So… As announced on Jan. 1, I am outlining this Cairn hack meant to run modern Indiana Jones like adventures. Or more on the line of Dirk Pitt and Sigma Force, if you know those.

It takes direct inspiration from Ancient Mysteries and Lost Treasure by Simon Washbourne (an old White Box hack, long forgetten now). I’ll soon make available the first draft for everyone on the dedicated website.

Characters will be part of LARA (Legendary Artifacts Recovery Agency), pun intended of course. They will have to fight against time and secret societies or other government agencies to secure the artifacts before they fall into the wrong hands. Plenty of room for globetrotting (pointcrawl) and site exploration (dungeoncrawl).

For now:

• I reworked the Cairn SRD to adapt the genre (no magic nor scrolls)
• Simplified vehicle rules from Plerion/Taintedweald!
• Six archetypes: soldier, archeologist, scientist, specialist, pilot, hustler. Each with its quirks and background
• Inventory: I took some items from Liminal Horror (but very few, indeed) and make a whole list of modern firearms

TBD:

• Principles of the World: I have them in mind, still to jot down though
• Fine tuning the archetypes a bit
• Globetrotting rules
• Site exploration rules and design (maybe I will adapt something from @Yochai Gal#3843 and @Adam H#9225 )
• Making a pre-made list of: artifacts (the objective of the mission), secret society, lost civilization (mostly fictional)

What do you think of this?