Mutant Underground: Your review/opinion sought

[The Artist Formerly]

It's a solid book. Not great, but solid. It's a little heavy on NPCs and light on the details of the orginization. I was a little disappointed with it when I got it as it didn't really take the MO very far. Generally a gamer won't find it to be a waste of money or something that just sits on his self collecting dust, but it's not all that and a bag of chips. It's a nice addition to the game world but it's not vital or even great. If you got a spare fifteen bucks, eh, if not, eh.

[Prince Cherico]

I found it to be a usefull NPC book but it doesnt go far enough in depth
about the under ground

[RockJock]

I'm with Cherico. It just doesn't do enough to cover the underground. It does an overview, but not in enough detail to really get a picture of how it works. If they had picked a cell, or a city, and used that as a template for other cities and cells it would have been much more useful in my book.

[ZEN]

Heroes Unlimited does not focus on exactly where you set your Heroes games, so there are a decent bulk of handy random roll mutant and mutant animal tables, you can roll up random mutant menaces with this book in a snap.
Villains Unlimited has an excellent system for creating organisations, and with a few nudges here and there, you can quickly put together a local faction of the Mutant Underground, or perhaps a gang of mutants determined to promote mutant rights or even lone operatives, vigilantes and of course, reporters, secret government agents with their eyes open for talented raw recruits.
Combining Heroes Unlimited, Villains Unlimited, Ninjas and Superspies, then of course Powers Unlimited I and II , you have a huge range of freedom to decide what you want in your campaign.
I'm sure the MDC titles combine well, frankly, Mutant Underground would meld into Chi Town quite well.. you just slip in Dog Boys and Psi Stalkers, etc.

Bottom Line: Good book, well worth the purchase price, I sit it next to Dark Conversions on my book shelf and reach for it mainly for excellent random tables, plus it helps me think of new plots and missions for the game.

[wolfsgrin]

The random tables are pretty cool. There is some lacking in the mutant underground info, but I believe this just leaves room for you as a gm to come up with your own stuff. which is what I love about heroes in general is you have a lot of freedom caused by the holes found in the canon plot structure. Its a good buy

[Marcantony]

I really wouldnt buy it. If theres some other Palladium book youve been thinking about buying get that instead. In fact get anything else instead.

[Sentinel]

I've looked through it a few times, never purchased it myself.
The other HU books are much more useful (particularly PUI and II, and the GMG).
Truth be told, there are other books more useful to campaign building.

[Marcantony]

Thanks all for the feedback! I think I'll spend my cash on something else based on what you're all saying. Maybe if it hits a bargain bin at the local convention some year I'll pick it up. I guess if I want an expansion on mutant animals I'll have to get the new ATB.

Definetly or for an even better buy get the earlier TMNT books which are all HU2 compatible and a more fun read.
I think Palladium are even selling them off as a bundle at the moment in the internet shop section.

[ZEN]

Transdimensional TMNT was a great little book, but I don't like the way it handled temporal travel, so yeah.. not on my list of essential books.

[Cardiac]

Skimmed through it at the store - never bothered to pick it up. Not enough detail for my tastes. Other Palladium books IMHO are more useful to the HU game;
After the Bomb (for mutant animals - just give em a little BIO-E boost), Rifts: Book of Magic (more spells than you can shake a stick at - Great for Spellcasters of all types - Wizards, Enchanted Object, Mystically Bestowed, Immortals etc.)
Rifts Conversion Books (for monsters/supernatural critters).
Ninjas & Superspies (martial arts mostly)

[Sentinel]

For me, I would say the most useful books for HU (outside of the actual HU and PU books) would be:
Ninjas & Superspies and Mystic China: All Martial Arts, All The Time. Plus, great expanded Skill Programs for the military and espionage oriented characters (Super-Spies, for example).
Nightbane, and Through The Glass Darkly: Great threats for supernatural oriented characters, as well as guidelines for developing new spells/invocations.
Rifts Book of Magic, GMG, Conversion Books 1, 2, & 3: Invocations, Psionics, Skills, advanced weapons, conversion notes, monsters, races, gods, demi-gods, demons, intelligences, and more.
After The Bomb: Mutant Animals, although they can use a little extra Bio-E.
Beyond the Supernatural: Great expansion into the supernatural. Additional PCCs to give greater choices to the player who likes Psychics.

[Gomen_Nagai]

actually Mutant undeground has all the chimera stuff that didn't appear in ATB 2nd.



You can make Chimera PCs from Mutant Underground.