A new edition of the occult tabletop game about broken and obsessed people risking everything to change the world.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Watch the Final Round of the Unknown Armies Tournament Live -- Tonight!
over 4 years ago
– Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 02:07:55 AM
At the beginning of May, we unveiled our plans for our first-ever online Unknown Armies tournament, GM'd by Greg Stolze. Tickets sold out in just over two hours. Thank you for your overwhelming support and enthusiasm!
Tonight is the final round of the Unknown Armies tournament, and we're streaming it live. If you're free, we'd love to have you join us to cheer on our five finalists -- and vote for a winner! We'll be streaming the game live to Youtube beginning at 7:00pm US Central Time.
You'll be able to find the livestream on our Youtube channel. If you are busy this evening, you can always watch the final round on-demand later.
If you want to catch up on what happens, you can watch videos of each of the first- and second-round games on this playlist.
To determine a tournament winner, we are collecting votes from you! You can vote for a winner until Friday, June 12th using this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/G752256 . Thanks in advance for your help.
If you'd like to be notified when we launch another RPG tournament or one-shot, please sign up for our (new) RPG tournament email list.
Hope to see you this evening, and thanks again for your enthusiasm and support.
Play Unknown Armies with Co-Creator Greg Stolze as GM
over 4 years ago
– Tue, May 12, 2020 at 08:16:06 AM
Since we first released the third edition of Unknown Armies, fans and Kickstarter backers like you have been asking us to find new ways to develop and support it. Today, we're proud to unveil our first-ever online UnknownArmies tournament, GM'd by none other than Greg Stolze.
We'd originally planned on having Greg run this three-round elimination tournament at Gen Con, but with everything going on in the world, we've elected to move it online. Whatever your summer convention plans are, we hope you'll consider helping us test this new event format. Read on for more details or sign up now.
Scenario Overview
The universe’s cosmic superintendent, the Comte de Saint-Germain, has made a terrible mistake. If reversing it requires the destruction of all human life, what’s the big deal?
Elsewhere in time — here in the modern day — you’ve seen visions of a stone head, the “Bonesetter of Days and Years,” carved from ancient rock in the great plains of what’s now America. Today it sits in a museum in Quebec, overlooking the Saint Lawrence seaway. When your colleague Mara asks you about stealing it, you discover that it’s impossible to refuse.
Tournament Overview
Unknown Armiesco-creator Greg Stolze has created an all-new adventure for this award-winning RPG system. This summer, he’s GMing it for a select group of players in a three-round tournament.
This tournament will take placeonline, allowing you to experience Greg’s twisted genius from the comfort of your home.
Tickets are $50 and include a coupon for $30 off your Atlas Games webstore order of $31 or more. We considered including a copy of the core rulebook with each ticket purchase, but have decided to let you choose your own products instead to accommodate Kickstarter backers.
Meet fellow roleplayers from around the world, delve into an epic new scenario, and get to know one of the game’s creators!
Tickets are limited! Choose your character and immerse yourself in a world of modern magick and occult horror. First-round games begin this weekend.
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Learn to Run Unknown Armies in 2020
about 5 years ago
– Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 11:23:21 PM
Learn to Run Unknown Armies in 2020
If your New Year’s resolution is to run Unknown Armies for your friends, you’re in luck: New Gamemaster Month starts today. New Gamemaster Month is a chance for aspiring GMs to learn how to run a roleplaying game for their friends — and a way for experienced GMs to hone their skills. The four-week program is made up of eight in-depth articles that walk you through the process step by step, teaching basic gamemastery alongside game-specific mechanics. This year, Unknown Armies is one of four systems to choose from!
New Gamemaster month is free — all you need to participate is your game of choice and the twice-weekly posts releasing through the end of January. If Unknown Armies is the game you’ll be running, be sure you:
Find your books. Gamemasters for Unknown Armies will need Book 1: Play and Book 2: Run.
Whether this will be your first time behind the screen or your hundredth, we think you’ll learn something new this month.
Binge-Watch an Unknown Armies Actual Play
If you’ve been looking for a new show to watch, please allow us to recommend Nocturne from the fantastic team at Tablestory. Their Unknown Armies campaign is full of twists and turns and boasts incredible production values — and at 36 episodes long, there's plenty of subplots to draw you in. Find the full Youtube playlist here.
We didn't pay for or design the Nocturne campaign, but we want to help spread the word about great streams featuring Unknown Armies. If you know of any, give us a shout.
Come Visit Our New RPG Forum
In April, an unexpected web hosting upgrade took our old RPG forum offline for several months, but the forum is back now and better than ever. The new discussion software is more user-friendly, and community moderation means that discussions stay civil and spam-free. We’re excited about it and we hope you are too.
Right now, Ars Magica fans are the majority on the forum — but we’d love to build more robust discussion around Unknown Armies. If you’re interested, consider signing up for an account. If it doesn’t seem like a useful resource for you, or if there’s something else you’d like to see, please let us know in the comments.
As 2020 begins, our New Year’s resolution is to provide more community and support for our games. If you have on how we can do this, please reach out.
Happy New Year, and thanks for supporting our Kickstarter! Atlas Games loves you.
Magical Kitties Save the Eschaton!
over 5 years ago
– Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 09:00:57 PM
Beloved cabal,
The sect members over at Atlas Games have been working on hard on a brand new RPG called Magical Kitties Save the Day.
Every magical kitty has a human. Every human has a Problem. In Magical Kitties Save the Day, you need to use your magical powers to solve problems and save the day.
But your kitties also live in Hometowns that are filled with Troubles like witches, aliens, and hyper-intelligent raccoons. Troubles make Problems worse, so the kitties need to go on adventures to take care of the Troubles before that can happen.
Magical Kitties Save the Day is a roleplaying game designed for all ages. Older players — whether they’re parents, babysitters, teachers, or older siblings — can be the Game Master for kids as young as six years old and everyone else who loves kitties.
The team over here at Atlas want this to be an ambassador for this crazy, amazing, wonderful hobby that we all share. So if you’ve been looking to initiate a new member into the cult, Magical Kitties is the perfect game to do it! When they open the box, sitting right on top will be a copy of Magical Kitties & The Big Adventure, a solo-play graphic novel adventure illustrated by Garth Graham. This action-packed comic book is also a full scenario! Within moments of opening the box, they’ll be able to create a magical kitty and go on an amazing adventure that will also teach them how to play the game!
We hope you’ll pop over and take a peek at the occult secrets enshrined inour project page.Or, failing that, we’ve got our fingers crossed that in the time you’ve taken to read this update that our shamanic ritual has memetically infested your cat and they will “accidentally” click the link by jumping onto your keyboard.
-Justin Alexander, RPG Producer
P.S. This update is a promotion for a game we think you’ll be interested in. If you’re not, and you’d rather not get these kinds of updates in the future, here’s how to unsubscribe from further updates. The Unknown Armies campaign is totally fulfilled, so you won’t miss out on crowdfunding updates going forward.
Greg Stolze's IN THE DARK
over 5 years ago
– Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 09:57:54 PM
Greg Stolze has left a message for us in the Elm Street dead drop. He's calling on any members of our cabal who enjoy horror fiction -- particularly his horror fiction! -- to immediately place this Kickstarter under surveillance:
We sent an initial team to do a quick sweep, and this is what they report:
- The Last C+ Student is a post-apocalyptic story in which a global pandemic causes its sufferers to lose about one IQ point per day.
- At $1,500, the Kickstarter will unleash Forgeries and Simulacrum, a horror-suspense story set at the intersection of policing, crime, and the occult.
- A Tale Told By An Idiot will see Stolze sneak ideas into your brain through the caretaker's entrance. Please do not panic if you are so afflicted, and report any resulting enlightenment to your handlers.
Our current status assessment suggests that we need to dispatch at least 8 members of the cabal ASAP to unlock a special audio book stretch goal read by Stolze himself.
Alternative IN THE DARK surveillance targets -- codenamed "rewards" -- include exclusive linocuts, patches, and a copy of the arcane tome known only as Mask of the Other.
