Magical Girls grapple with destiny in this multi-genre tabletop RPG. Girl By Moonlight explores the heartbreak of denying who you really are, fighting for what you believe in, and the transcendent power of building relationships while embracing your true self.

As a Magical Girl you will clutch your tragic struggles tight, seeking to score defiant triumphs against the darkness of an oppressive society. The game reinterprets the classic examples of the genre to create an allegory for self-discovery and queer identity. The text uses magical girl as a shorthand, but your magical girls need not be girls, necessarily, but people whose identities put them at the margins.

Designer Andrew Gillis takes the rules engine beneath highly-acclaimedBlades In The Darkand tunes it to create a unique play experience representing the breadth of the Magical Girl genre.

Girl By Moonlight draws inspiration from many sources. When you sit down to play, your group will pick a Series Playset and tailor it with special rules, themes, threats, and more to make your game truly your own.

The four major Series Playsets include:

• At The Brink of The Abyss. Heroic magical girls fight to reclaim a corrupted world. Its inspired bySailor MoonandSteven Universe.
• On A Sea of Starsfeatures mecha pilots struggling against extinction at the hands of the Leviathans and is inspired byDiebusterandThe Vision of Escaflowne.
• Beneath A Rotting Skydeals with tragedy and betrayal where magical girls are doomed to an inevitable fate. Its inspired byPuella Magi Madoka Magica.
• In A Maze of Dreamsdraws on bothPaprikaandSerial Experiments.Its central themes are desire, mass culture, and ideas developing a life of their own.