Animal Descriptions Aardvark
Free d6 in one skill
Quirk, minor: nocturnal
Alligator, Crocodile
+1 Toughness, low-light vision, semi-aquatic
ace !, "utsider, -# $enalt% to resist cold environment
Armadillo
+1 Toughness, &urrowing &ad '%es ()a*or, -# to resist cold environment
&adger
+1 arr%
&loodthirst%
&at
een ense (+. to hearing-/ased 0otice rolls
&ad '%es ()inor
&ear
+1 trength, +1 Toughness
-1 Agilit%, Cautious, "utside
&eaver, )uskrat
Free d6 in crating skill and wimming
2o%al, ho/ia (minor wolves
&irds
+1 Agilit%
-1 Toughness, Quirk ()inor: &elieves their relection is another $erson without a 6 marts check3
&oar
+1 Toughness, een &loodthirst%, &ad '%es (minor ense (+. to smell-/ased 0otice rolls
&ualo, &ull, Cow
+1 trength, +1 Toughness
-1 marts, -1 Agilit%
Camel
+1 Toughness
tu//orn, )ean
Cheetah
$eed 1d6+.
Arrogant
Chicken
+1 arr%
4ellow
Chim$an5ee, orilla, +1 Fighting "rangutan
&loodthirst%
Co%ote
2ow-light vision, ree d6 in one skill
Cautious, 2o%al
7eer, 'lk
ace 8, +1 to 9un rolls
Cautious, Quirk: nocturnal
7ogs
+1 ace
2o%al, Quirk ()inor: &elieves their relection is another $erson without a 6 marts check3
'le$hant
+1 Toughness
ace !
Fo
2ow-light vision
Cautious
Frog
Free d6 in Clim/ing and wimming
-1 Toughness
oat
+1 arr%
tu//orn, )ean
uinea ig, ;amster, )ouse, 9at
Free d6 in Clim/ing and wimming costs . $oints $er ste$ to raise during neaking, een ense (+. character creation, ho/ia, mild: cats to aural 0otice rolls
;i$$o$otamus
+1 Toughness
&loodthirst%
;orse
+1 Toughness
ho/ia, mild: ire, cannot take 9iding as a skill
;ouse cats
+1 Awareness, +1 Agilit%, -1 Toughness, ho/ia (minor
2ion, uma, &o/cat, +1 Fighting 2%n, =aguar
Arrogant
)arten, )ink,
tart with a d6 in one Attri/ute
ho/ia, (ma*or: oes
)ole
Free 0ovice 'dge
&ad '%es ()a*or
)onke%
Free d6 in Clim/ing
Curious
)oose
+1 arr%
ace !
"$ossum
Free 0ovice 'dge
"utsider, Quirk: nocturnal
"tter
Free d6 in wimming
Curious
ig
>mmune to $oison, +1 Toughness
Cautious, Curious
orcu$ine
+1 arr%
"utsider, ace !
9a//it
een ense (+. to hearing-/ased 0otice rolls
Cautious
9accoon
2ow-light vision
reed%
9hinoceros
+1 Fighting
&loodthirst%
kunk
+1 arr%, ree d6 in Clim/ing
-. Charisma, 4ellow
quirrel
Free d6 in Clim/ing and one other skill
-1 trength, Cautious, Curious
Tiger
+1 Fighting
Cautious, "utsider
Turke%
+1 Agilit%
Cannot l%, ?gl%
Turtle
+. Armour
uits don@t matter when drawing >nitiative-1 to >nitiative
2ow-light vision, ree d6 in one skill
2o%al, ho/ia, (minor
+1 Bigour
&loodthirst%
hee$
Deliberate Experimentation 01-10 Ado$ted and raised as $art o Two /ranches o nowledge, Filth% 9ich researcher@s amil%3 till living in the home, loves amil% and is loved in return3 u/*ect has /een treated as a human, encountered $re*udice a ew times3 11-20 9aised as $et /% researcher3 till living at home and airl% lo%al to amil%3 lightl% resentul, /ut wishes to ind acce$tance3
Trained instead o educated, /ut knows )athematics and can read write in one language, so cannot /e >lliterate3
21-30 9aised as $et /% researcher3 'sca$ed and
)a% take )issing 2im/'%e3 > so, use $oints to increase Bigour3
41-50 9aised as caged animal or e$erimentation3 9oll on
Bow ()a*or
51-60 'ducated trained as though the su/*ect Two /ranches o nowledge, Filth% 9ich were a normal human3 'ducation is equal to that o irst-%ear college student3 ;as good relationshi$s with humans3 61-70 9escued rom organisation /% a researcher3 9aised whilst /eing continuousl% hunted /% organisation3
urvival, 7riving,
71-80 ;ighl%-trained educated s$ecialist utilising su/*ect@s natural a/ilities, valued em$lo%ee3 'ducated to equivalent level o &achelor@s 7egree3
Common nowledge, two other /ranches o nowledge, Filth% 9ich
81-90 ;ighl%-trained s$ecialist utilising su/*ect@s Common nowledge, two other /ranches o natural a/ilit%3 Treated as slave and eventuall% nowledge,
nowledge ()ilitar%0in*itsu 2ore, Fighting (0in*itsu3
This game reerences the avage
Wild Animal Edcation 01-20 el-taught, sel-reliant
>lliterate, take uts, Fighting, urvival as kills, and $ick one o the ollowing as well: ;ealing, 2ock$icking, 0otice, tealth
21-40 2ived on ringes o societ%, has rudimentar% education and small num/er o human contactsriends3 7istrusts the rest o humanit%3
tealth and Fighting
41- 90 Ado$ted /% mentor, who teaches them s$ecial techniques (usuall% 0in*itsu, /ut other orms o techniques3 u/*ect /elieves all creatures are individualsD no one eam$le can s$eak or the ma*orit%, and ever%/od% deserves a chance to earn %our trust3
tealth, Fighting (0in*itsuE, nowledge (0in*itsu 2oreE
91-00 oes $u/lic, is educated at universit% or our %ears3 Trusts humanit% in general3
Three &ranches o nowledge, oor
E$eciic school o Fighting st%le/ranch o nowledge is down to ) discretion
!la"er#s $ide >@m going to assume %ou know something a/out role$la%ing, so let@s ski$ the >t@s like $la%ing retend, onl% with diceGH gu %ou normall% read in ever% r$g /ook ever3 "ka%, so >@ve given %ou a /unch o ta/les3 &ig hair% deal3 4ou@ll still need to know how to use them when statting u$ Cs or a game, i %ou want to run$la% in a game3
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avage @d recommend a travel set i %ou@ve got to lug that thing around and dice I at least one o those d#-d.J sets will /e good Teenage )utant 0in*a Turtles "ther trangeness (getting a co$% won@t /e too diicult I $rett% much ever% ta/leto$ gaming store has one second-hand co$%
rett% straightorward, rightK 4ou *ust stat u$ %our C@s Traits, then roll their animal and /ackground (or the other wa% around, like m% $la%testers did and add kills, 'dges and ;indrances (> don@t give the ones in m% ta/les a/ove as reeH, /ut %ou can i %ou reall% want I hell, >@m not %our mother3 Then %ou igure out how %ou want to s$end %our &>"-', ma%/e get some sionicsD >@d recommend %ou leave avage
$%#s $ide Again, %ou $ro/a/l% know what )ing involves, so let@s ski$ the /asics and get down to the im$ortant stu: how do %ou run thisK
etting and tone 4ou can o course make u$ %our own unique setting /% %oursel or %our grou$, or %ou can take an eisting setting rom the various T)0T series which matches the eeling %ou want to conve% in %our game3 Totall% erious The 1MMJ movie was unquestiona/l% the most realistic de$iction o the ranchiseD corru$tion, street crime, rits /etween amilies, and onl% a smattering o the antastic in the overall stor%3 T)0T v#, in s$ite o the $remise (aliens live alongside humanit%, leading to mutants /ecoming more acce$ted333 $rovided the% $retend to /e aliens was more ocused on gon5o soa$ o$era $lots and how the world had moved on or ever%one3 ersonall% s$eaking, >@d *ettison the soa$ o$era /ullshit and use the setting itsel, $erha$s using it as a NN 4ears 2aterH ollow-u$ cam$aign3 •
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Turtall% 9adical The 1M8O cartoon, or /etter or worse, is the one iteration most $eo$le associate with the Turtles3 The downright /i5arre characters and oh-so-ver%-8J@s characterisations made it un, in a ver% sill% wa%3 The 0et )utation, in s$ite o its ro$e% eects and downright stu$id retcons, had some interesting 0Cs %ou could steal333 ece$t
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erectl% &alanced The original comic /ook rom )irage crossed ever% genre that the 8J@s lovedD crime, antas%, s$ace o$era, su$erheroes, the% were all odder or 'astman 2aird@s imaginations3 The Turtles could /e ighting alien mercenaries one issue, and solving the m%ster% o a stolen cow statue the net, all with a strong cast o heroes and villains alike3 The current T)0T comic rom >7< is a seamless merging o the character-driven $lots o the original )irage run with the nuttier elements o the @8O cartoon3 eriousl%, the% made &e/o$ 9ockstead% intimidating I that@s how good the writing isG •
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As %ou can see, there are more than a ew ideas or %ou to use3 =ust to /e nice, >@ll give %ou a quick look at the setting >@ve /een using or the $la%test o this conversion >@ve /een running, and some o the more memora/le Cs and actions3
0ew 9ug/% One of the less well-known cities in New York State, New Rugby is nevertheless one of the more colourful cities in The Empire State, with the charms of its ittle !taly "the foo# at $uonarotti%s is to #ie for&' an# the Talbot-awson (useum ) *rt +allery always has at least one fascinating ehibit for the public to see, for a reasonable charge Farley's Guide to New York State, available at all good bookshops
)a%or arsons
2emuel arsons has /een a ma%or o some notoriet%D corru$tion allegations have dogged his term in oice, though nothing@s ever /een $roven3 ;owever, old sins cast long shadows, at least according to his $olitical rival 7an )arrs3 That could mean trou/le, given that it@s an election %ear (no matter what %ear %ou set %our game, it@ll al&a"s /e an election %ear or arsons3
Ca$tain Trash The local shock *ock o 09?, 0ew 9ug/%@s most $o$ular radio station (the $o$ularit% is almost entirel% due to the Ca$tainD ratings have /een known to quadru$le when he@s on the air3 ;e@s rude, crude, and he has damn good taste in music, although some o the unsigned acts he $la%s are unsigned or a reason (he kee$s $ushing The Fl%ing ukes as the 0et &ig Thing, /ut their songs seem to lack the usual trPs Trash lairH that TrashionadosH tune in or3 Desi'ner#s (ote) Trash can /e use1ul 1or in1orming Cs o1 the murkier goings-on in 0ew 9ug/% I Trash has insider sources that give him the dirt (o11icials have considering leaning on him, /ut the% know he@d relish the $u/licit% that would /ring+3 ;ave 1un with his $atter and the titles o1 the songs he $la%s333 > make him sound like the announcer on Cra5% Ta:i, /ut that@s *ust me3
Ca$ri 7 Frutica$$o The )aia@s never cared too much a/out 0ew 9ug/%333 /ut that could /e a/out to change with it@s new /oss, Ca$rice 7iodata Fruttica$o3 he is ruthless (she@s had $eo$le killed *ust or laughing at her middle name, which originall% /elonged to her mother@s secondcousin and irml% /elieves in Charlotte
The &lood 7aggers A /unch o street $unks that are onl% slightl% less stu$id than their name, the%@re strictl% small-time hoods with a $enchant or $icking on $eo$le who can@t reall% ight /ack3 The% haven@t interered with an%/od% /igger than them333 %et3
W*" + did t*is o333 wh% /otherK @m ha$$% to sa%333 tr%ing to convert a 9 source/ook that no/od% $articularl% remem/ers, rom a s%stem that %ou can@t actuall% convert without getting a Cease 7esist rom evin iem/ieda i %ou $ut a download link on a we/site, even though the% haven@t done an%thing with the license or almost .! %earsK love the Teenage )utant 0in*a Turtles, ever since > was little3 2ike most o %ou, > grew u$ on the wack% old cartoon (known as Teenage )utant ;ero Turtles over here in the ?, thanks to the anti-nin*a lo//%ists and > guess >@ve never sto$$ed /eing in love with the conce$ts and characters o heroes in a hal-shell3
econdl%, >@d heard rom certain elegantgentlemen that Teenage )utant 0in*a Turtles "ther trangeness had a great character generation s%stem with the &>"-' oints, /ut the )egaversal %stem itsel was a /loated mess that needed a s$ecial kind o role$la%er to ull% en*o% the conce$t o taking &od% &uilding as a skill3 4ou could alwa%s /olt it onto a /etter s%stem, the% said333 /ut no/od% seemed to want to do it3 > igured > might as well give it a go, *ust to see i it could /e done3 Thirdl% - and this is the most im$ortant I > love the ideas that were $resented in the original alladium T)0T /ooksD the% got the license some time around T)0T v1 O3 ranted, there was a ga$ o less than two %ears /etween those issues, /ut it was a$$arent that the olks at alladium loved ever%thing a/out the comic (i %ou ever get %our hands on the ecellent antholog% title hell hock, it has a rather touching dedication to iem/ieda in it3 And as gon5o as 'rik honestl% relish the thought o having m% $la%testers go see 666 live in concert, and take a road tri$ with &ert )cClusk%3 The% sa% it@s /etter to seek orgiveness than to ask $ermission3 > reall% ho$e that@s true3
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All images R >7<, Biacom, #ids, 0ew 2ine, olden ;arvest, etc3 Cover art /% teve 2avigne
