Magick Shadows I: Hollywood

MS1: HOLLYWOOD (1947) - FREE

🎞️ MAGICK SHADOWS: HOLLYWOOD

Some films should never be screened.

Hollywood, 1947. You're a film scholar who's discovered something the studios don't want you to know. Those German Expressionist silent films from the 1920s? The ones with the impossible shadows and angles that make your eyes hurt? They're not just art. They're dangerous.

You are the Watcher. Your job is to find these cursed films before anyone else views them. Track them through noir Los Angeles, from studio archives to private collectors to basement screenings in Bunker Hill. Every film you hunt has real occult power. Shadow possession. Silent voices. Memory theft. The kind of things that don't just scare you, they change you.

Here's the problem: you have to watch these films to understand them. And every viewing corrupts you. Mark corruption on your character sheet. At corruption seven, you die. No saves, no exceptions. The question isn't whether you can stop the films. It's what you'll become while trying.

🎲 Solo journaling RPG - no GM needed

📄 2-page tri-fold - print and play in minutes

⏱️ 1-2 hour sessions - perfect for an evening

🎞️ 1,728 unique film combinations in MS1 alone

💀 Permanent corruption system - death at 7

🎬 Part 1 of 6-game series (1939-1983)

This is a solo journaling RPG. You roll 2d6 to generate cursed films, hunt them through 1947 Hollywood, journal about what you find, and choose their fate. Destroy the film and lose the knowledge forever? Hide it in your archive and risk it escaping? Use its power and become what you're fighting? Every choice has consequences.

The game fits on a tri-fold brochure. Print it, fold it, play it. You need two dice, a pen, and journaling paper. Sessions last one to two hours. Play a single hunt or string several together into a campaign. The corruption accumulates. The films keep coming. The archive grows.

This is Book One of a six-game series spanning 1939 to 1983. Each game is standalone, but if you play them in order, your corruption carries forward, and your choices echo through decades. Hollywood is where it begins. You're 27 years old, idealistic, and about to learn what hunting cursed films costs.

The game is completely free. No strings, no pay what you want minimum, just free. If you like it and want to continue the Watcher's story through the Cold War, counterculture, grindhouse era, and beyond, the other five games are available for three dollars each or ten dollars for the complete series.

What you get: The tri-fold game, a universal character sheet that works for all six games, and a quick reference guide with all the core mechanics on one page.

Perfect for: Solo RPG players, film noir fans, people who think Cabinet of Caligari is genuinely unsettling, anyone who wants a game about moral compromise and transformation, players looking for a gateway into the series.

Start your hunt. Track the films. Mark the corruption. Choose their fate.

The Watcher's mission begins here.

Complete Series Bundle: All Six Games $10