Jan 29
Playing a lot of Cairn lately.
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Playing a lot of Cairn lately.
Forgotten Cairns
“I wanted the Realms to be not a nice place, not a safe place, but I wanted it to be a place I wouldn’t mind exploring and spending time in. As in nicer than the real world when you’re a lonely nerdy kid, which I was.” – Ed Greenwood This is here for free as a fan creation, not meant to threaten any copyrights or IP’s, nor is it meant to stop anyone from purchasing the beautiful Cairn Boxed Set,…
Thinking back on 2025 at the gaming table
Looking back on my Actual Play posts for the year and bits and piece from my notebooks, trying to find a theme or a throughline. This is all Jay’s fault. This year I played Mythic Bastionland, Old-School Essentials, Burning Wheel, Cairn 2e, Death in Space, Liminal Horror (tinkering with a hack of it I was calling Weird Horror Investigation) and Apocalypse World: Burned Over using the Swords and…
Cairn: Ecology of the Wyvern
It was just me and Pete tonight and that was lovely. I got the invites out a bit late for this session. There might be someone other than Pete who I’ve played more amazing hours of gaming in the past couple of decades but probably not. I rolled a Discovery for their first encounter and after that I rolled Environmental issues for the rest of the session. They got lucky and found a family…
6 statues in the dragon's lair
Was thinking about last week’s game. There was a moment when they came to this hallway with statues. 6 statues. Huh. Forgotten Cairns 8: Dragonslayers on Moonshae I had already narrated some 5-headed Tiamat details in an earlier room and wanted to continue to reinforce them. Jesse had his Lizard-folk hunter, Sssrska, mar the Black Dragon heads. But this was 6 statues. Pattern break. I said that…
Elder Chromatic Dragon Territories Along the Sword Coast
A normal Friday night – took a lovely nap with the window open and then thought about Thursday’s game and putting together information on the territories of dragons on the Sword Coast of Faerûn. I was grateful to find that much work had already been done on this. I based most of the below on work done here: Dragons of Faerûn Dragon frame used to make out territories by Art SilverGlass Sophie…
Forgotten Cairns 8: Dragonslayers on Moonshae
We hadn’t played in a while and it was a fairly rare night that all 6 of us were able to game. We started right in the lair, loving the Dyson Logos map as usual. We were overplanning a bit in past sessions, so I said we’d jump in and use flashbacks as needed. If someone wanted something really far out I’d say they could spend Hit Protection to make it happen but that wasn’t necessary. Shit,…
Cairn: Council on Patok Hill
After a few weeks of cancelled games because of life-stuff on my end, I was beyond thrilled to get a game in last night. So thrilled, in fact, that I had no idea what to do once it was clear Tom and Jenn could actually game. While we were catching up I looked over the notes from last game and I remembered something about the restless dead lord, Alder Brightflame and the neighboring Fishacre…