Exalted Order Of The Mystic Moose
A downloadable zine
This zine is a submission to the A Town, A Forest, A Dungeon jam and the Classic Explorer Workshop jam. Please take a community copy down below if you'd like! Especially if you participated in either of the above jams.
The Mauvewoods.
You can’t hope to see the crown of a mauvewood tree from the ground. It took a day just to climb to the top of the oldest trees.
Look past the undergrowth and ghosts can be spotted on the old lumber paths. Every ghost you see used to live in a mauvewood tree. Knock on a healthy tree, and you just might hear a hollow wooden knock in answer.
This zine details a forest, a town, and a dungeon, all intended for use with the tabletop roleplaying game: Cairn. Explore a forest full of lumberjacks, maple syrup, and strange ghosts. Delve into an old mansion sinking into a marsh. Confront the Exalted Order Of The Mystic Moose.
30 pages describe a unique forest ecosystem, 11 locations, 3 factions, around 22 npcs/creatures, a 20 room dungeon, and a number of weird items and relics. Random tables help with fleshing out the setting.
By Jacob Marks.
Typeset in Faustina, Almendra, and Almendra Display.
Thanks to: Samantha Peterson for her support and proof-reading, Clayton Notestine for The Classic Explorer Template, Chris McDowall for Into The Odd, and Yochai Gal for Cairn. Some text in this zine is from the Cairn SRD which is published under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.
The text in this zine is published under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.
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Community Copy
Please take a free copy if you would like or need!
Especially if you participated in either of the jams this is submitted to.
Development log
- Added art and map handoutsJul 14, 2023
- Finished!Jul 14, 2023
- Playtested!Jul 10, 2023
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Thank you so much for your kindness and generosity in providing community copies of your game. I’m a disabled pension who can’t afford much so these free gifts really help me out in playing games and keeping my mind active.
I really appreciate your hard work and kindness
hey i took a community copy and started reading through it preparing to run it with my players and i was just blown away by the quality of the formatting and the art and everything and i had to buy it. thanks for making this great setting and adventure for cairn!
I'm running this next week and have read through it a couple of times. It looks fantastic.
This adventure looks so very, very good. The art is fantastic. The writing is tight and evocative. The ecosystem of the forest and creatures are well thought out and rich with unique details. The factions are at odds with each other in interesting ways, have solid motivations, and are tied in well to the more independent inhabitants spread throughout the forest.
The long owls really creep me out, but I don't have much else to complain about here. I really hope I can find the time to run this adventure soon.
For a longer gushing review, you can check out my blog: https://blog.catshavenolord.page/review-exalted-order-of-the-mystic-moose/