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

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

Contributing to MUSE

If you've got a solid concept for a new mechanic or improvement, contact us at rules@muserpg.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, our worlds, or anything else. 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 decide 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?

To publish the repo to this site and our Character Sheet App we first have to overcome two hurdles:

1. This website allows us to offer a reliable source of truth for the MUSE Framework. We 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. That being said, our framework's rules are available in a GitHub repo that can be easily pulled from here, or copied directly from the pages of this site.

2. Our character sheet app hosts a number of secret features (hence the Unlock codes) built for our private games. While we accept that some of this could probably be reverse engineered from what's 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 deeply frustrating in the past, and it's not something we plan to do in the future.