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  • Other Dust and its more recent incarnation, Ashes Without Number, are OSR games from Kevin Crawford with many systems to help you create your own post-apo setting and run adventures within it.

    Other Dust was especially written as an homage to Gamma World and so has an entire section on creating mutant PCs (5 pages or so of mutations). The setting’s gimmick is that any living being affected by radiation gets “healed” by the global nanite system. But because the system was corrupted during the apocalypse, it will turn those beings into monstrous freaks.

    Ashes Without Number goes a bit more generic with more options as to what kind of apocalypse happened, but still has that section on mutations.

    Other Dust was a bit involved, with mutation powers, then separate flaws and benefits on top of it, so a mutation could be beneficial or not, regardless of its nature. Then separate to that are stigmatas which are visible aesthetic traits that mark you as a mutant in the eyes of strangers. Ashes Without Number simplified things a bit with positive and negative mutations. And stigmatas which are still there as an aesthetic layer. In both cases Kevin takes care to offer options to pick mutations, randomly or not.








  • Negotiating with Trump is like negotiating with Putin. It’s a pointless theatre that Trump is would do for the benefit of spectators, but with no actual value for Iran because you absolutely cannot believe anything Trump says.

    They don’t need to negotiate, they needed to be left the fuck alone in the first place, but Trump, like daddy Putin, is incapable of rational thoughts anymore.
    Looks like the special operation is gonna last at least until next election, at this rate.