I'm about to start running Ashes Without Number as a "solo" (1 player 1 GM) game over PbP (because I think 1-on-1 games are the only way PbP really works, at least in my experience). Looking for advice on the system. Also I want to do "heroic" rules for the character, even though he'll have a couple NPC companions, and I figured maximum hit points at level 1 would be a good way of doing it? I didn't really like the other rules.
>>98197471I would like to start using Stars Without Number. My only gripe with it is the list of psychic powers clashes with my aesthetic autism
>>98197753Just don't have psychic powers, that's what my brother did when he ran the system.
>>98197471You might want to do the starting HP=CON variant, and potentially some of the other PC survivability rules for a 1v1 game.
I has a reply typed up and then I realized that OP posted slop.
When are we getting Horrors Without Number
>>98197753The *WN systems are interchangable.If you don't like Psychics, replace it with a class or adventurer combination from one of the other 3.Mutant for freaky aliens, gene spliced weirdos, or people fucked by bad space juju? Skinshifter works too.(Space) Cowboy?Wise?Bard?Vowed + Graced for Wuxia shit?Duelist?Beastmaster?Operator with Wired and Hacker, Operator's Fortune at 5th for Mr. Cyborg Man the class?in fact, you could just run SWN but with CWN operators, just remember they either need lots of cyberware access or an extra edge at level 3 as per the AWN rules.>>98203444I mean you probably want at least SOME options besides just warrior and expert.>>98205438I'm looking at a copy of this and don't see what about it isn't basically usable with post-revision SWN systems this very now.
>>98205740My god! Is Kevin Crawford B-b-b-b-BASED??!
>>98205372What? That's not even slop. Are you serious? I've had that picture saved for months.>>98205135>You might want to do the starting HP=CON variant, and potentially some of the other PC survivability rules for a 1v1 game.Will that be too much? The guns do a fair bit of damage but idk if I want PCs having 10 hp on average. just don't want them starting with 2.Do you have sauce for the HP=CON variant? As in, which system / book it's in? So I can read more about it, and how they suggest you shift the game around it.
>>98197471someone post that pretty-much-a-dog-whistle-for-tg bit about local lords
What are general recommendations for party composition in WWN, and how do pure classes compare to adventurers?
>>98205745What do you think Sine Nomine means?
>>98197471Personally I hated the system, but the books are S tier GMing and world building guides.
>>98197471What kind of “Without Number” game would you like to see next? I’d love a 2e version of Godbound, maybe under “Gods Without Number”, for me.
>>98209672>>98207560It warms my heart to know he's one of us, and that a fa/tg/uy actually managed to make it in TTRPG publishing.
