Information and resources for indie OSR/NSR games (co-)organized by Tomasz. The current goal is to try out different OSR and NSR games (particularly Cairn...
Warning : contains spoiler alerts for What Happened to the Silver Spoon Boys? by Munkao. Also contains minor spoilers for Deluge at Drizzle Distillery . Rulings and judgment calls indicated with highlights . Warning to my players : turn back here if we haven't finished the module yet. I finally joined the early 2000s and drafted this report by dictating it to my phone for transcription. I don't…
Spoiler alert for Deluge at Drizzle Distillery by Munkao. As established in my Het Thamsya report , significant rulings and judgment calls are indicated with highlights . We ran Deluge at Drizzle Distillery over the equivalent of 2, 3 to 3.5-hour sessions. We had 5 players for the first half, 4 for the second. Once again, we really enjoyed the adventure but we also ran into a bit more friction…
Update, Aug 5: now featuring a pic of the map! Spoiler alerts for Tragedy at Zaya's Theatre by Munkao. This report is a few weeks late again (I've already written about small parts of this in passing in my last house rules & notes post ). Unfortunately, that means I've forgotten some of the more fun and interesting twists to the roleplay and table talk - we had a lot of fun with this one and the…
Part 1 of ??? Indie/OSR/NSR sessions every other Thursday at the Sword & Board have taken off. A core group gelled very quickly and has been pretty dedicated, with a few people interested in running games. I haven't run anything myself in that slot since finishing the Muckfort (final play report still pending!) and, oddly enough, I've been running Kala Mandala weekly in a different slot with an…
WARNING TO MY PLAYERS: very minor spoiler alert for Drizzle Distillery here (July 15, 2026) See previous post on this topic Having now played Kala Mandala 200% more than in the previous post (read: 3 sessions total), I have some more notes on how I'm running it. For the record, I really enjoy Kala Mandala and my players are really into it as well! The point of these posts is a) to help clarify my…
Read part 1 It took a few weeks to wrap up Het Thamsya and then another week to write up the notes. Unfortunately, I don't remember all the details as closely as when I wrote up the first one immediately after. We're running Kala Mandala weekly now, so hopefully I'll speed up with my reports. Preliminaries A new player showed up to the open table this week and he took a pre-gen. Mo Bawan : Monkey…
While creating pre-gens, I found a few things that I thought would need fleshing out at the table. Note that not all of these have not been playtested. All references to Early Access 0.13a. Skills Aromatherapy (Fighting) Oil = Small item. Takes 1 Turn to apply. Spend 1 watch to create 1 oil, requires cooking equipment. Must purchase ingredients (20-50g, not always available) or forage (1 watch/1…
I ran Kala Mandala for the first time tonight with some fellow regulars at the Sword & Board. We got through a big chunk of Stirring the Hornet's Nest at Het Thamsya . I want to jot down some notes quickly while it's still fresh. I'm flagging my own rulings relevant to Kala Mandala or the setting with marks , usually where I made or asked for rolls that weren't in the print. I was pretty generous…
Acknowledging that I'm way behind on play reports (we finished the Muckfort!), I created and published my first RPG resource: a campaign and party tracker for Cairn. Cairn campaign and party manager (template) by tommy_patate I'm working on a fillable PDF version, and have already found a bunch of typos to be corrected. I swear I read somewhere that Yochai Gal described Cairn as an exploration and…
Spoiler alert for minor details about the opening of CAS-2 Rise of the Blood Olms. We had our first session of Cairn at the Sword & Board on Thursday, February 26. Due to crossed wires, I couldn't promote it in time and only one player showed up but we went ahead and had a great session. Also, due to foggy memory, I forget how we navigated some of the procedures. Character creation and prep The…