[Friday Map] “Wheelz!” – a post-apocalyptic encounter

During last week’s rush of deadEarth insanity, I picked up some new pens and made a few maps on the three different mediums I typically use (4 quad graph paper, a cahier of 8 quad graph paper, and plain white paper) to test them out. One of the “test maps” for the new pens was, [...]

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Heavy Metal Mutant Future part 4 – A Taarakian!

To defend: This is the Pact.
But when life loses its value,
and is taken for naught -
then the Pact is to Avenge.
Taarna is the piece most people think of when Heavy Metal comes up. It might have something to do with it being the longest segment, the cornerstone of the movie, and that Taarna is on [...]

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Heavy Metal Mutant Future Part 3 – STERRRRRNN!

He’s nothing but a low down double dealing back-stabbin’ larcenous perverted worrrrrm.
Hangin’s too good for him, burning’s too good for him! He aught to be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!
In this third installment of The Heavy Metal Mutant Future, I’m examining two sequences (and skipping one sequence) from the classic Heavy [...]

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Top 5 Mutant Future Mutations – Freak Legion Style!

Whenever Black Dog Game Factory comes up in conversation it’s pretty much guaranteed that the splatterpunk werewolf sourcebook “Freak Legion” will share top billing with the darkly twisted and disgusting “Clanbook Baali” (and more often than not the incredible “Charnel Houses of Europe: The Shoah” will get overlooked in an urge to discuss the more [...]

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Heavy Metal Mutant Future – 1 – Harry Canyon

A shadow shall fall over the universe,
and evil will grow in its path,
and death will come from the skies.
I sat down and watched that 1981 animated masterpiece – Heavy Metal – again the other night and once again realized that this is the post-apocalyptic RPG I want to play. Maximum boobage and all.
And best [...]

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Mutant Future, Gamma World, and Me

One of the awesome side-products of the Old School Revival is Mutant Future from Goblinoid Games. I love post-apocalyptic RPGs, and this game game does it well, and within the structure of one of my all-time favourite games, the Moldvay Basic D&D rules set.
As with any game that I enjoy, I want to try to [...]

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[Mutant Future] Lady Kneivel – Mutant Ladybug

I’ve got a post-apocalyptic obsession, in case you hadn’t noticed. One of the games I brought up in my “5 truly worthy post-apocalyptic RPGs” list was Goblinoid Games’ “Mutant Future”. It’s a retro-clone RPG using the system he reverse-engineered for Labyrinth Lord switched over to feel like Gamma World and other games of its ilk.
So [...]

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5 Truly Worthy Post-Apocalyptic RPGs

Weaponizers, After Man and Fallout 3… I’ve been in a post-apocalyptic orgy of destruction for the last while. Mutants, scrounged hardware, custom vehicles and weapons, damaged military cyborgs, the mix of high tech and low culture.
Adventures in post-apocalyptic settings remain one of my favourite “dream games” that rarely actually play out as well around the [...]

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Welcome to Gamma WTF

Seriously.

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[Gamma World] Juniper the mutant bush!

Again we roam to Gamma Terra and the Gamma World RPG – my favourite post-apocalyptic RPG of all time. At heart, I am a fan of the third edition of the game – it was the game that really implemented the rainbow result charts that were the rage in that era with results codes for [...]

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[Gamma World 2e] Iron Joe, Mutant Trilobite

The landscape of our future, populated by barbarian mutants with raided laser weapons and shields made from street signs. That is the post-apocalypse of Gamma World.
I was introduced to the 2nd edition of the game when I was a teenager, as our AD&D characters met their first WarBot. I bought every edition of the game, [...]

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