Necromunda Ash Waste Explorators 0.7

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Ash Waste Explorators - Very early days custom campaign rules for scavengers, lovers of dice rolls and RNG, RPG Munda rules.

Ash Wastes Explorators is a WIP very custom campaign ruleset that is dice roll RNG RPG heavy. Or intends to be anyway. You can create a much longer campaign, designed for mostly one player, or with a patient second player too is possible.

You create a map as shown above, it is best to use the spreadsheet provided, and simply copy and paste from the map legend as you "Scan the chosen area and it's terrain with your scavenged Prospector Auspex" and build up squares on your map.

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- Map 1.jpg

• Thammut
• Jan 5, 2026

The map output for Ash Waste Explorators, a custom random dice roll map making, scrap...

Let me know of any mechanics that you can think are missing from this type of campaign.
I plan to expand a lot, the Rumours systems makes the Wasteland feel more alive. I plan to try to add to this with gang behaviour mechanics and a relationship system.
This will be quite complex but I plan to keep re-tweaking rolls and working at this thing. It is a type of gameplay I have thought about for a long time now.

 

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Thammut updated Ash Waste Explorators with a new update entry:

0.2 - 0.6 - Playtest version and updadted rules

Did a lot of reworking rolls and a lot of reformatting, larger font sizes suitable for printing etc. ready for playtesting.
Added last dice rolls to basic tables.

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Here are the % of chances for different terrain features to generate, any thoughts or feedback to help bring things to life would be much appreciated!
--- Terrain - 3D6
3 0.46 Mountains Cave - Gang Encounter Check, Explore II
4 1.38 Mountains - Explore I
5 2.77 Mountains - Explore I
6 4.62 Toxic Swamps - Beasts Encounter Check
7 6.94 D6 Ruins 1-3 1, 4-6 II - Explore I Only
8 9.72 Wastes - Explore I
9 11.57 Wastes - Explore I
10 12.50 Wastes - Explore I
11 12.50 Wastes - Explore I
12 11.57 Wastes - Explore I
13 9.72 Wastes - Explore I
14 6.94 Wastes - Encounter Check, if none or Win Explore I
15 4.62 D12 Ruins 2-5 1, 6-9 II, 10-12 III - Gang Enc Roll, if none Win Explore I
16 2.77 D6 Habs 1-2 ^, 3-5 #, 6 @ - Gang Enc Roll, if none or Win Explore I
17 1.38 Ruins III - Gang Encounter Check, if none or Win Explore II
18 0.46 Settlement - Gang Encounter Check, if none or Win Explore II
21.25% chance of any encounter rolls when making Terrain generation rolls.

 

[Thammut]

Thammut updated Ash Waste Explorators with a new update entry:

0.7 - Rules tweaks

This should be a hard campaign, so made the following tweaks and improvements.
Clarified a lot of rules.
Tweaked Gang Income & Support Gang rules.
Added a Wastes Rarity Item Trade Penalty of -2

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