Mutant Year Zero, Traditional RPG 

Yah, I have heard good things about Forbidden Lands.

Does forbidden land use the same d6 dice pools?

@@PossumMedic, I haven't tried it yet, but I believe it's very similar. I think each game takes Mutant: Year Zero and then does its own slight variation on those rules. I believe Forbidden Lands also mixes in another die-type, like a D12 or something, but I don't know for sure and don't know how it's used if I'm right.

You are correct

Yah. It’s all some variation of the Year Zero Engine. Coriolis and Blade Runner also use it.

Species booklets. End of Days has Mutants Genlab Alpha has the Animal People Mechatron has robots Elysium gives us normal humans. It's quite fun.

It feels stressful as I read it. But I’m glad you like it. What’s your favorite of the other books for it?

@@DMTalesTTRPG Honestly, End Of Days and Genlab Alpha are the two books I most enjoy. Mechatron is controversial in my group mainly because... well... in a world where everyone is struggling to find enough food, water and shelter to survive, it really throws the game on its head when you no longer need, food, sleep, water... sex.. human needs go out the window with Mechatron and while I think it makes for interesting roleplay, as the GM, you'd need to bend the rules a bit to fit them in as fairly as possible once they stack up with everyone else. They are much stronger, and I tend to avoid using them as PCs, and use them mainly as NPCs. So... to give you the short answer, I enjoy Genlab Alpha the best, but I feel it's entirely incomplete without at LEAST End Of Days for the extra classes and mutant powers.

Cool, thanks!

@@FloofyPoofyFox i think the intent was to have the game itself balance them out; DMs treat them as you would treat a gnoll or automaton in a more serious dnd game, not allowing them into settlements, giving them debuffs to all speech and charisma based checks, having NPCs just outright refuse to talk to the party when the mecha is in company or even going as far as to have them AoS. in essence, theyre strong in combat, but either completely useless or a detriment to the party outside of combat. Much like my alcoholic gnoll dragon-barbarian who had the knack of being literally too angry to die (he was downed at least 12 times before level 4, perks of having two rogues and a fighter wearing heavy armor who chose a musket as his primary)

Yah, I figured it was something like that.

Hmm, you are right! I must have conflated that with another game I read. So you you are correct, the AR is the number of dice rolled not the automatic damage reduction. REALLY good catch.

Forbidden Lands is one I would like to look at. one thing I don’t like about Free League Games is that the game is tied to the setting, and I REALLY enjoy making my own.

@@DMTalesTTRPG It would be cool if you did... my availability for doing it has greatly shrank recently. It's super easy to break Forbidden Lands away from the setting with minor alterations and run it in, let's say, some good old school modules or BFRPG stuff as Hexcrawls...per the BFRPG supplement on such. You should really check it out. 👍

It fits rather well, actually. So much so that the thought of playing it stresses me out.

@@DMTalesTTRPG ah ok cool! I went with Mothership instead of Alien and passed on Year Zero (because of the dice) but I might have to circle back! Thanks! 😀

Yah, there’s a good deal of depth in the roll system. Forbidden Lands is just nuts.

Yes it is, I’ve never played the video game and I’m not sure which came first.

The MYZ tabletop RPG came first. The video game used it as the setting.

Thanks for this!

@@NefariousKoel Adding to that, Mutant: Year Zero is based on a much much older RPG simply called Mutant which was released in 1983. Mutant: Year Zero and that family act as prequels to the older RPG.

I did not know that!

It’s the game which originated the engine that Alien RPG uses, and…yah, the grit and stress is real. Wouldn’t say it’s sadistic.