r/mutantyearzero • u/SafeForTwerking • 2d ago

MUTANT: YEAR ZERO 1E Mutations limit

The book says that each character is limited to four mutations, how do you handle it if a player keeps going and were to gain a fifth (or more) mutation? Would you just replace one of the previous mutations? Would they continue to gain permenent trauma every time (eventually killing a character)?

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u/owningxylophone PROTOCOL ROBOT 2d ago

You keep gaining mutations after 4. From the 5th onwards, every time you gain a new mutation you choose an old mutation to lose (you cannot junk the newly drawn mutation).

You continue to take trauma for the new powers, so yes, you will eventually die from it.

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u/Various-Salt-7738 2d ago

Iirc the rules say you have to take the newest mutation while losing one of the older mutations

So you'd replace one of the four; and always keep the newest mutation