Cairn is an adventure game about exploring a dark & mysterious Wood filled with strange folk, hidden treasure, and unspeakable monstrosities. Character generation is quick and random, classless, and relies on fictional advancement rather than through XP or level mechanics. It is based on Knave by Ben Milton and Into The Odd by Chris McDowall. The game was written by …

Aug 1, 2023 · Cairn is an adventure game about exploring a dark & mysterious Wood filled with strange folk, hidden treasure, and unspeakable monstrosities. Character generation is quick and random, classless, and relies on fictional advancement rather than …

May 18, 2023 · Cairn is an adventure game about exploring a dark & mysterious Wood filled with strange folk, hidden treasure, and unspeakable monstrosities. Character generation is quick and random, classless, and relies on fictional advancement rather than through XP or level mechanics. It is based on Knave by Ben Milton and Into The Odd by Chris McDowall.

Sep 5, 2022 · Cairn does not play like Old School Essentials (a clone of DnD Basic) or Dungeon Crawl Classics (not a clone, very much its own thing, but heavily commenting on 70s DnD in its design and aesthetics). A good starting module for Cairn is Tomb of the Serpent King, which was specifically designed to introduce new people to OSR style play.

Jan 19, 2023 · Cairn wants you to do "foreground growth" which means it happens because of events in the game fiction. For instance, finding a spellbook in a dungeon treasure haul is that kind of growth, where as in a comparible modern game it would give you a new spell after you hit a milestone but not include it in the treasure that caused the milestone advancement.

Cairn 2e is functionally identical to Cairn 1e. The only change is additional material. For ex, there's backgrounds now and lots of additional GM advice. Cairn 1e was a pamphlet game that assumed you had a bunch of other books to pull material from. Cairn 2e will be a full RPG with everything you need to play. Personally, I love Cairn.

Dec 29, 2022 · Cairn combines Into the Odd's basic ideas with information that I think a lot of players add to ItO on their own, so its an easier book to give someone to run a game from. Stuff like the GM principles, the starting packages, and the deprivation system give the GM a lot to work with that people probably do run ItO with but which isn't in the ...

Jul 12, 2023 · Cairn is good, but isn't far removed from D&D Eh, that may be true in terms of genre, they're both fantasy adventure games, but the playstyles supported are vastly different. Someone who's only played D&D and who tries Cairn is playing a dramatically different game.

Nov 7, 2023 · A community all about Baldur's Gate III, the role-playing video game by Larian Studios. BG3 is the third main game in the Baldur's Gate series. Baldur's Gate III is based on a modified version of the Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition (D&D 5e) tabletop RPG ruleset. Gather your party and venture forth!

Jan 8, 2023 · What Cairn does with the inventory system is allows characters to take on spells, which makes the system a tad better suited for playing popular OSR adventures that default to a little more fantasy than ItO. But it's a nice, succinct book, so you can learn the rules and have characters made in all of 15 minutes.