A Brave New Weird

Baahbar

Senor Mutante — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:18:00 +0000

Name: Baahbar

Level 1 Mutated Animal (Elephant)
Natural Weapon: Tusks (1d8 Dam)

Stats:
STR 11 CON 13 DEX 11 INT 8 CHA 9 WIL 14

Mutations:
Aberrant Form (Three eyes)
Body Adjustment
Increased Willpower
Mind Reflection (Negative)
Acestral Form

Equipment:
“Mr. Boom” (Blister Rocket Launcher) -2 to hit, but on hit, victim must save vs. stun from concussion
Damage: 3d10 per hit
range: 500 ft/1000 ft
Trigger Type: automatic

Machete

Wrist Force Shield Generator – AC 4

the “Slace” — a custom weapon from the table

Senor Mutante — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:32:41 +0000

Okay, so i tried rolling up a weapon to see just how viable the tables were. Here’s what I got:

Table A: 40, so it’s a slicing weapon.

Table B: 95, so it’s a powered weapon, by a chemical battery (it just keeps going and going…)

Table C: 02 – so the main skeleton of the thing is a plumbing pipe. At this point, the whole thing seems buggered: a powered slicing weapon based on a pipe? Don’t despair! Just use your imagination.

Table D: 63 (+3 for the pipe) so 66 — it does a fair amount of damage: 3d6.

Table E: 67 — so it has a +1 to hit with its targeting chip (ok, maybe a little unbelievable with this weapon, but hey, we’re roleplaying here!)

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the “Slace”, swung like a mace with blades mounted on dual rotating heads to “weed wack” some wasteland scum!

— this fits very well with my general rpg philosophy that the randomness should support and inspire the GM, not dictate what he should do.

Reaction Rolls

Senor Mutante — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:57:39 +0000

So, I haven’t found very much info in the MF book about NPC reactions to characters, so I’ve come up with this little table for rolling when the PCs talk to people in town, barter, etc.

The reaction rolls I make are:

When the party first enters the town, I roll on a d6, total all their reaction adjustments and add the total to the roll (for instance, the party members have -2, +1, 0, -1, so I total them: -2 and add it to the dice roll: 4, so they end up with 2).
When a pc interacts directly with a NPC, I have them roll a d6 and add their reaction adjustment.

Then I consult the table below:

Roll	General	On the Street	Store/Trade	Town Reaction
6 and More	Hatred	The NPC will openly mock, cajole and even attack the PCs (if he is low intelligence or the situation makes it favorable to do so)	Refuses to Trade or sell items. May intentionally sell them a “bad” item.	Lynching; pressed into slavery; tarred and feathered.
5	Dislike	The NPC distrusts the PCs, and if prompted to pick sides, will actively fight against them.	+50% to Book price of goods if selling, -50% to book price if buying.	Unless the PCs are on their best behavior, they may be told to leave the town.
3-4	Indifferent	No feeling either way. Will simply be a spectator in a confrontation.	Book Price	No real reaction.
2	Like	The NPC likes the PC, and will help him if he asks. Will support / fight for the PC in a fight.	Book price – 50%	Residents are cordial; leader may ask PCs for help on side adventure.
1	Admire	The NPC really likes the PC. He will offer help without being asked.	Book price – 75%; roll 1d4 tech gizmos that the npc has squirrelled away and will offer to the PC at a cheap price.	Residents flock to the party. People offer their homes for the PCs to stay in; they are offered food. The leader proclaims them honorary sherriffs.
Less than 1	Adores	Will offer services as a retainer to the PC, will actively seek to raise his status with the group.	Will give items to the PC.	Hero’s welcome. The opposite sex throws themselves at the PCs, they are lavished with gifts, given some title like “lord”.

I’ve tried to make each particular thing a possible story hook. For example, being adored may not be all that it’s cooked up to be; maybe one of the women in the village claim her bastard child is theirs…etc.

Scavenging 101: Make your Own Weapons

Senor Mutante — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:35:15 +0000

Cover for Zombies Vs. Robots Vs. Amazons

Here’s a table set to create weapons from various junk for MF. This is a beta version, so if anybody uses this please reply and let me know how well it works or share some modifications you think it should have. Roll Table A – D (and E if told to).

Table A: Type of Weapon
D100 Roll

01-15	Projectile
16-37	Stabbing
38-59	Slicing
60-82	Bludgeon
83-00	Ensnare / squeeze

Table B: Power Source
D100 Roll

01-60	Not Powered or simple pulley
61-70	Black Powder cartridge
71-80	Highly Combustible Fuel (i.e. Gasoline)
81-85	Steam Boiler
86-92	Electricity (Solar-Charging Battery) – roll on goodies table
93-96	Electricity (Chemical Battery) – roll on goodies table
97-00	Electricity (Mini Nuke Battery) – roll on goodies table

Table C: Main Skeleton
D100 Roll

01-04	Plumbing Pipe + 3 on effectiveness roll
05-08	Whittled/carved custom Wood Branch + 5 on effectiveness roll
09-12	Animal Bone -5 on effectiveness roll
13-16	Bamboo – 5 on effectiveness roll
17-20	Rebar +5 on effectiveness roll
21-24	Sign-pole
25-28	Steering Wheel – 5 on effectiveness
29-32	Big Rock
33-36	Ammo Case
37-40	Machine Gun body
41-44	Custom Designed Metal Enclosure (must be in a town to have this made with a blacksmith shop – cost $100 gp to cast and build) – + 10 on Effectiveness roll
45-48	(if not available or can’t pay 100 gp, re-roll)
49-52	Metal Watch band (wearable)
53-56	Leather Belt (wearable)
57-60	Glass Jar (ranged weapon)
61-64	Large Metal Drain Pipe Section – + 10 on effectiveness roll
65-70	Briefcase
71-74	Table leg
75-78	Soldier Helmet (wearable)
79-82	Mannequin Arm or Leg
83-86	Mannequin Torso +1 to effectiveness roll
87-90	Taxidermied Animal (pick one of 2-4 foot size)
91-94	Metal Crutch
	Robot Exoskeleton Arm +5 to effectiveness roll
95-98	Umbrella
99-00	Severed human head -5 to effectiveness

Table C: Effectiveness
D100 Roll

01-30	“Barely Better than toy hulk hands” (Eff. Rating 1) – 2D4 Damage if a projectile weapon has a ROF = 1
31-60	“Meh, gets the job done” (Eff. Rating 2) – 3D4 Damage if a projectile weapon has a ROF = 1 if ensnare weapon, does additional 2D4 damage on subsequent turns until captive can make successful stun save.
61-90	“Ooo, nice toy” (Eff. Rating 3) – 3D6 Damage if a projectile weapon has a ROF = 2 if ensnare weapon, does additional 3D4 damage on subsequent turns until captive can make successful stun save -1.
91-00	“That’s killer!” (Eff. Rating 4) – 5D6 Damage if a projectile weapon has a ROF = 3 if ensnare weapon, does additional 3D4 damage on subsequent turns until captive can make successful stun save – 3.

Table D: Goodies
D100 Roll – only roll on this table if prompted in Table B.

01-25	Shocker! The target must roll to save against stun on a successful hit. There is a 15% chance that the attacker may get shocked – if they do, they too, must roll to save against stun.
26-50	Microwaves! The target must roll to save against radiation on a successful hit. There is a 5% chance that the attacker may get a dose of rads – if they do, they too, must roll to save against radiation, class equal to the weapon’s effectiveness level.
51-80	Targeting The weapon has a built-in targeting chip: +1 to hit.
81-90	Whoa! Once a day, the weapon discharges a huge amount of damage – its damage roll is doubled (after the roll). However, there is a 15% chance that it will blow up and deal that damage to the user.
91-00	Psychic Weapon! You are such an ingenious inventor that this weapon’s attacks are psychic! Roll to hit as if the attack were a mental attack. Mutants with the detect mutation ability will register the weapon. However, when used in this fashion, there is a 15% that the weapon will malfunction and drain the user as if it had the “vampiric field” mutation. Roll number of d6 equal to the effectiveness rating of the weapon for its functional WIL — so if it has a effectiveness rating of 3 — roll 3d6.

Couple Plant Characters

Senor Mutante — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:45:17 +0000

I’ll probably turn these into minis, but i thought they looked cool:

From dailies

Brain Lasher Mini

Senor Mutante — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:09:53 +0000

Here he is…fresh from Photoshop

Dum Dum Dum…PC mini and SPIDER GOAT.

Senor Mutante — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:24:40 +0000

Here it is…in the flesh…SPIDER GOAT ( the small one is set at 25 mm high for scale play with minis)

this guy is a pc character from the game I’m GM’ing. HK tattoos = Horse Killer — in an attempt to shoot a leech rabbit from his faithful steed, he shot and killed his horse. He learned that black powder weapons are not good for that sort of thing.

“Drinky” Jack, Lord of the Xeno Liquor

Senor Mutante — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:07:26 +0000

An NPC from the game i’m running.

He will eventually be made into a paper mini, cuz hey, who can resist the whole town drunk / mad martigan thing? Certainly not me. Drinky actually fights better when drunk — like “Drunk Master” but with more puke and regrets. This brings up a good question — addictions in Mutant Future? Should they be treated as mutations? Like “+2 to hit while inebriated, -2 when sober”? What say you?

Gametable session screenshot

Senor Mutante — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:49:11 +0000

Here’s our brave (or foolhardy) players engaging some hastily pasted hemofowl. Two of them contracted hemophilia from this fight, much to their chagrin.

Hemofowl suck eggs.

Paper Minis for MF

Senor Mutante — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:31:52 +0000

I’ve posted some to the Mutant Future Forums about this idea, but I’m going to make a set of paper miniatures for MF. I’ve gotten a “pigman” and a player character mini done thus far. Take a look below:

(Click on the paper minis tag to get all posts with these in them):

feel free to use these in your games, but it would be super cool if you could let me know that you are using them! Maybe a pic with em in use? That would be REALLY rewarding.