1.5k readers - our top 10 articles
Our best according to you!
MurkMail quietly passed the 1500 readers milestone this March! To mark the occasion, Luke has trawled through the stats to find our ten most read articles! If you haven’t been with us long, this is a great recap of what you may have missed. If you’ve been with us a while, go re-read something - these are all great!
10: Caves mapped better = a better nightmare
Make mapping caves easier by mapping tunnel widths and lengths in a pointcrawl, whilst playing into actual caving horror.
9: Venn diagrams are the sh|t
Faction conflict with square Venn diagrams? We went there, showing how you can manage an entire faction conflict using one diagram.
8: Our notebooks got pretty popular
Folks really liked our notebooks designed for preparing and notetaking in hexcrawls! From our little hexflower zine to the giant mega hexbook, there’s one for everyone.
7: You liked characters getting fooked up quickly
When Chris McDowall describes your wounds hack as “a brilliant system for wounds that kinda makes me regret writing up a giant wound table recently” - people read it!
6: Upgrading your GM map thievery
GMs love to be resource savvy, so our guide on types of real world maps (like metro maps and city blueprints) you can use in your games was well received.
5: A design paradigm for all GMs
Luke chewed on these for a long time, but eventually he had to write them down. 2 core paradigms that he uses to help make the best scenarios he can!
4: You loved getting deeper into NPC psychology
A reinvention of reaction rolls to focus on needs and feelings instead of simple sentiments. This one was so popular, someone turned it into a digital rollable table!
3: That infamous map
The one that started it all. Our isometric pointcrawl mapping style was our first big hit and people just keep on reading this article!
2: Making detailed hacking in ttrpgs less cr@p
Luke never expected his approach to sci-fi/cyberpunk hacking to be so well liked. The Hackclock turns cybersecurity into an information led dungeon crawl.
1: The faction game continues to win
Turns out this concise recipe for making faction details is our most read piece! It continues to capture GMs of all stripes who want terse but deep faction information.