Barrow Delver
A downloadable Oracle
Barrow Delver is a set of solo roleplaying rules for Cairn.
Cairn is an adventure game for a Warden and at least one other player. In Barrow Delver, you are both the Warden and the player. You are the arbiter of the rules and you are a hardened adventurer exploring a dark & mysterious forests filled with strange folk, hidden treasure, and unspeakable monstrosities.
These rules are inspired by Mythic Game Master Emulator by Word Mill and MAZE RAT by Peter Rudin-Burgess. Barrow Delver is by Matthew Morris and is released under CC-BY-SA 4.0. License.
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How do the Pressure Point come into play? I see the rules about what it represents and how it changes, but what does it affect? How do you use it? Does it modify something?
How does the Pressure Point come into play? I see the rules about what it represents and how it changes, but what does it affect?
What is the answer?
I understood Pressure Point (X) to be the number for the Oracle that you try to roll under. An X of 6 is harder to roll under with a d20 then an X of 10. This basically makes it a 'Chaos Factor lite' if you know Mythic.
Hi ManaDawn!
I would like to translate Barrow Delver to Simplified Chinese (简体中文) and post it on itch.io for free (under CC-BY-SA 4.0), is that okay for you? I’d also like to use the cover material if possible.
I’ve got a lot of other work to do at the moment (*sigh*), but if you’ll allow me to translate this in the future, we can high-five right now.
P.S. I’ve translated Cairn SRD and hacked a beautiful cover!
love this idea!!!
Hi, I'm thinking of translating Barrow Delver to Polish. Would it be ok with you?
please do! That sounds amazing
Great, can I contact you somehow? Maybe I could use some of your files to make it look similar?
For sure. You can reach out at manarampmatt@gmail.com
It's ready at: https://hechlok.itch.io/badacz-kurhanow
Thanks for helping me with it
I used this for a solo game of Cairn and really enjoyed the changing dynamic for the yes/no outcomes. I’m looking forward to trying the spark tables at some point.
I printed a couple of copies and am stuffing them into some of my other RPG zines to run with other game systems, since this is so versatile! Thanks for providing this as a free product.
Love the idea of the yes/no Oracle relating to the Pressure Point DR, very neat!