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Magic is waning. The last of the sun’s shards illuminate only a small valley of the world, while the remainder is bathed in perpetual Wildernight.

Roots of the elusive Midnight Muscadines grow deep into the earth, concentrating the last tendrils of magic into its grapes. Find, collect, and preserve these grapes into highly coveted jams, sustaining the world’s magic.

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. It can be played solo, duet, GM-less, or with a traditional GM.

Physical Versions are available for preorder on Backerkit.

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.

Features

  • Dedicated solo rules and an extensive solo toolkit to run your adventures.
  • 240 pages filled to the brim with whimsical fantasy and dashing adventure!
  • A dynamic and imaginative magic and item system. 
  • A unique adversary & challenge system, seamlessly blending fists, words, and action.
  • An expansive setting guide for Nimm, the Wildernight, the Gods, and Great Spirits.
  • A collection of 52 wondrous ingredients to discover and use in magical jams.
  • A compendium of 52 creatures and folk containing stat blocks, abilities, and descriptions.
  • A collection of 3 starter adventures5 mysteries, and 5 festivals to quickly jump into the game.
  • 10 pre-generated characters
  • Adventure hooks, rolling tables, and lore around every corner to inspire one-shots and campaigns.


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.

Items Included in Purchase

  • Core Rulebook in pages and spreads
  • Accessible plaintext formats: .epub, .rtf, .html, .md
  • Wanderlustian Solo and Worldbuilding Journal
  • Letter, Bifold, and Form-Fillable Character Sheets
  • 10x Pre-Generated Characters
  • Print-and-Play Card Deck
  • VTT Card Assets
  • Coloring Book with all art from the game
  • Printable Postcard Set (5 double sided cards)
  • Large, A3-sized poster map of Nimm (double sided)
  • Rule Summary Sheet

You can find additional free resources and the living setting guide at:

midnightmuscadines.com

Third Party Content

Streams and Press

Titch the Tatterling Witch Series

Himeutsugi's First Look at the 1.0 Release

Character Creation Walkthrough and Review By Tots Character Compendium

Credits

Midnight Muscadines, product of Pandion Games, is licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International License. (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

This work is based on Songs and Sagas, product of Fari RPGs (https://farirpgs. com), developed and authored by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

  • Design and Writing by Andrew Boyd
  • Illustrations by Galen Pejeau
  • Editing by Eric Lazure
  • Writing by M. Allen Hall, Patrick Buechner, & Shawn and Navi Drake
  • Game Design Consulting by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas
  • Additional Art by Andy Moran & Emily Entner
  • Published by Pandion Games
Updated 1 day ago
StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Release date 74 days ago
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
AuthorPandion Games
GenreCard Game
TagsCozy, Dark, Dice, Fantasy, Indie, Solo RPG, songs-and-sagas, Tabletop, Tabletop role-playing game
Asset licenseCreative Commons Attribution_ShareAlike v4.0 International
LinksHomepage, Discord

Purchase

Get this game and 14 more for $75.00 USD
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In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $20 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Character Sheet.pdf 418 kB
Extras.zip 212 MB
Midnight Muscadines.pdf 76 MB

Development log

Comments

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Haven't gotten a chance to play this yet but the first glance is super appealing. Even if the game doesn't end up clicking with me, the art and design are worthy of praise.

Hey All! Cozy RPG Reviews is running a solo actual play of Midnight Muscadines and is on Episode 3 now! It’s REALLY good and we highly recommend checking it out!

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I did a step by step walk through of the character creation for this wonderful game on my blog! You can check it out here, and absolutely pick up the game for yourself!

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I'm in awe of the care and creativity put into this. Really fascinating, and I'm always interested to see cool solo games being made. 

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Thank you! The current release supports the ability to play solo, but doesn’t have a section dedicated to solo specific rules and tools yet, but they’re coming!