In September 2025 I was travelling abroad for a friend's wedding. There were a few quiet evenings where I mucked around with ideas in my phone's notepad, the traditional spawning pool of many a game. It was around that time that I came up with the idea for a high fantasy Belonging Outside Belonging game called Magestar. 

Magestar as it now exists is very different. Somewhere along the way it morphed into a mapmaking game, with Belonging Outside Belonging DNA only visible in the Rest prompts in which the roleplaying element is grounded. But across all those changes the Wizard playbook's core themes have gone unchanged: you learned to do magic by studying the Magestar, and sometimes this is bad for you. 

Backers can see the full Wizard playbook below!