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Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition Core Book Savage Worlds Edition
 

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Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition Core Book Savage Worlds Edition
Publisher: Modiphius
by Dillard R. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/22/2020 14:11:51

Let's call this an exploration of the earlier version of 2d20 and what looks to be the Modiphius model for producing games.

Mutant Chronicles seems to be an excellent predictor of how Modiphius views its creative properties. Namely "milk them of all the short term monetary value don't spend anything time wise beyond short term gains".

Now I say this having bought Mutant Chronicles 3d ed. and this product. I have watched the reddit pages on the other games and veiwed with disappointment in various industry forums as the story has repeated itself over and over with John Carter, Conan, ad nauseum...

Take the 12 page conversion book for Savage Worlds. 2 pages of splash and then note after note of how to convert this or that. Sounds good except when you realize that this is supposed to be converting the almost a 500 page MC3. You can't even come close and it looks like a half hearted try.

Many of the conversions are undercut by the examples given in the document. Take armor for instance. The write up suggests that you convert armor on a 1:2 basis. Yet in the example it shows a 1:1.5 basis. At the same time it gives an example of power armor without any strength bonuses?!?

SWAG (Scientific Wild Ass Guess) seems to be the order of the day when converting characters as well. Looking at Sister Eve and that conversion makes me wish that some time would have been spent in the SW core book doing a better job of converting system to system. Chronicle Points, Momentum spends all need a lot more love translating into SW rules.

I give this an average rating because the very idea of translating Mutant Chronicles for SW is such a great idea. I just wish that we'd have gotten something more thorough. (The writers were operating at a disadvantage as I think the MC3 had some gaps already before they tried the conversion).



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Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition Core Book Savage Worlds Edition
Publisher: Modiphius
by Jeffrey R. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/20/2018 13:01:58

Overall, the content of the book is good, really good and informative. The background of the pages could be lighter and the page numbers could be more prominent, but not a deal breaker.

Their could be more information the coroporations - especially Cybertronic [there are like 4, maybe 5 cybernetic items in the whole book] and... my pages are starting to fall apart from the binding and I barely use the book.



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Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition Core Book Savage Worlds Edition
Publisher: Modiphius
by John B. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/28/2018 15:30:33

If you love Savage Worlds and want a great game setting, this is the book for you. I played the original Mutant Chronicles rpg back in the 90s, but I never really enjoyed the system. Fortunately, I now have the best of both worlds. Modiphius, congratulations on an outstanding product!



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