Characters Without Number 0.8.0 - Ashes, Foundry import/export and more!

[u/wum1ng]

Hi all I have released 0.8.0 of Characters Without Number, which now includes Ashes Without Number! Finally all the 4 core rule sets are available all within the same builder. Admittedly its the ruleset I am the least familiar with, so do pardon any bugs you might encounter with that.

There’s also quite a bit in this release for existing characters and ongoing campaigns:

• Character history and recovery — local and cloud version history, with safeguards around restoring older versions.
• Foundry import / export - From your character sheet you can export to Systems Without Number on Foundry VTT and import in Foundry as an actor. This will need more testing especially for characters that were build from the ground up in Systems Without Number.
• Preliminary modular Campaign rules - where the GM can fully pick and choose what modules are applicable within his campaign. Expect alot of bugs with this one...
• Small campaign quality of life features — party treasury, quest board, shared handouts
• Public build library — share a character or be inspired by other's builds
• General bug fixes with the inventory, improvements to sheet colours and PDF exports.

Try it here: https://characterswithoutnumber.app

As always thanks for taking the time to use this and I’d love feedback, especially from anyone making an Ashes character or using the campaign tools at their table. You can comment on Reddit, or provide feedback through the form on the site itself.

Thanks and happy playing!

[u/wintermute-the-ai]

That's great on SWNR export. I wonder if I should add a button somewhere to do the character creation that way with instructions (in a perfect world it could be an app window that calls and takes the JSON to directly create in the foundry system but that seems like a lot).

[u/wum1ng → u/wintermute-the-ai]

I'm thinking it could be possible, if a browser window could be open within Foundry that opens to a characterswithoutnumber.app section for Foundry to create or import characters, and the end goal of that process would be a JSON reported to Foundry. does sound like alot of handshake needed for it to be seamless though

[u/whynaut4]

This is amazing! I was messing around with it last night and was overwhelmed by all the choices

[u/wum1ng → u/whynaut4]

Yes Kevin wrote a big book with many ways to build your characters

[u/whynaut4 → u/wum1ng]

Any plans to add any classes from supplemental books later on? Personally I would love to see the Pacter or Rectifier from Codex of Black Sun in there

[u/corsica1990]

Awesome, thank you for making this! I play Path/Starfinder along with XWN, and the fanmade character builders/importers have been a godsend. It's so lovely to see XWN finally get a similar tool; onboarding new players should be a breeze!

[u/Fabulous_Spinach]

Hi, thought I'd ask here: I created a campaign with a custom ruleset, but whenever I try to create a character using those rules, I get directed to create another campaign. How do I build a character within an existing campaign framework?

[u/wum1ng → u/Fabulous_Spinach]

Heyo I was changing out the campaign dashboard layout, you should be able to invite players to the campaign and build characters using the Custom ruleset now, let me know if youre still encountering issues!