Here you can find guides that help you apply the rules in your games.

Simplified Rules

The Beginner Introduction is a shorter version of the main rules, which only contains the core mechanics and is more beginner-friendly to read.

The Super-Short Rules are a two-page version of the rules with only the most vital of mechanics. A great option if you are running a game for first-time players that already have premade characters.

Guides for Character Building

The Character Creation guide helps you with the basics of creating a Level 1 character, be it with the online-, Excel-, or PDF version of the character sheet.

The Leveling guide has all the steps you need to take to level up a character.

We have two guides for more advanced character building. The first one is Character Builds, which is a simple overview of the basics. Gold’s Guide to Character Creation, on the other hand, goes more into detail.

Gold’s Guide to Sub-Archetypes gives detailed descriptions for specific sub-archetypes, offering a mechanical deep dive and an array of build suggestions. It does not cover all Sub-Archetypes, but the list is growing.

GM Guide

The GM Guide gives you tips on how to handle many of the rules that are more specific to Ishanekon: World Shapers from a GM’s perspective. I very much recommend any GM who is planning to run IWS for the first time to at least take a look at it.

Pregenerated Characters

The Setting-Dependent Characters page contains multiple lists of Level 1 characters fitting for specific settings, like Sci-Fi and Fantasy.

The Level 1-3 Characters page contains multiple characters that are broken down into Level 1-3. They include a deeper mechanical explanation of the character’s features, as well as the leveling decisions.