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martianmuckraker · 7 days

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On God's Love for the Damned

I have started a site on Academia.Edu where my papers that are of a more theological bent (and thus don’t always fit with the alien / RPG content we have here) can have a place to live on the interwebs. In recent years, it has become fashionable in theological circles to “reasonably hope” that every person will be saved. A strong human desire for hope can be found across touchstones from sources…

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martianmuckraker · 9 days

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A Forward Leap in Movie Ratings

Above is my early analysis of the @michaeljknowles – ProfDavis movie scale. I love it.

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martianmuckraker · 15 days

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Western Mythological Cinematic Universe

A lesson for Christian artists from King Arthur In American culture, for the longest time action / super heroic entertainment consisted of characters that were neither religious or nor not religious, but just safety secular. Meanwhile religious entertainment has God-believing characters but had to always have a moral, not be too violent or too ridiculous, with the result that religious…

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martianmuckraker · 16 days

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Cryptids and Kaiju

Lead Article – Godzilla vs Kong Review GvK—New Empire: It’s a fun enough ride, great to see a full monster world in Hollow Earth & to have entire sequences where the monsters are main characters, like the father-son relationship of Kong / MiniKong. It doesn’t have the depth or artistry of “Godzilla-1”, nor does it try to. Nothing wrong w/ liking Serious Zilla & Goofy Zilla both, just know this…

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martianmuckraker · 1 month

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Beautiful 3.30.2024

Lead Article – Watching Kong on Holy Saturday I think the 2005 King Kong has just become one of my top-10 movies. The cinematography is gorgeous – which is a must for a movie about beauty in a savage world. The movie’s power is in three savage worlds clashing into each other – one a world of tribal brutality and human sacrifice, a story that played out on every continent, one the “civilized”…

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martianmuckraker · 1 month

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Muckraker Digest - 3.23.24

Howdy all – I am going to try and get more regular and have a weekly/biweekly Muckraker Digest. The Digest will focus Storytelling and Entertainment, and how stories shape our values Segments can / will include: RPG News and/ or Lead Article Muckraker Opinion Best of the internet Update on Under a Hostile Sun RPG News: DaggerHeart is in Open Beta The RPG Daggerheart is in open beta. At…

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martianmuckraker · 2 months

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Defend the Sacred

(Certain deliberate misspellings are to prevent the page from being flagged in search results. They don’t reflect an unwillingness to use language openly, I am just aware that the diety Algo Rhy Thm can be quite capricious) Recently I’ve spoken to people I care about the widespread s-xual-ization in society. So am sharing this video. The problems Riley is facing in her story are due to the fact…

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martianmuckraker · 2 months

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Under a Hostile Sun Vs The NASA RPG

Well folks. NASA now officially has an RPG (paid with your taxpayers dollars). On the one hand, I am very happy to see RPGs used for an educational purposes. On the other there is a subtext to the RPG that reflects our culture’s disordered view of science. It also offers an opportunity to compare and contrast Under a Hostile Sun’s cosmology with NASA’s “The Lost Universe“. Where Did the Divine…

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martianmuckraker · 2 months

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Aliens RESPOND to the Arecibo Message!

It may be a surprise, but I am only now reading 1st book on UFOs ( I have been mostly interested in aliens as fiction or in ttRPGs). I just learned about the Arecibo Message. Frank Drake sent a message of 1679 bits to his fellow UFO friends and said that this was a mathematical message he wanted to send to the aliens. While not all cultures share language, we all share math. To test if it was…

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martianmuckraker · 2 months

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Galactic Master's Guide Now Updated

Both the Core Rulebook and the Galactic Master’s Guide have been updated to resemble a Hazard Manual. I believe the new style helps keep the theme, whilst being easy to read. As Under a Hostile Sun is not a combat-driven RPG, new GMs may be unsure how to plan a good session. The Galactic Master’s Guide is here to help with that! The Galactic Master’s Guide features nearly 80 pages of content…

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martianmuckraker · 2 months

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Hostile Sun Dev Log 1

Under a Hostile Sun Dev Log 1: Environmental Encounters Hello All! I am starting a Dev Log on Rumble (not YouTube, because I am fairly disgusted with Google and Gemini at the moment) where I go through different aspects of the game. If you are interested in hearing me go through and verbally discuss each aspect of the game, please follow me on Rumble! Learn about Under a Hostile Sun

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martianmuckraker · 3 months

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Hostile Sun: Example of Play

Basic Play Explore Under a Hostile Sun on Itch.io GM: As you leave the life support bubble, you see several of the settlers raising their hands, as a blessing from the Immutable, towards you. You are their last hope for clean water. Buzz: So, something has been adding a new contaminant, breaking the colonies only water source. GM: Correct, unless causes are found, water runs out in 48…

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martianmuckraker · 3 months

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Character Creation: Hallowed Hunter

Another playtest of Under a Hostile Sun is coming up! And that meant a new set of players got to make their own characters. Here is an example of the process. One player wanted to make a Hallowed Hunter named Rodger Greaves. Step 1: Picking Stats For this game session we are using Hostile Sun’s Standard Array. Since Might is the key taming stat of the Hallowed Hunter we assigned 16 to…

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martianmuckraker · 3 months

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Let it Be

A good reminder . . . I know the song officially refers to Paul’s mother, Mary. But it’s hard to not also think about Mama Mary. “Do whatever He tells you.”, then Let it be.

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martianmuckraker · 3 months

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The Resources of Alchemy

Key to Fueled by a Hostile Sun Games is Alchemy. At the advice of a graphic design friend, I am going to be experimenting with more simple icons, than the current 4-color graphics. Molten Minerals – the most explosive resource, needs to be mined with advanced technology. Used to provide energy and heat to potions. A resource that can have creepy, and even occasional lovecraftian overtones,…

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martianmuckraker · 3 months

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Hostile Sun RPG Play mat

Just uploaded a feature to the Hostile Sun Itch.io that I hope will make learning and teaching the system easier. It’s a character sheet that doubles as a play mat for tracking resources. The bottom of the character sheet has graphics representing each of the Alchemy Resource Currencies in the game. Using poker chips, coins or anything similar you can track how many you have of each resource by…

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martianmuckraker · 4 months

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Travel Advisory: Aliens to Avoid Miami Mall

The Unified Flying Ordinance (UFO) is reporting that many persons of multi-terrestrial heritage were recently spotted at a local Cinnabon. We assure you that while Cinnnabon is good, its not THAT good. Martians are strictly ordered to avoid Malls in Miami and Cinnabon in particular until the Earthlings get distracted by something else. (Which, granted, will be very soon)

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