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Gen Con Announcement: Urban Shadows Second Edition
To heighten the drama and darkness inside Urban Shadows, new playbooks and game tweaks are in the works!
New at Gen Con 2019!
Learn where to find our spaces at the convention center, plus a few new products we're bringing with us!
Trip to the Printer!
This May, Mark and I took a trip to the printer where our tabletop RPGs come to life! We have been working with Taylor Specialty Books for a long time and this was an exciting opportunity to see how it...
Urban Shadows: Los Cazados now on DriveThruRPG
Los Cazados is a 5 page, stand alone minigame set in the world of Urban Shadows is now on DriveThruRPG!
The Dragon is now on DriveThruRPG!
Urban Shadows, The Dragon is a limited edition playbook for Urban Shadows.
The Adventure Zone: Dust!
The Adventure Zone ran a whole arc based on Urban Shadows, and it was amazing! The Adventure Zone is an awesome and joyful RPG podcast featuring the inestimable McElroys—specifically, Clint, Griffin, Justin, and Travis. They played a long, long campaign...
Leder Games Awards Root Roleplaying Game License to Magpie Games
Root RPG Kickstarter scheduled for mid-2019, followed by full retail release in early 2020 Magpie Games has reached a multi-year licensing agreement with Leder Games to produce a tabletop roleplaying game set in the world of Root: A Game of...
The Book of Lore is now in splendid print!
The Book of Lore is a fiction supplement for Bluebeard’s Bride, is now available in print!
New Magpies: Sarah Saltiel & Miguel Angel Espinoza
In the midst of working on Masks: A New Generation, Bluebeard’s Bride, Epyllion, Urban Shadows, Cartel, Zombie World, and more...we here at Magpie HQ have had the honor and the privilege to welcome two new members onto our team for...
New at Gencon
With Gen Con right around the corner, we wanted to tell you about all the things that we’ve been doing in the past year. We’ve been busy and have a bunch of new products that we’re so excited to share...
Games at GenCon 2018
The day is drawing near! We are so excited to all of you at Gen Con in August. We’ve been busy getting ready for all of the things that we have to share with you and so we have a...
The Immortal is now on DriveThruRPG!
The Immortal is a limited edition playbook for Urban Shadows, an urban fantasy tabletop roleplaying game
The Rebellion of Nakia Alights!
And our last Black Panther playbook for Masks arrives! Here comes one of the best fighters in Wakanda! Check out our post with T'Challa, our post with Shuri, and our post with Okoye for the first three playbooks in this...
The Trials of Okoye Commence!
A third Masks - Black Panther playbook, vaulting your way, spear in hand, badass stare primed and ready! Check out our post with T'Challa and our post with Shuri for the first two playbooks in this series! Like those, this...
GenCon 2018 Game Room
Gen Con approaches, and we at Magpie Games are putting together our most ambitious game room yet—and we want you to be a part of it! If you’ll be at Gen Con 2018 and want to run some games of...
Happy Valentine’s Day & Black Panther Premiere!
While some of us haven’t been able to see Black Panther yet, all of Magpie has been looking forward to it! There also aren’t a lot of traditional romantics on staff (just Brendan), but put love with superheroes and something’s...
The Reign of Shuri Begins!
So, now that the whole world has seen Black Panther (right? right?) and we're all still basking in the glow of the movie's awesomeness and success, it's time to reveal our next Masks - Black Panther playbook! Just like our...
Happy Holidays from Magpie Games!
The holidays are a comin’, and we’re getting ready to hibernate in our magpie ice caverns before the terrible yellow-breasted grackle comes hunting for us. (We have at best a tenuous grasp on actual ecology concerning magpies.) But before we...
Play Games With the Magpies at Gen Con 50!
It’s a big year for Gen Con, and a big year for Magpie Games as well! For the first time all of our games will be consolidated in one room, and we’ll have hosts to direct you to your games...
Tell Amazing Stories and Get Free Stuff!
We still have a few GM slots for GenCon, and we’d love to see you there! If you’ll be at GenCon and would be able to run some games of Bluebeard’s Bride, Dungeon World, Epyllion, Masks, Undying, or Urban Shadows,...
Metatopia 2017 Recap
Brendan went to Metatopia on November 3rd and had all his games ripped to shreds by the merciless hordes had a great time! He brought three games, participated in two panels, played in a few other games, and had all...