Monday Mutants 12: Masher Just Released!

Run for your friggin' life! The masher is upon us!

This is our 12th Monday Mutant of an initial 12 group freakopedia. 

These brutes stand nine feet tall, weigh over a thousand pounds, have ballistic skin, adapt their pigmentation to their surroundings, exhibit other random mutations from a rich d20 selection, and live on an all-meat diet with a preference for generic humans. 

Grab your PDF here: 

Gumroad link:  https://gumroad.com/l/KctdG

Drivethrurpg.com  https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/335673/Monday-Mutants-12-Masher

This is our biggest Monday mutant yet at 9 pages. It features 5 Adventure hooks, a d20 'loot carried' table, and as a bonus, another d20 table offering the game master random goodies and weirdness that is found in the bone littered depths of a masher lair. Careful though, these giants of the epoch are known to hunt in packs, use ambushes, bait, and mimicry to lure the unwary to a swift end.

As with other Monday Mutants, the Masher can easily have its stats modified for another game system, yet it handles best using the fast-paced Outland System used by The Mutant Epoch RPG. Are you curious about this well-supported system and setting? Loot your free TME Quick Start Rules with the included 42 page adventure 'Muddy Mayhem' right here:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/200808/The-Mutant-Epoch-RPG-Quick-Start-Rules

quick start rules at gumroad: https://gumroad.com/l/yGVBC 

If you like what you see here, please leave a review, or comment below and if you don't, email me and let me know how we can make these better. (Info at outlandarts dot com) 

WM

Look for more gaming goodness for The Mutant Epoch RPG in the months ahead as we finish some big books and delve into new, shorter content.

Regards, 

William McAusland
Author and Illustrator

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 Beware the Wriggle-Hack!

Just released, our 11th Monday Mutant! The dreaded-wriggle-hack is a fast-moving, six tentacled, moss-covered, hunter of the wastes. This bear sized freak uses is chameleon powers to ambush travelers and other beasts, either dropping from a wall or ceiling or leaping up from a cavity in the ground. Those that are shocked into unconsciousness wake in a deep larder hole, and often meet others who are are also on the menu.

This 7 page PDF includes 5 adventure hooks for use with this newest addition to the growing Mutant Epoch milieu.

Download your free or 'pay what you want' copy of this PDF right here:

 https://gumroad.com/l/XMScv

or here 

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/334462/Monday-Mutants-11-WriggleHack

The Grumble-Strike is here!

 This is our 10th Monday Mutant of an initial dozen freaks. Included in this PDF is an all-new Reaction Roll table for this unpredictable, role-play heavy new creature. Roll your d100 and add or subtract from previous questions and statements by the Grumble-Strike to find out if it will try and eat your heroes, befriend them, guide them to riches, or betray them. Other tables include a set for the appearance, and gender of this dual-headed thing, as well as a mutation table for the ten percent of these damn things that exhibit deviations.

Snap up your PDF copy of this bizarre, talkative mutie for the always affordable 'Pay What You Want' price.

Here's what's in this 8 page PDF:

As with other Monday Mutants, the Grumble-Strike can easily have its stats modified for another game system, yet it handles best using the fast-paced Outland System used by The Mutant Epoch RPG. Are you new to this system? Curious? Grab our free TME Quick Start Rules with the included 42 page adventure 'Muddy Mayhem' right here:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/200808/The-Mutant-Epoch-RPG-Quick-Start-Rules

quick start rules at gumroad: https://gumroad.com/l/yGVBC

If you like what you see here, please leave a review, or comment below and if you don't, email me and let me know how we can make these better. (Info at outlandarts dot com)
WM

Our next Monday Mutant is the ever-elusive, fast-moving, and shockingly evil Wriggle-Hack.

"They came from the ceiling!” Spider-Sisters Monday Mutant juts released!

 

Spider-Sisters are ambush hunters of the wastes and ruins, and aptly named after both their uncanny ability to climb walls and hang from ceilings, but so too, their venomous bite which causes paralysis. When these things feed on an unlucky excavator, they are conscious as it bleeds them out, able to feel, see and hear everything as they meet their end. Will your player character be the ones to rid these foul things and save the captives, or will they too succumb?

This is our 9th Monday Mutant of an initial 12 creature assortment. Included in this 6 page PDF are tables for mutations, contents of their carried pouch, and art and stats for the elusive, huge alpha male. Snag your PDF copy of this fast moving, wall crawlin' blood drinker for the always affordable 'Pay What You Want' price.

Here's what's in this 6 page PDF:

As with other Monday Mutants, the Spider-Sister is easy enough to stat-over to another game system, yet it handles best using the fast-paced, logical Outland System within The Mutant Epoch RPG. Are you new to this system? Curious? Grab our free TME Quick-Start Rules with the included 42 page adventure 'Muddy Mayhem' right here:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/200808/The-Mutant-Epoch-RPG-Quick-Start-Rules

or get them at gumroad: https://gumroad.com/l/yGVBC

If you like what you see here, please leave a review, or comment below and if you don't, email me and let me know how we can make these better. (Info at outlandarts dot com)
WM

Our next Monday Mutant is the argumentative, blabbering, and bloodthirsty Grumble-Strike...

Hello! There is now a Mutant Epoch Discord Server! Come join us!

Hello again Epochians, art fans, and friends,

For those of you who are into the Mutant Epoch Role-Playing Game, a discord server community has been set up by some very dedicated fans. It's a truly amazing platform: https://discord.com/invite/DtXY7hv

I know the link in the recent newsletter timed out. But this link is permanent. Sorry 'bout that!

Hope to see you there! Regards,

William McAusland
Author |  Game Designer  |  Artist

Outland Arts / The Mutant Epoch RPG / Fantasy Clip Inks/ Handcrafted Dungeons

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Quick update

Hi Epochians, Sorry I haven't posted anything of late. I've been inundated with some freelance work for Goodman Games,  (got to keep the kids fed and watered) and the other art I'm doing is for Dog Daze, that solo play adventure I've been working on. Can't show the art for that as it'll give away what happens in the dig.

And yes, still working on Expansion rules cover elements and edits and additions. 

As far as my eye goes, I got another surgery in just over a week and I'm hoping for great things, but kinda anxiety-ridden at the same time. This is laser surgery only this time, so the recovery should be much swifter. I hope this fixes the grayed out dead area in that eye's frontal vision. Will keep you posted. 

All the best

 WM

Abomination Work In Progress: Going Digital

Abomination WIP

So, in the interest, if time and cover character usage placement elsewhere, I made the hard decision to tackle the cover art for The Mutant Epoch Expansion Rules as a Digital painting instead of acrylic. This will give me far more flexibility with all the freaks on the cover and can add them as pre-gen characters at the back of the book, increase layout options for banner ads, and take one quarter the amount of time to render (a week instead of a month). 

This is the abomination player character type. Pretty gross, eh?

www.mutantepoch.com

Removing the cover art masking: Dog Daze

Removing the mask on the cover art for Dog Daze, a solo-play adventure for The Mutant Epoch RPG. I haven’t used the old airbrush in a long, long time and this was stressful! As far as paintings go, I feel ready to tackle the Expansion Rules Cover again.

Dog Daze cover art is coming along

WIP: Dog Daze cover art is coming along. Just thought I’d post updates on this as we go. WM

Dog Daze cover art has begun!

This is for a solo-play rapid fire adventure for The Mutant Epoch RPG.

Based on a very early test play module I used years ago. Survival rate of your lone, 1st rank PC is less than 50%, so don’t get too attached to your characters for this one.

There will be a section on converting this to a regular group play, game master guided adventure, too!

Yes, I’m also working on the Expansion Rules! Got to redo the cover painting in acrylics

Wizard of the Wastes released!

Just Released! One Day Dig 9:: Wizard of the Wastes

A diabolical wasteland wizard

A village enslaved

An island fortress and its steel clad protectors

Heroics await! Far from the local digger fort, accessible via an old subway tunnel, an intrepid villager named Tuvor gains the help of the excavators to liberate Shell Village from the ruthless domination by an evil Wizard of the Wastes. What perils await the characters in the subway lines beneath the mountains, or in the in confines of the sorcerer's island redoubt known as Fantasyland?

This is our 9^th One Day Dig for The Mutant Epoch RPG, written by Rey Rodriguez, and is suitable for five to eight characters of 1^st or 2^nd rank and can be placed in the Crossroads Region or the Game Masters's own setting.

It includes 3 maps, 11 illustrations, and is 15 pages in length.

Stand by, Epochians, for yet more post-apocalyptic gaming goodness from Outland Arts.

You can this Pay What You Want PDF here at Drivethrurpg.com here:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/318591/One-Day-Digs-9-Wizard-of-the-Wastes

Enjoy,

William McAusland

Creator of the Mutant Epoch RPG

Here is the art without any text. Its an 8.5 x 11' acrylic painting and took about 5 days ( 3 to 6 hour shifts)

And here are a few snaps from the work in progress....

Wizards of the Wastes and Dog Daze on their way!

From our Coming Soon page

http://www.outlandarts.com/TME-coming-soon.htm

 June 15th 2020

Here we see the old artograph projecting the sketches on illustration board for two hand-painted adventure covers. One is for Wizards of the Wastes, and the other for Dog Daze.

Wizard of the Wastes is by Rey Rodriquez and is a one day dig.

I just finished the pencil art for the interior inks today and hope to start the cover painting tomorrow.

Dog Daze is by yours truly, William McAusland, and a revamp of an old solo play adventure I crafted a decade ago when doing the early playtests for the Outland System. Its gonna be a very affordable single character, single-player adventure, and designed for solo play. I'm just on the last scene encounters write-ups for this one.

Why solo play?

I had this idea that a solo play adventure would be great these days of the pandemic, when you might not be able to get together with your usual gaming group, or like many of you are new to the Mutant Epoch RPG and want to take it for a spin. One GM could also run this for a single player, likewise, with some tweaking to the encounter strength, a game master could easily convert this to a regular multiplayer adventure.

The Mutant Epoch Expansion Rules are still in the works. With my retinal Detachment, I have been set back greatly, and find that I am unable to work in oils on the cover and have also projected the image again and will attempt the cover using acrylics like the above two images.
 I have been unable to see my eye doctor because of the whole Covid-19 thing, but do have an appointment lined up and am hoping to either get glasses or a new contact lens system that will allow me to spend more time illustrating without the eye strain and difficulties that have hampered production so profoundly.

A thousand apologies for the delay,
WM