If You go Down to the Woods Today…
ROOT: THE ROLEPLAYING GAME
Designer: Brendan Conway & Mark Diaz Truman | Publisher: Magpie Games
As with the boardgame that inspired it, Root : The RPG hides sharp teeth beneath its cutesy trappings. It uses a simple ruleset to weave sandbox-ey stories of woodland warfare that blend heroism and despair, where wandering vagabonds clash and cooperate with powerful factions.
The starting premise of the RPG is identical to that of the strategyfocused boardgame. Both are set in the Woodland -a randomly rolled stretch of forest inhabited by humanoid animals. Think Disney’s Robin Hood mixed with the Redwall books. Or, possibly, a heavily armed branch of the Sylvanean Families.