Muses & Maenads : Magickal Thinking TTRPG

This is concept art for our game. The Mortification changes the greedy, making them as ugly on the outside as they are cruel within.

The Mortification is an affliction of the greedy. They become bestial and uncaring of their fellow Wrydlings. Do not lose your heart as they have.

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This is concept art for our game. Dancers tell stories with motion and rhythm.

Wyrdlings gather for a celebration that stretches into the night. Food, fun, friends, and frosty drink will be had. 🎉🍾

Fellow Wyrdlings, we wish you well. May coming days be better than what's behind! Stay warm and seek what makes times grand.

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This is concept art for our game. A ringmaster at work, drawing the eye and introducing the next act.

Wyrdling culture holds art and performance as high priorities. The traveling show is very desirable and welcomed in villages across the Wyrd. This #wip is #conceptart for our game. #mtrpg

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This is concept art for our game. This image shows an Abomination.

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Abominations wandered in from the Æther to rampage across the Wyrd. They are a bizarre beings with chaotic and varied monstrous forms.

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This is concept art for our game. This image shows a swarm of scarecrows coming out of the darkness, eyes glowing red, and toward the viewer.

The Wyrd may be full of heart stopping terrors, but we hope your Halloween is full of wonder fellow Wyrdlings!

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Four colorful and murderous clowns. The words "Wild Clowns" are written across the top and surrounded by stars.

In the Wyrd, few things are nightmare fuel like a group of Wild Clowns! Best Halloween wishes from the Wyrdlings who survived and don't look behind you.

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For a place so full of whimsy, the Wyrd can be terrifying. Æther storms can strike the Road with alarming speed and sweep in Daemons or other Phænomenal beasts!

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I see beholder eyes open in the blisters. While it's more campy, an example could look like that scene in Army of Darkness.

Did they survive the "birth"?

This is concept art for our game. This image shows the crooked man a being of awful angles.

We love October fellow Wyrdlings! Watch out for Crooked Man, a Nightmare of Madness, who bends reality of the Wyrd into a prison to terrorize its victims.

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White on black drawing of Dracula for MTRPG

It's October fellow Wyrdlings! The Dracula are feared and oddly desired in many corners of the Wyrd. The embodiment gothic romance, they thirst for blood.

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This is a screenshot of a notes file. The text seen follows. Fade in... It seems the Road is in a surrealist mood today. It's lined by ranks of trees like set pieces, wood or cardboard cutouts with paper leaves, fading into Mist and Darkness. Overhead dark billowing clouds of fluff-over-plaster sway in front of a yellow circle with red ribbons flapping at its edges. The Road beneath your heels appears like smooth stone with painted lines that seem to represent cobblestones. Up ahead is a crooked signpost, it proclaims "Applewood Landing" and points to the left where a pitch black tunnel opening can be seen. From the Road behind you comes a frightful ruckus, a Swarm of Scarecrow burst into view. They emit a collective chorus of undulating wails. Their pursuit sends wave cold dread dancing over your gut and up your spine.

This is the introduction for our recent #playtest session of Muses & Maenads: Magickal Thinking #TTRPG

The sessions will continue so we will not say more at this time. Keep being you my fellow Wyrdlings, see ya!

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Just so you know, bubble blowing is a skill in the Wyrd.

This wip is concept art for our game. The image shows a towering stump. One so big, part of it has been hollowed out and turned into a grand stage. The red curtains are raised and spotlights brighten the stage. An orchestra pit waits, empty, in front of this stage. Upon the stage are four figures, one at an upright piano, another stands behind a tall drum, while the other two sing and dance in a shower of magical sparkles. Two exits can be seen, one on either side of the stage. This stage is found in the Village of Everstead, a place many traveling performers call home in their off season. It is also a place of learning where young Wyrdlings go to learn how to be a performer and follow their dream of walking the Road. It is said enchanted acoustics allow someone speaking in a conversational tone at center stage, to be clearly heard 65 paces into the crowd.

In Everstead, just off Jupiter street, sits a field surrounding the Grand Stump. This legendary stage has been the off-season practice stage for generations of performers in the Wryd.

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This is concept art for our game. This image shows a gargoyle, mouth open and baring teeth as it comes at the viewer.

Beware the gargoyle my fellow Wyrdlings! These sentinels may be slow to anger, but they're quick to protect! Provoke them at your peril.

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This is concept art for our game. This image show a dark figure with glowing eyes. The shade is what remains in the Wyrd when someone dies. It will pass into the UnderWyrd in short order. Shades sometimes get suck in the Wyrd, they can be seen using the candle of Melinoë, a Deva gift.

Deva blessings have many uses in the Wyrd. The light of Melinoë's Candle illuminates the night, revealing Shades that have lost their way to the UnderWyrd.

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Every story, every game, every session pushes the Nothing back. Create more my follow Wyrdlings!

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This is concept art for our game. This wip shows a creature known as a Moss Mutt. It leaps from the undergrowth, yellow eyes bright, skin green, covered in vines, and trailing bits of Spanish moss.

In the Wyrd, many things are possible, including a dog-shaped plant creature. Say hello to the Moss Mutt!

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Concept art for our game. This GIMP screenshot shows a work in progress, a sketch of a monstrous unicorn. Its skin is covered in plate-like structures that suggest armor. The horn is nearly as long as its body and an open maw shows many sharp teeth.

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Unicorn's are more nightmare than fairy tale in the Wyrd.

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This wip is a sketch of a duo going by the name Shart & Rip. They have a comedy muscle act that had the whole room rolling with laughter. One is a aging muscle performer with bad knees and the other is a salty pig who is far too honest about tales from the past.

#wip Inspired by a playtester created duo.

Shart & Rip, a comedy muscle act had us rolling with laughter. An aging muscle performer with bad knees and a salty pig who is too honest about tales.

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“Muses & Maenads: Magickal Thinking TTRPG” has immersive gameplay, a setting that is both fresh and expansive, and the ability to customize a corner of the Wyrd to the needs of you and your group!

Written and created by Scarlett E. Messenger and William R. Gibson

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This ttrpg is suited to any length of play, be it one session or several. It has gameplay that strives for simplicity with a side order of crunch. The Players and a Wyrd Weaver can determine the tone and flavor of the game based on what their table needs.

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All of this is wrapped in the Wyrd, a place of Fae trickery, Deva worship, pop-culture-warped Daemons, folklore-seeking Wyrdographers, and the joy of creativity and creation. Virtually any setting or scenario, real or imagined, can be found within the Wyrd, so have at it!

Magick and mayhem!

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Find a wider range of options for conflict resolution in the Wyrd. You are as free to fight as you are to walk one of the Pacifist paths. These range from the Alpha Pacifists, who abstain from all violence, to Delta Pacifists, who want to leave their days of bloodshed behind them.

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Are you a bloodthirsty Berserker on a quest for vengeance, or a knife-juggling poet with a penchant for playing the gum-shoe off-stage? A “Road” scholar hunting Wild Clowns, or an erotic Candymancer who moonlights as an Exorcist? How about a cursed ventriloquist dummy looking for a cure?

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Your Wyrdling will travel the world of the Wyrd with a Troupe of artists and entertainers, exploring the Villages you encounter along the never-ending, ever-changing Road.

Create the characters you envision using a simple system that grants a diverse choice of personas and identities.

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This WIP is a logo for Muses and Maenads, a Magickal Thinking TTRPG. The image shows "Muses and Maenads" done as if spelled with carved wooden letters above the words "powered by Magickal Thinking" done in two tone purple and pink lettering. All of this is overlay on a wheel with nine spokes. At the center is an icon and each spoke has an icon. Each of these represents one of the ten forms of Magick found in the Wyrd. The wheel itself represents traveling the never-ending Road.

“Muses & Maenads: Magickal Thinking TTRPG” is the working title of a new #ttrpg in development and testing that takes you through a romantic tour through a psychedelic world of eerie nursery rhymes, dark fairy tales, and ancient myth.

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This is concept art for our game. A group of bunnies stare at you from the shadows. Their gaze is menacing and some of them have the glowing red eyes that signal they have taken in too much Madness and are about to Swarm. Many more red points of light shine from the darkness behind them. A Swarm is moments away...

In the Wyrd, Madness is one of the elements forming all things. When it is high in an area, Swarms can form spontaneously. Beware Swarms young Wyrdling and the eyes that come with Madness.

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