As far as movements in the RPG hobby go, the OSR has been great for weird. It makes sense: If you want to put stuff in your game that’s atypical, hard to explain, or just plain out there, games which give the GM the latitude to treat them appropriately without forcing you to use giant stat blocks or the square-cube law are going to be a very good fit. We’ve seen some very good weird come out of old-school spaces: Dungeon Crawl Classics is great at making D&D weird, and both Chris McDowall and Luka Rejec have made some memorably weird spaces to plumb through. We’ve got some new weird coming through, though, and it’s bombed out and full of mutants.

Plasmodics is a love letter to Gamma World by way of Into the Odd with the spark tables to prove it. It’s the newest game by Will Jobst, and it’s on Kickstarter right now, campaigning until September 6th. The game has spare but extremely intentional mechanics, and does a pretty great job of casting you as mutants with freaky powers. Will gave me a chance to take a look through the Preview Edition of the game, and it does a great job of taking the ideas in the original Gamma World and going some very untoward places with them. If you want a Mad Max game except only for Beyond Thunderdome, and also want the possibility to literally blow up the world in play, you’ll want to read on.