The Mutant Epoch Expansion Rules

      Long time followers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of William McAusland's RPG The Mutant Epoch.  He recently released the long-awaited Expansion Rules for this amazing Post-Apocalyptic RPG.  To be transparent, I do have a few entries in this book, but this in no way influences my opinion of this product.  First and foremost, it is filled, did I say filled? I mean JAM PACKED!! with William's fantastic artwork (over 1,200 illustrations!!!). Second, this tome will take your TME campaigns to a whole new level. I'm not sure simply calling it Expansion Rules does this product justice.  

  With over 12 new character types, The Expansion Rules allows you to play horrific mutant Abominations, Androids (something I've been wanting for a while) Grafter, Halfie, Mutorg, Nanoborg, Parasite (creepily cool), Plantoids (the mutant plant character section is massive!! worth the price of admission alone), Rebuilt, Robot (another class I've been wanting), Vat-Brain (this is one I didn't know I needed until I saw it!), plus 35 more Bestial Humans (yes 35!!! Woo Hoo, and yes Gorillas and Monkeys are in there!!!).

 But wait there is more! So much more!

21 Pre-game castes

• 34 Skills

• 186 mutations

• 91 Plant mutations

• 42 Cybernetic implants 

and 260 new relics

     If you can't tell I love this book. At over 500 pages it is even more massive than The Mutant Epoch Core rules.  Some expansion rules muddy the waters of their core games (I'm looking at you AD&D 2nd ed Splat Books), but that is not the case with TME Expansion rules, the Expansion Rules mesh perfectly with the core rules, and take the game to whole new levels. While I hope Mr. McAusland continues to put out TME products, with the Expansion Rules and core TME book you have a complete system that can last you for decades of play and it will stay fresh and interesting. Part of that stems from the way the rules are set up to allow players to randomly roll up so many aspects of their characters. Some players may want more control during character creation, and you can do that as well, but as an old school Gamma World player, I like the random aspects of the system. Mutants and mutations should have a chaos factor to them.   

     My only issue is I want to PLAY this game right now!!! I want to GM and be a player in a TME Campaign, oh well will have to see what I can do. So what are you waiting for? if you are into Post-Apocalyptic gaming at all, go pick this one up!!

Good Gaming! -B.B.  

Sci Fi Sunday!

      I backed a couple of Sci Fi RPG Kickstarters recently, the PDF's for them arrived in my inbox just a few days ago. While they are different systems (Rag-Tag is a rules lite take on the Fragged Empire RPG, and Thirteen Parsecs is an OSResque system), I find myself wanting to combine elements of the two together...we shall see. So far, I've been too busy with work and family stuff to dive into them, but soon! Very soon!  

Happy Simian Saturday!

 Happy Simian Saturday Everyone!

Just some AI generated Lego Fun for your Saturday morning!

Lego Mania!

 Happy Saturday everyone!

Hope you all are doing well and getting some quality time in with family and friends. Had to go to Wally World recently and on a whim, I picked up a Lego Battle Pack and a Lego "sort of compatible" Hot Wheels car (didn't know they made these). Also, a friend recently gifted me a pack of Lego compatible cool weapons for minifigs. Legos sure have come a long way yet are still compatible with stuff from my childhood. 

     As a kid, I loved Legos, but didn't have very many, my pride and joy (and the only actual true set I had) was the original Yellow Castle set.  I saved up money from mowing yards and doing other work to be able to buy it.   Then came the great Vacuum Disaster! My grandmother decided to help clean the house and proceeded to knock off the castle, and then vacuumed up many of the pieces. The castle was never the same again.  Sadness...

     I've toyed with trying to rebuild it, but yikes the classic sets are way expensive. Hmmm something to ponder. There is a Bricks N' Minifigs near my house, I'm tempted to visit it.  Definitely a slippery slope, I have a ton of 28mm minis, but the Lego Minifigs are calling me again. I have several already that I have picked up over the years, you can see a few old posts about them. 

     I also found where Modiphius has put out a BrikWars rules set, allowing you to use minifigs for tabletop skirmish, unfortunately, Lego apparently has taken issue with the art and you can't buy the book now??!! Modiphius is redoing the art, so the book won't be available for some time.  Argh!  

     Meanwhile I can play around with AI Art to prompt my imagination for Brik Battles! 

Have a great Saturday!