Welcome to the Magic School TTRPG Jam, a celebration of spell slinging students, enchanted hallways, arcane homework that eats itself, and the strange, wondrous worlds that surround magical education. 

Your mission is simple: design an analog tabletop roleplaying game about a magic school...but with your own twist, tone, or genre.

Whether your school is filled with queer goblin scholars, haunted lockers, cosmic professors, underwater academia, or dragon riding homerooms, this jam is all about imagination, fun, and your personal flavor of magical academia.

All skill levels welcome. First time designers encouraged. Let your creativity run wild!

Want to chat with fellow game creators, share progress, or just talk all things TTRPG? Join my discord server and check out my game jam related channels and chats. 

https://discord.gg/XWfEvYgrds

What to Make

Create any analog game about a magic school. This can include:

A TTRPG with full character sheets & mechanics

A rules-light narrative storytelling game

A solo journaling or map-making game

A pamphlet RPG

A micro-RPG or one page dungeon

A diceless or GM-less system

A school simulator, slice-of-life adventure, or dramatic mystery

If it’s analog and about a magic school in some way, it fits the jam!

Rules

These guidelines keep the jam welcoming and focused:

1. Analog Only - No digital/PC/video games. Only tabletop, print-and-play, or physical-format ideas.

2. Must Involve a Magic School - It doesn’t have to be the main focus, but your game must include a magic school, academy, coven house, training tower, witch camp, or similar educational setting.

3. Your Twist Is Required - Make it your version! Examples: cozy cooking witch school, elemental knight academy, a cursed school built inside a giant mushroom, school for familiars instead of mages, cosmic eldritch grad school, queer drama in floating dorms. Go weird, go heartfelt, go funny, go spooky—just make it yours.

4. No AI-Generated Games - Please put in your own effort. The game itself must be made by you.

5. Collaborations Are Welcome - You can work alone or with a team. Collaborations are encouraged!

6. Keep It Legal & Respectful - No hateful, NSFW, or stolen content. Follow copyright laws and Itch.io’s community guidelines.

7. Safety Tools Encouraged - Please include or recommend safety tools (Lines & Veils, X-card, Script Change, etc.) so everyone can play safely.

8. Existing Projects Welcome - Got a magic school game sitting in your backlog? Use this jam as motivation to finish it!

9. Community Copies - You can upload your game for free or for a price but please provide either a free demo of your game or community copies for everyone in the jam.

10. Have Fun! – This jam is about creativity. Enjoy yourself!

Optional Bonus Themes (for Extra Inspiration)

These are optional prompts creators can follow for added challenge or fun:

The House System - Design unique magical “houses,” covens, or clubs with mechanical impact.

Potions & Mishaps - A strong focus on alchemy, potion brewing, experiments gone chaotic.

Dark Academia - Gothic halls, forbidden tomes, secret societies, brooding vibes.

Cozy Academia - Warm tea, soft robes, enchanted baking, gentle magic and kindness.

Unusual Campus - The school exists in an unexpected place: on an airship, under the sea, inside a world-tree, on the back of a titan creature, in dreams

Familiars First - The students’ familiars are the main characters instead of the students.

Mystery at Midnight - Your game may include solving a magical mystery or uncovering a secret.

One-Page School - Make a complete game in one single page or pamphlet.

Elemental Focus - Each student specializes in a single magical element or domain.

Monster School - Instead of traditional human students, the young learners of your game are monsters.