To Care is to Cairn Demo
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Our town is changing.
We are left with artifacts that hold us to the past. They seem to betray history by breaking¸ altering¸ and growing beyond a generation. This is not a betrayal. We do not expect the past to hold such power over the present¸ and we forget that the present accounts for history just the same. Rubbish will always forge itself into a monument¸ and we will always be a part of that.
To Care is to Cairn
is a worldbuilding tabletop roleplaying game that carries players through a civilization of their making¸ from a bird's eye view of once everyday objects. Artifacts will become part of a tapestry to a community's developing history¸ using real world archaeological influence. This game can be played as its own one-off session¸ or as a tool to add complexity to approaching / established campaigns¸ with between one and five players.
Touchstones
The Quiet Year by Buried Without Ceremony¸ Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel¸ Trey the Explainer¸ Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett¸ The Bumper within the Q*Bert Arcade Machine by Gottlieb
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