Hilander RPGs [Jason]

Finals Week is upon us!

Checklists are made, schedules are cleared, loved ones are bid a fond farewell.

May the Profs have mercy upon our souls...

But it's a beautiful map!

I really want 22 to have a secret door to 9, for circuitous reasons.

Damn. Ya got me.

*Now key it.*

MB seems more like 20 pages of rules, and 180 pages of characters and encounters.

200 pages of rules is still too much.

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Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.net, @betterlegends.bsky.social and I review What Lies Within the Pools Which Lie Upon the Shoreline? by @manarampmatt.bsky.social and discuss how do modern OSR games handle handle a vacuum after PC death.

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A crypt by Dyson Logos, with a key formatted to look like an old gameboy manual.

Here's a Micro Manual Template for #MicroManualJam (Map by @dysonlogos.bsky.social )

Happening now on itch!

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#ttrpg #indie #osr

What would you alter to make Mothership into a Fallout game?

It seems to me that a lot of things could be run exactly as is, with the adventure itself doing most of the heavy lifting.

Desert Moon of Karth is practically there, I think.

#Mothership #OSR

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Micro Manual Jam! A game jam from 2026-03-02 to 2026-04-11 hosted by Hilander. Old Game Manuals are the Best! Let's make some tiny manuals for TTRPGs, whether they are adventures, distillations of our favorite systems,...

Hey you! Yes you! Have you read your favorite nostalgic video game's original game manual?

These things are cool, hence the #MicroManualJam!

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#OSR and #TTRPG writers looking for a fun little challenge, join up!

Micro Manual Jam! A game jam from 2026-03-02 to 2026-04-11 hosted by Hilander. Old Game Manuals are the Best! Let's make some tiny manuals for TTRPGs, whether they are adventures, distillations of our favorite systems,...

Hey #TTRPG writers!

Do you like those retro game manuals that used to come with video games? The ones that showed you the basics, added some context, and maybe held a hint or two?

I'm hosting a game jam on itch, the #MicroManualJam !

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Stretch Goal Unlocked!

All backers for the Valley of Lune will also get a PDF OSE conversion!

The Valley of Lune A living forest and abandoned city for Cairn 2e. ~48 page zine, statement format.

17 hours and $38 to go to double the goal and unlock a free OSE PDF conversion for all backers!

If you havent jumped in with the Valley of Lune yet, why not now?

Feel free to ask me anything about the project!

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#Cairn2e #ZineQuest #OSR #Indie #Zine

A one-page dungeon from the Valley of Lune. In the bottom right is a drawing of a masked black ooze, creeping over a pile of bones.

Update 8: 36 Hours to Go! And another peek inside the pages. · The Valley of Lune Once again thank you to everyone who has backed so far! Work continues on the project, especially looking at the dungeons now. Here is the smallest dungeon, the Vault of the Dreamless.We have just ove...

36 Hours to go on the Valley of Lune, a complete wilderness region for Cairn 2e!

Here's a peek at the smallest dungeon in the area, The Vault of the Dreamless.

#OSR #Cairn #TTRPG #ZineQuest

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The fascist just saw me eating a snack and left the room.

I feel accomplished.

Darkness lashes out when it feels threatened.

*It feels threatened.*

I'm trying to take some solace in that.

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

Sketchbook Art by Hilander

I think I'll keep a sketchbook on my blog. That feels like a fun little addition.

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Hey thanks!

The Valley of Lune A living forest and abandoned city for Cairn 2e. ~48 page zine, statement format.

4 Days remain to back The Valley of Lune!

We reached our initial goal incredibly quickly, and we are *almost* to the only stretch goal of an official OSE conversion, included as a free PDF for all backers.

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#OSR #Cairn #Kickstarter #Zine #Indie

Life is a point crawl.

It is a TTRPG, never saw the light of publication though

It was called Knights of Green Mars. Essentially, stories of Martian Colonists struggling to survive after Mars has been half-successfully terraformed but Earth self-destructed. Fallout on Mars?

Riding around on motorbikes between colonies would fit the theme pretty well.

Cairn, Cairn, Cairn!

These bikes are awesome.

Make me want to revisit a post-apocalyptic Mars game I was writing a few years back.

In Defense of the Weak There's something special about being ordinary.

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New Blogpost. Been thinking about adventuring for progression.

#osr #dnd #ttrpg

Yep! Cool to see it in use.

Mythic Bastionland character sheet of the Gazer Knight with a misspelled name and a hex map in the background

Played some more Mythic Bastionland yesterday. Having a lot of fun with the combat system. Rolling all of our dice at the same time and deciding what to do as a group really speeds up combat.