We’re always looking for new ways to support Invisible Sun and we’re really excited to share a new free tool for you to use in your games!
If you’re using Discord for your Development Mode between-session side-scenes, there’s now a free bot—Thoughtform— that you can easily install on your server to generate Sooth Deck results. Check out this page for instructions on how to install and use this new bot.
Image of a Discord channel with a card being displayed by the Sooth Deck Bot
Speaking of Technology and Invisible Sun…Check out The Electric Sun!
The Tidal Stewards whisper of a disruption—a perturbation so subtle that even a close reading of the Sooth Deck might reveal it only under the most percipient eye. But though subtle, it is unique—a ripple unlike any in all of recorded history. It's as though there is an entirely new form of magic taking shape before our eyes. New ephemera, new spells, new secrets—even an entirely new order of vislae—are materializing, as if they had simply stepped out of a dream.
And strangely enough, that is exactly what those in the know claim happened.
What if magic dreamed of magic? The fundament of the Actuality has been shaken, and some truths long held dear may not be quite so true after all. From the angels of the Silver Sun to the demons of the Red, everyone across the Path of Suns must contend with what is to come. What of you, learned vislae? Will you fight this new tide—this so-called Electric Sun—or will you embrace it?
The new Invisble Sun supplement, The Electric Sun, book cover
The Electric Sun is a new sourcebook for Invisible Sun, detailing the emergence of a new form of magic and its effects on the entire Actuality. It offers new magical praxis and even a nacent new order of vislae.
A new Invisible Sun crowdfunding campaign, Invisible Sun: Electric and Indigo is running now. Over 1000 vislae have already backed our crowdfunding campaign—support it to get a copy of this new Invisible Sun supplement for yourself and help grow it in scale and scope!
Additionally, we’ve just received early press copies of The Darkest Art, and it is quite sensational! Each chapter features a different artist and their work over various MCG titles. We’ll be receiving these into the warehouse this month so we can get them into your hands.
In the meantime, please enjoy a few pages:
Double Page Spread of The Darkest Art: Cypher System 1940s city folk discovering tentacles, Invisible Sun vislae casting a spells.
Double Page Spread of The Darkest Art: The Darkest Woods spooky locations with creatures, Invisible Sun armed warrior.
Double Page Spread of The Darkest Art: Various Cypher System creatures with many limbs.
Get Tangled in The Web
Fully funded and adding new things all the time, The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game: Tangled in the Web crowdfunding campaign is going strong, and only available for another 8 days! Check it out now.
Double page spread of The Wellspring interior intro pages
The Wellspring is at the printers! We're really excited about the props and the book; they look great! Here’s a sneak peek:
Double page spread of The Wellspring showing a tunnel map and NPC
Double page spread of The Wellspring of a floating house and NPC
Double page spread of The Wellspring and the Battle of the Oasis
Furthermore, The Darkest Art is currently wrapping up layout, and will be heading to the printers in the next week or two. We’ll have spreads to show you next month!
Coupons for any outstanding Invisible Sun supplements and Prop Set 2 in print will also start to be made available this week, so please check your emails!
So What's Next from MCG?
The Magnus Archives RPG statement
New statements. New horrors. New lore. New resources for the GM. New options for the players. New adventures by The Magnus Archives creator Jonathan Sims.
The Web weaves. Will you find yourself within its tangles?
Our Kansas warehouse has been hard at work shipping Black Cubes to domestic backers for about a month now—and we’re excited to report we can almost see the warehouse floor! While College Labor Force has been busy shipping your rewards to the Actuality, our fabulous production team has been laying out The Wellspring.
The Wellspring is an entirely new product for Invisible Sun, and is packed with a wealth of applications, particularly for those wishing to start a new narrative in the game. Inside you'll find inspirations and ideas for use in establishing characters in the first session. When the players have all decided their characters' first goals (called the Desideratum), you can turn to The Wellspring for a number of detailed avenues for their stories to progress, utilizing locations, NPCs, creatures, and organizations both new and familiar!
We think it’s going to be an incredible Asset to getting your Invisible Sun campaign started!
Haven’t Redeemed Your Black Cube Yet?
US Backers: As much as we love having these cryptic cubes nearby, please make sure you’ve fulfilled your Black Cube and help us clear space so we can receive and fulfill future rewards! We know they’ll be put to better use on your game table, and we could use a little more elbow room in our warehouse.
Australian and New Zealand Backers: Your Black Cubes have been shipping for the past few weeks, too. We hope you are loving exploring Satyrine.
UK and European Backers: Thank you for bearing with us through global shipping delays. Black Cubes should now be shipping from our UK fulfillment center! Make sure you’ve redeemed your cube on the MCG Shop!
Choose Your Scares: Spoooky Season Sale!
Want to add more spooky to your existing game? Want to start a horror campaign or adventure? Planning a one-shot for Halloween?
Simply choose the frights you want to put your players through, and get a creepy 31% discount on select horror-focused items on the MCG Shop, including The Darkest House, Stay Alive! and the Old Gods of Appalachia corebook. Plus enjoy 13% off everything else (not unlucky in this case)!
Here, the woods sing. Here, the squirrel leaps from branch to branch, and the stag lifts its antlered head before bounding away through dappled light.
But go no further, friend.
Do not mistake the forest’s bounty for kindness. Do not think its shadowed depths are simply denser versions of these pleasant shallows. For to venture deeper is to become lost within the ancient chambers of the forest’s dark heart, where twisted and sinister things make their homes and even light struggles to find its way.
Discover why humanity has always feared the wilderness.
Brought to you by the minds behind the horror masterpiece The Darkest House, The Darkest Woods is a standalone horror TTRPG mega-adventure and setting. You can insert The Darkest Woods into any campaign—including (perhaps especially) the one you're playing right now. The characters drawn into its mysteries don't even have to all come from the same world, campaign, or game system!
The international shipping gods have smiled upon us all, and Black Cubes all over the world have been received at port. Hundreds of Black Cubes have already been fulfilled by backers of this campaign—read on to learn if yours is ready for fulfillment, and, if so, when to expect it!
Are you a backer from the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, or the South Pacific? It’s time!
We have your cubes!
As you can see in the photo, our Kansas warehouse is stuffed to the brim with Black Cubes waiting to be summoned by their backers in the US, Canada, and Mexico.
And our "Down Under" fulfillment center is keen to fill your redemptions for Australia and New Zealand!
As much as we love having Black Cubes nearby, we know you’ll love exploring this amazing product and playing Invisible Sun more. We need these to fly out to your game tables or else we won’t have enough room to receive and fulfill lots of other great upcoming rewards. Please fulfill your Black Cube now and help us to clear space so we can receive and fulfill future rewards!
Thank you all for supporting this project and for helping us to get ready for our next huge fulfillment!
Are you a UK or European Backer?
Great news: although there was a delay getting the ship containing your Black Cubes to port, that issue has been resolved, and your cubes should start shipping in the days to come! If you’ve already done your fulfillment on the MCG Shop, feel free to relax while you await your ticket into the Actuality. If haven’t, please do so now so it’ll ship to you as soon as possible! If you need a refresher on redeeming your rewards, check out this handy guide!
You won’t want to miss Old Gods of Appalachia: Deeper Still
“You’ve been down the path to Granny Dukelow’s before, but never have you seen the man in the sharp white suit, and a smile as bright as the moon in the sky….
”Hey there traveler!” his voice is like honey as he offers you a cigarette, and his canines sparkle in the darkness of the new moon. “I can see you’re driven and full of potential, how’s about you want to work for me?”
In the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game, players strive to protect what's important in the face of incomprehensible eldritch horror. When the rent comes due, but the darkness has started to seep into your very soul, what will you do? Can you protect what you love, in a place that would eat you alive?
The Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game brings the heart and horror of an alternate Appalachia to your game table with fluid, story-based mechanics, a detailed setting, and deeply immersive characters. If you're new to the game, this is the place to start—get the core book plus all of the expansions we're making at a fantastic price!
