This was one of the first illustrations I finished for the upcoming Mortasheen role playing game by CPR Studios, and I could probably do better by now, but it still does a good enough job demonstrating the “mutants,” Mortasheen’s dominant “people” who collect and train its many grisly battle-monsters. While recognizably descended from humans, they can vary in deformity from only subtly “off” to a tangled, crawling pile of human limbs and still thrive (indefinitely, since they don’t naturally age) in Mortasheen city’s acidic and virulent atmosphere.

I still can’t say when the RPG will get a release date, but why don’t you roll up a mutant in the meantime? You won’t have to use random generation for your player character, but random generation tables can be fun to play with and I have fun writing them! CLICK BELOW THE CUT TO MAKE A MUTANT

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So you want to make a mutant!? Start off in your head with something that could pass for a normal human in our world, then apply the following:

STEP ONE: roll a ten sided die (here’s an online die roller) to decide your total number of mutations. (If you roll a three, repeat the next step three times)

STEP TWO:for each mutation you got, roll the d10 twice. The first number tells you which category to pick from (eyes, limbs, etc.), while the second number tells you the specific mutation you get from that category. If you roll a 3 and a 2, that’s “mouth” and “on the end of a fleshy trunk or proboscis.” Yay for you!

If you roll the same body part more than once, you can choose between them, stack/mesh them whichever way works, or (the fun option) add it as an entire extra part. Roll “head” twice, and you can have two heads!

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1: EYES (apply to at least one eye)
1-Gigantic, bulging veiny eyeballs
2-Long, prehensile, snail-like stalks
3-No trace of eyes or even sockets
4-Eyes are anywhere but on head
5-Beady and ratlike
6-Strange coloration and pupils, amphibian-like
7-Protruding or dangling slightly on their nerve cords
8-Fishlike saucer-eyes, lidless
9-Each eye a large raspberry-like clump of smaller eyeballs
10-re-roll, this is the actual number of eyes on head and/or body

2: EYES II (because you can never have enough freaky eyeball options)
1-Transparent goggle-like bubbles over eyes.
2-Protrusive lightbulb-shaped eyeballs
3-Big, globular, shiny black or very dark eyes
4-No pupils or corneas
5-All eyes grouped into same socket, other socket(s) empty or absent
6-Large humanlike eyes open and close vertically
7-Completely empty sockets
8-Fleshy lumps, or eyeballs covered over in skin
9-Two to three normal eyeballs crammed into each socket.
10-re-roll, this is actual number of eyes on head and/or body

3: MOUTH
1-Lipless, exposed teeth and gums
2-On the end of a fleshy trunk or proboscis
3-Vertically aligned lips and teeth
4-Long, thin, jutting teeth like an anglerfish
5-Circular ring of teeth or lamprey-like sucker
6-Humongous overbite or underbite
7-Very wide toothy maw opening ear to ear
8-Wide, toothless frog-like mouth.
9-Lower jaw splits into two separate mandibles
10-Mouth is anywhere but on head

4: HEAD
1-Globular, lumpy asymmetrical shape
2-Bony, ridged or plated forehead
3-Head switched with an arm or leg. May have to “crab walk”
4-Absent or featureless, facial features may be anywhere else
5-Huge, bulbous cranium
6-Long, stretched face
7-Neckless, toad-like
8-Back of cranium elongated, swept back like an “alien”
9-Upside-down, sideways or on backwards
10-Giant, external brain

5: BODY
1-3-hunchback (hey, it’s a common one)
4-Asymmetrical, globular and lumpy
5-Elongated, bony torso
6-Sluglike or wormlike flexible trunk, optionally legless and/or armless
7-Crablike or turtle-like carapace of external bone
8-Completely boneless (including limbs), like an octopus
9-Cape or robe-like secondary outgrowth of extra skin
10-Huge in proportion, either muscular hulk or fat and bloated

6: SKIN TEXTURE
1-Gnarled and knotted like an old tree
2-Irregularly lumpy
3-Scabrous and ragged, like burnt scar tissue
4-Mushy, meaty and ragged
5-“Melted” appearance with dangling “drips” of skin
6-Thick, hard and cracked, crocodile-like texture
7-Loose, drooping folds
8-Extremely taught against skeleton and/or organs
9-Finely wrinkled, mole-rat like
10-Internal anatomy visible through transparent flesh

7: SKIN COAT
1-Thick dark hair over most of body or large patches
2-Coarse insect-like bristles, may be pencil-thick
3-Toad-like warts
4-Finger-like or pointed spike-like warts
5-Twitching worm-like or root-like warts
6-Extra, external bones, face may be skull-like
7-Transparent boils or blisters
8-Dripping mucus
9-Bulging, colorful, throbbing veins
10-Octopus-like suckers or short tubes growing from skin

8: LIMBS (apply to arms/legs in any combination, must apply to at least one)
1-Abnormally muscular and huge
2-Thin and spindly, may be highly elongated
3-Absent, or “trapped” under skin
4-Boneless and tentacle-like
5-Knobbly, many-jointed
6-Floppy, flipper-like
7-Branch-like
8-Joined in a membranous webbing
9-Tiny and vestigial, like an infant limb or chicken wing
10-re-roll, this number is your total number of appendages (arms/legs in any mix.

9: EXTREMITIES (apply to hands/feet in any combination, must apply to at least one)
1-Long, thin digits like spider legs
2-Large, gnarled, generally misshapen
3-Excessive number of digits
4-Large, blunt mole-like claws
5-Thin and knobbly like bird talons
6-Digits fused into mitten-like “lobster claws”
7-Webbed, froglike or fused into one suction pad
8-Single large bony claw, spike or hook instead of hand
9-Located somewhere other than end of limb
10-Boneless tendril-like digits

10: ODDITIES
1-Extra internal organs harmlessly dangling outside body
2-Entire right or left side appears like normal, perfect human, straight down middle.
3-Spine extends into long tail, with or without flesh.
4-Fleshy “hose” or hoses extend from one part of body to another.
5-Fetus-like parasite twin, may have own personality or be mutant’s true self
6-Beachball-sized monstrous eyeball anywhere on head or body
7-Large holes in body, or whole chunks of form appear missing/caved in
8-Extremely long, dangling tongue(s), doesn’t fit back in mouth
9-Functional tentacle of extra flesh
10-Roll a d10 for “extreme oddities”

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EXTREME ODDITIES (ignore any previous conflicting features)
1-Resembles a fleshy, walking “tree” of humanoid features.
2-Entire form a large, amorphous blob of meat and scattered human features
3-Entire form is a small, pulpy red teratoma*
4-Immobile mummy-like body in a fleshy cocoon*
5-Immobile fetal form with ossified stony flesh*
6-Squirming, gelatinous embryonic form*
7-Giant head and nothing else*
8-Nothing but a large eyeball with a few tendrils of flesh
9-Entire form just a hand, must feed intravenously
10-Head is a butt. This is considered the epitome of beauty.

*Assume a borg body, mechanoid walker, hoverchair, zombie nurse or other transportation.