Editing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (section)

=TMNT and /tg/=
So, you're probably wondering, what's this got to do with /tg/? Well, [[Palladium Books]], ever eager to absorb another possible angle to promote their screwed up system, officially bought the license to put out the official TMNT roleplaying game. 

It was called "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness", and is a bit of an obscure game, considering that A: It predates the cartoon, meaning its elements don't mesh well with what most people remember Ninja Turtles being like, B: it ran on Palladium's ruleset (which pretty much nobody wants to actually ''play''), and C: being that it was all about playing mutant animals, it gets a ton of flak for being a "[[furry]] rpg", a la [[Ironclaw]]. It did have some nice bits, especially in character creation. There were tables which controlled the character's relationship to humanity, and the accident which had made them mutate. The only real reference to TMNT was that if all the players chose to be characters of the same species and background, they got a bonus to their attributes and skill levels. Being written before certain plot points in the Mirage comic, it also gives different backstories for several characters such as the Rat King(originally a crazy homeless man who thought he was a mutant, retconned to a magical guru in a issue after the TRPG). It had a post-apocalyptic spinoff, '''After the Bomb''', that Palladium still supported after losing the license. 

Eventually, after [[Robotech]] and [[Rifts]] swelled Kevin Siembieda's already-massive ego to even greater sizes, he foolishly opted not to pay the fee to re-up the license on the cash-cow that largely put him on the map, and the title went out of print in 1999. [[FAIL|And things have gone swimmingly for him ever since]]. (See: Divorce, embezzlement by staff, car crash, staff attempting suicide, [[Robotech RPG Tactics]].)

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