tulgey
A downloadable ttrpg setting
Forge through Brillig Forest, from the treetown of Frabjous to the Red Keep at Galumph Town. Explore the peculiar physics at Sloe Fell to find treasure or friendship (not mutually exclusive).
Use Rumour Tables to find something investigate the world and either complete the quests or follow your hearts. Reward puns and wordplay and references to canon Alice.
This is the first and forever free installment of Tulgey: An Alice in Wonderland-inspired setting and adventure(s) for the Cairn system. In this edition, some references are made to the Jabberwock, these are beyond the scope of this edition (it was simply too big). Brillig Forest is only 1/3 of Tulgey Wood.
The pdf includes:
- 12 NPCs based on Wonderland characters
- 1 adventure and multiple hooks
- 11 threats in the bestiary
- atmospheric Public Domain art
- a delightful glossary from the New Forest dialect of Southampton, England
Does anyone actually like it?
Amazing!
— Yochai Gul, creator of Cairn
I really enjoyed this adventure.
— A. Keane
Game Expansion
Brillig Forest is the first installment of four in this Alice in Wonderland-esque romp. Future expansion includes new art, a rabbit hole/looking-glass travel mechanic, more towns with more locations, more NPCs and tables to create more on the fly, and more dungeons filled with more threats and treasure. Not to mention expansion and improvement on Brillig.
About Pilcrow
Pilcrow is a system to adapt literature into playable narrative-driven TTRPGs easily. Core concepts from this prototype system were layered on top of Cairn's amazing simple gameplay mechanics.
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System: Cairn was created by Yochai Gal and is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.
Needed: d4 - d20 dice, notetaking supplies, a copy of Cairn.
Time to play: 10-minute character creation for an easy, enjoyable one-shot or multisession adventure.
Ages: As long as there's no danger of eating the dice.
Uncle Vova CC BY SA 4.0
Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (5 total ratings) |
Author | atelier pilcrow |
Tags | Atmospheric, cairn, literature, OSR, Tabletop, Tabletop role-playing game, zine |
Asset license | Creative Commons Attribution_ShareAlike v4.0 International |
Average session | A few hours |
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Development log
- the garden path to Cairn 2eJun 05, 2024
- adventure update and small layout adjustmentsJul 22, 2023
- tulgey takes a sip!Jul 17, 2023
- Minor Typos and Layout rehaulJul 04, 2023
- tulgey version 0.5 liveJun 17, 2023
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Amazing! Please make more. With poems, of course!