Scars RPG

What is Scars?

Scars RPG is a survival game with classic old school sensibilities but modern design. Exploration is dangerous, and the Social systems make roleplaying encounters as tense as the Combat. The Scars mechanic ensures that death is never too far away and not the only thing to fear. It’s fast, deadly, and far from heroic fantasy. Can you survive?

All solo indie developed. All human made.

Thematic Inspirations: The Road, The Revenant, Project Zomboid, 28 Days Later, I am Legend, The Last of Us, The Walking Dead, Tolkien.

Mechanical Inspirations: Call of Chthulu, D&D, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Daggerheart, Draw Steel, Path Finder, Pillars of Eternity, Divinity Original Sin 1+2, The Sims.

Modular Book Design

This debut release is in a two-book format, a Core Rulebook plus a Campaign Setting. This keeps the Core Rules universal and adaptable to any setting, without burdening the system with assumptions. Each setting can introduce its own themes, rules, and mechanics (such as: races, ships, diseases, magic, and more) without altering the core experience of Survival.

Core Rulebook

In this book is all of the rules Players and Game Masters will need to run or play a game of Scars.

Ashes of America

This book presents a campaign setting and a three‑session starter adventure for a zombie‑apocalypse game set in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado at the turn of the 22nd century.

Development Stage

• The game is fully written and fully featured. 
• It is currently undergoing copy editing and play testing.

Environmental Impact

Scars is designed with modularity in mind, reducing repeated text across future books and keeping each release as lean as possible. All printing and manufacturing will prioritise recyclable or reusable materials wherever possible.