This site serves as the source of truth for MUSE, which we work to keep regularly updated.

In the spirit of keeping things open and community-focused, we’ve adopted a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License for the MUSE Framework. This gives GMs, players, and developers total freedom to hack, modify, and build their own projects atop MUSE for any purpose, even commercially, without the legal traps of other gaming licenses.

All we require is proper attribution. Include the statement "Built for the MUSE Framework" somewhere in your work, and you're good to go!

Contributing to MUSE

This website is designed to function as a living document for the MUSE Framework. If you've got a solid concept for a new mechanic or improvement, contact us at muserpg@tuta.com with your ideas. If we like your idea, you will be credited on the site, and your work will be added to the framework.

Our Stance on AI

MUSE is made by humans for humans. We do not use AI-generated writing, art, or content in anything we make, whether that be for MUSE or otherwise. If you plan to feed our rules to AI, or use AI to build on our content, you have fundamentally violated the core values and philosophy of this framework. What you make should be made by your own hands.

We're aware that our work is likely to be scraped by AI anyways (and AI advocates who read the above and decided to be vindictive). The tech overlords intent on poisoning our world have certainly made it hard to have anything up on the internet that they can't swoop in and steal. The way we see it, its better to provide something to others as an escape than to hide it away for ourselves and lose the chance to connect with others.

Why aren't our repos public?

In the spirit of keeping our content open and available we plan to publish the Codeberg repositories for both this website and Character Sheet App down the line, but to do so we first have to overcome two hurdles:

1. This website allows us to offer a reliable source of truth for the MUSE Framework. While anyone could copy our framework and launch their own site (which we don't exactly discourage) we also don't want to enable anyone to completely clone our site and pose as MUSE. There's too many ways this could be used nefariously and we want to avoid directly enabling bad actors.
2. Our character sheet app hosts a number of secret features (hence the Unlock codes) built for our Worlds, and games. While we accept that some could probably be reverse engineered from what is public anyways, to publish the repo would expose secrets we aren't ready to reveal for a good number of years. Developing public/ private branches of the app has also proven annoying in the past, and it's not something we plan to do in the future.

That being said, our framework's rules are available in a Codeberg repo that can be easily pulled from here.

At such a time if/ when we consider the MUSE framework to be finished/obsolete, have published all of our Worlds, or have found a way to overcome the above (whichever is sooner), those repos will be released to the public.