Useful Links

Bastionland

Chris McDowall created Into The Odd and Electric Bastionland, Cairn owes 90% of its rules to him. Here are some of his most impactful posts:

• How I Run Into The Odd
• The ICI Doctrine
• Difficulty in Bastionland
• Foreground Growth and Becoming Odd
• Three Step Dungeons
• 34 Good Traps

Widdershins Wandering

Naeolin has written a ton of great posts on Cairn, including:

• Cairn Crash Course
• Conversion Guide
• 2e Setting Guide

Dice Goblin Games

Dice Goblin (author of the Block, Dodge Parry hack)

• Time, Gear & Skill: A Different Approach to Skill Checks
• Dark Souls inspired Weapons
• Gathering & Crafting in Cairn
• Modular Magic for Cairn
• Hostile Negotiations: A Conversational System for Into The Odd/Cairn

Dreaming Dragonslayer

Sam is the author of Skorne and Adventure Hour, and writes on Into The Odd (and its variants), playing with children, and foreground growth.

• Advantage & Impact
• Diegetic Advancement Triggers
• Advancement And Continuous Play
• Focus on the World
• Odd Notaion: Monsters
• Knowledge and Perception

Videos

• Yochai Gal: “Barrow of the Elf King” (Actual Play with Cairn 1e + Warden commentary)
• Yochai Gal: “Rise of the Blood Olms” (Actual Play with Cairn 2e + Warden commentary)
• Dieku Games: “Use Cairn to Design Your RPG”
• Bob World Builder “The easiest DnD like RPG”
• Tabletop Sandbox: “D&D 5e has two many rules”
• By Odin’s Beard: “How is Cairn Different from D&D 5e”
• Jorphdan’s Jocular Junction: “Taking Cairn of Business”
• Axe Wizard: “Cairn 2e Worldbuilding”
• Legends & Dice Cafe: “Cairn 2e: Quick Tutorial”