Basically ANYTHING created or Bastardised by Nick P.

Hell hounds
Flapjacks -what a stupid idea AND name
Krakens (sp?)

You name it, if he has done it then its bound to be total sh!te

Flapjacks?

Wasn't there a racoyote or coycoon in one of books over the last five years?

I also remember somebody referencing--in a not very complimentary fashion--about crapions...a cross between a crab and a scorpion.

Posted By The Phantom on 10 Oct 2011 04:45 PM
Flapjacks?

 There is info on them on the wiki under flora and fauna, check it out and see how lame they are yourself. I think the idea is a jellyfish/vampiric? crossbreed.

Posted By Jax2 on 10 Oct 2011 05:25 PM
Wasn't there a racoyote or coycoon in one of books over the last five years?

I also remember somebody referencing--in a not very complimentary fashion--about crapions...a cross between a crab and a scorpion.

Surely Not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted By Jax2 on 10 Oct 2011 05:25 PM
Wasn't there a racoyote or coycoon in one of books over the last five years?

I think there is a beast of that nature on the cover of Death Hunt.

More fantasy than nature, but there it is.

What about the famous Water Beetle People ?

i like all the mutes that are in the books it is gud for ryan and them to fight new things as it stops the books gettin boring all the time.

Posted By Jax2 on 10 Oct 2011 05:25 PM
Wasn't there a racoyote or coycoon in one of books over the last five years?

I also remember somebody referencing--in a not very complimentary fashion--about crapions...a cross between a crab and a scorpion.

You're probably talking about the ones from Savage Armada: the companions are attacked by "a horde of creatures that are a combination of crab, spider, and scorpion. They have a crab's hard blue shell and pincers, twin scorpion tails, and a spider's mandibles along with the ability to spit a substance that hardens on contact with air (similar to webbing, but used to entrap prey). They range in size from 3 to 6 feet across and are intelligent enough to be organized and use crude tactics in battle." (That's from the wiki.)

The bioweapons are kinda of a cool idea... but Pollotta uses them in every book. I could see the Marshall Islands being used as a place for experimenting with all sorts of absurd life forms (it's isolated, so anything that gets out won't get far), but they keep popping up in the most ridiculous places.

Posted By Harry Whittleberry 2 on 12 Oct 2011 04:31 AM
i like all the mutes that are in the books it is gud for ryan and them to fight new things as it stops the books gettin boring all the time.

I can't agree with you on this one. LJ's books had very few mutated animals, plants & people in them besides Stickies, Scalies and Scabies and he made the stories different and somewhat interesting without them. When they did appear they were just a pain in the arse diversion for a few pages onot chapter after chapter of filler that the new bunch use as a way of cutting down on main story content.

I think the multi-mutie problem set in when NP started writing them and he took DL from the post-holocaust adventure series it was into the realms of more science fiction based. It was also around this time that almost every ville, pest hole, and tramp the group met had perfect working order, spot on condition weapons that were all 100+ years old. Not likely really unless every one had access to the redoubts and stockpiles that Ryan, J.B & Trader spent so many hard years trying to find.

I guess the fact that everyone has a military spec. weapon on the outside is the reason why the team never find any weapons and ammo in a redoubt anymore, the locals have already beaten them to it each and every time

I haven't posted in well over a year, probably closer to two, but I'll put in my two cents here.

I recently had a book published called Creatures of the Tropical wastes via Skirmisher publishing and a lot of the mutants that they describe here are something that I would have written up for my Mutant future work.

http://www.rpgnow.com/pro...hp?products_id=92943

The simple fact is that Deathlands has always had bizarre mutant creatures and that was one of the things that originally attracted me to the series, way back when I was in high school. Back then I was also into RPG's such as Gamma World (which Mutant Future is simply a retro-clone of).

So, yes, the infamous Waterbeetle people were pretty much the worst I had seen, honestly if it was written for a game like Gamma World or Mutant Future, these critters would fit right in.

I'm guessing that ole' Nick probably played a lot of that when he was younger or used that stuff for inspiration.

And yeah, I'm posting for a selfish reason too... it's called promoting my work. I've got no less than three more books coming out in the foreseeable future, as well as a weekly ezine for Mutant Future (with one other author), and there is of course my Zombie trilogy that I'm hoping to get picked up and published through Permuted Press. I'm about half way through writing the second book at this time.

Chris

Stoneface introduced the concept that many--if not most--of the human mutations were probably the product of genetic engineering.

Not the perfect solution, but at least it added a solid scientific basis to what had hitherto been fantasy, ideas and creatures borrowed from bad 1950s sci-fi movies.

I further refined the bio-engineering idea throughout Outlanders--and the more numerous and biologically impossible they became in DL, as a deliberate counterpoint, the fewer in number and less ridiculous they became in Outlanders.

I'm one of those iconoclasts who subscribe to the notion that if you're writing science-fiction, you need to have some genuine scientific principles sprinkled in with the fiction.

just been on the graphic audio website previewing "apocolypse unborn" and there seems to be something called a "woozie" half gator half condor!!!

Posted By silentalbino on 16 Oct 2011 10:55 AM
just been on the graphic audio website previewing "apocolypse unborn" and there seems to be something called a "woozie" half gator half condor!!!

NO? Please tell me you are making this up?

Jim

No, he's not. And even better, they're playing "Ride of the Valkyries" while this is going on.

To be fair, though, the birds are described has having beaks, not mouths. Birds are also descended from reptiles, so a half-reptile hybrid makes a bit of sense. Maybe the book has a better description?

yea Flapjacks has to be the worst.Why are they allways fallin from trees when they have no way of gettin back up in the tree after they have fallin on something?

Maybe they're like slugs or snails.

it wuld be a bit stupid if they was like slugs as if they fell out of the tree and missed it wuld take a lot of energy for them to climb back up to try again and by then what they had tried to eat had gone away. they cud stave to death befor another chance came under them. really silly mutie.

Posted By Kerrick on 17 Oct 2011 08:20 AM
No, he's not. And even better, they're playing "Ride of the Valkyries" while this is going on.

To be fair, though, the birds are described has having beaks, not mouths. Birds are also descended from reptiles, so a half-reptile hybrid makes a bit of sense. Maybe the book has a better description?

Cripes, I hope so. A reminder to never listen to that GA dreck, not that I needed one.

It's not a "Woozie." It's a Wazl, named after my brother's three-legged dog, who can still standing-jump high enough to bite off the tip of your nose.
AP