Surviving the Ohey Ruin
Your Survival Guide
This expansion brings new gameplay options to No Nut November to give your games an additional edge of survival. It includes additional rules and resources for scavenging, a toolbox for crafting all sorts of things a squirrel surviving a post-apocalypse would need, and additional environmental dangers of the Ruins including dehydration, exposure, injury, the dreaded Sick, and the mysterious Corruption.
Using this expansion will make your games more dangerous and will force players to think about not only surviving combat and finding enough nuts to fill there bellies, but making hard choices and managing resources to survive, and for the clever and fortunate, thrive in the Ruin.
Includes
- Rules for scavenging
- Random salvage tables
- Crafting recipes
- Advanced injury rules
- Rules for environmental hazards of the Ruins
- New gear and enemies
Part of the Surviving No Nut November bundle!
Purchase
In order to download this expansion you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $1.50 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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Community Copies
If the price tag for this expansion is going to stop you from getting it, please grab one of these community copies. I'll refill them semi-regularly, and each purchase will also add d8 copies (and always more than one).
Development log
- Day 1 Patch!Nov 01, 2022
Comments
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Surviving The Ohey Ruin is an expansion for No Nut November: Squirrels Of The Post Apocalypse.
And if you haven't played No Nut November, that game is a joy. Silly concept, laser-precise execution. Everything that's good about Fallout or Gamma World mixed with a surprisingly interesting range of facts about squirrels to produce something unique and extremely fun. Seriously, if you like shorter, pulpier TTRPGs, look it up. You're missing out.
Getting back to Ohey Ruin, the PDF is 17 pages with stock art, new rules, and even some fiction. It's got the zine-y feel of the core book, but the writing and design are similarly very strong.
Contents-wise, Ohey Ruin is a bit like playing Fallout 4 on survival difficulty. Injuries now have tags marking what kind of source they came from. Squirrels can dehydrate, overheat, or freeze. Food can irradiate or infect. Crafting has its own subsystem. You can build settlements. Gear can be damaged and destroyed.
All of these new subsystems are interesting to interact with and add a layer to the game that encourages more long-term play. However the way the information is organized does sometimes feel a little strange, even if there's no ambiguity as to how anything works. You just sometimes have to hunt around the book to get all the context on something like a brittle crafting material.
Overall, this is a great expansion for adding depth to No Nut November. If you're planning on playing a campaign of the game, I'd strongly recommend adding it to your library.
Minor Issues:
-Page 12, Corruption, it's not explicitly clear that you roll on this table each time you take Corruption.
Thank you for the review, including the praise for No Nut November! Fallout 4's settlement and crafting system (including picking up random things like baseballs and tin cans for crafting materials) was definitely an inspiration here.
Also, because of your feedback I made some edits that should mean people have less to figure out for themselves with Corruption (that was just an oversight on my part), and make it a little bit easier to find the kind of obscure tough and brittle rules, including a couple extra linked bookmarks. I'll be writing the devlog about specifics now. Thank you for your comments!
No worries! It's a really cool supplement!