Goonhub
12-14-2021, 06:51 PM
Lizards eating organs is fine, it's interesting enough as a mechanic/quirk. Honestly, the weakest link in my opinion is the lore. All the mutantraces are just "uhhh they're humans but with heavy genetic splicing for nonspecific reasons" and it ends there. People talk about wanting to make mutantraces more interesting and more individually distinct, but there's no justification in the setting for why they exist or why they should be distinct rather than just being humans in funny shapes (unless it's yet another thing needlessly buried in azones so goon lore is as inaccessible and irrelevant as possible). This means that basically any features made to diversify mutantraces feel kinda artificial, since it's not based on a lot and creates no feedback loops with the setting's lore.
It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Maybe the splicing was done to increase human adaptability for NT colonial projects, and lizards were initially pioneered to adapt to a particular arid and rugged environment, leading to their coldbloodedness and the fact they can 'use the whole buffalo' to get the maximum sustenance out of otherwise nutrient-poor fauna.
I'm just entirely spitballing here, but I feel like even something as hastily thought of and improvised as that would go a long way for mutantraces, because a purpose lends itself to more mechanics, and more mechanics lends itself to a more fleshed out purpose. It's that feedback loop I mentioned earlier.
Apologies for the ramble that wasn't really that related to the original post, I just felt like getting my thoughts on mutantraces out since the conversation was sorta drifitng to MR mechanics in general.
It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Maybe the splicing was done to increase human adaptability for NT colonial projects, and lizards were initially pioneered to adapt to a particular arid and rugged environment, leading to their coldbloodedness and the fact they can 'use the whole buffalo' to get the maximum sustenance out of otherwise nutrient-poor fauna.
I'm just entirely spitballing here, but I feel like even something as hastily thought of and improvised as that would go a long way for mutantraces, because a purpose lends itself to more mechanics, and more mechanics lends itself to a more fleshed out purpose. It's that feedback loop I mentioned earlier.
Apologies for the ramble that wasn't really that related to the original post, I just felt like getting my thoughts on mutantraces out since the conversation was sorta drifitng to MR mechanics in general.