Root: The Roleplaying Game – Core Rulebook

Publisher’s blurb:

War has returned to the woodland!

The Marquise de Cat led her armies to victory over many of the clearings, but the Eyrie Dynasties rise again to oppose her. Meanwhile, the mice, rabbits, and foxes of the Woodland do not sit idly by—the Woodland Alliance, a homegrown rebellion, has emerged, promising to free the Woodland from any oppressors.

In the midst of this war, you and your friends—vagabonds all—travel between the clearings, taking on jobs no one else can or will do. You choose whom you serve, if anyone…but everyone knows you may tip the balance of the War.

Root: The Roleplaying Game is the officially-licensed tabletop RPG based on the award-winning Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right board game by Leder Games. In Root: The RPG, you play vagabonds, individual outlaws whose adventures and alliances define the Woodland forever.

Root: The RPG contains:

Nine unique playbooks, each built to help you create a vagabond whose exploits will echo in the Woodland for generations to come.
Easy-to-follow rules for all manner of fantasy adventure, including roguish feats, reputation and travel mechanics, and more.
Innovative mechanics for managing equipment, weapons, and combat that make your choices matter both tactically and narratively.
Detailed instructions for running Root: The RPG—crafting combats, managing factions, and more—alongside a full clearing, Gelilah’s Grove.

From the introduction:

Root: The Roleplaying Game is a pen-and-paper tabletop storytelling game. Alongside a few friends, you spin out the stories of roguish vagabonds as they journey throughout the Woodland, acting as something between knaves and heroes!
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Root: The Roleplaying Game is based on the same fictional world as Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right, playing with many of the same themes and ideas, but from a different perspective—that of a tabletop roleplaying game focused on the vagabonds themselves.

What Makes Root: The Roleplaying Game Unique?Root: The Roleplaying Game is a tabletop roleplaying game in which the characters you play are anthropomorphic animal vagabonds—miscreants, rogues, outcasts, and renegade heroes—adventuring across the Woodland. The vagabonds are highly skilled and capable, but they’re not really at home anywhere in the myriad clearings of the Woodland. So they move around, traveling the paths and crossing the dangerous forests, taking jobs for pay and equipment.

Whether they mean to be or not, the vagabonds are often drawn into the overarching conflict between the powerful factions of the Woodland. As those factions wage war against each other, the vagabonds may prove the key to tipping the balance in favor of one faction or the other…or they may act as heroes, protecting the average Woodland denizens from a war that might consume them. Whatever they do and whomever they support is your choice as you play!