Through Monday, August 4 we present the Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland Bundle featuring Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland, the gonzo slime-punk post-apocalyptic cassette-future RPG from Super Savage Systems, and we can explain everything so keep reading.
Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland is a visceral mashup of ’80s-’90s pop culture mixed in a grimdark blender and barfed onto the table. For fans of The Toxic Avenger and other Troma Entertainment B-movies, Neon Lords provides all the sleazy over-the-top late-night horror you can handle. Mutants and monsters roam the toxic wastelands of the forgotten world. In this kill-or-be-killed world, magic and tech collide, only the strong survive, and attitude is everything. Become a Scum Dog and brave the ruins in search of cash and prizes. Collect fantastical gear and wield the galaxy’s most powerful weapons to become the baddest dude in Neo-Terraxx: the Neon Lord.
Neon Lords is notionally an old-school B/X retroclone with exploding dice, advantage/disadvantage rules, fortune points, and a pink mohawk haircut and nose ring. But Neon Lords is really the RPG rules set you wrote on lined three-ring notebook paper in 5th-period geometry. Neon Lords is the setting you dreamed in the dark after too much Jolt Cola at the midnight Mad Max moviethon. Neon Lords has a scenario titled Sleazoid Mutant Freaks From Cannibal Island. If you airbrush an RPG on the side panels of your Chevy industrial van – if you print the rules on your Deathbox skateboard or BMX freestyle bike frame – if you run your VTT on a Sega Dreamcast with synthwave graphics and a Metallica soundtrack – well, all those things are arguably more notable uses of your time than playing Neon Lords, but Neon Lords DOES! NOT! CARE!
- Q. “Is Neon Lords a good design?”
A. The character classes are Brutacorn, Cosmic Barbarian, Cyberskin, Death Bringer, Dwarfling, H.E.A.T.H.E.R, Holy Smiter, Night Stalker, Noise Thrasher, Sewer Shark, Skull Jammer, Star Spawn, and War Wizard. The Riders of the Burpwarp expansion adds Biotrooper, Combat Droid, Leatherback (lizard warrior), Rad Scientist, Radioactive Raccoon, Star Grunt, Terror-Chain Warrior, Toxic Barbarian, and Wasteland Weirdo. - Q. “But does the game play well?”
A. It has an Ultra-Nightmare Mode. It has three tables of mutations. It has a three-page Hairstyles Table. One 9th-level spell is called “Slaughter All Existence.” One illustration is captioned “The wasteland war of Lord Blistergut Wrecksmasher vs. the Free Humanoid Army of Shrapnel City.” - Q. “Come on, is this bundle worth the money?”
A. Sleazoid Mutant Freaks From Cannibal Island!
Like HOL and Mörk Borg, Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland is incontestably what it is: an exultant trash-heap rhapsody, a pure unstoppered outpour, a heart-scream, a paintball shot that hits its mark so hard it makes it glow. You admire a game like that, right? Though possibly from a distance.
Marshal your courage and pay just US$14.95 to get all six titles in our Toxic Collection (retail value $73) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the complete 272-page Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland Core Rulez (plus the free Night of the Killbots, Hell Night Hijinks, and character sheet); the character expansion Riders of the Burpwarp; and the scenarios Warpshine Runnerz, Space Bulk, Mutant Hive Warz, and, of course, Sleazoid Mutant Freaks From Cannibal Island.
If Neon Lords is your thing (and that’s nothing to be ashamed of!), get this offer by Monday, August 4.
