Hog Squealer: Monday Mutant 35 just released!

While untold numbers of bizarre, nightmare mutants of the post-apocalyptic wastes seek to devour or drive off would-be ruin explorers and wasteland travelers, few do so by first tying to make them careless, annoyed, or insane.

Hog squealers do just that, however, and often without first showing themselves, will call out in snippets of remembered voices—voices of past victims or those they taunted and tracked on earlier hunts. Each minute, a squealer will unleash a bit of dialog, either from the game master’s own selection, or from the massive d100 table included with this all new creature. These things make these annoying, often nonsensical calls in order to frustrate, confuse, and split the party, attempting to get one of their humanoid targets away from the group.

Hog Squealers are pony sized mutants with mainly pig ancestry, hunt in packs and appear as mutated specimens seventeen percent of the time.

Grab your copy today at this link: 

https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/560856/Monday-Mutants-35-Hog-Squealer

Illustrated by Avalon McAusland and written by Will McAusland, grab your ‘pay what you want’ copy of this fast moving vocal mimic to challenge your post-apocalyptic player characters today!

Actual Play - The Mutant Epoch: The High Desert Session 36

 Shrike Queen! Happening Now! 

Actual Play - The Mutant Epoch: The High Desert Session 36

September 3rd 2025

Join Rubble Goblins Tim and the crew for another live play episode of The Mutant Epoch TTRPG

https://www.youtube.com/live/3PyhrU02CYE

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Actual Play - The Mutant Epoch: The High Desert Session 32

 Happening Now! 

Actual Play - The Mutant Epoch: The High Desert Session 32

July 23th 2025

Join Rubble Goblins Tim and the crew for session 32 for live, remote play of this post-apocalyptic TTRPG.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WujgijBaerc

Painting Nuke Tower's Cover while camping

 Been doing some camping and painting on a hundred year old easel. This is going to be the cover art for our next book, a massive 3-5th rank adventure called Nuke Tower. Stay tuned for more progress shots as I get back to this one! WM

Palm Disk housed Digital Being Cowpoke

 

Ink Art from page 72 of  The Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules

These were the most common housings for digital beings and often serve as the core CPU container within larger vessels. Palm disks come in many shapes and sizes but generally perch in an open hand, on a shelf, in a vehicles cup holder or back pocket. 

These disks sometimes feature a bonus add-on. Roll 1d10.

1-3. No add-on.

4. Waterproof and will float if dropped in liquid.

5. Pop out spider legs: climbing 3 skill points, movement rate 4m, scratch opponents SV +0, DMG 1pt

6. Extra encryption: Improved firewall bonus of -20 FW.

7. Ultra memory: Can contain 150TB of data

8. Military Grade Toughness: Add +2d6 Endurance and increase DV by -13.

9. Pop out rotors: This unit can fly like a small drone, although makes the same amount of noise as a bumblebee when active. Movement rate 12m, with flight duration 1 hour before a 12 hour recharge period must take place. While flying, increase defense value -20 DV.

10. Two add-ons (roll 1d6+3, twice on this table but down-pick or re-roll duplicated results).

New to the Mutant Epoch RPG? 

Grab the free quick Start rules PDF and the included Adventure, ‘Muddy Mayhem’: https://www.outlandarts.com/qsr.htm

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Wristwatch Projector Digital Being

 

Ink Art from page 72 of  The Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules

Besides being an excellent projector that allows hands free use, this watch can also be worn under the wearer’s armor to better protect it — although anything blocking the topside projection emitter will stop the holographic image from appearing, seeing its surroundings or launching its shock generator or most other apps — yet the digital being can still verbally interact with the wearer. This model will normally be a clunky, sports style watch with a digital readout of the current time (once set) plus offer a stopwatch feature, night light mode (which can emit a soft illumination in a meter around the wearer), 

Come say hello at this EN World thread:

https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-mutant-epoch-rpg-expansion-rules-book-is-finally-here.707667/

The Dreaded Pulviss

 

The dreaded pulviss!

Grab it today at the recession friendly price of Pay What You Want! At

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/524023/monday-mutants-31-pulviss

For the mutant Epoch tabletop role-playing game.

Pulviss Monday Mutant 31

Don’t become the unwilling subscriber and rope-bound follower of this hulking mutie!

The Pulviss gets its name from the word ‘pulverize’. This apt name serves it well for both its brutal, multiple close-in attacks, as well as its bizarre need to dominate, demoralize and crush the willpower and self respect of those that it collects.

We return to the Monday Mutants series with a bang. The pulviss is an epic 8 page creature listing for an unpredictable and grotesque collector of companions — just hope your post-apocalyptic heroes don’t end up roped to the gang of ‘subscribers’ and ‘fans’ for the colossal brute’s sport, or left tied to a post as a decoy when something worse comes along.

This is our 31st Monday Mutant for The Mutant Epoch role-playing game using the Outland System. Our previous 24 Pay What You Want offerings were added into a book along with 6 never before seen, remarkable muties and available in the Monday Mutants Bestiary.

This collector of unwilling playthings, pets, and bait humans includes a 1d8 random mutation table, 2d12 table of possible humanoid thrall captives to rescue, along with a 3d6 table of collectibles that the beast carries as loot, or barter items when in the mood to trade for luxuries.

While we can’t publish a Monday Mutant every week, we are aiming to release one of these freaks every 2nd Monday for this ongoing next dozen. Join us on your favorite social media venue and follow along, links at our website.

Grab your copy today at this link:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/524023/monday-mutants-31-pulviss

Best regards,

William McAusland

Author and Illustrator

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Montage of Assorted Digital Being Personas

 

Scene from the page presenting Digital Being Rank Gain

Ink Art from page 70  of  The Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules

Digital Beings go up in rank like any other character, however because they have a few features that physical characters do not, they use their own Rank Gain matrix shown below. If this character inhabits a cyborg, android or robotic body, then these bodies also grow stronger, adapts, and improves through adventuresome exploits, and therefore also go up in rank according to their type. See the section on Digital Being Starting Container or Body on the next page for which containers and body types are eligible to go up in rank.

You can play these freaks using the new rule book:

https://www.outlandarts.com/expansionrules.htm

Drink n Draw tonight on Discord

 Join William McAusland, Rubble Goblins Tim, and others from The Mutant Epoch Discord community for a very casual drink'n'draw!

Saturday May 24th at 8pm Eastern 7pm Central 6pm MT and 5 PM Pacific time.

Come one and all!  Share what you are creating, chat with the community!  This is our second Drink and Draw, we each got a lot done on the last Saturday! We should be live for 2 hours, possibly more.

Paint your minis, draw, sculpt, listen in, or ask questions about The Mutant Epoch RPG, illustrating for RPGs, writing and more. 

Here's the link to the server:

https://discord.gg/2bamqkgZ

Join us on in the Randomworlds TTRPG Chatroom

 Join us on in the Randomworlds TTRPG Chatroom

Wed May 14, 2025 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT) (starts 8:30 Eastern)

Guest William McAusland of the The Mutant Epoch RPG

Hosted by Dan (Hardboiled GMshoe), Randomworlds

Q&As are held at http://www.tinyurl.com/randomworlds-discord in the #q-and-a channel.

https://discord.com/invite/mCntYas

Digital Being

Ink Art from page 66 of  The Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules

A digital being is a single point of consciousness, and derived either from an artificial intelligence or a downloaded human mind from a deceased person — usually an ancient one. On very rare instances, however, a complete human or technology encased vat-brain can also act through a remote controlled digital being, but these variants are normally only NPCs controlled by the GM. See table XR-65 on page 75 to establish the source of a new digital being character, although knowledge of who they once were, and how much they remember from the past, might not help them survive in the post apocalyptic world of The Mutant Epoch.

In most cases, a digital being, or DB for short, can only exist in one place at one time, and either occupies a hard drive within an ancient hologram emitter, or the body of a computer controlled cyborg, an android, a robot, installation, or vehicle.

From the Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules Book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0994923791

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Bestial Human Woodpecker

Hand drawn Ink art by William McAusland, writing by Colin Chapman

Bestial human woodpeckers are opportunistic omnivores but particularly enjoy eating bugs and tree sap. While not necessarily offensive themselves, their tendency to keep their beaks in excellent condition by jack hammering wooden constructions such as poles, shop signs, palisades and towers, labels them a pest in many communities. They will be accepted if accompanied by humans and mutant humans, but will quickly be ousted if they cause any property damage.

Humanoid woodpeckers have pronounced wing-arms can fly (20m per round). With their misshapen hands that protrude from their wings they can both drop objects on ground targets or wield a one handed weapon. Should they choose to cease flapping their wings to employ a crossbow, long gun or other two-handed weapon while in the air, they will need to get plenty of altitude first since they’ll plummet to the ground at a rate of 10m per round. 

New to the Mutant Epoch RPG? 

Grab the free quick Start rules PDF and the included Adventure, ‘Muddy Mayhem’: https://www.outlandarts.com/qsr.htm

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Bestial Human Weasel

 Bestial Human Weasel

Hand drawn Ink art by William McAusland, writing by Colin Chapman

Bloodthirsty and insatiable, bestial human weasels and stoats are swift carnivores with a reputation for viciousness out of all proportion to their size. They act with blinding speed (+2 initiative), and can divide their bite and two rear-claw attacks up to make three separate strike attempts on three separate foes (SV +10/ DMG 1d8+1 each) or combine all into a single flurry against one victim (SV +20/ DMG 3d8+4).

Stoat- and weasel-men are stealthy hunters (add 1d3+2 in the stealth skill), and their fur turns white in winter, a time when they can also endure twice the cold a human can, even without winter clothing.

Watch a video intro of this new book at RPG Overviews on Youtube:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmR1zStcU38

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Bestial Human Skunk

Hand drawn Ink art by William McAusland, writing by Blood Axe

Bestial skunks are quite distinctive with their white stripe and luxurious, cold resistant fur coats and well-known ability to spray a streamer of stench. They are not welcome in human settlements unless disguised, already a trusted resident, arriving with more normal looking humans, or the gate guards are offered a hefty bribe (30+3d6sp). Likewise, a skunk-man will not be allowed into an eatery or saloon in an unfamiliar community and must take its food outside.

Bestial Skunks can make 1 bite and two claw attacks, each SV +5, DMG 1d8, or combine them in one flurry attack at +22 doing 3d8+6 damage. They can also use their infamous stench spray. Treat as Gaseous Discharge mutation: Stink, page 67 of the hub rules.

You can play these bestial human critters using the new rule book.

Check it out: https://www.outlandarts.com/expansionrules.htm

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Bestial Human Skink

 

Hand drawn Ink art by William McAusland, writing by Colin Chapman

Bestial human skinks are typical lizardoids, and so aggressive and territorial carnivores with a taste for bugmeat. They have strong bites (SV +9/ DMG 1d12), and are capable climbers (1d2 skill points in climbing), as well as secretive (1d2 skill points in stealth) and quick to act (+1 initiative).

Skink-men can grow back a lost leg, tail, or arm within 2+d3 months and may even voluntarily shed their tail to escape predators, which often break off their chase for the rest of the character to eat the still moving, fleshy tail.

Due to their aggressive, defensive nature, bestial human skinks are only permitted entry to human habitations when accompanied by friendly humans and human mutants, and even then will be observed. That reptile meat is considered palatable simply makes their position more precarious, and skinkoids are frightened of many larger predators.

Check it out: https://www.outlandarts.com/expansionrules.htm or

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/499645/the-mutant-epoch-rpg-expansion-rules 

or https://www.amazon.com/dp/0994923791

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Bestial Human Road Runner

Hand drawn Ink art by William McAusland, writing by Colin Chapman

Long-legged and quick (move 12m per round), bestial human road runners are omnivores with a taste for bugs, lizards, snakes, and rodents, as well as vegetation. They have a sharp beak and talons (SV +7/ DMG 1d10), and react quickly to opportunity and danger (+1 initiative).

Humanoid road runners can fly clumsily with their wing-arms (10m per round), and while airborne can use their misshapen hands, to either employ a one handed weapon or drop a rock or grenade from each hand. Alternatively, they can gain considerable altitude and then stop flapping their wings to bring their hands together to use a two handed device or ranged weapon, such as a crossbow, rifle or bow. When not flapping they drop at a rate of 10m per round.

Check it out: https://www.outlandarts.com/expansionrules.htm or

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/499645/the-mutant-epoch-rpg-expansion-rules 

or https://www.amazon.com/dp/0994923791

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 Bestial Human Opossum 

Hand drawn Ink art by William McAusland, writing by C.H.U.D. and Colin Chapman

Bestial opossums have a bite attack (SV +5, DMG 1d10). Because of their prehensile tail and opposable thumbs on both hands and feet they are expert climbers and have 1d3+1 skill points in the climb skill. They are very resistant to snake venom and make 2 hazard checks against it. If a bestial opossum is caught in a surprise attack or are reduced to below 25% of END there is a 3% they will feign death for 1d4 hours. When they do so, they fall over unmoving, tongue lolling, with foul-smelling green fluid oozing from their anus. Their heart rate and breathing slow and become almost imperceptible, and they become unresponsive to stimuli. Unless a individual encountering them knows of this ability, or performs a quick medical check, the opossum is likely to be taken for dead and diseased or badly rotten. Many predators will avoid eating the rancid-smelling “carcass”, leaving the humanoid opossum alone. Unfortunately, while potentially handy for tricking attackers or avoiding predators, it has the downside that the possum-man cannot revive themselves until 1d4 hours have elapsed, and some predators will eat a corpse however terrible it smells.

Watch a video intro of this new book at RPG Overviews on Youtube:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmR1zStcU38

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Bestial Human Monkey

 

Hand drawn Ink art by William McAusland, writing by Colin Chapman

Monkey-men are crafty, mischievous omnivores, though they prefer vegetables to meat. They can make a bite attack with their sharp teeth (SV +5/ DMG 1d8) and can be quite vicious. They are covered in a soft, coat of often multi-colored fur and can endure cold weather much better than humans, even without clothing, but prefer warmer climes.

These simians are excellent climbers (add 1d3+2 skill points in climbing), and can climb as swiftly as they can run. They possess long prehensile tails capable of gripping onto things or holding small items such as daggers and knives, and are highly alert (+1 initiative). With their bite, one fist (1d6 DMG) or hand held weapon, and whatever they carry in their tails, they are capable of three melee attacks per round. 

Bestial human monkeys have little difficulty being accepted into human communities if accompanied by humans or mutant humans, and will be viewed as amusing pets with people laughing at their antics and comical faces. Of course, it only takes a prank too far for things to turn ugly.

Hand drawn ink art from The Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules book

Check it out here: https://www.outlandarts.com/expansionrules.htm

Bestial Human Komodo Dragon Monitor Lizard

 

Hand drawn Ink art by William McAusland, writing by Corryn and W. McAusland

There is a chance that this monitor lizard is instead sourced from the largest of their kind, a true monster that is sure to terrorize the populace of any new era town. Such a beast-man will only be allowed admittance if it grew up there, or the leaders of the community permit the hulking specimen to roam their streets on promises of the best behavior. On a roll of 10, on a 1d10, any monitor lizard bestial human is actually hybridized with a Komodo Dragon. If so, it will have these stats instead of those shown on page XR-58: END +35, STR +15, AG+10, INT 1d20+5, Will +22, PER +19, APP 3+d8, DV -20, Weight 100+d100kg, Height/Length 175+2d100 tail is 50% of body length.

Komodo dragon bestials can add a claw attack at +10 SV doing 1d12 damage, their tail slap on up to three closely packed, separate targets at its rear or either side is SV +14 for 1d20+4 stun damage, while its massive bite inflicts a SV +18 and does 1d20 lethal damage plus venom. 

See a huge art gallery from this book: https://www.outlandarts.com/TME-Expansion-Rules-ArtGallery1.htm

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