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THE BAD YEAR - LIVE NOW ON KICKSTARTER!
The shadow of a once-in-a-millenium stellar conjunction has fallen over the city. For one year the dead will not sleep easy in their graves, strange and unnatural monsters will walk the woods and alleyways, and long-forgotten cults will bring their terrible plans to fruition.
Only a small group of die-hard investigators stand between the city and certain doom…
LEARN MORE & BACK NOW ON KICKSTARTER!
We've been foiled!
The Bad Year has hit its final book-upgrade stretch goal, so now it gets shiny red string foiling on the cover and the book is gonna be as good as it possibly could be!
Our final stretch goal is that we'll give a £1000 bonus to everyone who's worked on the project, which would be amazing. For now, we're just very excited about how good this book is going to be!
53 horror investigation adventures for any RPG system, playable as one-shot mysteries, concise arcs or a year-long interwoven campaign.
What's So Good About The Bad Year?
Loads of things, but I (Sasha) want to talk about my favourite thing about The Bad Year, which is all the different ways you can play it.
So, The Bad Year is a collection of 53 system-neutral, one-page horror investigation adventures that look like this:
All the clues and the links between them are on one side of the page, with a more detailed breakdown on the other. The idea is you can open it to any double page spread and be able to run that adventure with everything you need right in front of you.
But wait! There's more!
There's also a small section at the bottom of the clue map called "Links" which lists every recurring storyline, NPC and location that features in the mystery, along with the page numbers of every other mystery they appear in. So you can easily find all the entries in one of 7 (seven!) recurring plots and run them as mini-campaigns (or just pick one recurring NPC and follow them through the course of their own really bad year, if you want).
One of those plots - THE GRAND OCCULTATION - is basically the A-plot of the whole book. It's told over 13 adventures, so you can easily run it as monthly sessions over a year, and it explains why exactly this year is so very bad.
BUT WAIT! There's even more!
You can, of course, run each one of the 53 adventures, one after the other, to get the full, year-long, interconnected detailed campaign. And, if you start it and end it in Halloween week, every single adventure will be themed to the actual week of the calendar year that you play it in.
The planning that's gone into this book is wild and there are some intense spreadsheets behind it. Both the clue map format and the one-shots-but-also-interconnected-campaign were @jonnywaistcoat's idea and I am endlessly impressed with them. I think everyone else should be impressed with them too. Maybe check out our Kickstarter if you think it sounds as cool as I do.
53 horror investigation adventures for any RPG system, playable as one-shot mysteries, concise arcs or a year-long interwoven campaign.
The last day of UKGE is upon us!
Swing by the booth at 3A-165 to check out The Bad Year in person!
If you don’t know what that is yet… have a look here!
53 horror investigation adventures for any RPG system, playable as one-shot mysteries, concise arcs or a year-long interwoven campaign.
UKGE Day 2, we’re ready for you!
Come get your cooool indie RPGs at stand 3A-165!
All ready to go at UK Games Expo, table 3A-165 this weekend!
We're at UK Games Expo this weekend, Booth 3A165!
We're excited to show The Bad Year at our booth in addition to our current games!
Map by @ Jogbrogzin (who will be providing a map in the future for The Bad Year Kickstarter Stretch Goal being hit, yay!) Other post graphics by @kingcael
The Bad Year Kickstarter goes live at 6pm BST tomorrow…
Head to the following page and sign up to be notified!
53 horror investigation adventures for any RPG system, playable as one-shot mysteries, concise arcs or a year-long interwoven campaign.
THE BAD YEAR - A GRIM WINTER…
Did you know you can play the first 16 adventures for free, right now?! Head to our Kickstarter page - and hit follow while you're there!
As a reminder, you can play as one-shot mysteries, concise arcs or as campaigns!
THE BAD YEAR - Kickstarter Pre-Launch Page Open NOW!
The Bad Year contains 53 horror investigation adventures for any RPG system, playable as one-shot mysteries, concise arcs or a year-long interwoven campaign.
Keep your eyes peeled on our social media channels over the coming weeks for information, previews and more!
Head to our Kickstarter page and sign up to be notified on launch!
Art by @kingcael
Me and Sash have been working in this for a while, and I'm really excited to be putting it out there - a whole year's worth of system-neutral TTRPG horror investigations that can be played with games like The Magnus Archives RPG, Call of Cthulhu, Monster of the Week, Delta Green or more!
Check it out here, and have a look at the preview that covers the first 16 adventures!
THE BAD YEAR - Kickstarter Pre-Launch Page Open NOW!
The Bad Year contains 53 horror investigation adventures for any RPG system, playable as one-shot mysteries, concise arcs or a year-long interwoven campaign.
Keep your eyes peeled on our social media channels over the coming weeks for information, previews and more!
Head to our Kickstarter page and sign up to be notified on launch!
Art by @kingcael
What's on Patreon?
We have a huge offering of TTRPG content available including micro-settings, digital editions of our games and additional content for previous releases!
Whether you want to pick up a goody bag or contribute monthly and keep up with our latest projects, Patreon is a great way to support us!
Check it out at patreon.com/macguffinandcompany
MacGuffin & Co Vault - Game Of The Day
A recap in case you missed it… or want it now!
Available as a physical copy or PDF Here
Ho, Bold* Adventurer! Dare you step into a world of peril?
Pitcrawler is a two-player fantasy RPG inspired by old adventure gamebooks, where a daring and foolhardy adventurer will be guided through trials, tribulations and treasures towards glory or death.
Head-to-Head!
One player, one GM, endless possibilities. Work together to create a challenging and fun scenario in a system that’s a bit collaborative and a bit competitive.
No Lore!
A world carved up and distorted by thoughtless and powerful wizards, but no names, places or histories to remember. Develop the world together as you play, as serious or silly as you like.
Leave a Legacy!
Death got you down? Did your adventurer end up retiring? No problem, with our legacy system your next character gets a cool boost.
Rules-Lite, Stuff Heavy!
A simple, flexible rules system, but a book full of foes, magic items, potions, companions, and backgrounds. Fight a tree! Be a mayor! Use your skill at accounting to defeat a vampire somehow!
Load of Tables!
More tables than you can shake a randomly generated item at! What’s this adventure’s title? How are you cursed? What does it smell like?
Thumbs!
Avoid bad luck with our patented** Thumbs mechanic, and roll back time.
*Disposable
**Not actually patented
Finally - Adventure Zine Bundles are available as a physical copy or PDF!
MacGuffin & Co Vault - Game Of The Day
A recap in case you missed it… or want it now!
Available as a physical copy or PDF here
Zero Void is a no-prep sci-fi RPG scenario for 1-6 players and a GM. In it, 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?
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.
MacGuffin & Co Vault - Game Of The Day
A recap in case you missed it… or want it now!
Available as a physical copy or PDF here
From Hell’s Heart I Stab at Thee is a solo role-playing game in which you take the role of an obsessed sea captain, journaling their hunt for the foe they blame for their loss.
“Towards thee I roll! To the last I grapple with thee! For hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee!”
You have been wronged. You have been scorned. You have had your life reduced to bitterness and ash. But you know the cause; you know what it is that has laid you low.
And you will have your vengeance if it kills you.
MacGuffin & Co Vault - Game Of The Day
A recap in case you missed it… or want it now!
Available as a physical copy or PDF here
Welcome to Barracuda Beach, where hard-working adventuring parties can kick back, relax and soak up some much needed sunlight (there’s a serious lack of vitamin D in those dungeons, amirite rogues?)
A Day at Barracuda Beach is a one-shot hexcrawl designed to fit any fantasy or OSR-style RPG campaign!
During the game players will explore the beach in search of fun and relaxation, enjoying such activities as building sandcastles, playing mini-golf and topping up their sunscreen.
So gird your speedoes and sharpen your parasol - it’s time to CHILLAX!
MacGuffin & Co Vault - Game Of The Day
A recap in case you missed it… or want it now!
Available as a physical copy or PDF here
Get ready to laugh, shout and possibly even get blown up by dynamite (depending on your group’s attitude to LARP) in Ker-Splat!
A high-nonsense homage to kinetic toon shorts, where you play your own assortment of animated maniacs and loony cartoons!
Innovative rolling system, where failure is often for the best
Two forms of conflict: ordered chaos and pure chaos
Full of fun-to-say words like Pow! Zip! Wow! Ouch! and Yay!
Give your character a cool power, like science, money or eating
Play a surfboarding vampire or a cauliflower in a wig! Who’s going to stop you? The GM? Pfft, yeah right!
