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It's the final GamesMasterclass!

Today! At 18:00BST (roughly four hours from this post) we will be streaming the last of our twelve-part TTRPG GamesMasterclass #12 Workin' on the Railroad: GM 'Sins' and How to Commit them with Style! on our Patreon!

"But we missed the first eleven!" - not to worry, old chum, the videos to all the previous installments are uploaded and available to patrons at any time.

Check 'em out here, and join us live for the final one if you can!

patreon.com/macguffinandcompany

#macguffin & co #gming #streaming #gamesmasterclass

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Have you played UPRIVER, DOWNRIVER

By Ella Watts

All you’ve ever known is the Great River.

Gather your crew and swear a magical Oath — to each other, to your ship, and to your goal to reach the Source of the River or cross the horizon of the Sea. No one has ever found the Source and no one has ever come back from the Sea. Journey to four locations along the River, each tied to one of the major arcana, never moving backwards and never lingering for more than 72 hours, but impacting life on the River all the same.

Your time on the River is short, but that it is insignificant.

Upriver, Downriver uses a combination of polyhedral dice and tarot cards to guide the narrative through four to twelve 3-4 hour sessions.

#you should play #upriver downriver #macguffin & co #indie ttrpg #indie rpgs

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Pitcrawler digital is here!

Behold! The digital edition of Pitcrawler is here!

...if you backed it on IndieGoGo, at least. The rest of you will have to wait another month or two to Behold! it, I'm afraid.

It's been a real labour of love this last year to get it all ready for folks, and we're so happy to be sharing it. If you backed the campaign, you should have it in a Backerkit email that came through to you inbox (or your spam if your computer's suspicious) last week. If you haven't had it, let us know.

And for everybody else, here's a little tast of what's to come after we've sorted printing and it goes public.

#pitcrawler #macguffin & co #ttrpgs #indie rpg #digital release

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The next GamesMasterclass is today! Join us for tips, advice and rambling opinions about running investigation adventures of all kinds.

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The next GamesMasterclass is today! Join us for tips, advice and rambling opinions about running investigation adventures of all kinds.

#macguffin & co

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OK for some reason Tumblr is directing the link twitch.tv/macguffinandco to some guy named Nate Lupton's channel. We are not Nate Lupton. Find us at macguffinandco!

We're about to go live on Twitch with Dream Crush and bonus guest Frank Voss! Join us for an excellent game in excellent company.

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We're about to go live on Twitch with Dream Crush and bonus guest Frank Voss! Join us for an excellent game in excellent company.

#twitch #dream crush #boardgames #frank voss #macguffin & co

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Hey all, been an intense few days, and realised I haven't actually posted here about the fact the crowdfunder for The Magnus Archives RPG by the incredible Monte Cook Games is live RIGHT NOW.

It's going amazingly well, far beyond what we could have predicted, and I'm so excited by it. It looks amazing and I'm so psyched to see how Monte and the team bring the Archives to the tabletop. As someone who's been roleplaying since the 90s, Monte's work has obviously been a big feature in my gaming life, so you'll have to forgive me if there's a slight fanboyish tinge to how I talk about the project!

Check it out here!

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Afraid we won't be streaming tonight as poor Jonny has covid! We should be back to our regularly scheduled Sunday games next week.

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I think the only person I've met in real life with 100% career satisfaction was this gal I knew who was a presenter at a children's science museum and delivered every line like she was running a WWE match. Every time you passed the room where she was giving a presentation, you'd hear something like "WHO'S READY FOR CEPHALOPODS?!?" and the kids would go absolutely nuts cheering.

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Guess what's coming! The wonderful Amber over at @tincanaudio has finished A PITCRAWLER'S PROGRESS - THE ALBUM. Ten prog-rock RPG masterpieces to accompany the exemplar campaign in our forthcoming game Pitcrawler. IndieGoGo backers should keep an eye on their inbox sometime this week, while everyone else can watch this space for news of a public release!

#pitcrawler #macguffin & co #tin can audio #rpg music

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Jane Austen Book Club

Do you like books? Do you like comedy? Do you like social commentary? Do you like historical context? Do you like loooove?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, join Sasha this afternoon for the latest installement of Jane Austen Book Club - the only(?) twitch stream that combines storytime and a cool history lesson as Sasha reads a Jane Austen book and explains the context of it.

Right now they're reading Mansfield Park, and it's a wild ride. Check them out here at 6:30pm British time!

#jane austen #jane austin quote #probably #mansfield park #twitch #macguffin & co

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Afraid we're gonna have to cancel tonight's stream as Jonny's been struck down by a migraine. We'll be back next week!

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Ok, listen up scummer, here’s the deal. You’re jekked. You’re void. And you need to get out in one piece. The job started fine - your crew got into the vault, grabbed the money and were headed for the exit when some would-be hero tripped the jekking alarm. Your ship was locked down and you had to grab the nearest piece of dreg you could find in order to get out of system.

Too late, though. Hunter Koltz is on your tail and the can you stole didn’t have the juice to get any further than the Dantix system. So now you’re pulling into Port Caliban, a tiny space station with the only fuel for five light years. You’ve got three cases of credstix that aren’t worth dreg ‘til you can get them to a cleaner, and you’ve got the body of the jekking rachit whose can you took lying in the hold. Koltz and ISO are right behind you and could be here any MINIT.

You ken all that? ‘Cause right now everything’s zero void, it’s someone else’s fault, and you don’t plan on going down for it.

In Zero Void, a team of interstellar criminals are on the run following a botched job, trying to outrun the full force of Imperial Security Enforcement. Do they work together to get out in one piece, turn on each other to try and save their own skin, or go down in a blaze of zero-g desperation?

Zero Void is our zero-prep sci-fi one-shot, with a scenario full of problems, a system designed to escalate problems them, and gorgeous art from @kingcael. It's available on our shop (as a physical zine and as a PDF), and a second adventure may be on the way…

#ttrpgs #indie rpg #macguffin & co #ttrpg #ttrpg community

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I've been enjoying the Women's World Cup so much I started thinking of designing a sports-themed RPG, but then I remembered we kind of already did that with Primetime Colosseum, our game about ancient Roman gladiators, in a world where gladiators are basically pro-wrestlers (and also revival potions are a thing)!

In Primetime Colosseum, you play young, up-and-coming gladiators trying not to botch their shot at the big-time. As well as your character, you'll also create your persona - who you are in the ring - and over the game, you'll have to balance how popular your persona is with fans and how popular your character is with the powerful family who run your gladiator school (and who provide revival potions after a crowd-pleasing mortus match)! It's one of 11 system-neutral micro-settings in our anthology, Odd Jobs, so it can work with any system you like (though there's a small bolt-on mechanic within the game to keep track of your popularity).

You can get Primetime Colosseum with 10 other micro-settings in Odd Jobs here (for hardback) and here (for PDF), or you can listen to Jeff and Jonny playing it on the wonderful @partyofonepod here!

#ttrpgs #indie rpg #ttrpg #macguffin & co #odd jobs

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Frightmove!

We had such a blast playing our newest game, Frightmove*, on stream with our special guest, Helen!

Frightmove is a fun, quick social game about trying to buy/sell/devalue a haunted manor house. One player is the Househunter - they frame the scenes by describing a different room of the house each round - while the other players take the role of the Estate Agent - trying to sell the house - and the Haunting - trying to scare the Househunter away. There's a lot of back-and-forth silliness and (if you use the random tables to generate room features) the house gets worse the more you explore it.

Frightmove is up on our Patreon (along with loads of other great games/stuff), but you can also get the basics from our playthrough.

*For our international friends, Rightmove is a popular property website like Zoopla or Zillow in the UK. It's important to me that you understand that Frightmove is a really good name for this game - S.

#macguffin & co #indie rpg #helen gould #jonathan sims #sasha sienna

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Tonight!!

Our stream is being joined by a VERY special guest - Helen Gould is literally in our house! And we're going to be trying to sell a haunted manor!

Join us at 8pm BST

Twitch.tv/macguffinandco

#macguffin & co #streaming #its helen! #helen is here!