Updated Review of Cassette Beasts

All the positive I originally said about the game mechanics / art style etc. of Cassette Beasts remains. But I got sick of the wokeism – hence this updated review. (I am curious to see if Steam lets the review remain up on their platform . . . we will see) I got sick of […]

What is Strength: Example Muckraker Story

The following is an example of a story discovered through the Martian Muckraker RPG and a tarot deck, in this case The Brady Tarot (highly recommend – currently my favorite deck, besides my Muckraker Storytelling Deck). Please not that I am posting this with minimal editing – I want this to show what an authetic […]

Open for who?

The week has brought several bits of good news. Nonetheless I am very concerned about the future of the tabletop community, both in ways that are being discussed and in ways that, at least as I have encountered so far, are not. Particularly around one of WotC’s excuses. WotC already has recourse One of the […]

Ripples in Tradition

Even a brief exploration of articles shared on the Hyperspace Tachyon Transmission Protocol show that Cephal is described in radically different ways by the various sides of Aquatilium’s culture war. To some he is a sell out to an interplanetary order dominated by terrain species, to others he is a brave but dynamic soldier of […]

On Arthur, Faith & RPGs

This may be at first seem an odd topic, but one I think is very important. Many older RPG players (happens to us all) remember the “satanic panic.” I myself have never faced any real oppressions from religion for my love of playing RPGs. I myself am a Latin Mass loving Catholic and my mother […]

Where The Dark Magic Comes From

They wonder where dark magic comes from as if they themselves cannot see any passing familiarity, strange reminiscence, recognizeable peculiarity, in the howls and the screeches and the screams. As if they no longer recall . . . Or cannot bring themselves to recognize the bright sunlight magic they spurned, with mockery scared and shallow […]

Crisis of Faith

Written by Sp’Rark, Cultural Editor of the Martian Muckraker Nothing shook the religious foundations of Ancient Mars more than the discovery of Earthlings. For generations Martians regarded Mars as an Oasis in an otherwise uninhabited universe. Then scientists started hearing the transmissions from Earth. Two planets, Mars and Earth. Practically sisters. Each oblivious to the […]