High Stakes Magic Academy

For the World's
Most Elite Wizards

Besties, boyfriends, and baleful beasts stalk the halls of Magic University in this OSR+ high fantasy setting about what it means to be special and grow up. In Magic University, you play apprentice mages learning to control their magic.

Expanded Downtime

Overworld for
College-Age Drama

Magic University is all about downtime. Use expanded OSR+ mechanics to study and swap out spells, do extra credit to get rid of demerits, write home, and socialize with NPCs and other PCs. You can also join a magical fraternity or sorority, which expands your PC's magical repertoire.

A Dark Conspiracy

And a Secret Club
in the Shadows

At the heart of Magic University's social intrigue, a dark conspiracy within the Administration threatens to upend school life as you know it. The University Headmaster has disappeared, and the Administration has placed blame on the student body. Will you take action to fight for what's right?

Who Will You Be?

The Popular Kid

You struggle to find the real you under all that praise. Your ethos tag reads: You publicly risk your social status to create or strengthen an unlikely friendship.

The Nerd

You find community in a fandom or extracurricular activity that makes you unpopular. Your ethos tag reads: You compromise your geek creds to branch out into a new social circle.

The Overachiever

You have defined yourself by your achievements and fear falling short. Your ethos tag reads: You risk getting a perfect score to help your friends or learn something new that can’t be learned from a textbook.

The Outcast

You’ve lived so long on the fringe that you don’t know who you really are. Your ethos tag reads: You risk embarrassment or harm to do something outside your comfort zone and find a new community.

The Misfit

You hide your secret hurt by acting out against authority. Your ethos tag reads: You help someone relate to you or themselves by showing a softer side, compromising your rebel image.

The Dreamer

You spend too much time with your head in the clouds, living in the future. Your ethos tag reads: You make a bold decision to help a friend or defend an institution, even if you’re unlikely to succeed.

Earning House Points

Half the fun of playing Magic U is playing the University itself! Whichever PCs win a classroom scene puts their House story tags in play, which allows PCs from that House to invoke a third story tag alongside their Conflict and Flaw tags.

Taking Advanced Magical Action

Magic U features high level spellcasting for constructing NPC spellcasters above 10th level. These Magisters enjoy additional perks like Speed Casting, Combat Casting, and Master Geometry, among others, that allow them to do the seemingly impossible!

Introducing Co-Game Masters

Magic U is meant for episodic play. “Upperclassmen” (players who have been in Magic U scenarios before) can be invited back as Co-GMs.

The Co-GM’s primary responsibility is to adopt control of any NPC that the GM permits throughout the course of play, and is empowered to contribute to the fiction through those NPCs at will. This means the GM must adopt a “yes, and” mentality to the Co-GM’s contributions, no matter how outlandish or contrary to the playthrough they may seem.

Want to Play This World of OSR+?

We've playtested each of our settings extensively, and have a backlog of 20+ to release online and in print in the near future. But you don't have to wait to play OSR+—register for a free account and start partying like it’s 1974. Sign up for a new player session in our Discord, so we can show you the ropes. There, you can chat with other players, GMs, and the creators of OSR+.

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