Hello. There is indeed a FAQ on the main Cairn website (URLs won't work here). They explicitly deal with most of these questions. Additionally you can find far more elaborate explanations in Cairn 2e (which is nearly finished); you can read most of it (including combat examples) in the /wip/2e part of the Cairn website! As for essentials, block, dodge, parry seems to be very popular.

@@yochaigal One more question because I couldn’t find it on the FAQ. Does each additional damage to strength require the person damaged to make a save to remain standing or is it the only the initial attack that puts them into reserves?

@@Natvuri in combat a critical damage save is required each time someone takes STR damage.

@@yochaigal Sorry to pester you with questions but I have a few more that I could not find on your website. In the monsters section there are some creatures listed with multiple dice of damage in an attack, and I'm wondering if they're using the two handed combat rule or otherwise. Some also state themselves as detachments despite being singular creatures. Are you using detachment as a way to essentially "bossify" certain creatures and make them only take d4s of damage and do d12s? I was confused because with the detachment rules, they do d12s of damage but the black dragon is listed as a detachment and does d20s in claw attacks.

@@Natvuri Just go to the discord server (linked from the website). KZbin can't even send links lol. Anytime you see two dice that means it uses the two-handed rule. Detachment rules are applied to larger foes, indeed. You can read more about this in the Warden's Guide.

I consider torches self-lighting. Tinderbox is for lighting other things.

Oh thanks, I’ll have to let my Cairn GM know that 😊

Printed proofs arrive soon!

​@@yochaigalVery excited

The players discovered the ‘exit’ when looking for a way in

Yes. Go to the website (Google Cairn RPG). You can find it under Localization

It's FoundryVTT, it's subscription based

I'm not a programmer. But I am building a character keeper for Cairn. PS you should take a look at Inspiration Pad Pro. does exactly what you say.

@@yochaigal Thank you! I love Cairn and saw a talk with in the Questing Beast or other channel other day. You are quite intelligent and self conscious. Wish you luck on your projects! Also, thank you for publishing lore based on jewish culture, that's awesome, now we can learn more about your people through games!

They've actually been a thing for a while.... But I ran out. Soon.

@@yochaigal they have? I've looked for them on the Cairn website, didn't find anything

There are lots of way he could have taken it. I ran a game at PAXU where the PC was reckless. He learned his lesson, and adapted (exploding mold to the face will do that).. Nine did not. The player was happy with that, which is what I cared about. Thanks for watching.

Fair enough! I give you this point about adapting for sure. Buy I insist that from my experience players who have a bad element in their BG, while the others have not, tend to derail in games more.

Nevertheless, I very much liked your video, your process of character creation and introduction and your conducting in general! And I would like to thank you for uploading! 😁

It basically means that you reroll your HP (as if you were creating your character). If the result is higher than your current maximum, you take that max. But we are talking MAX, not current (which is 0, obviously).

@@yochaigal wow, you answered my question very fast!. Thank you very much.

Foundryvtt.

@@yochaigal Thanks

Thanks@@yochaigal

I can't post URLs here. Google "Cairn Forests of Another Name Jam" and "Cairn A Town, A Forest, a Dungeon Jam" since there is a second jam now!

Thanks !

Yes! This is called "splitting the party" and has a long and storied history.

Lol

Finished my session. First time running Cairn and it turns into my first ever tpk on this side of the table. Party got in over their heads in combat and tried to run. Their DEX saves were 20, 19, and 20. It's also the first tpk on the server where we were playing.

No I just don't think tracking arrows is particularly interesting. I'm not saying it doesn't come up, just that I don't care. It doesn't serve the kind of gameplay I care about. The inventory is abstract - a quiver fits on your back, the bow takes two hands. Is it 2 slots, or 3? I say 2. The quiver can be petty (using 2e nomenclature). Combat doesn't last long enough for someone to get more than a few shots, and I always assume they go retrieve their arrows. If you really want to add something to the game the usage die from the Black Hack would fit fine. Personally it just doesn't come up for me.

@@yochaigal thank you for the input!

It should count as two slots, yes. I'd have to rewatch the video to see if I messed up, though.

Poison or paralysis could affect DEX. Possession and spiritual attacks could impact WIL. Monsters make critical damage saves as well, yes. Yes ranged attacks would be impaired (d4) but more likely you'd use a different weapon.

@@yochaigal whoa that was fast, and it's weird because I am watching one of your interviews while replying to this lol. Thanks so much for the answers!

@@samakechijowo no problem, check out the FAQ on the website! It answers a lot of these kinds of questions.

I've since switched to Shmeppy. Far easier, but does way less. It's a wet erase mat.

Bulky, most likely.

@@yochaigal After playing a pointcrawl adventure in which a character had started with a hand cart (namely A Fistful of Feathers), we decided to rebalance the containers thus: Large sack: uses 1 slot, contains 2, 1 slot net gain. Hand cart: uses 2 slots, contains 8, 6 slots net gain. Horse, donkey or mule: uses 1 slot (your guiding hand), carries 6, 5 slots net gain, increased travel speed and enhanced damage while mounted. Wagon: takes up 6 slots, contains 12, 6 (if pulled by a character) or 11 (if pulled by an animal) slots net gain. This was done for two reasons: 1. The hand cart is a fairly big thing (50-100cm wide and 100cm long according to period illustrations) while the 4 slots in the original feel more like a wheelbarrow. 2. The characters have 8-9 out of the 10 slots filled after character creation without buying any extra equipment (sometimes all 10 are filled, and in extreme cases you get 11 slots worth of items). This makes it almost impossible to stock up on food for a longer journey, especially for a larger group. This particular adventure, assuming the shortest route is taken with no interruptions or delays, takes 16 days of travel, meaning 6 slots worth of food are needed per character. So either almost a full wagon or the whole backpack (per character) needs to be stuffed with food exclusively to even attempt the scenario with any chance of success. This of course can be an intentional challenge, and that's ok, but it still shows that using normal rules, escapades longer than 2 days in each direction (plus however long it takes to actually get stuff done once the characters get to their destination) are prohibitively expensive.

Characters don't die at 0 HP in this system. Damage beyond their HP would be substracted from STR, then they would do a STR save (roll d20 below or equal to STR). If the save is passed, they're hurt but still standing. If they fail the save they're incapacitated. Char die at 0 STR.

Yea they were careful. Avoiding danger as much as possible.

It’s Foundry Virtual Tabletop. Foundry VTT/FVTT for short.

From the Cairn rulebook: "No one can have more than 3 Armor".

They discussed that in the character generation actually. Plate doesn't stack with any other armor cause it's already at max.

Surprisingly solid for a minimalist system. I'm certainly going to try it.