[deadEarth] The continuing saga of a mutant that’s gone to the dogs

I just can’t stop rolling up deadEarth characters. The post apocalypse can’t keep a mutant down, man!
After my first three failures, yesterday I saw my first playable character, nearly superheroic.
So I decided to test my luck and try it again.
The initial die rolls are pretty sweet:

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[deadEarth] The Pain Never Ends!

Sure, I’ve already exhausted my three attempts to make a deadEarth character. But that was for the blog. Over on the rpg.net thread, I decided to take one more kick at the can, making characters for “another” game of deadEarth (as if I would ever find TWO different GMs sick enough to run this game).
Let’s [...]

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Top 5 Reasons you should be playing deadEarth

So, you’ve read the thread I started over on RPG.net, and you’ve gone through the three horrendous characters I rolled up this week (Rikki, Headless Fred and Last Chance Jones), and you are wondering what the fuck is going on here.
(Or you may be wondering if you already read this post – I accidentally scheduled [...]

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[deadEarth] “Last Chance” Jones

So deadEarth is kicking my character-generating ass. Two days, two attempts, two dead characters. And I usually love post-apocalyptic games with rampant mutations!
According to the rules of the game, you only get three chances when rolling up a character and if your first two die or suck, you are stuck with whatever you get for [...]

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[deadEarth] Headless Fred, the sneaky surrender-monkey!

So, yesterday deadEarth proved its claim of being one of the deadliest RPGs out there by killing my character (Traveller style) before I was finished generating him/her/it.
Well, the game says we get three tries and have to take the best of the three. So it is time to try again and see what happens, because [...]

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[deadEarth] Rikky the beautiful dead eunuch butler

Warriors of the post-apocalyptic landscape. Realistic brutal combat, strange mutations, and the end of the world…
Whenever there is a discussion about “worst RPG ever” I keep being startled to not find deadEarth mentioned. I picked up a copy of deadEarth at CanGames in 2000, prior to the release of D&D3e from a booth that was [...]

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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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