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Pin head
Hopper
Telekinesis

Sweet

Awesome stuff.

I'm not sure how in the world yo'd manage to work randomness of this degree into a miniature game, but it sure is fun to look at!

I got:
Mindless
Horrible Stench
Irrational Fear



Great... I got a zombie who flees at the very mention of Tapioca pudding.


Eric

153 Cloven Hooves
596 Overgrown Body Part
270 Featureless Face

Lessee...44, 931, 441

Death By Monkeys - Bestial Face, Very Warty Skin, Long Legs

Well, one out of three ain't inaccurate...

What I loved in the following issues, though, were the Chaos Warbands that were showcased that not only showed the models, but gave stories on the evolution of the characters and their warbands. I mean, yeah, converting the models with new mutations each game had to be a pain, but it's not that much more extreme than Necromunda...(okay, well, maybe turning your Elf Ranger into a Half-Spider is more extreme....)

I got Beweaponed Extremeties, Massive Intellect, and Invent Your Own.

Now, what mutation to invent?

Scaly Skin, Tentacles and I think it says Crust.
Yeuuurgh, not looking too pretty.

Platuan4th wrote:I got Beweaponed Extremeties, Massive Intellect, and Invent Your Own.

Now, what mutation to invent?

That means you can choose a variety of toppings for your pizza.

Rotting Flesh, Hypnotic Gaze, Atrophy.

So I'm a leper hypnotist, and least until my eyes fall out.

siamise twin
multication
gm chocie

at face value they all seem 100% useless lol

Da Boss wrote:Scaly Skin, Tentacles and I think it says Crust.
Yeuuurgh, not looking too pretty.

It's Crest, actually - like a rooster's crest. Still, not too pretty.

And some of these mutations were more useful than they initially appear - a good amount of them gave the mutant "fear points" which, if he got enough of them, would give him the ability to cause fear or terror.

Great thread, I'm going to look through my RoC books tonight.

Hmm, I got 510, 353, 218, so that's

Mechaniod, sweet!
Hopper, okay cool I guess
Enormously fat, umm...

So I'm an obese jumping robot? Like a bloated AT-ST that bounces?

Oh hell, I'll bite:
Bestial face: Goat (gains a gore attack A+1)
Walking Head!
Mercreature

Sooo... I'm a giant goat head with a fish tail attached to it.

Death By Monkeys wrote:Death By Monkeys - Bestial Face, Very Warty Skin, Long Legs

Well, one out of three ain't accurate...

Fixed your typo.


BTW, sorry to hear you have short legs in real life.

LOL


Eric

6 = acid excretion
692 = razor sharp claws
901 = very agile

I'm a Tyranid Genestealer?

Kid_Kyoto wrote:You see you were supposed to play a campaign where your character would start out as an ordinary human and rise in they eyes of the chaos gods, mutating and gaining power until he ultimately became a demon prince or a chaos spawn. And your model was supposed to WYSIWYG! So in these days of lead models and no bitz you might suddenly have to turn your elf ranger into a half-spider!

Oh and you were supposed to roll for your units too, so not only would you have convert each one according to random rolls, but somehow convince your opponent you really did roll up metal body, duplication and acid blood for each one.

Um, don't all of GW's skirmish campaign games do this, with required conversions of all the models?

Damn, i wish I had a D9... I'm a bad roleplayer

Greets
Schepp himself

100 Brightly patterned skin
594 Overgrown body part
142 Cloud of flies

Second roll

617 Plague bearer
452 Long nose
967 Wings

Third roll

821 Subject to fits
49 Bestial Face
965 Weapon Master

Oh yeah, liking that third one.

I got Feathered Hide, Subject to Fits, and Plague Bearer. So basically I'm an epileptic man-pigeon.

This is fun.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

I rolled Weapon Master, Great Fangs, and Shrink... So I'm some kind of raging Khornate gretchin or a bizarro ninja squig...

i got chaos were? long neck and plaque bearer

Pariah Press wrote:Sooo... I'm a giant goat head with a fish tail attached to it.

So you agree with me now that the current Chaos Codex lacks flavour and theme?

C'mon. It doesn't get any more Chaos-y than a D1000 mutation table!!!

BYE

Oh, I agree that the books lack flavour and theme alright. I can't remember what I was arguing with you about. Oh, right, probably "counts as" or something. Going through the mutation tables, a large proportion of the mutations either give you +1 A or a Fear Point. Many mutations, with different names, are functionally the same. Just sayin'.

I love those old RoC books. However, if you were to use all of the rules contained therein, a game would take a month, and a campaign would take a lifetime!

I've been mining the books heavily for my skirmish game, however. Unfortunately, I only have a D10 mutation table.

Another day, another round of mutations. Infernal Ruinous Powers say ... 516, 607, 821

Metal Body, Pin Head, Subject to Fits. Clearly more dreadnought love

- Salvage

<blows on the D1000 dice> C'mon, c'mon - mutant needs a new pair of shoes...

624 - ooh, Plaguebearer!
452 - Long nose
451 - Long nose

Sweet...today, I'm a Plaguebearer with a really, really long nose...

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Pariah Press wrote:Sooo... I'm a giant goat head with a fish tail attached to it.

So you agree with me now that the current Chaos Codex lacks flavour and theme?

C'mon. It doesn't get any more Chaos-y than a D1000 mutation table!!!

BYE

Any opportunity to trash the new codex, huh HBMC?

I heard that the LatD codex will have a D1000 mutation table.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

514, 649, 417 says...

Mindless, Poisonous Bite, and Irrational Hatred.

All right! I'm a zombie from 28 Days Later!

Today, I am a:

(Roll 1: 426, 899, 476

Limb Loss
Vampire
Magic Resistance)

Legless bloodsucker who's immune to "regenerate limb" spells...
"Come over here and I'll bite your kneecaps!"

Pariah Press wrote: Going through the mutation tables, a large proportion of the mutations either give you +1 A or a Fear Point. Many mutations, with different names, are functionally the same. Just sayin'.

And that is the difference between good rules and good Fluff.

When you boil it down, you've got what's close to a d36 mutation table, with a lot of Fluff tables that follow on.

From a rules perspective, that table is pointless. From a Fluff perspective, it is pure gold.

Funnily enough, on average, the current C: CSM d6 Possessed table will give more usable results most of the time.

654, 111, 259

Powerful Legs
Bulging Eyes
Fear of Blood

I'm visualizing something like Gollum lurking int eh back of the pack of mutants.

977, 688, 302
Zoological Mutation
Rapid Regeneration
GM's Choice

Wolverine?