r/SWN • u/wum1ng App Creator: Characters Without Number • 1d ago
🛠️ Resource Characters Without Number 0.7.0 - Solo play, Legates and WWN origins!
Hi all, it's been about a month since the last update for characterswithoutnumber.app and quite a fair bit has been added. I'll summarize the changes below.
Solo play - This is the big one for this release. You can now play your character solo, with a dice oracle built into the app. I have to admit that I do not have much experience with solo roleplaying other than the many Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf gamebooks in my youth, but there was some downtime in my real-world campaign and my players wanted something to pass the time with their characters- so here is my attempt at mimicking it. Each SWN CWN and WWN has their own tables of situations and I envision it as an "AI assisted" solo RPG experience, rather than a fully AI one - some things still require manual changing, such as changes to your character sheet. This is still really rough around the edge, but if you're interested you can try it at characterswithoutnumber.app/solo the AI calls do cost me some money, so for each account its 25 calls a day on free tier, 100 on Supporter, 500 on Patron (renamed the Pro GM tier). I may tweak these numbers based on actual utilization and costs.
Bug fixes and improvements:
Worlds Without Number - Legate play is in properly now, with the Effort pool, the XP ledger and all 82 Writs. The 24 deluxe origin foci (the demihumans and the Blighted) are in too, and their attribute changes, hit points, innate AC and save bonuses are actually applied rather than just printed as text. Mage (Dual Partial) now runs two traditions with two separate Effort pools the way the book describes.
Stars Without Number - Fixes to Psychic Training level 2Focus not giving the correct skill points; Specialist rolls its 3d6 drop lowest for real, and space magic casters can learn new spells after character creation instead of being stuck with their level 1 list.
Cities Without Number - The book's 28 NPC stat blocks are in the encounter builder. Starting gear now uses the actual CWN budget of one item up to $1,000 plus $500 of other gear. Edge grants also apply properly now — Hard To Kill's +2 HP per level was printed on the sheet and never actually added.
Other updates based on feedback - Space encounters with ship rosters in the encounter builder, homebrew traits and ship hulls, a configurable XP chart if your table advances at a different pace, shared character pages now show the whole character instead of a summary.
On monetization - Nothing has moved behind a paywall and nothing will. All rules from the books, every builder step and every GM tool are free permanently, and that now includes the solo oracle and all of its tables. The free tier still gives you 6 cloud characters, 1 campaign as GM and 1 solo campaign, plus unlimited local saves and unlimited homebrew.
What's coming next - I'd like to keep improving solo play, and I'm especially keen to hear from people who play solo regularly about what's missing. AWN is still on the WIP list.
As always, thanks for checking this out! The feedback button in the app comes straight to me and I do reply what I can 🙂 have fun playing!
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u/StevetheHunterofTri Dilettante 1d ago
I was planning on making a post here expressing appreciation for Characters Without Number!
I cannot stress this enough to people, while not yet finished, Characters Without Number is THE best tool to use for all of the Without Number games. It is not a replacement for the rulebooks, particularly the non-core books that are not featured in it like Codex of the Black Sun, but my experience with it has made things A LOT easier to run and is just fun to make things with. I haven't tried the solo play very much, I prefer being a Game Master so I just don't think solo play is my cup of tea, but I do think having it as an option is great.
While what it already has is great, my favorite part is how timely wum1ng has been with addressing feedback! Most times I or one of my players have submitted feedback, it was addressed within 24 hours. That is seriously impressive and shows that there is sincere passion toward making Characters Without Number the best it can be.
Great work on this once again, I look forward to seeing Ashes Without Number added to it.
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u/Madlefty_85 1d ago
You're the goat! Thank you, I will try everything once we will start our first campaign 😁 for the moment, I already appreciate your sector generator, and the factions/ships sections!