Lots of opinions. Informed and otherwise.

Let’s just ad some facts and confirm what paul hinted at above: YES this is in line with the old 1980’s game that I grew up with. So not at all surprising to me. I totally understand the “surprise” and mixed emotions you guys are showing here though. Mutant has always been a strange crossbreed between “Mad Max” and “The Wind in the Willows” … with confused Robots as part comic sidekicks, part sad depressing wizards (since they had a knack for ancient technology).

Were there plants? I don’t recall any PC race that were plant-based. But there were definitely plant based monsters. In fact the first box included an intro adventure featuring a village infected with Liil. A sort of “Invasion of the body snatchers” where some people had been replaced by vegetable copies called Liil. Liil grow in seed-pods attached to a big sentient “mother-tree” that has to be defeated to stop the invasion. Liil have some sort of hive-mind similar to mushrooms and will come running to defend the mother-tree when it is attacked. The tree by the way had tentacles rather than branches… Very “Dark Young”-ish.

/ulf