Cairn: Session Zero

Nice, you mean before we start? Mind if I buy a helmet and modify my sheet to reflect the purchase?
I was thinking something similar as soon as I saw we had the same bond. With 14 years between us, Sable could easily be Gann’s uncle. Perhaps the younger brother of my mother Bala? This way he need not be personally wrapped up in Gann’s family ruin, but still affected. They would have saved the Naiad about ten years ago when Sable was looking after the twelve year old Gann.

If we do have a connection like this, Gann might inform Sable of jobs when he hears about them through the Marchguard - possibly what happened this time around. How’s this sounding @quilltid ?

First — yep. You can spent the coins you generate during chargen now, before we start, to get more equipment and weapons and whatnot.

Second — I’ll let you two work out the specifics, Sudo, but those are indeed along the lines I was thinking. I think the different in age is 12 years, but it’s still kind of a neat older / younger set. Maybe the youngun found the Naiad and ran to get the elder…

@SudoDragon That sounds great what you guys have come up with for the bond between Gann and Sable. That makes sense Gann would inform Sable about the job if they already knew each other, especially as family. Sounds good about Sable being Uncle Sable, younger brother of Bala. When he was still green as a Prowler, he stayed with the family for a bit and was watching Gann who discovered the Naiad. Unsure of what Gann had found, he waded into the water to help when he felt something snake around his boot. Frightened by what turned out to be the Naiad's hair, he inadvertently rescued the Naiad by pulling it along and out while trying to escape the waters.

…pulling her out, yowling, by the hair! Heroic! :)

Dig it, and easy enough to flash out in play. As you establish background facts and whatnot as we go, I recommend just making notes on your sheet.

Never heard of it, so I'm good!
This works for me. @Aline, maybe Nessa and Rowan helped each other out of a sticky situation of some kind and bonded as a result? Maybe they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and worked together to successfully get out of whatever it was.

I suppose that could work. Maybe the simplest option is to have everyone start out as passengers on Wrens boat? That way we do not need to have some deep connection between the characters but they would all have had a chance to get acquainted?

I think that’s a good idea!

We can certainly do that, but Cairn is a little different from some OSR. Usually you say, "You're an adventuring party. You've done this before and you'll do it again."

But in Cairn there are all these additional motivations, hooks, connections. There's a real possibility people might want to go in different directions based on what is on their sheet, and that's not why we're all here.

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Having said that, the idea was indeed to have you all arrive by river to start the game.

Everyone about ready? Would love to start this week.

Brewing it up shortly. Thanks for being patient as I got busy through the middle part of the month!