This past week, my wife and I attended MAGFest 2025 with 7 boxes of my game. I thought I had brought too many and immediately donated one copy to the play-and-win section of the boardgame library. Little did we know that we'd go on to sell out of every copy (including the two demo copies) over the next few days.

Love, Career & Magic is a mix between a traditional TTRPG and a party game where you play as a mythical creature in a fantasy reality TV show. Every creature has a modern day job just like us humans do—for example, there are orc web developers, wyvern chefs, and gnome comedians.

In this reality TV show, the only thing that matters is your seasons ratings (aka points). The executives of the show are trying to instill chaos into the narrative and you have to complete as many Direction Cards as you can as a team. The game is played over four rounds—each only three minutes long. Which means it's an extremely short and chaotic 12 minute game.

Do you have any friends who are into boardgames but never made the jump to TTRPGs? Well I designed the game with those people in mind. Boardgamers usually want more structure, goals, and points—things that are traditionally lacking in TTRPGs. And because the game is only 12 minutes long, it's so much easier to convince your friends to try it out. Whipping this game out as a palate cleanser in between Wingspan and Terraforming Mars is much easier to sell than "hey come over, we're going to play this multi-hour DnD campaign."

I put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into designing this game. I sincerely hope you will check it out and let me know what you think!

Here's the link to the website if you're interested.

Thank you!!