When I reach $350/mo, I'll start paying a layout artist to create professional-level physical assets like reference materials and play aids. TBH I’m way more stoked to get this going for my home group, now that I understand how it works. For one-shot purposes I think I can safely leave those out.
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There’s also a PDF version of the rules which is fully bookmarked.
As with Mutant: Year Zero and the other books by Free League Publishing, it’s a joy just to leaf through the book and admire the artwork and excellent layout. This PDF is included for all backers on level SCOUT LEADER and above. M:GA is a 244-paged hardcover book with a beautiful matte finish and high production values.
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In the full campaign there are additional Key Events that get injected into the full campaign, triggered by specific metrics achieved within the strategy game. Genlab Alpha is a stand-alone expansion to the award-winning Mutant Year Zero RPG. When the PC cell is assigned, we actually play that out directly. When the NPC cells go off, it’s just die rolling and shifting around the fiction. So…I think I’m just gonna run that for four hours and see where we end up. It’s all very crunchy and abstract! Reminds me a little of Wrath of the Autarch actually, this strategy boardgame-y thing that shapes the ongoing fictional situation. You need the Insurgency up high enough that the habitat starts producing its own NPC cells. That either drives down the Watchers’ Capacity (hit points basically) or improves the Insurgency rating of a specific habitat. So you start with 3 total cells, and each cell can carry out a mission.
You start out with the PCs’ own cell, which is also the Revolution’s inner circle (with the guidance of Truffaut, an NPC Mary Sue who’s there to explain things) as well as a couple NPC cells among the most-rebellious animal groups. Those actions, and the fallout, are what drive the fiction for the PC group. It is a month-by-month abstraction of the animals’ rebellion against the robotic Watchers, with the players and the GM secretly plotting against one another by sending their assets off to do things in the various habitats of Paradise Valley. I finally dug into the underlying campaign-driving metagame, called strategic turns. Oh my word, there is so much more going on than an anthropomorphic reskin. I was kind of hoping I could coast on my Mutant: Year Zero experience and a light reading of MGA from a couple months ago. Allegedly I’m running this at RinCon weekend after next.
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