Fall of Magic

NOTICE - Revised Edition

This is a legacy page for the original Fall of Magic. 
Heart of the Deernicorn has updated and revised the game. Fall of Magic Revised Edition (physical and digital) is available for purchase on our website.

About

Magic is dying, and the Magus is dying with it. We travel together to the realm of Umbra where magic was born.

Fall of Magic is an award-winning story game where we play a group of travelers in the company of the Magus. On the way, we’ll encounter strange hosts, fantastic places, and perilous choices as we play to discover who our characters are, how they relate, and how our journey changes them.

We begin by choosing a name and title for our characters. Each turn we chose an area on the map and use the prompt there to inspire the next part of our story. The character of the Magus is shared between us and on your turn you may choose to play as the Magus, advancing us along the road to a new place on the map.

The map itself is a hand silk-screened scroll, over 5’ (1.5m) in length that unrolls as we travel revealing perilous roads, strange hosts, and fantastic locals, masterfully illustrated by award-winning artists, Doug Keith and Taylor Dow.

Praise for Fall of Magic

"I think it's safe to say few gamers will have played anything quite like it." EscapistMagazine.com

"Genuinely genre shaking" BoardgamersAnonymous.com

"Fall of Magic exceeded all my expectations" -GeekDad.com

The kind of game you become immersed in, losing track of time, only to find yourself wandering out later from a rich and compelling world of your own creation. -Shut Up and Sit Down

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Example of Play

Prototype Silk Screening

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More Praise for Fall of Magic

"Our family really enjoys great storytelling games. Fall of Magic not only has a novel and beautiful game mechanic but also brings a fresh yet familiar fantasy setting and theme to the storytelling genre that we thoroughly enjoyed."
GeekDad.com

"Ross brings his A-game when it comes to the physical look and feel of his games."
– Emily Care Boss, creator of Breaking the Ice and Misericord(e)

"One of the coolest, most interesting games I've seen in years. The affordances alone blew my mind, and it's so beautiful the way the game's format (the scroll) cleanly and elegantly contributes to gameplay while simultaneously setting tone and putting play in a wonderfully ritualistic context. "
– Jason Morningstar, creator of Fiasco and Night Witches

"You'd think that once you played you'd have seen everything. Nope. Not only are there forks in the road and paths not taken, but for picking three words the characters are REALLY different. As soon as we were done we were talking about what we'd play on the second pass." – Stras Acimovic, creator of Atlas Reckoning

“I am at work SCREAMING at the top of my lungs in glee.”
– Andrew Henderson, creator of Mystwood and Treehouse Dreams