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 – 2 – Den

Last week in the Heavy Metal Mutant Future we looked at the Harry Canyon sequence to see how it affects the setting and what we can do with it.
Before I get into the second sequence, Den, I have to point out the number of nods to Heavy Metal found in another of my favourite movies [...]

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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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