among the people who are just trying to survive in this consumerist dictatorship are a resistance of competent cyborgs and hackers trying to resist corporate life. Here in these neon city streets, you gotta talk fast to make friends, and you need to prove your cred to be trusted.

Bluebloods - Noirlandia

Get It Free Here

Bluebloods is a Quickstart for Noirlandia

The nights are long in Midnight city, which makes it easy for the

vampires to hunt the hot lonely streets. They stalk through the

darkness in neighborhood bars, alleyways, hospitals, anywhere

they can get the blood they need. The casual citizen is blissfully

unaware of how much they’ve infiltrated the power structures of the

city. Vampires are politicians, socialites, lawyers, CEO’s, police.

Every one of the city’s institutions is held by their grasp. The ruling

vampires here intend to keep the system messy, so they can keep

feeding on their flock.

New Motor City - Headspace

Buy Headspace Here - New Motor City Out Soon

The architectural carcasses of old rust belt Detroit still haunt these neon streets; art deco theatres and car manufacturing plants are preserved in spectacular ruin amidst fields of urban wasteland. Not far from these relics are the shiny new skyscrapers and lush urban farms that mark the renaissance of Detroit’s industrial waste. The skyscrapers are an extension of the downtown business districts, now lush with new money from the tech startups that moved in from silicon valley. They call this area the silicon belt, a shinier take on the diaspora of the rust belt it used to be not 50 years ago...

Tangaroa Arcology - The Sprawl

Tangaroa Arcology is a Setting for the Sprawl

Out in the vast Pacific, located roughly between Polynesia and the US, is the Tangaroa Arcology. A collaboration between eccentric Seattle biotech magnate Eric Reed and brilliant New Zealand architect
Mahina Sheppard, the Tangaroa is the first city to live on the water. The Arcology began simply as just one geodesic dome, but over time its structure grew to become a series of interconnected island domes
that sprawl out nearly the size of Japan. The unique multicultural diversity of the islands, paired with visionary scientists and artists make the Tangaroa a hub for new biological and culturally relevant
technologies. Consisting of inhabitants like bioengineers, medical researchers, architects, financial opportunists, marine biologists, tourists, and musicians, the Tangaroa Arcological Islands have become
more than just an ocean experiment; they’re a technological wonder and a radical way of life. The people who live here feel drawn to the sea in ways their land dwelling brethren can't comprehend.

Arcana - Calling the Quarters

Arcana is part of the Calling the Quarters Anthology

Embody the major tarot power you were always meant to be, learn things you didn't expect to learn in this parlor LARP. Utilizes a few major arcana cards from the tarot to give advice around a campfire.

Bubblegumshoe

The world is full of mysteries. It’s up to your group of intrepid teen sleuths to solve them. In Bubblegumshoe, players step into the shoes of high-schoolers solving mysteries in a modern American small town. Discover clues, solve problems, and throw down with enemies in this streamlined RPG based on the GUMSHOE system.

The Diesel Ceiling - Misspent Youth

Diesel Ceiling is a Setting for Misspent Youth

The badass ladies of New Dubai’s newest hyper-car racing squad are out to teach the macho boys who used to rule the circuit how to eat dust. A world for Misspent Youth.

Universal Donor

Honorable Mention, 2015 Golden Cobra Challenge.

by Kira Magrann and Eric Mersmann

Synthetic beings, transhumanism, and an inscrutable Mechanic; there is everything to love about Universal Donor by Kira Magrann and Eric Mersmann. How much of yourself can you trade away and still be you? What happens when you don’t have a lot of agency over your body? You’ll be able to explore these issues through emergent, if not specifically directed play, with an underlying mechanic (different from the Mechanic) based on playing cards.

Wanton Curse & Knights of the Blue Rose - Blue Rose

Buy It Here & Here

A fantasy Vampiric adventure in an anthology Six of Swords, and the history and culture of the Knights of the Blue Rose in the Blue Rose AGE RPG of Romantic Fantasy.

Twilight Dames - Fate Codex

A lesbian noir quick start adventure, in which players take on the roles of the queer women of the Twilight City, living in a noir world of sex and crime.

Eclipse Phase: Router Case Files

Whether you're running Eclipse Phase for the first time or a veteran gamemaster, Router Case Files is your resource for fast plot hooks tailored to this intricate universe. Covering the three core campaign types—Firewall, gatecrashing, and Guanxi criminals—then spanning the solar system to deal with hypercorps, uplifts, media, politics, and more!

Longing

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A free twine game about lady monster love. It’s my first twine game ever! There’s snakes.

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