Midnight Muscadines

Magic is waning. The last sun shards illuminate only a small valley of the world while the remainder is bathed in perpetual Wildernight. The elusive Midnight Muscadine’s roots grow deep into the earth and concentrate the last tendrils of magic into its fruits. Marmateers find, collect, and preserve Midnight Muscadines into highly coveted jams, sustaining the world’s magic. 

As harvest season arrives, step out of the sun shards’ light and into the vast Wildernight in search of the last source of magic, armed with your magical jar used to cast spells as unique as the jams you concoct.

Midnight Muscadines is a solo+ TTRPG using dice and playing cards to explore a world with a shattered sun, survive the shadows that lurk, and craft deliciously powerful jams to keep the magic alive.

The Open Beta release includes: 

• A 62 page full color PDF.
• 25 wonderous ingredients to discover and make magical jams. Combine up to 4 ingredients for unique magical effects.
• A dynamic and imaginative magic and item system
• An expansive setting guide for Nimm, the Wildernight, Gods, and Great Spirits
• A diverse bestiary with 25 creatures and folk (stat blocks, abilities and descriptions).
• A unique conflict system for fighting with your fists or words
• Adventure hooks around every corner for simple one-shots to long campaigns

Midnight Muscadines balances grand adventure and drama with a cozy life and nostalgia for warm summer days and crisp fall evenings. The world is filled with interesting people, places, and creatures that may happily aid you, or voraciously defend themselves.

Marmateers are jam makers, adventurers, and explorers, often performing other jobs like bee keeping and cartography in the off season.

The conflict system and bestiary are designed to support creative problem solving, tense arguments and debates, and, on occasion a good old fight depending the mood you're going for.

Magical Jam powers the world of Nimm, and armed with jars made from highly refined midnight muscadines, what you put in your jam jar imbues your jam with different magical effects! As ingredients are added together, the player chooses how the effects of each ingredient meld together to form a new magical spell. 

This gives the players imaginative control over their magic, and Marmateers using the same two ingredients may have very different spells.

Midnight Muscadines is a fully playable game, but we aren’t quite done yet. If you purchase the game during the open beta, you will get access to the digital updates as they are released. 

We are looking for player feedback! You can email us, or open a thread in the Midnight Muscadine Community Forum!

We plan to add:

• Dedicated solo rules
• A Solo Toolkit & Journal
  • Extensive tools and resources for play.
• Expanded Bestiary
• Expanded Ingredients
• Additional Character options and progression mechanics
• Expanded Setting Guide
  • Factions & Guilds
  • Notable NPCs
    
  • Locations, Shops, and Markets
  • Festivals and Seasons of Nimm & Wildernight
• Starter Adventures, in Nimm and Wildernight
• Additional Artwork
  
• A full print run of the book, solo toolkit, and adventures

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Midnight Muscadines is based on Songs and Sagas, product of Fari RPGs (https://farirpgs.com/), developed and authored by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas. This product is licensed under the ORC License available online at various locations including www.azoralaw.com/orclicense. All warranties are disclaimed as set forth therein.

• Concept, Design, and Writing by Andrew Boyd
• Illustrations by Galen Pejeau
• Editing by Eric Lazure
• Design Consulting by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas
• Published by Pandion Games