‘Ashes Without Number’ – A New Old School Post-Apocalyptic RPG
Ashes Without Number is the latest offering in the ‘Without Number‘ ouvre from Kevin Crawford. Post-apocalyptic power awaits.
A new “Without Number” game from Worlds Without Number designer Kevin Crawford has already smashed past its funding goal. Ashes Without Number promises a post-apocalyptic adventure on a desolate world full of lost grandeur.
No wonder it’s already raised almost $200,000. And, like the other ‘Without Number’ games, this one is cross-compatible with the other versions. So if you have the sci-fi Stars Without Number, you can pretty handily find your way to using these rules, for instance. Just take an apocalyptic planet somewhere in your custom star sector.
Ashes Without Number – Kickstarting Now
If you’ve never played a Without Number game, here’s a quick rundown. They’re built on a d20 and 2d6 based system. It should feel familiar enough to anyone who’s ever dungeoned a dragon, but the options are more streamlined. If you’ve played any other Old School Renaissance game, you kind of have an idea of the mechanics.
The game is designed to help you set up a world and characters, and then turns you loose. And that’s what makes these games really sing. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend any of the Without Number games as a way to level up your RPGs.
But, since we’re here for Ashes Without Number, let’s look at your own personal apocalypse in waiting:
“Ashes Without Number is a tabletop roleplaying game for the end of the world. Whether as a civil collapse, alien invasion, zombie uprising, or post-apocalyptic wasteland, the game is built to give a GM the tools they need to carve out their own special slice of Hell.
Campaigns set amid radioactive dunes and savage mutant perils are supported in these pages, along with near-future tales of civil collapse, global plagues, and horrific shambling hordes. Just as with all Sine Nomine games, however, the book is built to support a GM in fashioning their own personal apocalypse, building worlds and settings to explore the kind of games they want to run.
Ashes Without Number
How Does It All Come to Ash – And What Do YOU Get Out of It?
These games tend to have some of the best world/setting creation guides. If you want tools to help you make a world that’s ripe to be explored, Ashes Without Number and its other siblings are a fantastic resource. You’ll find all the same six stats, hit points, saving throws and so on.
But one of the biggest draws in every Without Number book is the genre-specific system toolkit. And that’s true whether we’re talking players or GMs. Find rules for scrap-built gear and ancient tech alongside dangers like disease and zomies and wasteland marauders.
But check it out for yourself. Every backer has immediate Beta access to the in-development game. So whether you want a PDF or want to print your own book on demand from DriveThruRPG, you can get started almost immediately with Ashes Without Number.
See you in the Wastes!
