
Bluebeard’s Bride
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Will you open the final door?
A young bride is wed to an ugly, but powerful man with a blue beard. He invites her to explore the house… but one room is forbidden. Eventually, the young bride falls prey to her curiosity and opens it, discovering a gruesome display of prior brides’ corpses…
Bluebeard’s Bride is an investigatory horror tabletop roleplaying game based on the Bluebeard fairy tale. Find out if you will make it out of your new home alive—and if you have what it takes to chill your friends to the bone….
| 3-5 players | 2-4 hour run time | Rated Adults Only | PbtA |
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System Highlights
Semi-diceless
Create the tense atmosphere of a ghost story with minimal die-rolling!
Tokens of Faithfulness
They draw the coming end—when a token track fills, the conclusion of your fairytale begins!
One Shot with Replayability
Groundskeepers reveal new twisted rooms and horrors yet to explore!

Core Book
Crafted with care and diligently detailed, this hardcover book sets the scene for an immersive game playing experience. Stamped and embossed, the intricate case cover implores you to dig deeper. Enhanced with gold foiling and finished with a silky bookmark, the book invites you to lose yourself among its 112 pages.
Limited Edition
This gorgeous limited edition of the Bluebeard’s Bride core rulebook contains all the gorgeous trappings of the original, but is expanded on with deluxe features: an alternate cover, metallic ink, and a secret insert. Get your copy while supplies last!

Tarot of Servants & Companion
What is behind the curtain of fate?
The Tarot of Servants is an 84 card deck fully illustrated dark-occult tarot that features horrors from Bluebeard’s mansion.
The Companion PDF walks you through traditional or custom readings, and instructions for making NPCs.

Deck of Mysterious Objects
What horrors will you investigate?
This supplement for Bluebeard’s Bride includes 48 illustrated mysterious objects, three deluxe ring cards, five double-sided turn order cards, and instructions for creating your own objects.
Read these cards aloud and watch your players squirm in their seats as they search Bluebeard’s haunted mansion.

Dice Set
Does fate smile on you?
Two official Bluebeard’s Bride six sided die. Each die is a swirl of rich blue and black engraved with the golden Bluebeard’s Bride logo on the one.
Set the mood at your table with these beautiful dice.

Book of Lore
A fiction supplement of the haunting story—with the ability to choose your own ending. In this retelling, you decide the fate of the bride:
- Is she faithful?
- Is she disloyal?
- Does she shatter?
What Ending Will You Choose?
Book of Rooms
A supplement full of rooms and horrors to use at your table. Each spread opens up the eerie doors of Bluebeard’s estate showing off example rooms:
- Stunning full page illustrations
- Detailed room description
- Fleshed-out threats & horrors
- Mysterious Objects to investigate
- Additional PDF-only chapter
What Horrors Will You Create?


Book of Mirrors
A supplement with 5 new playsets for Bluebeard’s Bride. Each playset comes with materials for playing the core game in new imaginative settings.
- Letters from Bluebeard
- Groundskeeper advice
- New playbooks
- New playmaterials
- Additional PDF-only chapter
What Kind Of Bride Will You Be?
Press & Media
Actual Play
- One Shot Podcast – Episode 136. Bluebeard’s Bride
- Big Bad Con Online – Bluebeard’s Bride
Interviews
- Vice – Diving Deep into Gothic Horror in ‘Bluebeard’s Bride’
- Geek and Sundry – Explore Gothic Fantasy with the Bluebeard’s Bride RPG
Reviews
- INDIE CADE – 2018 INDIECADE Awards
- Dread Central – No Way Out; Only Forward
- Geek & Sundry – 5 Incredible Indie RPGs are Groundbreaking (& Award-winning)
Awards & Ackowledgments
- Core Rulebook: 2018 IndieCade Grand Jury Award winner
- Core Rulebook: 2018 Ennie Award nominee best production value
- Core Rulebook: 2018 IGDN Indie Groundbreaker Award winner best art
- Core Rulebook: 2018 IGDN Indie Groundbreaker Award winner product of the year
- Book of Lore: 2019 Ennie Award nominee best RPG related product
- Book of Rooms: 2019 IGDN Indie Groundbreaker Award winner best art
- Book of Rooms: 2019 IGDN Indie Groundbreaker Award nominee product of the year
- Book of Mirrors: 2019 Ennie Award nominee best cover
- Book of Mirrors: 2019 Ennie Award nominee best layout & design

Related News
We’ve been nomiated! Vote for Us in 2019!
Magpie Games has been nominated for ENnie & Indie Groundbreaker Awards, for our work on Bluebeard’s Bride!
Deck of Objects and Tarot of Servants out Now!
The release of these Bluebeards Brides decks allow you to expand your stories to new depths!
Book of Mirrors Now Available as PDF and Pre-Order!
The book of mirrors sends players into new versions of Bluebeard’s Bride, throughout history & horror.