Player's Handbook · Chapter 1

Starting Out

You come into Ashfall the way everyone does: at Level 1, a survivor with useful beginnings and a reason to grow. There is no way to start higher, and there is no shortcut to it.

You start at Level 1 — always

Every new campaign opens with every player at Level 1. The Level 1 foundation gives you a clear starting identity, a small number of useful abilities, basic gear, a real weakness, and something to prepare for. You are a capable beginner, not a finished champion — and that is the point. Growth is earned, and it starts from a honest place.

Choose from the starter survivors offered in the lobby. Each teaches a different core system:

Starter	Teaches
Kaizen Fracture-Touched Veilblade	Stealth, precision, stealth magic, corruption
Mizz Lovell	Society, disguise, persuasion, mindcraft
Ashbound Forager	Foraging, survival, cooking, the ashlands
Hollow Road Scout	Stealth, mapping, tracking, travel
Refuge Bladehand	Melee combat, defense, simple repairs
Rune-Scratched Novice	Reading, rune language, light magic
Scrap-Smith Initiate	Smithing, repair, toolmaking, mining
Sootwell Apprentice	Medicine, water purification, herbalism

Pick whichever speaks to you. Your level is derived from your earned experience — a fresh survivor is Level 1 no matter what, and that is where your story begins.

What a Level 1 survivor can do

Acting inside your starting skills, you have reasonable competence. Acting outside them, you can still try — but expect harder odds, worse tools, more risk, and the need to practice. Your weaknesses are real, and they exist so preparation, learning, trade, and cooperation have meaning.

Nothing about starting at Level 1 punishes you. It is the foundation every legend is built on.

Manual updated Aug 17, 2026.

Ashfall Deepworld Custom Survival RPG

Ashfall Deepworld

A post-apocalypse fantasy dungeon survival world of crafting, hunger, thirst, skill practice, reading-based knowledge, rune enhancement, and dangerous dungeon exploration.

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The Premise

Descend, survive, learn, craft, and become stronger in a ruined world beneath the ash.

Ashfall Deepworld is a custom survival-progression fantasy RPG setting where power is earned through practice, study, crafting, preparation, and risk. Hunger, thirst, gear durability, lost knowledge, rune language, and dungeon exploration all shape the player experience.

Author's note

Starter CDF import for building the Ashfall Deepworld Craft project. Expand by adding more locations, skills, recipes, monsters, factions, and dungeon layers.

Inside the World