Third Party 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:
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 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”