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Cairn

Cairn is an adventure game about exploring a dark and mysterious Wood filled with strange folk, hidden treasure, and unspeakable monstrosities. Character generation is quick and random, adventures are tense and reward careful exploration, and combat is frantic and deadly.

Start playing in three steps

Overview & Principles

Covers Overview · Principles for Players · Principles for Wardens

Character Creation

Covers Roll or choose a Background · Backgrounds · Attributes, Hit Protection, and Traits · Attributes · …

Or use the Character Generator

Core Rules

Covers Attributes · Saves · Healing & Recovery · Deprivation & Fatigue · …

Character sheets

A fillable PDF (about 3 MB), Letter size. A4 and two to a page are in the free Player's Guide on itch.io.

Sheet layout
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Preview of the landscape character sheet
Landscape
Preview of the portrait character sheet, framed by a sword
Portrait