You are the Magus, the wizard of the lonely tower, and with these pages you will remember your story.
In The Magus, you use dice and pen to write the unique history of their quest for arcane mastery. You will navigate strange encounters and confront complex opportunities for learning spells, or cultivating tenuous bonds.
Everything comes at a cost: will you spend your scant remaining time to acquire more powerful spells, or nurture the few connections keeping you human?
The Magus combines crunchy mechanics with narrative control. As a journaling game, it gives you the structure, the tools, and the prompts to spark a story that you narrate in a journal.
Use the power of dice and cards to chart your journey. You will use all six polyhedral dice to manage the Magus' traits: Focus, Power, Control, and Scars, which shape how the protagonist overcomes challenges and meets their denouement. An unlucky roll might bring you closer to calamity... But if you balance your aspects right, that may only be a faint possibility.
Shape the story with your ideas. The game's prompts evoke details for your spells, your bonds, your events. These details can be used to write a story, powered by serendipity and your imagination.
Along your journey, you will be guided by the Oracle: a companion deck of cards that reveal parts of a spell's true name alongside images and keyphrases that incite layers of meaning for your story. As well as meetings with unlikely creatures that may just leave their mark on the solitary heart of your Magus.
Every card features five different types of prompts: evocative Adjectives and Nouns you can combine to discover new Spells, interesting characters to form Bonds with, and Moods to set the tone for an encounter…
And last but not least, momatoes' art to spark your imagination at the back.
Combining the storytelling power of solo journaling RPGs and the revelation & inspiration from the Oracle, The Magus tells the story of a sweeping journey for power, ambition, and arcane mastery at great personal and interpersonal cost.
