Card-powered - All you need is the book and a deck of standard playing cards
Pick-up-and-play - Play begins as soon as you open the book and start talking
GM-less - All players collaboratively share narrative control over the world
Replayability - No two games will be alike. Players begin with establishing a paletteand choosing touchstones for the world. From there, a variety of prompts and tables help bring their world to life.
What do you get when you combine a world that is “stormy, gold, and jagged” with Legally Blonde and Hellboy as touchstones?
For Fans of - Games like i’m sorry did you say street magic? and The Quiet Year
The Book
A Land Once Magic will be printed as a pocket-sized A6 open-spine book.
Mockup - Design may change
What People Are Saying
“...Easy to dive into, brilliant and thoughtful, it provides a wonderful space for friends to collaborate and create something truly incredible together. No other game so wonderfully gives me the ‘nerdy sleepover with friends’ creative energy quite like A Land Once Magic. An essential game to own for anyone who enjoys fun.”
- Aaron Catano Saez, All My Fantasy Children
“A Land Once Magic pokes and prods at the oft-unexercised muscles of the massive storytelling beasts that live within you. It leads you forward with probing questions and a firm but gentle hand … Dive in and feel yourself as a conduit for A Land Once Magic- one that is yours. Yours to have and yours to share.”
- Kobold Orion, Queer Trans Sex Freak
"A Land Once Magic is a wholly unique world-building game. The worlds you create will feel ancient and lived-in - full of old stories and ready for new ones."
