Cairn Press
Cairn Press is a small publishing imprint focused on creating high quality supplements for the Cairn adventure game. What began as a free, compact ruleset has grown into a broad ecosystem of adventures, tools, hacks, translations, and third party releases across digital and print formats.
We work with creators who want to bring Cairn compatible material to print without taking on the full responsibilities of publishing. We also support collaborators interested in contributing to a small, focused, and sustainable publishing operation centered on clarity, fairness, and long term support for independent designers. Cairn Press is wholly owned and operated by Yochai Gal, creator of Cairn.
My name is Yochai. I write about RPGs, and related works of fantasy and science fiction. I co-host the Between Two Cairns podcast, and I've made a few things.
CAIRN is an adventure game about exploring a dark & mysterious Wood filled with strange folk, hidden treasure, and unspeakable monstrosities.
CAS-1: TROUBLE IN TWIN LAKES is the first in a series of starting adventures and settings for Cairn Second Edition.
CAS-2: RISE OF THE BLOOD OLMS is a starting dungeon for Cairn Second Edition designed for new and experienced Wardens alike.
CAS-3: THE FEAST OF TEGNY WOOD is a forestcrawl through an infected forest.
THE POSITRONIC LIBRARY is a simple dungeon for Into The Odd: Electric Bastionland, and other rules-lite OSR games.
THE CLAY SHELF is a setting or adventure site for Into The Odd: Electric Bastionland, set in the Deep Country, far from Bastion.
ONE SHOT WORLD is a hack of Dungeon World that removes most of the long-form mechanics and replaces them with simple rules designed to facilitate one-shots and short campaigns.
THE DUNGEON GAME is a small RPG (or wargame) about building a dungeon, populating it with monsters, then fighting them! I wrote and playtested it with my (then) 4-year old son.
Role Playing
A setting and adventure for Cairn.
An short dungeon for Cairn
An adventure game about characters exploring a dark, mysterious Wood.
Logos for 3rd party Cairn products
A Deep Country setting for Into The Odd: Electric Bastionland
A library dungeon for Into The Odd.
A small dungeon building & crawling game for kids.
A tabletop RPG designed for one shots and short campaigns
RPGs
An Adventure Location Pamphlet by Better Legends
A minimalist cyberpunk horror and survival RPG with minimalist rules and endless possibilities.
A reformatted version of Knave that you can print, fold, and staple into a beautiful zine.
Light RPG rules for party favours and dollar store d6.
Easy to play/teach/print classic adventure game
Solarpunk sci-fantasy mashup of BitD and 24XX in a post-post apocalypse world.
A tabletop RPG about desperate thieves and despicable vampires.
Giant-Slaying in the Fantasy Gig-Economy
A roleplaying game about overthrowing tyrants, inspired by Dark Souls and Berserk
A TTRPG about halflings who don't want no adventures, thank you
The all-terrain adventure game and toolkit for fantasy
Lo-fi sci-fi micro RPG collection
Rules for fantastic adventure games playable with paper and pencil and polyhedral dice
Freeform Adventure Game
A fantasy, minimalist, story-driven PDF RPG.
A Game of Survival for Two People
An adventure game for brave adventurers
A lightweight framework for OSRish play
Stuff I want to Buy
A system neutral adventure
Rules Light Freeform Tabletop Role-Playing System with a Weird Medieval Setting
Minimalist rules and fantasy setting in a mountainous world being consumed by forests
A micro-adventure for Knave (lvl 1-3)
A senile druid and a transplanar clockwork debt collector: A 12 room Dungeon
A perilous descent into the frozen unknown
Through the Valley of the Manticore is an adventure module designed for use with Old-School Essentials
Equip your old-school characters for perilous adventures in the Stone Age that never was...
An OSR cavecrawl through a dark world of stone and psychedelia.
an 8 room dungeon for your fantasy rpg of choice
A one page goat tower.
A downloadable asset pack
An adventure for Cairn into the roots of a gnarled tree located deep in a swamp.
Six Towns and Starting Areas for Journeyman Adventurers
A Science Fantasy RPG Zine
A Generation Ship Flies For Centuries. What Happens on board?
A system-agnostic sourcebook to the most remarkable helmets in the Multiverse.
A fantasy map made for use in OSR TTRPG's.
A system-agnostic encounter builder zine for a mysterious marsh.
RPG Tools
A modern hex-mapping tool to design, populate, and export immersive hexcrawl maps for your next RPG campaign.
FUCK IMAGES UP FOR YOUR ZINES
Run in browser
4 small handouts for TTRPG shopping moments
a simple TTRPG system for reactions and growth
d200 medieval names
A business card-sized tool for generating odd pointcrawls with a coin
Free Procedural Caverns for any TTRPG
A little zine about the math-rocks (polyhedral dice) used for role-playing games.
A handy tool for tabletop RPG cartography
format Markdown content into files for printing or publishing
a brief dungeon crawl procedure
Into The Odd
Beware of Sockrat for he corrupts the youth and robs everyone else.
A custom character sheet for Chris McDowall's Electric Bastionland
An expedition for Into the Odd
A freakish sideshow for Into the Odd.
A trifold brochure adventure location for pen and paper games.
A dungeon for Mark of the Odd game about exploring time and fighting a cosmic sentient fungi.
chaos in the streets, for Into the Odd
An intro adventure for Into the Odd
Explore an ancient airborne bouncy tomb, plunder inflatable treasure, survive!
a 39 room adventure location written to be played with the Into The Odd system
A dungeon in an inverted pyramid with crocodile-folks looking for survival. For Mark of the Odd games.
Printable character sheet for the Electric Bastionland RPG
Simple character sheet for Electric Bastionland
An Oddmas pamphlet adventure for Electric Bastionland
12 Seasonal Failed Careers for Electric Bastionland
17th century supplement for Into the Odd
Unofficial character sheet for the Into the Odd RPG
An adventure for Into the Odd
2D20 spark table for use with Electric Bastionland
Zines
the NSR Cauldron community zine
Ideas and rules for introducing a waking nightmare to fantasy adventure games.
A weird-fantasy RPG zine
A zine of anti-canon food magics, food revolutionaries, food fights, and food folk tales for tabletop roleplay.
A Southern Gothic Tabletop RPG Supplement
A brand new RPG zine to take you brand new places.
58 original RPG adventures by a diverse, international collective in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Sword and planet science-fiction Dungeon Crawl Classics fanzine
A PDF magazine of sword & sorcery tales, games, and comics.
a KNAVE zine
Adventures for Dungeon World and other fantasy TTRPGs. 11 zines in both screen and printable booklet form.
Into The Oddish
A family friendly Winnie the Pooh TTRPG
Simplistic character sheets for Into the Odd and Electric Bastionland
A Point-crawl & Adventure Site for Electric Bastionland
A strange theatre. A mysterious play. You have tickets in your names, and a good reason to spend a night a the theatre.
Appendix N Jam 2026 submission
A revolution, a prayer, a knife in the heart
Drink yourself into oblivion 'n ventures deep beneath the dunes of Titan in this Space Western TTRPG
A cosmic car-crawl to the depths of Hell!
A point-crawl adventure of geological marvel, written for Into the Odd
A Character Group for Into the Odd
An Into the Odd island adventure
A bontanical body-horror supplement for Into The Odd and Cairn 2E.
An Into the Odd Expedition for 3-5 Explorers
An OSR-inspired folk horror RPG of witchcraft and survival.
your guide in navigating corporate hell
An odd-like RPG in a faerie-touched world
Oddlike Weird Survival SCIFI TTRPG
A New Weird setting for Electric Bastionland
Hopeful game about dismantling sun-powered oppressive tyranny
A science fantasy old school module for Mark of the Odd
Worldbuilding
A set of D66 prompts to help you create interesting settings: from whole worlds to campaign ideas to adventure prompts.
Laws tell you what a society is like. A short fast world-building game.
Collaborative setting creation for fantasy worlds.
Generate thousands of unique mundane or legendary magic artifacts for your ttrpg games!
A collaborative map-making game
A cosy roll-and-write game in which you create your own fantasy map!
A map drawing-based role-playing and worldbuilding game, Where the players are the Gods
An Interactive Map Generator That Uses A Standard Deck Of Cards
Collaborative Worlbuilding Procedure for TTRPGs
Ask questions. Answer questions. Build a city.
Build a world together with your friends!
A simple, abstract story creation tool.
Postcolonial mapmaking game where everyone has a secret
Built a City together at the Table for any TTRPG system
A map-drawing game of post-capitalist futures
A Solo World-Building TTRPG
a gm-less (train station) worldbuilding game
A map-making and journaling solo RPG. Be the Forest. End civilization.
Build A Community Together
A playable dungeon-generator and map-making game.
Books
Six heroes challenge the evil hidden within the woods.
A story based on Brazilian folklore about adventure and discovery!
Solo Games
Solo-roleplaying Procedures for Into the Odd
A Solo World-Building TTRPG
Solo rpg of royal genealogy
A solo roleplaying game about exploring fantastic planets.
A solo roleplaying game about wandering in an ancient city.
A Solo Roleplaying Game for Creatives, Worldbuilders and the Uncommonly Curious
A solo game in which you explore the wilderness, noting what you see.
A single player game where you escape an exploding space station
Old School Adventures
An old school faery adventure for low level characters
A high-fantasy adventure anthology for Old-School Essentials
Level-0 funnel for OSE
An Old School RPG Adventure for 3rd level
A swamp-crawl sandbox adventure for D&D
Like a Zelda dungeon, but you play as a group of grubby grave robbers. Also, there's way more eyeballs.
OSR/5E dungeon trifold with spiders, skeletons, and oozes, oh my!
A cosmic horror dungeon exploration for Smithy of Sacrilege
A fully digital dungeon built in Twine and runnable at your table.
Seek out the truth telling Oracle (and pay the cost!)
An adventure module for Knave
a crustacean dungeon
Introductory System-Agnostic TTRPG Horror
A doomed fantasy city where the rains never stop!
A mountainous travel guide for use with Old-School Essentials
A Dark Fantasy Mini Setting
Cairn Adventures
TTRPG adventure for Cairn RPG
Rescue a lost hero, foil an assassination or break some curses in an underworld theatre full of skeletons.
A mini-dungeon level for the Cairn Community Dugneon Jam
A mad mage has left quite a unique experience in his private quarters...
A small dungeon about a mad wizard making hybrid monsters. Part of the Cairn Community Megadungeon.
A fairy-tale adventure for tabletop roleplaying games
2 animal hobs
Cairn adventuring site (dungeon)
A Hob Adventure for Cairn
Explore a non-Euclidean dungeon level inside a magical mirror in search of relics, for Cairn 2e.
A one-shot forest made for and with Cairn 2e
An adventure module about a fairy forest. For OSE, levels 1-3 or Cairn
A single arcane room/floor to be inserted in a larger dungeon, designed for Cairn
Short Dungeon Adventure for Cairn RPG
An ivy-choked spaceship. Hallucinating aliens. Cybernetic nutra.
A beloved lord's burial procession crosses through an ominous forest.
A forest crawl for Cairn
a haunted wood for Cairn
Short roguelike adventure for Cairn 2e
Assets
AI-free, collage hex maps for Mythic Bastionland, Into the Odd, Cairn etc.
A set of 32 hand-drawn minerals as stock art
27 shaded building illustrations
20 Fantasy Themed Sketch Style Illustrations
Old School Fantasy Encounters: Barren (Desert) token pack
Old School Fantasy inspired token pack
Old School Fantasy Encounters: Mountains token pack
Old school dungeon tiles to use for dungeon crawling in VTTs
Old school hex tiles to use for hexcrawling in VTTs and pen&paper
Player, Non-Player Character and Monster Artwork and Tokens
hex tiles, location icons and markers for commercial use
Simple portrait drawings that you can use for free
Generic Templates for making your own Pamphlets, Pocketmods and Zines/Books in Affinity
Printable chits for ODND/OSR
A collection of paper minis for your fantasy role playing table
6 Blank Scrap Maps to use for adventures!
hex tiles
Cairn Hacks
Mashup of ShadowDark, DCC and Cairn
Cairn RPG Compatible Sword & Sorcery
A set of tables for magical mutations for use with Cairn 2e.
A dead simple Cairn supplement that adds in Mechs, E-Warfare, and Rocket Pods.
How To 'Level Up' in the Cairn RPG
An 8-page MicroManual Hack of Cairn 2e
Solo Rules Guide For Cairn RPG
A hack of Knave 1e and 2e and also Cairn
OSR companion WebApp for fluid dungeon crawling. Procedural generation, total customization, zero tables.
a Cozydark TTRPG
Epic Dark Fantasy Roleplaying
A sword & sorcery based hack of Cairn
New Rules, Procedures, Armor & Gear for Cairn & Block, Dodge, Parry
Cairn BX B2 Caves & Keep Conversion
Cairn BX hack
inspired by 24XX and Cairn, Stirrup combines the best of both systems to create a beefier engine to run games
A roguelike dungeon crawling game using a 52 deck of cards and some dice.
Cosmic Horror & Pulp Action
Cairn Resources
Inspired by Cairn's implied setting, Vald.
Free character sheet with an actual cairn!
Medieval football rules for Cairn
Monster stats by Yochai Gal, as a small zine-like booklet that you can print at home.
More than 60 new pre-generated characters for Cairn 2e
Suplemento para Cairn 2e
Run in browser
Domains promo card from B2C 2026
Variantes de unicórnios para Cairn 2e
Harvest organs from slain monsters, brew potions, and survive the complications. A 6-page alchemy hack for Cairn.
Set of Relics for Cairn
An expansion of Simple Backgrounds featured on the Cairn SRD.
Conversion notes for running Cursed Scroll #1, The Gloaming, with Distant Lands or Cairn
3D printed slide box
You can not have a meaningful campaign if strict time, ration, light, salary, and inventory records are not kept
Handy little booklet of Cairn's rules & procedures
Rations are expensive. Inns even worse. Hunt monsters, cook in the dark, and survive deeper delves.
A Yorkshire Village Name Generator
Orc stas, motivations, monsters and lair for the Cairn RPG
Cairn In Other Languages
Suplemento para Cairn 2e
Une aventure fantastique vertigineuse
Variantes de unicórnios para Cairn 2e
Uma dungeon para Cairn 2e
Adventure
Versão básica de Cairn com texto revisado, arte original e fácil de usar. Jogue RPG!
Krótki loch do Cairna
Tradução para pt-br da aventura original CAS-3: The Feast of Tegny Wood
Role Playing
Erforsche einen dunklen und mysteriösen Wald voller unaussprechlicher Monstrositäten, seltsamer Kreaturen und Feen.
musi Cairn 1e lon toki pona
Esquema de aventura para Cairn donde está en juego el destino de toda una comunidad
Tradução para pt-br da aventura original CAS-2: Rise of the Blood Olms
Versão do RPG de aventura Cairn 1e, traduzido para Português Brasileiro.
Um hack de Cairn para aventuras Cyberpunk
Escrito por Yochai Gal
Traduction française de l'aventure "Rise of the Blood Olms" de Yochai Gal, pour le jeu de rôle Cairn.
Procedures
Advice, techniques, and how-tos for becoming an exceptional OSR Game Master
Domain Play for Romances, Sagas, and Chronicles
6-room dungeon worksheets
MOSAIC Strict Rules for TTRPGs
Collaborative Worlbuilding Procedure for TTRPGs
Mass Combat Rules for the Tiny Libary Game Jam
A System-Neutral Monster Compendium of Riding Animals
Faction Rules for DURF
General rules to run travel and exploration sequences for roleplaying games.
NSR Rules Mash-Up
MOSAIC and CERAMIC-strict travel and navigation through 6 mile hexes
A mini-zine setting for fantasy role-playing games.
Modular Rules & Procedures for Cairn RPG (1e).
A travel and rest module for TTRPGs
An NPC template with some narrative bits
A ruleset for picking locks
Contemporary dungeoncrawls
Kids
A small dungeon building & crawling game for kids.
A papercraft dungeon exploration game
Wargames
A wargame set in an amalgamated solar system full of zealots of planets.
a minimal miniature game
A Wizard Duel Miniatures Game
A fantasy skirmish heartbreaker
Fantasy Wargaming of Dungeons & Decrepitude
A gothic high fantasy strategy roleplaying game.
A minimalist skirmish game based on MiniBX
A lightweight, quick to learn skirmish game. No bookkeeping.
A sci-fi miniatures skirmish heartbreaker
settings
A fantasy adventure RPG for 1 or more players.
A planepunk fantasy campaign kit for any system
union rpg setting
Cairn 2e Backgrounds
a Cairn 2e Background
Five sordid backgrounds for Cairn
A background for Cairn 2nd Edition
An undead background for cairn that I made as part of an adventure I'm writing.
Five veteran backgrounds for Cairn
A Science Fantasy Background for Cairn 2e inspired by tv show Arcane
An emisary, an envoy, a diplomat that hides behind altering, magical masks.
A Science-Fantasy themed background for Cairn 2nd Edition.
A science Fantasy Background for Cairn 2e
For Cairn 2e Science-Fantasy
A Science-Fantasy themed background for Cairn 2nd Edition. In english and spanish.
Three science-fantasy backgrounds for Cairn 2E
Time Travelers!
Sunburnt and perspiring with enlightenment. Unasked for insight in exchange for alms
Science-Fantasy Background for Cairn
Ride an Exotic Beast across the galaxy
7 Character Backgrounds for use with Cairn