There are rules for creating new communities and connecting them back to the Ark. It’s entirely possible to play Mutant: Year Zero as an empire/community building game. Mutant: Year Zero has a chunky ruleset that governs how healthy and evolved the Ark is and what projects are necessary to assist it. It’s also the players and their PCs that effect the development of the Ark. It’s the PCs who, if they want, can venture outside of the Ark and look for artifacts from before the apocalypse, or food, or to deal with external threats before they reach the Ark. The book makes it clear when players should stop reading. There’s an overarching meta plot that runs through Mutant: Year Zero. The Ark has been safe for as long as the mutants can remember but there are no children being born on the Ark, food is running out and the Elder is dying. Among the ruins there’s nothing now except danger beasts and the ever present Rot. The Ark is a group of about 200 mutants, looked over by The Elder, and isolated from the outside world. However, over time the use of the mutation will cause the character’s unstable body to whither, loosing attributes but gaining more mutations. The mutant gives the PC their edge, it is how they’ll survive in this Rotten world, and not using it will surely mean they’ll die.
The mutant is built by points and from one of a few character classes that the player decides but the mutation the character has is entirely random. Mutant: Year Zero successfully blends old school style mechanics – simple, straight forward and punchy – with a game designed to ensure more than just dungeon crawling through the ruined remains of cities.Įach player has a mutant as a character and a say in the community they belong to – the Ark. Death seems certain in this post-apocalyptic game but the story, the adventure along the way, will be interesting. I can’t think of a better and more communal way to warp and decay, to evolve and whiter.
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