My day job consists largely of reading adventures and providing feedback. And while I've read hundreds of OSR modules by now, I still don't have a good way to refer to all the...

I play a lot of games. I also teach a lot of games to people, in the pursuit of playing more games with more people. As a result I've come to some fairly obvious conclusions...

Cairn Press is proud to announce its first Adventure Double Feature with The Drops of St. Jerome and What Haunts the Harwood. Both of these adventures have been designed from...

Writing adventures for Cairn is very similar to writing for other OSR systems, with a few additional tweaks. Before reading further, see my previous post for a decent...

Writing dungeon locations is hard. I'm not referring to the creating a dungeon (that presents its own sort of challenge) but rather the actual act of writing it down. You have...

I play a lot of games with my son. Sometimes we don't have dice, cards, or other tools for resolving narrative situations. Initially I toyed with a resolution system that...

Nerds love taxonomy; it gives order to the world, and provides a meaningful sense of control. Of course, it's all an illusion. At best taxonomy is a useful tool, and at worst...

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 announced my plans, it...

Edit: I've published this adventure! Get it for free here! In the coming months I plan to publish a few more adventures in the Cairn Adventure Series. I thought it might be...

Two years ago, I ran a West Marches campaign using the tools from the Cairn Second Edition Warden's Guide. It was a lovely campaign. Games were almost never canceled, as new...