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Mutant: Year Zero

Started by Skywalker, December 18, 2014, 03:00:43 PM

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Skywalker

#30
January 21, 2016, 02:30:50 PM
Quote from: 3rik;826276I decided to hold on to my money until the Gen Lab Alpha book is available.

Fria Ligan have announced that the English version of Genlab Alpha KS will commence on 28 January.

Itachi

#31
January 21, 2016, 03:47:17 PM
I have the core book in english. I like the game very much. It's clearly inspired by Apocalypse World but traces it's own path from there and ends up building an identity of its own.

The only thing I don't like is the mutant powers. I wish there were optional rules for ignoring them and playing with pure humans.

Skywalker

#32
January 21, 2016, 03:53:01 PM Last Edit: January 21, 2016, 03:56:51 PM by Skywalker
Quote from: Itachi;874685The only thing I don't like is the mutant powers. I wish there were optional rules for ignoring them and playing with pure humans.

The system works fine if you just ignore them (including mutation points from pushing rolls).

Spike

#33
January 22, 2016, 06:55:45 PM
Man... I wanted to buy this game, but I've had a rough year. Worse, I decided to pick up the third edition of Mutant Chronicles, (also from Mophidius) instead. That was a... bad call.

I did spend an hour or two flipping through the book at my local game store a few months back and was duly impressed.  A bit narrative/metagamy for my tastes, but I think well within tolerances.  

What I wanted more of was some actual ties to the Mutant Chronicles setting, which are simply not there.
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Skywalker

#34
January 23, 2016, 05:01:37 AM
Quote from: Spike;874869What I wanted more of was some actual ties to the Mutant Chronicles setting, which are simply not there.

There aren't any ties with Mutant Chronicles, other than the use of the word "mutant" on the title.

Spike

#35
January 23, 2016, 06:31:31 AM
Not entirely true, grasshopper.

The game itself includes no ties, but the designers intend it to be happening in the Mutant Chronicles setting.  To clarify, sometime after the abandonment of Earth by the Corporations of MC, they seeded this little research project on Earth that is M:YZ.

How that is supposed to tie into the Whitestars faction that I just learned about in MC:3e... well...


That's what a few minutes of Internet Research taught me those few months back.  Of course, having racked my brain for the memories, I realized this was actually more than six months ago, so maybe I missed something key in the ad copy or whatever it was I read.   As they say: The mind is the first thing to go
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Itachi

#36
January 24, 2016, 01:23:09 PM
Yep, I've also read somewhere that Year Zero is the prelude to Chronicles.

Quote from: SkywalkerThe system works fine if you just ignore them (including mutation points from pushing rolls).
Really ? I had the impressions some parts of the game could become redundant. I will give my copy another read then. I REALLY liked this game.

Skywalker

#37
January 25, 2016, 06:17:46 PM Last Edit: January 25, 2016, 08:06:56 PM by Skywalker
I am aware that one of the editions of Mutant in the 90s eventually became Mutant Chronicles and has since gained a life of its own. However, the two never sat in the same setting and I haven't seen any indication from the designers that they intend to make any connection to it in Mutant Year Zero. I see the situation as much like Gamma World and Metamorphosis Alpha.

Spinachcat

#38
January 25, 2016, 06:26:17 PM
Why would I switch from Gamma World (or Rifts) to Mutant: Year Zero?

What am I missing?

Caudex

#39
January 26, 2016, 12:46:41 AM Last Edit: January 26, 2016, 12:52:35 AM by Caudex
Quote from: Spike;874963The game itself includes no ties, but the designers intend it to be happening in the Mutant Chronicles setting.  To clarify, sometime after the abandonment of Earth by the Corporations of MC, they seeded this little research project on Earth that is M:YZ.


This is not the case. Mutant: Year 0 and Mutant Chronicles 3e don't cross over.

Of course, there's nothing to stop you from setting your own MY0 game on Dark Eden, if you choose.

3rik

#41
January 29, 2016, 12:13:42 PM Last Edit: January 29, 2016, 12:16:24 PM by 3rik
Quote from: Skywalker;875961Genlab Alpha KS is up: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1192053011/mutant-genlab-alpha
First KS I am backing this year.
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#42
February 19, 2016, 01:53:40 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;826244That's a great lizard-guy in a parka picture.  Not something you'd normally think of, but being cold blooded they'd be totally into that.

It wouldn't really do anything for them, though, as they have no body heat to keep in.

Well, at least it isn't a female lizardman (lizardwoman?) with tits (something I have seen in another RPG book and which made me want to bang my head into a brick wall).
Why do they call them "Random encounter tables" when there's nothing random about them? It's just the same stupid monsters over and over. You want random? Fine, make it really random. A hampstersaurus. A mucus salesman. A toenail golem. A troupe of fornicating clowns. David Hasselhoff. If your players don't start crying the moment you pick up the percent die, you're just babying them.

Skywalker

#43
February 19, 2016, 02:15:58 PM
Quote from: alexandro;880033It wouldn't really do anything for them, though, as they have no body heat to keep in.

Warm themselves by a fire and use the parker to retain that heat in going outside, would be my guess.

Itachi

#44
February 19, 2016, 03:37:46 PM
Quote from: Skywalker;875961Genlab Alpha KS is up: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1192053011/mutant-genlab-alpha
Nah, I'll pass. We got bothered enough with the mutant powers, what to say of flurries.
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