While the rest of the tabletop world keeps waiting on a Dark Sun revival from D&D, a Reddit user called Sad_Ad_8491 has gone ahead and built a full unofficial Kenshi TTRPG, free to download from Itch.io. For anyone who's bounced off Lo-Fi Games' brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox on PC and wished it played at a tabletop, this is now a 41-page rulebook away.
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Set up your group for freeFor the uninitiated, Kenshi is the legendarily harsh open-world game set in a sun-baked wasteland of slavers, cannibals, religious fanatics and big horrifying birds called Beak Things. Your character can lose a limb in a fight and replace it with a rusty mechanical prosthetic. The tabletop conversion captures that vibe with survival mechanics for thirst, infection and hunger, a proper social combat system for persuasion and deception, settlement-building rules, and yes, rules for swapping body parts for scavenged metal.
It's powered by the Crônicas RPG system, a Brazilian medieval fantasy RPG by Pedro Borges with 18 attributes and a heroic story-first design philosophy. That's an unusual pick for a grimdark setting, but the creator says it's been adapted to lean into Kenshi's harsher tone. The Itch.io page promises a world that's "not a world of happy endings. It's a world of hard choices, scarred bodies, and the constant question: 'How far will you go to see another dawn?'"
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See how it worksFor GMs scrabbling for a survival sandbox while Wizards drags its feet on Dark Sun, this is genuinely useful, and free. Worth a look even if you've never touched the video game, because the survival, prosthetics and social combat rules could plug straight into other post-apocalyptic settings.
Sources: Wargamer | Crônicas RPG Catarse
