Cinders

DISCLAIMER: This translation is subject to change, and bound to be updated slower than its original counterpart. I apolgize for the inconvenience.  Glory to the All-Consuming Flame. 

Comments: this is the first TTRPG I have ever designed. It won't be perfect, and I will definitely have missed some stuff. Contact me to right any wrongs. Version 1.3 is now available! Cinders can be considered full and finished for now, but it will be updated with aditional content and fixes to perfect it.

For those who want to support the project, donations are encouraged :D

Thank you everyone for your kind support.

Cinders is a TTRPG set in the depths of the City: a gargantuan ancient megastructure  that was once a shining metropolis built around the Tree of Life, a colossal, legendary tree from which fruit capable of giving eternal life and godhood once grew. More than a millenium ago, however, the Tree died, and the City was sealed.

With the Tree's death, humans withered, turning into husks: nearly soulless beings, squalid and frail, skittish and submissive.

The players are the exception among the husks: instead of accepting their suffering, hunger, and toil, they have chosen to fight for one of two causes: abandoning the City or reaching the upper spires, where the City's elites shut themselves when the City fell, and where is rumored that the greatest of treasures are kept, including fruit from the Tree of Life. The main problem is this: the City is a titanic structure, so big that, even in the upper spires, running from one wall to the other would take months, so tall and deep that it penetrates the clouds and roots in the bowels of the earth. And the City is an extremely dangerous place: magically-powered automata still roam its streets, ensuring peace reigns their own way, but also making sure that nobody escapes. Gangs og husks loot the ruins of the once great City, scraping barely enough to eat the next day. Monsters of ash and pestilence roam free, hungry, in search of souls to consume and bodies to rot.

Don't expect a happy ending, or even an ending at all: this is the City. The only constant within its ashy streets is the quiet roam of the fearsome automata and the horrible deaths you may suffer in its streets.

This page contains, available for download:

• An introduction to the setting, the basic manual, and the player's handbook
• The guide's handbook 
• Five archetypes to build your husk
• Ten different backgrounds
• Bits of lore to give your story some character
• Rules to create fascinating stories 
• A beastiary with all the City's foes 
• An approximation of rules in case of victory 
• A ready-made adventure for starter play 

Art: The Tower of Babel, by Pieter Brughel, put through several photoshop filters.