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finally got around to running this last night! good stuff. i love the art and dark vibes. i did add a secret door in the first room and the players ended up discovering it and going through the dungeon backwards. im also happy they ended up lighting all of the fire things so that was super cool! i definitely plan on running it again with another group though because i didn't get a lot of time to prepared and we got cut off at the end so didn't get to the last two rooms. super cool tho. one minor suggestion would be to expand on where the players actually start. do they start in the town or at the dungeon? I let them start at the dungeon and just fast tracked the background info.

this is fucking amazing. it's so evocative. i feel like i could build an adventure or setting with any single one of these monsters. thanks for making this CC by SA as well. you've done the world a service

the new art is amazing. great stuff!! i love the idea of having a little deck of cards to draw from for random encounters 

this is great! always looking to give more details like these

this is so good! exactly what i needed. i always struggle with these random events in the moment and can never think of what a possible "sign" might be or discovery

thanks for this! I agree. I think I'm just not good at running this adventure despite it being a neat little idea.

glaze? lol what

please upload a video or pics of the game. im interested

Hi, I would not recommend "creating a story". This can lead to an experience which feels too structured and too controlled by the Game master. Instead, I would just describe the things that exist, (the things the player sees, hears, smells, etc.), and then let the player decide what it is that they want to interact with and what it is that they want to do. In return you just describe the outcome of their actions, and you can keep going from there.

some tips:

tip #1: most of the time try to always mention a couple of things the player can interact with. this gives them some readily obvious choices. For example: there's a door on one side of the room, there's a person standing behind the bar, there's a lantern on the wall, etc.

tip #2: every once in awhile remember to give a brief description of something other than just what they see. These types of tiny details create a lot more immersion in the world. For example: how cold the temperature is, the smell of the food, or the feel of a physical object like an unusually smooth stone or a roughly carved beer mug.

this is super cool. you clearly put a lot of work into this. i love the original mario bros so nice job. my only complaint is the physics. the physics imho don't feel the best. things feel a little floaty and the jump is very hard to control. but besides that nice art.

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oh that’s cool! 

I see! Thank you

I don't understand the shape of this map. are the rooms magically connected? it is a cylindrical tower so i don't get it. are the rooms at slants? some of the rooms are above the others as well.

my favorite game. I don’t need another TTRPG. I could play this one forever. It has everything I need for a TTRPG

ahhhhhhhhasda

I still plan on making an adventure module for this

wow this is such an interesting concept. I wish I wasn't too scared to play it haha 

i'm really inspired by the artsy vibes of your work and the leftist vibes of co-ops and socialists

oh ok cool stuff

can you provide more info on your experience with this?

I love the art here! It's very nice. It inspires me to try my hand and making supplements/modules

I love this. Lots of character. Simple and interesting. Unique. I plan on using all of them at some point 

i dont support AI art but these are nice. why not just find public domain art by humans?
you did do a nice job of making them all look similar in style though

hi it’s saying that the permanent bundle has ended. I’d really like to run this for my group but I want to get both at the bundled price. Is that still possible? Thank you :)

how many pages is it?

looks amazing!

this looks cool!

I printed some out because this looks cool and will be bringing them to my open table for players to take and use. Very nice concept 😊

ok no worries if not I will make a version of it and print that to use with my group :) I already printed march through the winter woods and I wanted to run this as well. In my world I already was planning on having a giant's castle in a snowy place so this castle works perfectly!

yo when i print this the left side gets cut off. are you able to add some margin or upload a pdf where there are two separate pages?

hey i took a community copy and started reading through it preparing to run it with my players and i was just blown away by the quality of the formatting and the art and everything and i had to buy it. thanks for making this great setting and adventure for cairn!

i like this a lot

Ok I read over the adventure again and I see that room 4 mentions Luna says her husband is trapped in room 11. It took me a minute to figure this out. At first I thought that Luna and her husband got into some kind of a fight with the werewolves and Kain was imprisoning Luna’s husband lol I was very confused, but I think I’ve finally got it now:

Luna ebert and her husband kain are all werewolves and they’ve ransacked and tried to takeover this temple in hopes of getting rid of their lycanthropy in the process while trying to figure out how to heal themselves they have also killed almost all three of the temple druids in some kind of a battle but the lycanthropes just nearly sort of won with Luna ending up chained up and kain being stuck in the well somehow. Ebert was out and about watching or something and I assume doesn’t know about his companions predicaments but they have essentially killed everyone there. 

i started running this with someone but then they had to go but it was really cool at the start. im definitely going to finish running it with someone.

I have a question. Room 8 describes a faint male voice saying “help they’ve trapped me down here.” Where is that voice coming from? Is  that coming from room 11 and if so is it Kain I’m assuming trying to trick the players? 

i like the aesthetics of this game! 

the controls were a bit difficult for me to figure out too.  i've only been playing this game for two minutes. it seems great. but i just wanted to see in the comments if anyone else had some difficulty with the controls too at first

really liked the visuals and audio. it made for a peaceful experience. i also liked that the restart time was very quick. i saw a similar game to this concept in this jam as well and it had some markers in the darkness which allowed for a little bit of a reminder as to where things are in the level. maybe that would make the levels slightly less challenging. nice job tho!

nice game. good take on the theme! it was creative! I hadn't thought of doing something like this but i liked it. the gameplay was also challenging but not too difficult.

like a short 2 page pre written adventure would be cool with some locations and characters etc. :) plot hooks

great little prototype here!! i love the look and feel of the game. one thing i would change personally is i would make it so that the light follows the mouse automatically instead of following the mouse by clicking and dragging that was a little tedious but yeah i like the visuals a lot and you've got a solid mechanic.