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The Mutant Epoch

Introduction

Hub Rules

The Mutant Epoch

Introduction

Hub Rules

The Mutant Epoch ™

Tabletop Adventure Role-Playing Game Hub Rules

Published by Outland Arts

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ISBN 978-0-9782585-2-8

Printed in the United States of America

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First printing April 2011

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“Putting YOU in the Game”

Created by

William McAusland

The Mutant Epoch

Table of Contents

Introduction

Introduction...................................................................4

Post Apocalyptic Settng and Time Frame..........................5

Player Objectives...............................................................6

Becoming a Game Master................................................6

Dice Descriptions and Usage...........................................6

Part One CHARACTER GENERATION..............................8

Character Generation Sequence List .............................8

Character Type Selection..................................................8

Character Traits..................................................................9

Trait Generation Systems.................................................9

Trait Value Determination...............................................10

Trait Value Modiiers.......................................................10

Character History by Caste...............................................11

Caste Based Details.........................................................11

Starting Skill Rolls............................................................12

Caste Descriptions...................................................13-15

Character Weight and Height.........................................16

Character Hand Dominance...........................................16

Character Swimming Ability...........................................16

Character Age and Aging................................................17

Description of Character Types......................................18

Pure Stock Human......................................................18

Bioreplica....................................................................18

Clones.........................................................................19

Trans-Humans............................................................20

Cyborgs.......................................................................21

Ghost Mutants...........................................................22

Mutants......................................................................22

Beastial Humans....................................................24-33

Rank Advancement..........................................................34

Skills..........................................................................35-57

Mutation Determination Tables.......................................58

Prime Mutations.........................................................60-76

Minor Mutations.........................................................77-79

Flaw Mutations...........................................................79-83

Implants..................................................................................84

Implants Descriptions............................................85-92

Languages......................................................................93

Character Outitting..........................................................93

Trade Goods Listing..............................................................94-95

Starting Packs................................................................96

Outitting New Characters...........................................98

Archaic Weapons Listing...............................................99

Relic Weapons Listing...................................................100

Armor Listing.................................................................101

Part Two: GAME PLAY.....................................................0

Time and Game Sequence.........................................103

Movement..............................................................103

Initiative...............................................................103

Combat Rules.................................................................104

Combat Sequence Procedure..................................104

Exceptions to the Critical Strike and Fumble Rules..........104

Strike Potential, Critical Strikes and Fumbles ...............105

Strike Value Modiiers.............................................105

Random Delection Determination..........................106

Random Body Location.............................................106

Combat Options and Resolution...............................106

Called Shots...............................................................108

Morale and its Affect in Game Play...............................110

Injury, stun damage and Death....................................111

Healing.................................................................111

Chase Rules ..........................................................112-116

Part Three: HAZARDS..............................................8

Hazard Checks............................................................118

Traps.........................................................119-121

Swimming, Drowning, Suffocation and Breath Holding..........121

Blindness...................................................................122

Thirst and Starvation................................................122

Hypothermia..........................................................122

Falling Heights and Damage....................................123

Poison.............................................................124

Narcotics and Alcohol...............................................124

Radiation...............................................................125

Insanity..............................................................126

Diseases.....................................................................126

Part Four: ENCOUNTERS...........................................9

EncounterChecks(tableTME-4-1)............................129

Ancient Ruins Encounter Matrix ............................130

Wilderness Areas Matrix One....................................131

Wilderness Areas Matrix Two....................................132

Robot Encounter Matrix ..........................................134

Android Encounters.................................................135

Humans Encountered .............................................136

Typical Humans (table) ...............................................137

Typical Human Descriptions .................................138-142

Random Events (table and details)......................143-146

Part Five: CREATURES........................................48-76

Alligator s..................................................................148

B a t s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 4 8

Bears........................................................................149

B i r d s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 0

Cats...........................................................................151

Cattle........................................................................151

Dogs..........................................................................152

Drader-kac................................................................153

F i s h . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 3

F r o g s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 5

Garnock ...................................................................156

Horrlify......................................................................156

Hor ses......................................................................157

Insects 1a, 1b,1c...................................................................158-161

Lizards......................................................................162

Moaner.....................................................................16 4

Narkanna.................................................................16 4

Pit Slime........................................................................................164

P l a n t s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 5

Rats..........................................................................167

Reptilius...................................................................168

S c o r p i o n s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 9

S h a r k s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 0

Skullock ....................................................................170

Snakes......................................................................171

Spiders.....................................................................171-172

Urcellia......................................................................173

Warmor t....................................................................173

Wolves......................................................................174

Worms................................................................175,176

Part Six: ROBOTS & ANDROIDS.................................78

Robots..................................................................178-181

Androids...............................................................182-184

Part Seven: RELICS..................................................86

Weapon Relics..............................................................186

Relic Armor...................................................................191

Protective Gear.............................................................194

Explosives.....................................................................195

Military Accessories......................................................197

High Tech Devices........................................................198

Power Sources.............................................................199

Ammo Relics.................................................................200

Illumination Relics........................................................201

Relic Optics...................................................................201

Relic Vehicles........................................................201-204

Part Eight: TABLES ...........................................................06

Weapon Classiications................................................206

Valuables Classiications Tables.................................207

Possessions Carried Classiications.................................208

Stationary Valuables Classiications.....................................209

Gems and Jewelry........................................................209

Relic Determination Tables.................................210-215

Treasure Table TME-HUB-1...........................................216

Part Nine: Appendices..............................................8

Appendix 1 Metric Conversion Table ................................218

Appendix 2 On-Line Resources, SOE, Word from Author .............218

Appendix 3 Common Vehicles of TME ............................219

Appendix 4 Scrap Vehicles ................................................223

Appendix 5 Barding ............................................................226

Appendix 6 Archaic Artillery and Siege Engines ............226

Appendix 7 Adventure Crafting and GM Tips ...............230

Appendix 8 Graph Paper ....................................................236

Appendix 9 Hexagon Paper ................................................237

Appendix 10 Character sheet ................................................238

Appendix 11 GM’s Character & Reference sheet ................239

Appendix 12 Excavator Monthly Magazine Ad ......................240

Appendix 13 Emergency cut and glue dice set .............241-244

Index ..........................................................................45

The Mutant Epoch

Introduction

Introduction to The Mutant Epoch

undergoing metamorphosis. The an-

cient ones speculated their end would come

suddenly, caused by one great war, plague or

geological catastrophe, wiping out their entire

race if not all life itself. Armageddon, of course,

did come, and raged for centuries instead of a

mere decade, and in some areas, the old wars

go on, fought between humanity, mecha, mu-

tant and the many slave races of clones, bio-

replicas and cyborgs. The demise of the world’s

pan-global culture took place insidiously, lead-

ing to a inal collapse of all nations, replaced

by survival and expansion minded corporate

and city states, and regions of total anarchy.

Plagues, earthquakes, climate change, loods,

starvation and civil unrest depopulated the

world further. The end seemed near by about

2200 AD. From here, resources became still

more scarce and regional wars erupted among

ever smaller and more focused factional

groups, groups which were often formed out of

genetic, religious or technological allegiances.

‘Hold out’ corporations and other powers ad-

vanced their weapons programs, adding ro-

botic, clone, bioreplica and trans human forces

as well as bio-genetically engineered warriors

and beasts to their arsenals. Mutagen agents

used to wipe out enemy agricultural resourc-

es, or boost a government’s own, produced

increased yields but nightmares as well. The

crossing of humans and animal DNA became

commonplace, and the freakish results occa-

sionally produced strains of sub-human devi-

ants which formed their own racial standards

and sub-culture, ultimately splitting off from

their creators and claiming their own lands. An-

droids, having already taken over military direc-

tion for some corporations, rebelled and slew

their creators, forming mecha empires of their

own, many bent on the elimination of all hu-

manity, while other mecha forces, still serving

human masters, or developed by a competing

manufacturer, waged war on their mechanical

brothers for supremacy.

Hundreds of years of mutation, cultural

collapse and reemergence, have left the earth

a very different place than that of the pre-dev-

astated world. In former times, humans ruled,

and all their creations were their slaves and

play things. In the Mutant Epoch, pure stock

humans struggle to survive in a landscape of

horrors, where their enemies lurk around ev-

ery corner, and many plot their inal downfall.

To survive, some humans have embraced

their own mutant offspring, former clone and

bioreplica slaves and now live among them,

embracing their common homosapien lineage

in a bid to merely survive. In other locales;

however, pure stocks have attempted to weed

out all mutant life, embraced fundamentalist

Purist religions that see their genetic purity as

a gift from God, and seek to burn or enslave all

mutant life. Yet, elsewhere, pure stocks who

are the direct descendants of intact corporate

or political powers, have held on against hos-

tile races and factions. Fortifying themselves

in technologically advanced pockets of the old

world, they communicate with each other as

well as a few orbital space communities above

the Earth and on other worlds, working toward

a day when their kind can once again claim do-

minion of the earth.

For mutant humans this is an age of op-

portunity and personal power. In most areas

they have thrown off the chains of their human

masters, have used their awesome mutations

to build pockets of their own culture, and de-

cade by decade have grown in power, formed

small regional nations, and commenced com-

munication with other mutant dominated na-

tions of Aberrationists. Their goal is to see all

pure stocks phased out by inter-breeding with

mutants, or by execution.

The most common settlements are the

numerous free towns, also called trade or

barter towns. Here, often with few laws, these

old west style forts are the refuge of misits,

seeking protection from the terrible creatures

of the wilds, the race wars between purist and

aberration, or worse, the robotic mecha expan-

sions. In free towns, engineered humans min-

gle with mutants and pure stocks, free willed

android mercenaries and self aware robots,

gathering to trade food, water, power cells,

slaves, scrap material and relic treasures, as

well as to form excavation teams to uncover

the precious loot found in the ruins of the An-

cients. Adventure teams, usually small crack

units of between 4 and 12 members, are es-

sential to the free towns both to act as scout

and raiding parties, as well as to keep an inlux

of relic weapons and armor coming into their

hands. Only through force of arms can small

independent factions survive long against the

barbaric humanoids such as skullocks, war-

morts, moaners, reptili and bipedal rats, not to

mention the imperial aspirations of androids,

pure stocks and aberrationist mutants.

It is a time when helicopter gun ships,

satellite guided missiles, tanks and orbital

strike craft are exceedingly rare, when wars

are fought by hand held weapons, axes and

crossbows, muskets and swords, an age when

the mutants, with their long ago engineered or

hyper-evolved deviations, gain supremacy on

the battleield. It is a time when a new, freak-

ish race is suddenly more populace than the

pure blooded humans who manifested them;

this is The Mutant Epoch.

For anyone who has played other role

playing games, this RPG will be fairly straight-

forward, allowing the game master to teach

the players the basic rules during character

generation and actual game play, without

pausing too much to break the pace of the

story. For anybody new to the hobby, the quick-

est way to explain this form of entertainment is

to describe it as cooperative storytelling with

random outcomes. Said another way, RPGs

are like being in a novel, where you, the player,

decide what the character is going to say or do.

For the referee, called the game master (GM),

an RPG is like being the creator of a world, the

writer of a book, the narrator, as well as an

actor for all the non-player characters (NPCs).

Nobody in this game is playing against the

players, not even the GM. The GM is neutral

but inclined to set challenges for the players

rather than destroy their characters with the

goal being an ultimate form of participatory en-

tertainment. It is hard for anyone who has not

played a tabletop RPG to image that by using

some paper, a game book, graph paper, odd

dice, and a pencil, that an exciting, immersive,

movie-like experience can be had, one which

makes one’s palms sweaty, heart race, time

speed by, and you eager for the next session.

This hub rules book, along with some

polyhedron dice, paper and pencils, includes

everything a GM and players need to begin a

campaign in a world of discovery, adventure

and danger, putting you in the game in The

Mutant Epoch. To learn more about role play-

ing games, see web resources page at the end

of this book.

W elcome to the 24 th Century, and a world

The Mutant Epoch

Introduction

The Post Apocalyptic Setting and Time Frame

are ancient ones, such as sci-

entists, special forces soldiers,

or celebrities who wake from

cryogenic sleep to repopulate

a world which should have

healed and returned to a un-

mutated, uninhabited Garden

of Eden. Similar to this scenar-

io is a returning colonization

ship from the off world colo-

nies, which wakes its sleeping

passengers as they approach

earth to reclaim it, only to have

the initial ground party of pure

stock PCs, encounter a freak-

ish, hostile new world.

Finally, it is possible to set

the game further into the future, say, the year 3450 or 6780, etc., with al-

most no ancient relics in circulation, the ruins all but dust and the reliance

on mutations and archaic, medieval style weaponry the norm.

Other, non time based setting adjustments could include the

following options:

The Mecha have crushed mankind and rule the world. All humans are

either slaves or to be terminated on sight. Humans, cyborgs and mutants

try to work together to survive in the ruins of the ancient ones, like rats,

where the company of predators and disease is always present.

Aliens have invaded

earth and won. Humanity is

enslaved or on the menu and

character survival is in doubt

on a daily basis. Similarly,

a zombie apocalypse could

have occurred, and the PCs

are forced to search for a cure

with mutant creatures being

converted to undead mon-

strosities.

A rip between the planes

has opened another, darker

dimension and allowed de-

monic, inhuman creatures

to sweep across the world,

waging a war of conquest and

enslaving the people of earth.

The characters, some mu-

tated by the rip in dimensions, ight a guerilla style war to win back their

planet and close the portal which permits the dark lord’s legions to travel

between realities.

Similar to the rip in dimensions, another scenario has a fantasy ele-

ment to it whereby magic has returned to the world, perhaps due to some

cosmic alignment, physical portal, or discovery of an artifact. Mutations

might have occurred as a side effect of dark magiks, while the technology

of robots and cyborgs developed as a counter measure against the legions

of orcs, trolls, goblins and other invaders who also adopt the relic irepower

of the human world.

Perhaps the best way for a game master to make The Mutant Epoch

one’s own is to set up a region someplace other than the one described

in the Crossroads Region book, or the published adventures. By changing

the names or locations in the published books it is easy to set adventures,

NPCs, and other supplements in the GM’s own region. Another option is

to do both; provide the player characters with a method of going between

the GM’s setting and the published regions or time frame. This is often

handled by way of a vehicle or portal of some sort and allows for count-

less adventure possibilities, especially with the dimensional, time travel or

interplanetary portal option.

The Mutant Epoch region-

al settings, adventure sup-

plements and iction take

place in about the year

2364 and many of the

published books happen

to be set in and around

the great megalopolis of

former Las Angeles, Cali-

fornia.

The collapse of the old

civilization was not a sud-

den apocalyptic event, but

rather the gradual erosion

of human dominance, the

spread of civil strife, anar-

chy and the rise of machines and mutants. For nearly two hundred years,

the chaos and war raged even as corporate nations, city states, religious

and political factions grew; so too, technologies continued to advance. Due

to the militarized nature of life in the twenty irst and second centuries, a

particular focus was made of biogenetic engineering, cybernetics, weapon

systems, and robotics. Synthetic humans, mutants and robotic slaves of

all manner were part of both civilian and military life. While the inevitable

slave rebellions over the inal decades certainly contributed to the demise

of humanity, it is surmised by new era historians that the mecha, under the

control of various evil artiicial intelligences, initiated the inal great global

war. It was this inal war which broke the era of human dominance on

earth. After more than a century, human civilization has only barley recov-

ered, existing in pockets where warlords, raider chieftains, cultists and ex-

tremist factions compete in a new dark ages with the feudal systems of old

being the only form of law and order. It is a setting where humanity, in all

its forms, strives to survive in a world of hostile machines, crazed mutant

beasts, and barbarity amid the moss covered ruinscapes and wastelands,

tangled forests and stinking, toxic swamps of The Mutant Epoch.

O f course, The Mutant

Epoch RPG could easily be

adjusted to suit the needs of

the Game Master and his or

her players. While Outland

Arts does have a modern

day, near future survival-

ist role playing game

rules set in the

works, there is

no reason the

GM couldn’t adjust

these rules to relect

a world based on his or

her own creation, or the

setting based on a book,

movie or computer game.

B asically, to make

these rules work as a present day RPG, simply strip out all robotics, beam

weaponry, advanced armor, androids, synthetic humans, cyborgs and their

implants, and perhaps use unmutated creatures only.

Alternatively, the Game Master could place The Mutant Epoch in his

or her home town or region, using a university campus or high school as

a adventure or town site, either as a survivalist adventure or a more high

tech, far future setting as these rules relect.

Another option is to have several areas of the world, including or-

bital stations, where the old culture has survived in pockets and not only

possesses enormous relic stockpiles but creates advanced gear, vehicles

and robotic minions. Perhaps characters could be pure stocks from one

of these advanced corporate fortresses, sent on some mission to ensure

the survival of the community. A take off from this is that the characters

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