Hello Epochians!
Whoa,
has it really been so long
since I crafted a
newsletter? I often feel
that I'm announcing updates
on the Expansion Rules,
showcasing new art,
promoting our new Monday
Mutants lineup and spending
half my day on social media,
so much so that I wonder if
I am overlapping the same
updates over and over to the
same fans. And yet, during
it all, I know that some of
you can only be reached by
email. For those of you who
have seen and heard all this
on Instagram, Facebook,
Twitter, the forum, the
blog, MeWe.com and other
forums out there, then bear
with me as I update
everybody and announce a few
cool things that you might
not have seen anywhere else.
Summer is here,
the kids will be done with
school and if I must, I can work
late into the wee hours to make
tons of progress on the long
awaited Expansion Rules.
Before I
forget, I just want to thank all
of you who have submitted
mutations, relics, implants and
other goodies for inclusion in
the TME Expansion Rules book,
but especially Danny Seedhouse
who has crafted some astounding
content that I promise you will
be thrilled with. He is probably
writing a sixth of the book.
Oh, and if
you got a new mutations, flaw,
implant or relic that you think
should be in the book, and you
don't already see it the
table of contents on the website,
email it within the next week
and we'll try and slide it into
the upcoming book before we go
to final layout.
With that said,
let's get into it....
Introducing Monday Mutants
Monday Mutants provide game
masters with an all-new
deviated freak for your next
post-apocalyptic Mutant
Epoch game session. Until
further notice, we will be
releasing a new beast every
Monday, with a minimum of 12
planned out in advance and
more to follow if the first
wave meets with a favorable
response.
Priced to move at the
always affordable Pay What
You Want cost, these
critters are sure to add an
element of the unexpected to
your next ruin crawl. Each
includes a full page version
of the ink artwork for use
as a player hand out – which
at our table we simply use
within the PDF and hold up
the iPad to show the player
what their characters see.
For those of you who
like a print book at your
table, we aim to compile
these weird things, plus
extra mutie weirdness, into
a book once we have plenty
of them crafted.
Check out this
growing collection at our site
here:
Monday Mutants for The Mutant
Epoch RPG
Also see the art
at
the Monday Mutants Art Gallery
Expansion Rules Progress
Report
When not working on the
Expansion Books writing,
edits, play-tests, and other
tasks, I've been doing
illustration work
almost daily on
this huge book. What follows
is just some of the art to
be included in this tome.
You can see these final
inked images, and follow
along as more is revealed,
on all the popular social
media sites as well as an
ever growing gallery here:
The Mutant Epoch Expansion
Rules:: Art Gallery page 1
Also visit the book's permanent
homepage,
The Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion
Rules which features the
latest table of contents.
The goal is to have this book
out this fall, preferably with
print copies at
Attack-X Wargaming Expo here
in my home city of Kamloops in
mid-September, although as I
mentioned in a recent
blog post... that's going to
be hard to achieve given the
amount of art alone. Still, that
is what I'm aiming for and
working toward, whether its
impossible or not. Wish me luck.
Bundle of Holding Presents The
Mutant Epoch
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Holding deal that has been
running for a couple of weeks
now and as of writing this, has
6 days and 4 hours remaining.
297 Bundles have been
purchased with 10% of the
proceeds going to Doctors
Without Borders. While some of
you receiving this newsletter
are getting this email because
you just bought the bundle, and
welcome to the Epoch all of you!
The vast majority of you,
however, are longtime Epochians
and probably have most of our
titles. However, some of you are
mainly users of print books, so
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to check out this once in a
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In Other
News
Short Adventures
Our next one
Day Dig is called Wizards of
the Wastes by Rey Rodriquez.
This is our 9th ODD and just
needs art and maps to make it
table ready.
~
Fiction
The
Mutant Epoch Novel series
first draft is complete and
initial edits will begin
this fall once the Expansion
Rules are released. Cover
art, chapter header
graphics, maps, and more
will be started this coming
winter.
~
Full
Length Adventures
Following
the launch of the Expansion
Rules, the following full
length, epic Multi-Path
adventures will go into art
phase. Blood Road and
Nuke Tower. Both of
these Pitford area based
adventures are written, the
maps completed and playtest
about to begin (again). They
are not two parts of the
same adventure, although one
is for rank 2 to 3
adventurers and the other
for ranks 4 to 5, so make
perfect companion digs for
veteran PCs.
~
Fantasy RPG
A playtest
version of a fantasy RPG
using the Outland System is
in production and testing,
although been on the back burner
for a long time pending the
creation of so much TME content.
That said, an initial lite
playtest version will be made
available to SOE (Society of
Excavators) members for free
prior to a more in-depth,
art-heavy version's production.
This, like so many things, won't
be in your hands until after the
Expansion Rules are out.
If it
meets with a favorable
response, we will proceed to
establish a parallel, sister
line of game books, a
separate website, and
everything. Players would be
able to have their
characters travel via
magical portals and
mutations like Dimensional
Hole (new in the Expansion
Rules) to pass from one game
world to the other, although
in the fantasy setting, a
couple of new traits will be
added to reflect the PC's
mana and divinity. Email me
if you want me to show the
already cover art for this
project in the next
newsletter.
~
Social Media
With the
demise of our G+ community,
we are attempting to set up
shop over at a new online
venue called MeWe.com, which
seems pretty decent
actually. Special thanks go
to Brandon Goeringer
for setting up and
maintaining the old TME G+
site. Find me at:
https://mewe.com/i-front/williammcausland
Convention/Demo Runners
Support Kit
Many
of you run demo games of The
Mutant Epoch at conventions.
Dennis P. Most recently ran
sessions at North Texas RPG
con. I am so grateful for
all of you who, like Dennis,
Mr. Seedhouse, and Mr.
Schuster and others who run
games.
I want
to encourage this and help
however I can from the
northern wastes up here in
Canada. I've been talking to
some of you
on our facebook page and
elsewhere about what might
be cool to include in a demo
runner's kit for those who
want to help spread the word
about The Mutant Epoch. I'll
get into this deeper in the
next issue of this
newsletter, but if you have
any ideas of what you'd like
to see, both as goodies for
the GM-host and to players
who sign up to play at
conventions, please email me
directly at
info@outlandarts.com.
So far
I have the following ideas
For the
Convention GM-Host:
• A signed
piece of original art as a
thank you
• T-shirt
• Latest
Game book or adventure
• Poster with spaces for
when the session will be run
and game details
• One Day
Dig with handouts and maps
in print form
• A
color-coded spreadsheet
mini-poster for the Hazard
Check Matrix.
• Some half-sheet
cards of common monsters or
encounters...
For the
Convention players:
•
Bookmarks
• A couple
of copies of the TME quick
start rules or latest
adventure as prize support
•
Pre-generated PCs with art
But what
else? Let me know.
WM
~
Whew, that was
a lot of stuff. Thanks for
making it to the end here.
Stay tuned for more Monday
Mutants and other news from
Outland Arts in issue 35.
All the best,
William McAusland
Creator
The Mutant Epoch
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