The Yellow King: Black Star Magic

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Bring Mind-Bending Spellcasting toThe Yellow King Roleplaying Game

Ritual magic of the Belle poque! The desperateScience Jauneof a war-torn continent! Parageometrical horrors perfected in the labs of the tyrannical, overthrown Castaigne regime! Signing, the latest way to turn social media dysfunction into sorcerous reality!

Your players can master them allat perilous risk!

Each spell is a Shock card with effects both useful and sinister. Do they hold onto that that spell they need to do that thing, even as their inner realities start to break apart? Or do they take the safe route, and cast out the buzzing, insistent power of the Yellow Sign?

Black Star Magicfeatures new magic rules forThe Yellow King RPG, including 144 startling spells, background material on Carcosan magic in all fourYKRPGsettings, and GM guidance showing you how to incorporate player-facing occult powers into your game.

Plus, a quartet of scenarios, allowing the characters of each sequence to make double-edged deals with the world of sorcery:

• Dancer at the Bone Cabaretpits the art students ofParisagainst a force that lures their Bohemian friends to the latest, hottest nightspot. But are they the patrons, or items on the menu?
• A Casket at Le Thilsends the supernatural-quashing soldiers ofThe Warsinto a village haunted by subterranean enemy activity.
• Memories of a Dream Clownconfronts the victorious revolutionaries ofAftermathwith a treasured but tarnished memory of childhoodand murder!
• Love Wears No MaskfindsThis Is Normal Nows ordinary heroes battling an intrusive yet enthralling phone app, and the dramatic goings-on of the subtly destabilizing dating reality show it promotes.

Play them separately, or chill your players with all of them. All they have to lose is their grip on reality