Benefits of AI for Game Masters

Recently I discovered the NightCafe Studio AI and have been like a kid in the candy shop ever since: Using AI Art in RPGs But goofy fun aside does this tech have any real use for GMs? I think it does. Not only am I featuring AI Art as a key visual component of my […]

Self-Balancing RPG

Hello Readers of the Martian Muckraker blog and/or itch.io! This is a super early draft of a rules framework that GMs and players can used to build characters for any environment. Occurrence values, all based around the number twelve, are used to determine the relative utility of skills, powers and environments in a given setting. […]

Why you Should Draw your RPG Character

Behold below, in all his glory, my Rabbit Monk. His name (I can’t take credit for this wonder) is PETALS BEFORE THE STORM! I am why the evil doer’s whiskers tremble.I am the stillness before chaos.I am the one that hops in evil’s way by night.I am the fury that is silent.I am PETALS BEFORE […]

Blood in the night

For a while I will be out of state and thus taking a short break from RPGing. Think that’s a very good thing – sometimes the soil grows best when it is allowed to lie fallow for a time. And the trip will be an adventure in its own right. Nonetheless, before I go I […]

RPG’s In Development

Throughout 2020 I worked on making the Muckraker System and its flagship game The Martian Muckraker. Happy to say 2021 was a productive year as well and I have many projects I will be working on into 2022. I’ve become fascinated with game design, especially the design of games with short and elegant rulesets. You […]

On Building Dungeons

For my EHS job I will be going into a large dilapidated military base to radio-survey. The safety plan accounts for falling debris, holes in the floor, unstable floors, trespassers, radioactivity and substantial areas of darkness. I have literally been hired for a dungeon crawl. All my years of gaming . . . it has […]

Change is Constant

Change is Constant is my newest game idea! It is my submission to the Pleasure Not Buisness Card Jam. This is a micro RPG that uses the symbolism of I Ching hexagrams to develop character back stories and uses the Five Elements as the Basis for Stats. Genre agnostic, this game seeks to draw attention to a […]

Hunting for Cthulhu

The Cthulhu Mythos is probably the most frequent setting for RPG games next to High Fantasy (excluding perhaps The World of Darkness). The original Call of Cthulhu RPG is still the strong favorite for Mythos games but has been followed by many other beloved games including Cthulhu Dark, Trail of Cthulhu and the Fate of […]

Tasha’s Cauldron

Are you done taking advice from a floating eyeball that worships his fish? Now you can get real grounded advice from a villinous witch instead! In all seriousness, I was / am totally hyped for this book’s release. For some reason though the first read left me underwhelmed. I came to like the book much […]

Muckraker System & Future Game Dev

It has come to my attention that not all persons are as obsessed with aliens as I am. This is honestly a bit of a shock. Nonetheless, I wanted to make my Tarot based RPG system accessible to lovers of all genres so now the rules behind the Martian Muckraker RPG are available as a […]