Friday, March 4, 2022

Moon Mutants #1

Moon Mutants is a new DCC zine from Dungeon Remixer. Written by my dude, David Coppoletti, and featuring art by Dave and Evlyn Moreau the zine focuses on the possible future of Umerica. Rather than crawling under a broken moon, characters brave the trenches of that moon. Six centuries ago an inter-tribal conflict wiped out life on Urth, now refugees, aliens, and others move across the moon's surface. This is what you're going to find in the zine:

  • Welcome to the Mutant Moon - This article focus on what Moon Mutants is about, how the setting came in to be, and what you should expect. This is a setting where the strange is normal and the normal is strange. I really dig that vibe. The discussion ends with a random moon junk table (and who doesn't love tables?)
  • The Moon Mutant - Mutated by moon stuff, these mutant maniacs fight to survive on or beneath the moon's surface. A new class, they are a wild option for players that have a variety of useful mutations and abilities. They are hardy too.
  • Orbital Vehicles - This article features three new traits and four new vehicles for orbital travel. This expands on rules presented in the zines spiritual predecessors, Crawling Under A Broken Moon and The Umerican Survival Guide
  • Mutant Moonagerie - This section features three new creatures for your Moon Mutants campaign. The ever-changing Moon Dust Elemental can alter the fabric of the moon and moonstuff. The Ooztronaut is an astronaut that's been sucked into a blackhole and turned into something Lovecraftian. Finally there are Roverbots. The former moon rovers have evolved into something like Johnny 5 or Wall-E. 
  • Mutilations at Lunatic Landing - This short scenario centers around a serial killer that's been haunting a (relatively) safe settlement. There are some nice random charts to flesh out the investigation and a badass looking killer.
  • The zine ends with several useful charts and character creation bits. Classes from the DCC Core, MCC Core, all Umerican supplements, and other sources are listed in a chart and encouraged to be allowed. New characters for 0-level characters are included (with professions, random equipment, etc). Finally Moon Mutants specific character and vehicle sheets are provided.
If you like the Umerica setting or Heavy Metal (film and magazine), you want to pick up this zine. Dave has some wild ideas and he's turned them into great gaming content. You can get your own copy on DriveThruRPG, Goodman Games store (soon), and Gateway Games & More.

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