It might be risky for your players to ask too many questions about the provenance of the magic items in “The Gilded Quill,” but now you can give them an illustrated card for each item, with art by our own Clara Daly. Print these cards to hand to your players at the table, send them over Discord, or upload them to your VTT of choice!
You can download the files attached to this post.
–Hannah...
2025-09-12 23:58:18 +0000 UTC
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Greetings to adventurers near and far!
Hannah here with an update from the Horizons team! You may have noticed that the mage tower has been very quiet for the past couple months. I’m here now with an update, an apology, and good news for the future.
We’ve been quiet due to some unforeseen challenges for the staff mages, including current events in the United States, burnout, and juggling multiple projects (and jobs!) while still committing ourselves to the very best q...
2025-08-19 19:19:06 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Horizoneers! Hannah here to take you behind the scenes of the wizard's study in our latest Horizons cover.
The full wrap-around cover of Horizons 3! Download the issue here.
Clara and I discussed an idea for a magical door/portal opening into a desert landscape (the...
2025-06-04 19:49:42 +0000 UTC
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Hello, wonderful folks! Today we have a fun set of tokens from Horizons 3 for your use on VTTs!
This set includes the Crowd Patron Warlock (whom you can use as a PC or an NPC!), Knight-Commander Versaren and the glabrezu Prochothelis from “The Avenging Heart,” and the siren Lucia plus two NPCs for “The Gilded Quill.”
A file with all the tokens is attached to this post. We love hearing about your adventures with Horizons articles—and as always, tha...
2025-05-21 18:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Hello, one and all, and happy Horizons release day! We’re thrilled to present the spring issue of Horizons—and it’s a chonky one jam-packed with GM- and player-facing goodness, plus an interview with the one and only Brennan Lee Mulligan!
You can download Horizons 3 as a full-color PDF and grayscale PDF attached to this post.
Cover Art by Adrián Ibarra ...
2025-05-02 19:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Hello, wonderful patrons! We have a strict "everyone's health comes before work" policy, which means Horizons 3 will now be released on Friday, May 2, so we can deliver on an amazing issue without compromising the wellbeing of our team.
Thank you for your patience—we promise it will be worth the wait!
—Hannah, Editor-in-Chief (of making sure no one pulls all-nighters)
2025-04-29 18:28:15 +0000 UTC
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Hello, folks! Hannah here—we’ve been pretty quiet lately while we’re hard at work on Horizons and exploring some other yet-to-be announced projects (which our subscribers will be the first to hear about!), but we’re thrilled to reveal the contents of issue 3!
If you’re not yet subscribed to Horizons, you can become a member to get these awesome articles as soon as they co...
2025-04-25 22:15:01 +0000 UTC
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As we explore a variety of TTRPG systems in Horizons, we’re committed to making it easy—and affordable—to try out any and all of our featured systems. Deathmatch Island is pretty affordable to begin with (a 218-page book that’s $30 USD for hardcover + PDF, or $15 for PDF!), but we've teamed up with the fine folks at Evil Hat Productions to do one better: a discount code just for Horizons subscribers!
The code 20HORIZONS will give you 20% off 2025-04-25 21:30:04 +0000 UTC
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We test because we don’t know.
Have you ever wondered how to run a playtest? What it takes to be a good playtester, and what feedback is useful? Lead Tester Roman Penna explains the playtest process for Horizons and shares his insights from years of testing.
Note: We recommend reading this post on Patreon using a computer or tablet. Some of the images—screenshots from our actual bugsheets!—may be difficult to read in your e...
2025-03-26 18:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Welcome, players! We are pleased to announce that Horizons has been selected to present a new expansion of Deathmatch Island in our upcoming spring issue.
(PLEASE NOTE: We have been assured that any confusion and memory loss surrounding this plan is normal and it is important that we do not panic. The Deathmatch Island corporation is fictional and cannot hurt us, and this publication will not put us on their Potential Competitor Recruitment Shortlist.)
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2025-03-12 18:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks! Hannah here—I ran a really fun D&D session earlier this week, and since I decided to modify one of the traps in Horizons 2 for use in my game, I wanted to share the result with all of you and explain the process of customizing the trap, and some stat blocks, to fit my needs.
Since the characters were looking for an item in an icy environment, I decided to adapt the Melting Treasure trap into a Frozen Treasure Chest trap.
2025-02-25 19:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Hey there, Horizoneers! We have a special guest post today from one of our amazing artists, who illustrated "Adversarial Archetypes" in Horizons 2!
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Hello! I’m Brandi York, an artist who has always held a love for all geeky and all things Art Nouveau. I was privileged to be asked to illustrate the new Candela Obscura archetypes in Horizons.
Today, I wanted to take you all through a bit of my process in taking descriptions from a client and...
2025-02-12 19:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Hello, folks! Hannah here (I know, I write all the posts … for now) with tokens from Horizons 2! This set includes the hemomancer, latrotheurgist, and nethermancer from “Isolde’s Tome of Esoteric Spells”, as well as the character art from “Adversarial Archetypes,” which can all be used for NPCs or adversaries, an imp for the Summoning Book trap in “Terrific Trappendix”—and of course, Emrys and Irene Hawthorne from “Crimson Strings and Stolen Prayers”!
You ...
2025-01-31 19:00:10 +0000 UTC
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A new year, new adventures, and a new issue of Horizons!
The PDFs of Horizons 2 are attached to this post! (Treat these files as you would any physical game product—don’t upload them somewhere and post the link on Reddit, but do feel free to share them with your individual gaming group when you use the content.)
Here’s what’s inside these beautiful pages:
Cover Art by Kent Davis
Our cofounder and art director Clara had the concept for a beac...
2025-01-22 19:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Hello, folks! Hannah here, taking a break from gazing at the beauty of Horizons 2 as we finish up the layout. We’re so excited to share this new issue with all of you—it will be released at 11am PT on January 22. If you’re not yet subscribed to Horizons, you can join here on Patreon or through our website to get these four awesome articles as soon as they come out.
Without further ado...
2025-01-13 19:00:07 +0000 UTC
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long night stretches through the pines
forest forever and ever evergreen—
the sun winks and turns his blushing face
to gild the austral side
in longest day
Happy solstice, adventurers! Whether this is the longest of dark nights or your first day of summer sun, may your holidays be joyous and your treasures plentiful.
The real treasure, as always, is you and the stories you tell. We'll see you in the new year for more stories, more magic, and more adventure.<...
2024-12-21 18:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Horizoneers! Hannah here, poking my head up from the word mines to bring you new bonus content, updates, and teasers.
Horizons 1 Tokens
We’ve loved hearing stories about star dragons, loreriders, and the terrible crane in your games! GM time is a precious resource, so we wanted to make session prep even easier with premade tokens for the creatures in Horizons 1. Download the files attached to this post for use in your VTT of choice!
2024-12-10 21:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Horizoneers! Hannah here, with some accidental alliteration.
We’ve been quiet the last couple weeks as we ventured to Big Bad Con, continued development on future Horizons issues, and prepared for winter hibernation. But despite the gray skies here in the Pacific Northwest, we have some beautiful blooms for you: a collection of magic items designed in collaboration with Paola’s Pixels!
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2024-11-15 20:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Hail, travelers, explorers, brave adventurers! Hannah here, with a peek behind the scenes. Today we’re diving into the process of creating the gorgeous illustration that graces the cover of Horizons 1, painted by the amazing Anna Grinenko (aka tshortik aka Vex). The video above shows how the initial compositions evolved into the final artwork, but in this post I'll take you back to the very beginning....
For thi...
2024-10-23 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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It’s here! The stars have aligned, the sun has dawned, and the very first issue of Horizons is out!
You can download Horizons 1 as a full-color PDF and grayscale PDF, both attached to this post. (Treat these files as you would any physical game product—don’t upload them somewhere and post the link to Reddit, but do feel free to share them with your gaming group when you use the content.)
Here’s what’s inside these beautiful pages:
Co...
2024-10-09 18:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone! We are so thrilled to have you joining this wild adventure, and excited about your excitement for Horizons!
For your first subscriber-only post, we want to give you some more sneak peeks at what's coming in the first issue, from ground to sky to stars to planar magic! And although we're showing off some illustrations ahead of time, never fear—this is only a fraction of the gorgeous art in the issue itself.
Next Stop: Adventure
2024-10-01 19:41:57 +0000 UTC
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Answers to frequently asked questions about Horizons and Wildmage Press can be found here. This post will be updated regularly as needed!
What TTRPG system is Horizons made for?
Each issue of Horizons has four articles with creatures, locations, adventures, magic items, and other cool stuff ™ that you can drop right into your game. Three of those articles are primarily for 5e, and the fourth is designed to feature ...
2024-09-20 18:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Friends! Travelers! Adventurers from near and far! Welcome to the Wildmage Press Patreon and Horizons magazine!
This post—our very first!—is an extra-early look at the gorgeous cover and table of contents for Horizons 1, which will be released on October 9, 2024 at 11:00 am PDT.
The cover, illustrated by Anna Grinnenko, is actually a selection from a larger 9”x16” piece that we commissioned as a beautiful piece of announcement art in addition to...
2024-09-18 17:58:00 +0000 UTC
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