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Beyond the Pale (2024)

An exploration of fantasy drawing from Jewish folklore. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2026/02/beyond-the-pale-2024/ #TTRPG

Cairn: Barebones Edition Cairn: Barebones Edition is an adventure game about traversing underground tunnels, decrepit castles, dark forests, and other dreadful places. Character creation is entirely random and fast, explorati...

I now sell perfect-bound copies of Cairn: Barebones Edition on the Cairn Store!

These are slightly-higher quality than the Lulu prints, but otherwise identical.

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Ukraine: Exciting discoveries - including the Three Hares motif on gravestones - as high school students research the Jewish cemetery in Horodok - Jewish Heritage Europe (JHE) — Some exciting discoveries have been made recently in Jewish cemeteries in western Ukraine — including by local high school students carrying out research in the Jewish cemetery in Horodok who ...

Yes indeed!

They were found all over Europe and Asia, and were not exclusively Jewish (but many Jews found them meaningful nonetheless). Specifically I learned about them when studying Podolia, where some of my family comes from:

jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2023/01/06/u...

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Cairn February Newsletter is live:
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Can the Cairn RPG live up to the hype? YouTube video by Questing Beast

The Cairn box set was reviewed by Questing Beast!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G62...

Beyond the Pale - Flip Through and Review YouTube video by WatcherDM

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Super cool adventure from @cairnrpg.com and @lostpages.co.uk

Flip through and review from the time I ran it for @magnum-galaxy-games.itch.io and friends. Want to come back to do the rest soon.

Janky Goblins Janky Goblins Have you ever wondered why monsters left to guard treasure don't just loot the chests themselves? The creatures of Goblin Tower did just that. While they remain gangly little critters, t...

You can now purchase Janky Goblins from Ahimsa Kerp on the Cairn Store!

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New release for today. Hobs, little household feyfolk who help out when you need it most. A new creature, location, and background for @cairnrpg.com featuring art by @perplexingruins.bsky.social for the @eternaljam.bsky.social Jan '26 edition.

Cairn 2e Player's Guide - Flip Through and Review YouTube video by WatcherDM

Nice video from @watcherdm.com flipping through the Cairn 2e Player's Guide. I appreciate the deep understanding of a lot of the rules, because people often misunderstand on first read.

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Cairn in 2026 Every year I try and write a little post about what folks should expect from me in the coming year. I suppose a small part of me feels that once I've announc...

I wrote about my plans for 2026, both under the @cairnrpg.com umbrella and Between Two Cairns.
newschoolrevolution.com/cairn-in-2026/

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Cairn Winter Newsletter is out!
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Lovely Jade Necropolis In the Garden of Amuul, the fey raised a palace for their human guests. But the humans betrayed them, so the fey swiftly slayed them. Now Amuul is a Wasteland, where the dead cannot rest. Twin necroma...

Now available in the Cairn store!

Lovely Jade Necropolis by @josephrlewis.bsky.social! With art by the author and an excellent cover by @gorangligovic.bsky.social!

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The Fiend Sworn THE King is dead! The scientist king Henry is dead. To honor his memory, and tradition, a colossal shell was sourced from overseas. Mother of pearl is, after all, the only currency that spends in the ...

You can now purchase
@gravy.press The Fiend Sworn on the Cairn store.

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It's available for free on Itch so you can check it out first, if you like:

gravy-press.itch.io/the-fiend-sw...

I don't know why I've waited so long to publish this, but in doing so I edited it down drastically. I think it's the best one I've done so far.
Art (mostly) by the amazing @perplexingruins.bsky.social and designed with @cairnrpg.com
noseatbelts.itch.io/knotwood

I'm happy to report that @drivethrurpg.com have added Cairn as a filter (under Old School Revival). Thanks much for that! If you've made something for Cairn, be sure to update the tag there under "Edit Title Listing."

Thanks again everyone.

The Tomb of Eight Gates - Puzzle Dungeon by Noseatbelts Enter a tomb designed to test your mind and bear witness to the end of time and space itself.

Just posted my latest Dungeon, a submission for @directsungames.com 's Puzzle Dungeon Jam and featuring @perplexingruins.bsky.social 's amazing art. For @cairnrpg.com or your favorite system. This one was a lot of fun to figure out. noseatbelts.itch.io/the-tomb-of-...

in case you missed it, my Cairn 2e conversion of N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God is now up on the Cairn website!

cairnrpg.com/adventures/c...

#OSR #CairnRPG

Fall Newsletter is out to subscribers, or viewable on the web here:

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CAS-3: The Feast of Tegny Wood CAS-3: The Feast of Tegny Wood is a standalone Cairn Second Edition adventure of disease, duty, and decay, set in a haunted corner of Vald. During the holiday of Bartermoot, traders and Woodfolk meet ...

I now carry The Feast of Tegny Wood in the Cairn Store. It's $5, just like the other two adventures in the Cairn Adventures Series.

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Let's build a realm with Cairn 2e! This week I'm going to create a Realm for my future Silksong-inspired Duet campaign, which was the subject of last week's post . To do so, I...

In today's post I create a Realm for my Silksong-inspired campaign using @cairnrpg.com's procedures!

#ttrpg #osr #worldbuilding #cairn #blog

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Beneath The Muckfort A MUD-SPLATTERED ADVENTUREFOR CAIRN 2e A brand new adventure from Gravy Press, your favorite cat-themed purveyor of fine adventure supplements. Blending the gruesome and the whimsical, Beneath the Muc...

New in the Cairn store! @gravy.press's latest Cairn 2e adventure, Beneath The Muckfort!

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Cairnevale The carnival has come to town! Which is quite impressive given the complete lack of announcement and their ability to have apparently set up in the forest at night when everyone was sleeping.  Regardl...

Two new adventures have arrived in the Cairn Store!
Cairnevale and The Door in Murex Canyon!

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CAS-3: The Feast of Tegny Wood CAS-3: The Feast of Tegny Wood is a standalone Cairn Second Edition adventure of disease, duty, and decay, set in a haunted corner of Vald. During the holiday of Bartermoot, traders and Woodfolk meet ...

Get it on Lulu here:
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[I found the code RE5RQ6G15 takes 15% off]

CAS-3: The Feast of Tegny Wood by Yochai Gal

The next module in the Cairn Adventure Series is now available! And it's free! The text, art, and layout is all CC-BY-SA as well.
Have fun!

yochaigal.itch.io/the-feast-of...

Between Two Cons The Between Two Cairns podcast is hosting a convention (Between Two Cons) next year in Portland, Oregon, and we'd love your help! Please answer the following questions so we can plan accordingly.

Coming next summer!
Join @bradkerr.net, Skullboy and I at Between Two Cons, an indie RPG/OSR convention in Portland, Oregon.

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Orestruck An ossified horror murders and rends, terrorizing miners in an ancient cavern. A warrior and his vicious gang hunt a privateer rumored to have returned home.  The dreamers hunger for a bloody return t...

You can now purchase @weirdwonder.bsky.social's latest adventure Orestruck from the Cairn Store:

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Barrow of the Elf King. Free web version!

Rise of the Blood Olms has an OSE stats conversion.

Coming soon: Wildendrem Volume Two: The Saintly Hollows Two new books of mythic adventure in a land of wonder and peril, for use on their own or alongside the award-winning Valley of Flowers.

The next two (!) books of the Wildendrem tabletop RPG setting are coming soon to Kickstarter. #osr www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...