#mutant year zero

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played MUTANT YEAR ZERO GENLAB ALPHA ?

By Tomas Härenstam, Petter Bengtsson and Kosta Kostulas

During the great apocalypse, humanity fled to the depths of the underground enclaves. In genetic laboratories, researchers tried to breed a new being, splicing human and animal DNA, creating a beast intelligent yet strong enough to survive in the devastated world. The enclaves have fallen - but the animals’ fight for freedom has only just begun.

Mutant: Genlab Alpha is a complete stand-alone expansion to the award-winning Mutant: Year Zero roleplaying game.

Get ready for a furry mutant (r)evolution!

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Voting ended onMar 17

[probablyfunrpgideas]

The farther down you go, the simpler the ruins get. Our castles of cut stone and mortar stand atop our ancestors’ town of clay bricks, which was built on the earthen ramparts of their ancestors’ wooden hill fort.

Not all of the people who lived here left records. There were silent populations who lost the use of writing and had to spend a century inventing it again. But they always made their mark with tools or buildings or the things they threw away. The royal chronicler is working on a timeline of the groups who called this place home.

But nobody had ever seen ruins like those we found, working down through the deepest dungeon and clearing a collapsed shaft. Nobody had ever read the language on the cracked walls of smooth stone. It took all our priests, historians, and clerks to interpret it - the words had common roots with some of our languages, and the pictures helped. What it said… well, the Queen had the most succinct response: “Why would anyone choose to build here, if they read that?” After all, this is not a place of honor.

Idea: play Mutant Crawl Classics in a setting with some established towns and nations. What kind of cool cultures, economies, and politics can you develop in a world where people live with mysterious powers and dangerous creatures?

[raving-luna]

Sleeping Citizen

I'm playing Citizen Sleeper again, and it got me thinking about my next campaign (just started one, but there's always a next one). I've been thinking about running a dystopian sci-fi game anyway, since I've gotten my friends a bit interested in the genre.

My first impulse is to run Mutant Year Zero in space. It's got that grindy sort of feel to it that I think captures Citizen Sleeper. There's the stat degradation in both, with Regen being a stand-in for Stabilizer. People getting worn down, and needing to save to be able to keep themselves functional is a pretty great campaign motivator. I'll probably also borrow clocks from Scum & Villainy. I could just run it in S&V, but I don't think it gives quite the same level of satisfying grind. I don't want daring heroics, I want people who are being ground into nothing trying to spend what little they have to save what they can for as long as they can. This is going to be a campaign of tough choices. Who can you help? What will it cost? What are you willing to do, to lose? Maybe there will be a happy ending. Maybe they will burn out. The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

[nemospecific]

I'm not well versed in the lore for both, but how plausible is it that Fallout and Mutant Year Zero take place in the same universe?

[rpgcovers]

Mutant Year Zero: Ad Astra ~ Free League Publishing (2023)

[fearsomejibblet]

Albequerque Queue: Mutant mechanic, armed and dangerous.

[doggojin]

I want to give this site a try after all those years eyeing it. Good riddance, Instagram.

Here’s a character I created for a DnD campaign Mutant - Year zero. His name is Crass, he’s a dog master with the mutations Beastman and Parasite. His dog is named Siyenne and she’s a sweetie.

[failedgrailknight]

A comic about my mutant year zero character!! He recently got some very bad news so I had to get some emotions out of my system

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