Mutant: Year Zero RPG - Core Rules Hardcover

Mutant: Year Zero goes back to the origins of the Mutant franchise: role-playing after the Apocalypse. In this game, you play as one of The People, heavily mutated humans living in The Ark, a small and isolated settlement in a sea of chaos. The outside world is unknown to you, and so is your origin.

Mutant: Year Zero has two major game environments, each with its own style of play:

The Ark, your home in the dawnworld. A nest of intrigue and Lord of the Flies-style power struggles, it's far from a safe haven. But it's the only home you know, and just maybe the cradle of a new civilization. The game rules let you improve and develop the Ark in the areas of Warfare, Food Supply, Technology, and Culture. It is up to you, the players, to decide which projects to embark on.

The Zone, wastelands outside the Ark. You will venture into the Zone in search of food, artifacts, other mutants, and knowledge - not least about The People's own origin. The game includes two maps of example Zones; London and New York and a plethora of tables and other tools to let the GM populate its sectors with mutants, deadly monsters and bizarre phenomena.
 
Where in the world the Zone and the Ark are located is up to you - why not play in a post-apocalyptic version of your own home town? The modular approach of this game lets you place all of the campaign material wherever you like.

The 272 page full colour hardcover core book contains everything you need for hundreds of hours of play.
Some of the contents:

A series of expansions are already in development. The smaller expansions, called Zone Compendia, will each contain illustrated adventure locations in the Zone, extra mutations, artifacts, rules, and more. The major expansions will each focus on one new playable class: mutated animals, robots, then unmutated humans. Each major expansion includes a campaign letting you play the origin story of the class, and then introduces the class into the game and into the Zone. We expect to release the first expansion for Mutant: Year Zero in early 2015.

Thanks to the Bits-and-Mortar program, customers purchasing the game from us are eligable to a Free PDF of the game as well.

Reviews:
"Overall, I would heartily recommend Mutant: Year Zero. The book and supporting products are high quality and it uses unique, quirky mechanics that really bring its themes of desperate survival to the forefront. New DMs may be slightly intimidated by the openness of the Zone but the book does a good job of guiding and preparing them for play.
My players and I had a blast playing and can’t wait to get back to the Zone."
- Brian Ennis from The British Fantasy Society

“Probably the best post-apocalyptic RPG on the market. Full stop.”
-RPG.Net Playtest Review
 
“Mutant: Year Zero blew me away on a personal level. I did not know of its existence, and suddenly I realise that I am holding a masterpiece, probably the best post-apocalyptic game on the market.”
-RPG.Net Playtest Review
 
“The book and supporting products are high quality and it uses unique, quirky mechanics that really bring its themes of desperate survival to the forefront.”
-The British Fantasy Society
 
“Mutant: Year Zero works for me. I can’t think of a better and more communal way to warp and decay, to evolve and whiter. Death seems certain in this post-apocalyptic game but the story, the adventure along the way, will be interesting.”
-Geek Native
 
“The production quality of Mutant: Year Zero is definitely on par with Fantasy Flight Games or Paizo products.”
-Stargazer’s World
 
“If you are into post-apocalypse RPGs you definitely should give Mutant a chance!”
-Stargazer’s World
 
“Despite the number of post-apocalyptic games out there Mutant: Year Zero promises to bring a host of new ideas to the table.”
-Life and times of a Philippine Gamer