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

Critical Hits for Hacking Attacks

 

Critical Hits for Hacking Attacks

Ink Art from page 68  of  The Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules

[Dice rolls of 01]  Roll 1d10    Outcome of a Critical Hacking Attack 

Roll result 10. System Overload! The target CPU suffers a cataclysmic override and bursts into flame amid a shower of sparks. The CPU takes 1d100 data damage and whatever installation, vehicle, body or container it occupies loses the next 1d6 turns and takes 2d20 endurance damage. If the harm from either of these two damage rolls is enough to finish off either the CPU or the body, then the target is fried and ‘dead’ and cannot be occupied by another digital being.

From the Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules Book:

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

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 Combat

Ink Art from page 67 of  The Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules

Hacking and Firewall

Besides traits, other details unique to digital beings are their attack and defense modes, with hacking equivalent to strike value, and firewall equivalent to defense value. These traits are abbreviated as HK and FW.

Hacking, or HK, is used to engage other digital beings and robots, androids, and computer systems on board vessels or within installations. Digital combat occurs within the patch cable and port where the target entity has its physical body restrained or the attacker gets adjacent to the target CPU’s container or body. The defending unit might actually be more powerful than the attacker, and turn the tables and instead hack the aggressor — although even if defeating another digital being, either party need not occupy the CPU of the victim but instead merely fragment it or do other harm. Sometimes, wireless hacking attacks can be made, too, although this is a special app described on page 84. Once a target CPU is drained of data, and fragmented, the conquering digital being can flow into the victim’s CPU via a patch cable and claim its robotic body, or machinery, and assume it as its new body.

From the Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules Book:

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