Magency Primer Kit

What is Magency?

Magency is a hybrid tabletop RPG combining full tabletop play with an optional companion app for players and the GM, set in a neo-noir fantasy world where magic fuels technology. This world is Nemundir, where corporations trade in power-storing crystals, and a leaking multiverse threatens everyday life.

The Primer Kit is the essential way to try Magency: streamlined core rules, ready-to-play characters, and enough setting material to get both players and the GM to the table, all in two free books.

Small Groups, Big Machine

Underneath the crystal trade and the common market sits a quieter layer: international alliances that have been trading favors for generations, governments keeping secrets out of public view, and a social order where who you know often outweighs what you can do, mechanically represented in the game through the Influence system, where a character's standing in the Elite, Commercial, or Underground circles can open doors no amount of raw skill ever will.

None of this is subtle. It isn't supposed to be. Nemundir isn't an escape from a world run by powerful, insatiable interests, it's the same fight, with a different vocabulary and a much better light show.

You won't win by dismantling the whole system in one campaign. Nobody does. But you can pull one thread, save one district, expose one truth before it gets buried again, and in a hybrid TTRPG built for people who show up week after week, that's usually enough to keep playing.

This is the world your character wakes up in. The rest, who you are, what you're willing to risk, who you're willing to trust, is up to you.

Weave a Web of Consequences

Nemundir’s society is deeply interconnected through a complex weave of curried favors, threats, alliances and feuds. No single person can fully predict the ripple effects of their actions.

Through the political aspects of Faction mechanics, any choice at the table can have narratively impactful consequences. Walk away from a bribe, hand over evidence to the wrong journalist? You may have just lit a fuse without knowing where it leads, only to discover, much later, that it runs straight to a huge pile of explosives.

This is the free Primer Kit

A complete uncolored edition of both the Player's Handbook – Primer and Game Master's – Primer: fully playable, with streamlined content. The fastest way to get to the table.

What's inside:

Player's Handbook

• Three  ready-to-play characters - pick one up and start playing
• Three layers define every character:
  - Attributes set your limits
  - Skills determine what you can do
  - Influence decides how far your reach extends across Nemundir
• A Faction system with exclusive skills tied to who you're aligned with
• Two unique martial art systems: Gorton and Rapath techniques 
• Three combat modes you can mix and match depending on the table's pace
• Classless, open-ended character progression: no fixed build paths

Game Master's Book

• Core mechanics from the GM's side, including three interchangeable combat modes, from tight one-on-one duels to full narrative battles, so you can match the system to the scene
  
• Introduction to the rich setting material on the world of Nemundir
• A ready-to-run introductory scenario to get your table playing in one session
• Reference tools and practical guidance for running the hybrid format at the table

Play it your way Pair the books with the free companion app (open beta at magency.cc) for managing characters, planning travel routes, shopping at vendors and more. Naturally, you can also run it fully analog with just dice and paper.

The app supports Bluetooth Pixels smart dice, as well as physical dice via manual input.

A Legacy Twenty Years in the Making

Magency continues a story that began in Hungary in 2007, with the original Nemundir tabletop role-playing game. That first rulebook gave Game Masters the tools to run a character's entire life within one campaign, starting as a child, growing into a hero, and, after a fallen hero's death, returning as a transformed undead character through the Book of Crypts expansion, published in 2010. Magency carries that same philosophy of character continuity forward, and is the foundation this hybrid system builds on.

Credits

Illustrations: Krisztina Arányi, Csongor Baráth, Tímea Gáliczki, Nándor Gidró, Bianka Gordos, Dániel Mateidesz, Dániel Mihályi, Katica Babarczi, Kamill Holl, Balázs Pirók, Eliza Szabó, András Szente, Eszter Tóth, Dénes Turák, Richárd Vajda
Cover Art: Bianka Gordos / Eliza Szabó - Lambert Toth
Proofreading: Emilia Barna
Rulebook Consultancy: István Pócsi
Playtesters: Gergely Nándor Dohar, Hanna Erkel, Tímea Gáliczki, Rita Kálay, Áron Kun, Enikő Nagy, Richárd Nagy, Klaudia Anna Nógrádi, László Gábor Szilágyi
Written by Lambert Toth

Links:
www.magency.cc 
companion app & more

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