Magical Pets
A downloadable game
"Magical Pets" is a cute little game where you are the pets of students or staff members at a magic school. Since your humans are busy all the time, it falls to you to take care of various problems that befall the school...
This is a two-page table-top role-playing game (TTRPG) for 2-6 players and a GM.
Be a gruff miniature unicorn who can read, an elegant sheep with an excellent nose, an eccentric cat who can levitate small items, a clumsy raven who specializes in fluffiness or any other talented, magical pet you want to be.
This rules-light game (a hack of Lasers & Feelings) is ideal for a no-prep/low-prep one-shot or few-shot. You can also use it as a starting point for a longer campaign and just keep playing to find out what happens next.
Further inspiration: Library Cats, Magic & Muggle Stuff, Magic & Mischief.
The PDF (available in English and German) contains everything you need to play:
- instructions for character creation
- random-roll tables for school details and threat scenarios
- GM directions
- questions for character development and group cohesion
- several cute illustrations
Just add 3 six-sided dice and perhaps some paper and a pen to take notes and you're good to go!
To make the game more accessible, there's also an HTML version of the entire game that you can download and open in a browser of your choice (instructions are included in the ZIP).
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So exciting! Magical Pets has been featured on Dicebreaker!
Article: "10 magical school tabletop RPGs that will cast a spell on you"
Video:
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"Magical Pets" ist ein niedliches, kleines Spiel, in dem ihr die Haustiere von Schüler*innen oder Angestellten einer Zauberschule seid. Weil eure Menschen dauernd beschäftigt sind, bleibt es euch überlassen, euch um verschiedene Probleme zu kümmern, die der Schule widerfahren...
Dies ist ein zweiseitiges Pen&Paper-Rollenspiel (PnP) für 2-6 Spielende und eine Spielleitung (SL).
Sei ein ruppiges Zwergeinhorn, das lesen kann; ein elegantes Schaf mit einer exzellenten Nase; eine exzentrische Katze, die kleine Gegenstände schweben lassen kann, ein tollpatschiger Rabe, der sich auf Flauschigkeit spezialisiert hat oder irgendein anderes talentiertes, magisches Haustier, das du sein möchtest.
Dieses regelleichte Spiel (ein Hack von Lasers & Feelings) ist ideal für Oneshots oder Fewshots mit wenig oder gar keiner Vorbereitung. Du kannst es auch als Ausgangspunkt für eine längere Kampagne benutzen und einfach weiter spielen, um herauszufinden, was als nächstes passiert.
Weitere Inspirationen: Library Cats, Magic & Muggle Stuff, Magic & Mischief.
Das PDF (auf Deutsch und Englisch erhältlich) enthält alles, was ihr zum Spielen braucht:
- eine Anleitung zur Charaktererstellung
- Zufallstabellen für Schulmerkmale und Bedrohungen
- Hinweise für die Spielleitung
- Fragen zur Charakterentwicklung und zum Gruppenzusammenhang
- mehrere niedliche Illustrationen
Füge einfach 3 sechsseitige Würfel hinzu, sowie vielleicht etwas Papier und einen Stift zum Notizen machen und schon kann's losgehen!
Um das Spiel barrierefreier zu machen, gibt es außerdem eine HTML-Version des gesamten Spiels, die du herunterladen und in einem Browser deiner Wahl öffnen kannst (eine Anleitung dafür ist im ZIP enthalten).
Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Publisher | |
Rating | Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars (25 total ratings) |
Author | Plotbunny Games |
Genre | Role Playing |
Tags | Animals, Cute, lasers-and-feelings, Magic, One-page, One-shot, Short, Tabletop, Tabletop role-playing game |
Asset license | Creative Commons Attribution_ShareAlike v4.0 International |
Average session | A few hours |
Languages | German, English |
Accessibility | Color-blind friendly, High-contrast, Blind friendly |
Links | Homepage, Mastodon |
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $5 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Community Copies
Support this game at or above a special price point to receive something exclusive.
Community Copy
Community copies of "Magical Pets" are free for all who can't afford the game at the full price, especially if you are marginalized in some way.
If you've taken a free community copy, please consider leaving a positive review, comment or rating to help make the game more visible.
If you're trans, nonbinary, queer, disabled, and/or BIPOC and want a free copy of the game but there's none left in the pool, send me an email to the address listed in my profile here and I'll make sure you get a free copy, no questions asked.
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Community-Exemplare von "Magical Pets" sind kostenlos für alle, die sich das Spiel nicht zum vollen Preis leisten können, vor allem, wenn du irgendwie marginalisiert bist.
Wenn du ein kostenloses Community-Exemplar genommen hast, überlege bitte, ob du eine positive Review, einen Kommentar oder eine Bewertung hinterlassen kannst. Das hilft, das Spiel sichtbarer zu machen.
Wenn du trans, nichtbinär, queer, behindert und/oder BIPOC bist und ein kostenloses Exemplar des Spiels haben möchtest, aber keins mehr im Pool ist, schick mir eine E-Mail an die Adresse in meinem Profil hier und ich lasse dir ohne weiteres eins zukommen.
Development log
- Magical Pets on Dicebreaker!Feb 22, 2023
- Expanded Creative Commons license for Magical Pets! // Erweiterte Creative Commo...Jan 22, 2023
- Magical Pets 2.1 (minor corrections)Mar 15, 2022
- "Magical Pets" now available as HTML (in both English and German)Sep 06, 2021
- Magical Pets v2.0 (new headline font, small changes to text)Aug 24, 2021
- Magical Pets v1.0.2 (minor correction)May 07, 2021
- Magical Pets v1.0.1 (small changes to roll tables)Feb 16, 2021
- "Magical Pets" has been launched!Feb 07, 2021
Comments
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I’m hoping for community copies! This looks like a game that I might be able to use to help get my students to love reading and writing. :)
Feel free to send us an email through the address in our profile!
Thank you! I also requested your other game that I'm interested in. :)
Played this last friday, and it was an absolute blast. I couldn't prep anything, but the character and school creation, the prompts for the GM and the questions gave me so much to built on top, it was an easy to run session.
I also had the best charakter names ever in my group: Quäks-a-lot, an easily distracted duck, that enjoyed sounds very much. Sir Hazel-a-Nut a squirrel that was looking for it's misplaced zylinder.
My players wanted to play part 2 of our imaginary TV-Series right away. I'm very sure magical pets will be on my table again, quite soon.
This sounds like so much fun and I would love to introduce it to my family, but finances are kind of tight at present... Any chance of throwing up more Community Copies in the near future?
Please feel free to each out via email!
It's great! Every time I played it was cute and wholesome. Perfect for an easy and fast replacement for a cancelled game session.
How can I do this game justice? It is cute, utterly delightful, and enchanting. Most importantly, it's plain fun!
Such a lovely game. Cozy Adventures with pets set in a magical school, I love it.