I am really pleased to present Golden Idol v.0.9.0 (beta).

This Cairn hack is 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).

Characters are 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).

These are the main feature of this hack:

• Principles of the World, that provide guidelines on the kinds of adventures that can be conducted with the game and give some implied setting.
• Reworked of the Cairn SRD to adapt the genre (no magic nor scrolls).
• Simplified vehicle rules from Plerion/Taintedweald!
• Six archetypes: Soldier, Archeologist, Scientist, Specialist, Pilot, and Hustler. Each with its quirks and background
• Inventory: took some items from Liminal Horror (but very few, indeed) and make a whole list of modern firearms
• Pre-made list of: artifacts (the objective of the mission), secret society, lost civilization (mostly fictional)
• A complete bestiary (both animals and human foes)
• Globetrotting rules and adventure writing guidelines
• Site exploration rules and design guidelines (with the Wallet Dungeons by @AwkwardTurtle!)

Thanks to @Eujohn@dice.camp for the title!

Web SRD available at: https://goldenidol.zeruhur.space/

Any comments are very welcome!