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  1. Julian Kay

    Mutants In The Now Brings A Fresh Look At Other Strangeness

    I'm offering a $10 discount on physical purchases of the Revised Edition of Mutants in the Now for those who bought physical copies of the Kickstarter Edition. Details are in the Kickstarter post. I think that may be true, but at the same time I have to wonder just how saturated the market was...
  2. Julian Kay

    Mutants In The Now Brings A Fresh Look At Other Strangeness

    Yeah, the first printing is out of stock, but the second printing is here, to be clear.
  3. Julian Kay

    Mutants In The Now Brings A Fresh Look At Other Strangeness

    Because I can't leave well enough alone, Mutants in the Now just got a major update! This has been to clean up and clarify the material for a second printing, an upcoming translation, the next Kickstarter, and more. It's now available wherever you got your copy- Kickstarter, itch.io...
  4. Julian Kay

    Mutants In The Now Brings A Fresh Look At Other Strangeness

    My attitude is "just make NPCs however you like, but if NPC mutant animals are significantly stronger than player characters, make sure there's a reason why." So to be honest, it's not that different, but it is explicit about it. I worked to ensure NPC generation is simpler, and counting each...
  5. Julian Kay

    Mutants In The Now Brings A Fresh Look At Other Strangeness

    Part of the inspiration for this project was knowing how important TMNT&OS had been to a lot of players, but that the loss of both the license and the creator had left both the original game and its successor largely fallow for the last two decades. For a lot of folks in the '80s and '90s, it...
  6. Julian Kay

    Using Miniatures for Your TMNT or Other Tabletop RPG

    Similarly, there was a TMNT Heroclix set a few years back, if you don't mind having those little dials at the bottom (or are daring enough to re-base them). And you could always use action figures if you have a big enough table. I understand they made a few! I created a homage recently, and...
  7. Julian Kay

    Mutants In The Now Brings A Fresh Look At Other Strangeness

    With the ability to reroll or flip the background and species rolls to an extent, I see it as a way to not prevent choice but just to limit it, to make character generation a process of discovery. Some people might just pick from the tables, and that's fine. But it's intentional design, and I'd...
  8. Julian Kay

    Mutants In The Now Brings A Fresh Look At Other Strangeness

    I'd love to hear about how you implement that!
  9. Julian Kay

    Mutants In The Now Brings A Fresh Look At Other Strangeness

    Thanks so much for the review, Rob! It's appreciated to see this pop up. In regards to the setting, it's meant to be rather loose, and offer inspiration rather than dictation. I didn't have a really detailed setting because much of is just the modern world, so I focused on a few things that...
  10. Julian Kay

    Release Mutants in the Now is out... NOW!

    Mutants in the Now, the retro-modern mutant-animal role-playing game, is now out digitally on itch.io and DrivethruRPG! arbco.itch.io/mutants-in-the-now drivethrurpg.com/product/378040/Mutants-in-the-Now Physical copies are still available via pre-order at j-k.games. If you've backed or...
  11. Julian Kay

    Kickstarter Mutants in the Now

    We're into our final push! Just a little over 24 hours level, and this'll be wrapping up tomorrow Friday, March 5th, at midnight EST. All the stretch goals have been knocked through! So it'll be bigger and add more art! There are a lot of updates giving insight into the project as well, so give...
  12. Julian Kay

    Kickstarter Mutants in the Now

    It was originally in the cards! But I given I have a similar set of background tables, I realized that it'd require a vastly larger set of possible backgrounds, so I put it aside for now. I'm hesitant to promise anything until the project's settled, but it's definitely something I'd like to do...
  13. Julian Kay

    Kickstarter Mutants in the Now

    In the 1980s and 1990s, for a brief time, mutant animals ruled the roost of the role-playing game hobby. Tens of thousands of players found their way into the hobby not through magic and maces, but through turtles and toads. The black and white anthropomorphic boom in comics inspired one...
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