Scars in Bastionland and Cairn

Have a lie down for a quick minute... When an attack reduces a PC’s HP to exactly 0, they are uniquely impacted. Look up the result on the table below based on the total damage taken... Scars don’t happen that often in Electric Bastionland or Cairn. Combat doesn’t happen that often in these games too. …

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Dice-based initiative

I don't pretend to know. I just play pretend. For use with Into the Odd and its descendants like Electric Bastionland and Cairn. Inspired by this thing from Mike Mearls. In combat, all sides act at the same time. If you failed your DEX save to not be surprised, you miss the first turn.  Each combatant …

Cairn Bookmark

For the holidays, I (hopefully) be in Thailand and run some Cairn for folks! I ordered no less than 23 copies off of Amazon for this Christmas season for friends and family. You should do the same. FATE Accelerated is $5 and Cairn (less than $4 after taxes) will easily get you more mileage. To …

Adventure Hour! – Inventory

The name "Dragonslayer Adventures" has been dropped in favor of "Adventure Hour!" The inventory system of this game is inspired by Knave, Cairn, and this post about ItO. Making a change. Want to catalogue my reasons why. Before: Optional Rule: Inventory. A PC may only carry 8 items on their person as part of their …

Dolmenwood Open Table – Charhollow

This is the village of Charhollow handout. I make "art" now. Ahem. This is the central village of the Dolmenwood Open Table game (continuing from last time). Let's tell the story of Charhollow's attendants just like I do at the table: through pictures and handouts. Because shopping should be a fun process of discovery, not …

Cairn Spark Tables for Forest Adventures

Playing (LOTS of)Dark Souls and backing Into the Wyrd and Wild (19 days to go) makes me want to run a dark, wyrd, forested game. Having three issues of Wormskin also nurtures this... I've meditated on something like this before... What system? Why, Cairn, of course. Go grab this excellent (free!) game if you have …

Stress for Wooded Adventures (ItO, Cairn, Into the Wyrd and Wild)

Guess this counts for Dolmenwood too. Have yet to read/play... Been playing more Darkest Dungeon (my way, of course). Sudden urge to run it as an RPG (as with most things I watch or play). Looked for stress mechanics for Into the Odd (not very far, I'll admit). Stumbled back upon Cairn (lots of cool …

Dice Oddities: Generating Stats

DICE FROM HEAVEN. Shipwright. I’m weird about dice. I made a d366 table of spells JUST so I could have d6s only, no d100. I go the extra mile. Sometimes that extra mile is a circle, no real movement, just motion. This is no sane person problem, I recognize. In my view, there are only …

Meditation on the Wyrd and Wild

This is my central image. This art comes from the book, by Charles Ferguson-Avery. I will be using Maze Rats to run Into the Wyrd and Wild. Here are noteworthy reviews of the product from Coins and Scrolls and Technical Grimoire. This post is a collection of inspirations. Technical Grimoire recent updated their Hunt generator. …