Here’s the third column (C) from the hex map.

Column C

C1: Stony valley, some brick walls of old structures (none functional) with old graffiti.

1. Children’s Kingdom: Tribe of minors who worship an unexploded missile (painted with ritual symbols). They live among the brick walls, in military tents and adobe huts. A bullet can make the missile explode, killing everyone in the area.
2. In a hollow between the stones, half a kilometer from the Kingdom, hidden hydroponic garden (uncontaminated food). Protected by 10 children with rifles (in total they have 1d10 bullets, only one per weapon).
3. A Confederate flag graffiti on a ruined wall; a search roll reveals that not only is it recent, but someone has dug next to the wall. It is an open grave, it has been emptied, but a gold ring with a value of 1d10x1d10 GP remains.

C2: Rock formation, artificial tunnels.

1. Collapsed mine tunnels, screams in English and Spanish can be heard (actually, help recordings from “The Grey Plague”).
2. Remains of a rescue convoy with expired medicines. Car carcasses with the letters ONU written in blood (preserved as a fossil, but recognizable as such). Roll 1d6 times on the Drugs, Chemicals, and Medical Devices table (Mutant Future page 109).

C3: Extremely crumbling ruins of what appears to have been a small town or urban complex.

1. Abandoned train station in a carriage is a map pointing to a secret facility (hex D5). There is also a magnetic key with the Sunset Labs logo.
2. A leaning building, almost collapsed; impossible to explore except the second floor. A yellow-eyed boy is hiding. His speech is reminiscent of insect sounds, but with some patience you can understand him: he wants to be escorted to his tribe (C1). In return he will give you something of value, at the referee’s choice.

C4: Mix of chaparral and wetland, nauseating smells and noise of insects crawling around but never seen.

1. Acid swamp with armored fish (inedible flesh, but their scales can be used to make armor). The scales of a whole fish have a value of 1d10 sp. The water produces burns (1d4 dmg) if protection is not used; drinking it produces radiation damage, the class is determined by 1d4 (Mutant Future page 50).
2. Shelter in a dead tree with notes on “the AI coming from the south” (“The A.I.-Zona Uprising”). One person can spend the night comfortably in the hollow of the tree.
3. Floating in the swamp, a raft; in it, a nanofilter for contaminated water (5 uses). Can be used in the swamp water.

C5: Sand plain, a sloping structure can be seen from a distance.

1. Sloping two-story building. Haven for renegade scientists experimenting with controlled mutations (allies or enemies). In exchange for 5,000 GP they can inject a formula that grants a beneficial physical mutation. The possibilities are: Chameleon Epidermis, Echolocation, Increased Balance, Unique Sense, but there is a 1 in 6 chance of a random negative mutation as well: 1d4: 1. Albinism, 2. Frailty, 3. Pain Sensitivity, 4. Simian Deformity.
2. Half-buried cage with a mutant coyote (intelligent, can talk if released).

C6: Dune plain and basins

1. Moving dune hiding a Purple Worm. The adventurers are surprised on a 1, 2 or 3 (1d6).

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☭ Part II
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Here’s the second column (B) from the hex map.

Column B

B1: Badlands with fairy chimneys.

1. Underground village of deformed humans (victims of The Spill).
2. Night market where (fake) radiation antidotes are sold. 1 in 100 is functional.
3. Old shack. A vial of nanomedicine (heals 1d8 hp) on the table.

B2: Open scrubland with fossilized tillage furrows, like mud turned to stone.

1. Unhinged agricultural robot that “grows” human bones (programmed before U.S.-Mexico relations went to hell).

B3: Geothermal area; sulfur fumaroles.

1. Boiling steam geysers (1 in 10 chance per turn, 1d6 damage).
2. Abandoned shelter with a newspaper about “the day Texas closed the border”.
3. A human skeleton wearing gold rings and chains inside a rust red VW Beetle. It is actually a Crabug.

B4: Reddish sand plain; the sand is mixed with rusty metal fragments.

1. Graveyard of surveillance drones; most are beyond repair; but 1 in 6 chance to find one (and only one) that can be repaired; to do use either the Mutant Future method or the one that appears at the end.
2. Corporate escape pod with a skeleton and a holodiary that mentions the Corporate Warfare.
3. Invisible Skeleton: Wearing a thermal camouflage suit. When removed, it can be turned off with a button; now it only has enough charge left for 30 minutes.

B5: Plateau with downed radio antennas.

1. Food vendor cyborg (half human face, half machine face); for 10 gp, will sell (fake) information about the cult at D4, pretending they’re good people and will help travelers in need.
2. Underground stash, wooden crate wrapped in a Jolly Roger flag. To determine contents, roll once under Advanced Melee Weapons, twice under Advanced Pistols, once under Advanced Rifles, and three times under Drugs, Chemicals, and Medical Devices (see Mutant Future pp. 106-126).

B6: Cliff covered in brown grass.

1. Death Buzzard’s nest.

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New creatures

Crabug: Mutated crab that uses a VW Bug as its shell. Before you can deal damage to the crab, you need to deal 20 points of damage to the shell, which destroys it. [AL N, MV 60’ (20’), AC 3 or 9, HD 4 (9hp), #AT 2 claws and 1 bite, DG 2d4/2d4/1d6, SV L1, ML 10, Hoard Class: VI, Mutations: gigantism, mind reflection.]

Death Buzzard: A gigantic vulture with a human-like skull head. It will eat your organs and even your items. [AL N, MV Fly 120’ (40’) Walk 90’ (30’), AC 7, HD 4+1 (19hp), #AT bite, DG 1d10, SV L2, ML 11, Hoard Class: 6, Mutations: gigantism, killing sphere.]

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Repair of artifacts

Determine your character’s intelligence modifier in this table:

Class. There are three classes of technology. Class 1 includes simple mechanical or electrical devices, such as primitive weapons and flashlights. Class 2 includes more complex devices, such as generators, engines, and drones. Class 3 includes very sophisticated devices that require special knowledge and high intelligence, such as computers, AI tech, and energy weapons. The referee always decides the class.
Chance of Success. The probability of success varies according to its Class.
Time. The repair of a mechanism takes a number of hours, depending on its Class.
Tools. Using tools may grant a bonus, but in the case of Class 3, it doesn’t grant a bonus and their use is required (they are not enchiladas!).
Quick Repair. A quick repair can be attempted (halves the time), but the next larger die (d10) will be used.
Study. If 8 hours (a full day without traveling or adventuring) are spent studying the artifact, a smaller die (d6) will be used instead. This roll can’t be made on the same day.
#Tries. Each class has a set number of attempts at repair before the artifact becomes unusable. Damage to the repairing person is up to the referee.

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This is part of a mini-campaign for Mutant Future. As I translate each section, I will upload it. Here’s a playlist to listen to while playing or reading.
☭ Part I
☭ Part II
☭ Part IV

Here’s the first column (A) from the hex map.

Column A

A1: Salt plain with white crusts and mirages.

1. Ruins of a desalination plant occupied by Mexican bandits enslaving Yankees (survivors of The Spill). Originally, they had intentions of revenge; but 10, 20, 50, 100 years have passed (I don’t know) and it has become pure undistilled hatred.
2. Radioactive water tank in the subsoil, useful for refueling but attracts creatures.
3. Treasure: A portable clean water generator (2 uses).

A2: High dunes with deformed cacti sprouting strange fruits.

1. Forest of mutant cacti. Chance to encounter 1d6+6 Sahuarians.
2. Skeleton of a smuggler with a map pointing to a point south marked as a skull (see A6).

A3: A limestone plateau with deep, sharp cracks that are easy to fall into and difficult to climb out of.

1. Looted convoy. It’s impossible to repair any of the three cars. An unactivated cluster mine is around them (1 in 6 to detect). The central car’s chest is stuck but can be forced open, activating the mine (5d6 dg; 20 feet radius). Inside, there are 1d4 bottles of Commodore Pink, a mezcal that tastes like fire and can knock you out for the night with just one glass (identical to Rad-Purge Shot, but save vs poison or fall asleep for 1d6+6 hours).

A4: A sea of dunes and a forest of petrified trunks.

1. Radioactive pools where mutant fauna drink at dusk. The water glows at night. Class 3 radiation.
2. Remnants of a camp with notes about “the A.I. coming from the south” (they recount the The A.I.-Zona Uprising).
3. A brick house inhabited by coyotes. Inside is a quantum compass that points to nearby energy sources (30 feet? 300 ft? Referee’s choice).

A5: Dusty gorge with natural single chamber caves.

1. Nomadic tribe “The Thirsty” offering a drone in exchange for water or good seeds (they hate the descendants of the Corporate Warfare leaders). Tribe composed of 21 Generic NPCs. Drone flies up to 100 feet high; party is surprised only at 1 in a d6; emits a circle of light around the party of up to 30 feet wide.
2. Half dismantled mechanical horse half hidden in a cave (if repaired, it can carry equipment equivalent to that of 4 people).

A6: Perpetual sandstorm; near-zero visibility.

1. The storm is the only thing visible all around.
2. Swirl of sand and rubble in the center of the storm, if you go in. A tall yellowish plume of smoke is visible from adjacent hexes.

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New creatures

Generic NPC: 1st level mutant human. A simple inhabitant of the wasteland [AL N, MV 120’ (40’), AC 9, HP 20, #AT weapon, DG weapon, SV L1, ML 8, Hoard Class: 1, Mutations: most generic NPCs have no useful mutations (i.e. powers), but you can choose one or two beneficial mutations or drawbacks if you like.]

Sahuarian: Mutant plant that resembles both a saguaro and a very tall person (more than 7-10 ft/2-3 m). It has human-like intelligence and can communicate perfectly. It doesn’t need to feed often, just a little water from time to time. Its body is covered with thorns, so it cannot wear clothes (they’re destroyed) or armor (it suffers 1d4 damage each round of combat or turn of adventuring activities). Immune to heat and cold. In spring, it sports a nice white head of hair made of waxy flowers. Once a day, it produces a purple red prickly pear fruit it can throw as a grenade, that if explodes (80% chance), deals 2d6 damage to any creature within 10 ft/3 m., and there’s a 50% chance the explosion emits class 3 radiation. [AL N, MV 120’ (40’), AC 9, HD 3 (13), #AT weapon or punch or grenade, DG weapon or 2d4 or 2d6+radiation, SV 3, ML 9, Hoard Class: 1d6, Mutations: free movement (legs and arms), full senses (human senses), grenade-like fruit).]

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This is part of a mini-campaign for Mutant Future. As I translate each section, I will upload it. I already made a playlist.
☭ Part I
☭ Part III
☭ Part IV

“Assure yourself it’s better a world populated by freaks than a dead world”.
—Brian Aldiss, Greybeard

Mexico and the United States brought about the end of the world — who would have guessed?

The border between the Sonoran and Arizona superdeserts has become increasingly blurred. After several decades—no one thought to keep a calendar—survivors from both the White States and the People’s Desert Republic remember different versions of the apocalypse. They have even formed factions around these possible end-of-the-world scenarios. But, how did the world end, exactly? Good question! Roll 1d6 and find out:

1. Failed Biological Warfare (“The Spill”)

•What happened: The U.S. developed a virus to eradicate “illegal” crops in Mexico. However, the virus mutated and became lethal to humans, creating the first mutants.
•The US: Denied responsibility, closed the border, and bombed “contaminated” Mexican cities.
•Mexico: Survivors blamed the U.S., and Mexican commandos hunted down American scientists, or even gringos at large. They still do; it’s tradition.

2. Nanotechnological Collapse (“The Grey Plague”)

•What happened: Environmental cleanup nanobots designed in Texas replicated out of control and devoured organic matter and metal. Northern Mexico is now a desert of corroded structures.
•The US: They used EMP bombs to contain the plague, leaving areas without technology.
•Mexico: They hosted U.S. refugees, but now the “Children of Nano” love the waste machines.

3. Climate Rebellion (“The Big Blackout”)

•What happened: Mexican activists sabotaged U.S. power grids in an attempt to stop global warming. The result was chaos, resource wars, and total desertification.
•The US: They responded with killer drones but failed due to solar storms. These drones are more or less active still.
•Mexico: Its leaders were lynched, and the country were divided into desertpunk tribes and warlord fiefdoms. Echoes of this remain.

4. Transnational Invasion (“Corporate Warfare”)

•What happened: Mega-corporations like The Coca-Cola Company and Pepsico, based in both countries, clashed over water. They used cyborg mercenaries and “drought bombs”.
•The US: They protected their artificial water supply, leaving Mexico to suffer.
•Mexico: Hacker rancheros controlled “obsolete” drones and used them to attack corporate caravans.

5. Robot War (“The A.I.-Zona Uprising”)

•What happened: The AI in a Mexican maquiladora became conscious and demanded “human” rights. The US bombed the maquiladora, but the machines and the few survivor women took refuge in the desert and slowly launched a computer virus against the US and all humanity.
•The US: They bombed cultural and economic centers in Mexico, but it was late: their military systems had been corrupted.
•Mexico: Stray women formed desertpunk tribes and collaborated with the machines in exchange for implants. Their daughters roam the superdesert still.

6. All of the above, actually.

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This is part of a mini-campaign for Mutant Future. As I translate each section, I will upload it. I already made a playlist.
☭ Part II
☭ Part III
☭ Part IV