MacGuffin: The Quidnunc and the Hounds

MacGuffin is now available for purchase at the Game Crafter website!

MacGuffin is a cooperative storytelling game. It provides a framework to guide you in creating a gripping story with intertwined plots and character development. It is hysterical at times, tragic at others. Unlike most games, there are no winners or losers, only cool stories.

The game takes advantage of the fact that there are only a relatively small number of plots used in all stories, from ancient myths to modern-day movies. MacGuffin provides 10 main plots and 18 sub-plots from which players can choose to mix into their story. Each of these provides very general guidance and questions about each step in each plot. Players improvise what happens at each step, inspired by the various personality traits of the characters involved in the story.

You can download the game rules for free (either from the Downloads page or from the Game Crafter site)! So you can see if you think you'd like the game before you buy it.

The MacGuffin Game Rules contains the rules for playing MacGuffin, a storytelling game like no other.  (32 pgs.)
The MacGuffin Meta-Plot Booklet contains the prescripted questions asked by the Quidnunc (Game Master) that provide structure to the improvised MacGuffin story.  (53 pgs.)
Your First Game of MacGuffin is a short document showing a quick gameboard setup to help in playing your first game.  (2 pgs.)
The MacGuffin Artwork is a zip file containing the artwork needed to print out your own cards and boards, if you want. However, that would be quite a task. Alternately, you can order a copy of the game from Game Crafter website.  (100 Mbytes)


MacGuffin is made available under the Viral Sanity Licence (version 1.0). MacGuffin and The Quidnunc and the Hounds are trademarks of Whitson John Kirk III.


Mythmagica, Legendary Quest, MacGuffin, and The Quidnunc and the Hounds are trademarks of Loreweaver Games, a business based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.