Jason Morningstar

Jason Morningstar is an award-winning indie role-playing game designer, publishing mostly through Bully Pulpit Games. Morningstar's games are often GM-less and about things going badly. Grey Ranks (2007), for example, is about doomed child soldiers in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, and Fiasco (2009) is about impulsive crooks pulling heists that are sure to go terribly wrong. With these two games, Morningstar became the only named person to have won the Diana Jones award twice as of 2013. Morningstar also works with academia and industry, consulting on using games for teaching and learning in education, with a focus on health sciences.

Jason Morningstar's tabletop role-playing games tend to be GM-less and about things going badly, and published as Bully Pulpit Games. He has also contributed to supplements for GURPS and Trail of Cthulhu, and several games about healthcare.

The game is a GM-less black comedy lampooning academia, and designed for single-session play at the end of which a winner is determined. It is set among the internal politics of a buttoned-down New England college campus in 1919, with the titular roach being a soul-eating telepathic insect bent on destroying human civilization. Characters under the control of the roach succeed at tasks more easily, but can not win if they are still under the control of the roach at the game's end.

The game was originally released in the 2005 Game Chef competition, where It placed in the "Inner Circle." It was then published in 2006.

Drowning and Falling is a game about dying by drowning and falling, and proceeds from the sale go to ORBIS International. It was published in 2006.

Grey Ranks is a GM-less game about playing child soldiers in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. The game uses state-of-the art narrativist design to evoke the horrors of war. It was published in 2007 and won the 2008 Diana Jones award. Grey Ranks has been published in Italian and Polish.

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