A dragon's hoard is a rich prize indeed, but even if a brave fool can steal such loot, the malice of the golden wyrms is not easily thwarted. Without care, greed poisons the soul and madness follows close after.

No Loot Without Malice is a table top roleplaying game supplement created for Cairn 2e as a part of the Appx. N Game Jam.  Inside, Wardens will find:

• New mechanics for Dragon's Sickness: A dangerous affliction which threatens characters with increasingly deadly madness as they loot cursed gold. 
• A d20 loot table of valuables found in a dragon's hoard, including 11 new relics. 
• Two new entries for the bestiary: the lowly Gold Dragon Wyrmling, a person who gave themselves completely to their greed and hatched a monster; and Graevnethax, the Miser of Charnus, a draconic tyrant of terrifying power only the greatest heroes stand a chance of slaying.

A note to Wardens: This supplements and the mechanics it presents subvert the traditional role of loot in many OSR style systems. The items and treasure found here are powerful and tempting, but the risks associated are significant and should be clearly communicated so as not to punish characters for doing something that many systems implicitly incentivize.

License and Credits

This work is AI-Free. It does not include content or media that was AI or Machine Generated. Supporting this work means supporting real people. All assests are license under CC BY 4.0, CC0, SIL OFL, or are royalty free.

Game System: Cairn 2e — Yochai Gal 
Art: Chalice of Saint John the Evangelist [reverse] — Hans Memling (Cover 1), Page 223 of Fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen (Walker) — Dugald Stewart Walker, The Temptation of Saint Anthony — Jacques Callot, Greed — Jacques Callot, Todesdrache — Dr. F. Strüver
Fonts: Mephisto —Daniel Ripli, Capo Rose — Michele Casanova
Other: Appx.N Game Jam — Dank Dungeons, Human Made Assest Pack — Lone Archivist