I’m Sorry Did You Say Street Magic is a GMless city-building story game. Discover and imagine a city filled with life and vivid detail, packed with a myriad of neighborhoods, landmarks, and residents. Discover their true names, and the ways that they intersect—then set events in motion that will change or alter their relationships.

Players collaboratively explore the city they create together. Each turn, a player adds either a Neighborhood, a Landmark, or a Resident, nesting cards inside of each other to showcase and spotlight the relationship between the city’s inhabitants, and the places where they live. These cards are then complicated by Events that take place in the city: festivals, elections, ceremonies, natural disasters, mysteries, or discoveries that change the flow and focus of play. As you play cards, you unearth the city’s true names — quirks and qualities that make this place wholly, intrinsically unique.

I’m Sorry Did You Say Street Magic was originally conceived as a hack of Microscope, by Ben Robbins.

Components and Details

• Soft cover – black and white book, 54 pages.
• PDF – full color copy of the game & black and white copy of the game
• PDF – printable cheat sheet for easy rules reference.
• PDF – Easy Streets quickstart decks for setting generation.

Number of Players: 2-6 players, 3+ hour session
Style: GMless
Creators: Caro Asercion with art by Shannon Kao.

Press

” I’m Sorry Did You Say Street Magic is an absolutely charming game and one I hope you find just as spellbinding as I did.” – Meeple Mountain

Contributors

Illustrations are from You Canʼt Get There From Here, a zine by Shannon Kao.
Layout consultation by Quinn Vega.
Edited by Kai Gee, with sensitivity reading by Pidj Sorensen.