Follow the Bones
A downloadable supplement
Somewhere near the heart of the Wood is a cairn.
Why have you set out to find it?
Follow the Bones is 12-page booklet of supplementary rules and tables for generating enigmatic, surprising quests. Use up to three 4-sided dice to unwind the sort of strange, symbol-laden tales you find in Gawain and the Green Knight, the Grail Cycle, and dark fairy tales.
The encounters in Follow the Bones are statless — to play, you'll need to pair it with a complete role-playing game. Though designed specifically for Cairn, the rules and tables could, in principle, be used with any medieval fantasy game that features a forest (e.g. Trophy, Knave, OSE, Dungeon World, etc).
Follow the Bones also serves well as a setting for solo play, particularly when paired with an oracle like Barrow Dweller.
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In order to download this supplement you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $2 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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Community copies
Community copies may be available for anyone who'd like to use Follow the Bones, but can't reasonably justify the cost. For every $10 dollars spent on the game, a bundle of five community copies will be added.
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a very simple and elegant travel oracle. Uses 2d4 and a waypoints/stages kind of system to propel your narrative forward. Very worthy of having in a travel toolkit, especially for solo players. Doesnt present too much information to overwhelm, but the results are evocative. Glad to have picked this up!