Recent content by Julian Kay

So, it's been a while! Mutants in the Now has gotten some little 'zine expansions over 2024, but it's time to get back to books. I'm announcing Mutants From the Archives: Pet Shop Blues, launching on 5.5.25 on Kickstarter. It's a pet themed supplement for those that appreciate dogs, cats, and...

Mutants in the Now, the retro-modern, mutant-animal, role-playing game, is preparing to launch its next expansion: Mutants From the Archives: Pet Shop Blues on 5.5.25! Highlighting cats, dogs, and every pet you might invite into a home or enclosure, new options for characters new and old, and...

It is, though there are sometimes enough examples that you can easily reskin if you aren't too picky. I'm going to be having guidelines for species in an Mutants in the Mix, which is the upcoming system-hacking guide.

Some of whom are just using the same accounts from the Rifts Board Game Kickstarter when they were making a fuss there. The grievance is absolutely legit, as that was a real tire fire in terms of backer treatment, but some are just doing harassment at this point. Thanks! One of the conundrums...

If somebody's intolerant; an ethnic supremacist, an authoritarian, homophobic, etc., I'm not sweating giving their purchase a miss, as aforementioned. I will absolutely take that financial hit to have a better, healthier fandom and community for my game in the long term.

It's got the weird effect for me where each is a reference to a different Herald of Galactus (I think from left to right: Terrax, Air-Walker, Firelord, Silver Surfer) but they're obviously not going to color them accordingly. When it was black and white, of course I could envision them having...

Without getting into the weeds (as guided above), I'm not apolitical, and aim to be straightforward about my views where I can be so you can make an informed choice. It's not going to be for everybody, and that's fine. Mutants in the Now is meant to be inclusive, hence the "Now"; not just modern...

The original size rating scaling seems entirely arbitrary, given it jumps between 40 lbs. to 75 lbs. (difference of 35) to 100 lbs. (difference of 25) to 150 lbs. (difference of 50) to 175 (difference of 25). When I did Mutants in the Next, I aimed for a more consistent exponential scaling, so...

It's slated for a vague 2024. I would presume the main production delays would just be art production and licensing approvals, as Palladium's layout style is nearly as minimalist as they come and the books are already written. The main layout challenge would just be accounting for some of the...

A key point to bring up is that Palladium Books making this big announcement on Legion of Myth brings a lot of viewers and attention to LoM. Regardless of how civil the interviews are, or how kind they are in person, that action works work to boost LoM's streams and videos, and also encourages...

Yeah, that was heartbreaking for me. I've made a hobby of criticizing Palladium in the past, and that's no secret, I co-wrote Back to the Rifter, I wrote a mutant game because I figured I could improve things, but I don't wish ill on them. I don't want them to disappoint me. And yet... it's...

Yeah, he was exceedingly clear about it on the announcement stream.

Let's Expand Evolution! Mutants in the Now is showing off what's Next! The retro-modern, mutant-animal, role-playing game renewed the world of anthropomorphic martial animals by using consistent, convenient rules without sacrificing the weird and unexpected elements of mutant animal...