A tabletop roleplaying game based on the award-winning Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right board game.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
August Check-in and Samples
about 6 years ago
– Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 03:57:19 AM
Erroneous eagles! It’s time for our first-half-of-August 2020 update on Root: the RPG!
GenCon and Free RPG Day Overview
GenCon online happened just over a week ago, and it was a fantastic experience! Thank you to everyone who came to play in one of Magpie Games’s online events!
Mark Diaz Truman and I (Brendan Conway) did an interview with Simon Moody about Root: The RPG! We talk about a bunch of things ranging from design topics to the story of the project, so check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REIzB66hQGw
And then, Mark, Sarah Doombringer, Marissa Kelly, and I all played a 2-hour demo game of Root: The RPG! It was a great, fun game with a great cliffhanger ending! Check that out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWwHSR2i8Vw
These are still limited in quantity—once we run out, we’re out, so make sure you nab yours if you want one to hold!
Production Update: August
We’re still pushing ahead on the text and final rules of the game! We’re refining playbooks, faction mechanics, equipment rules, and more, all focused on making the game and the core book as excellent as possible! We’ll share more about some of those changes and refinements in future updates.
We also received a whole bunch of white samples from our manufacturer, Longpack Games! We have a few things we’re going to check on for quality issues and to see if we can get a few other changes made, but on the whole we’re very happy with what they’ve shown us. The two hardcover books fit beautifully in the slipcase sample; the GM screen feels good and sturdy; and we were all impressed by the bag and how well it fit everything!
Here’s a picture of some of the pieces further along in development—the two notepads and the dice! We’re very pleased with how all these turned out, with only minor changes to bring them to their final version!
Trails To and Fro
We’re still hard at work making every single piece of this game as excellent as we can, and we really appreciate your ongoing support! Whenever we get in some new piece or sample or design that makes us all excited, we’re reminded of how awesome it is that you helped to fund such an incredible project! Thank you all again, and we’ll check back in about a month!
Free RPG Day Booklet Live Today!
about 6 years ago
– Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 01:43:47 AM
Huzzah, denizens! The Free RPG Day booklet for Root: The RPG is going live in just a short time on our webstore and on DriveThruRPG now!
We have a limited quantity of copies in our warehouse, so if you want yours, make sure you put in your order when we go live at 1 pm EST! The booklet is free, and only our standard shipping rates apply. You can order your copy here:https://www.magpiegames.com/product/frpgd-pellenicky-glade-quickstart/
Thanks to everyone for your support! If you nab a copy, let us know what you think!
Free RPG Day News!
about 6 years ago
– Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 10:49:00 PM
Coruscating cats! We’ve got some specifics to share regarding the Free RPG Day Root: The RPG Booklet!
Free RPG Day Booklet - Released July 25
Free RPG Day is July 25 this year! On July 25, you’ll be able to find the booklet for Root: The RPG Day in participating retailers! You can find participating retailers here: https://www.freerpgday.com/gamers/
Just like the name implies, the booklet is free to grab where you find it!
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, we’re also aware that there are many who either cannot or would prefer not to go to their local game store—and we definitely want people to keep safe. So we’re going to make the same Free RPG Day booklet for Root: The RPG available from our webstore—for free! Only our standard shipping rates for the webstore will apply (and if you get more than just the Free RPG Day booklet, then you’ll still only pay the normal shipping for your whole cart)!
We only have a limited supply of copies of the Free RPG Day booklet in our warehouse, so if you’re interested, make sure you get yours early. You’ll be able to order them on July 30, at 1 pm EST.
We’ll also be making the Free RPG Day booklet available in PDF form on DriveThruRPGon July 30.
So if you want to nab your copy, be sure to check out which local game stores are participating retailers on July 25, or grab your copy from our Magpie Games webstore on July 30th!
July Check-In and Woodland Pads
over 6 years ago
– Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 01:37:20 AM
Hopscotching hawks! It’s time for our beginning-of-July 2020 update on Root: The RPG!
Backerkit Charging
After a slight delay while we sorted out some issues on the backend, we have processed charging for Backerkit. This should apply to all preorders and to all pledges. If you have any issues or concerns about the charging, please send us an email at[email protected].
We’re going to be in the office intermittently over the coming week, as it’s a holiday in America and we’re giving the staff a short break, but we’ll help you out ASAP.
Production Update: July
Tough news first: we have a better sense of how our current timelines are shaking out now, and how the coronavirus has impacted our schedule. As it stands, we are tentatively expecting deliveryof all physical rewards towards Q1 2021,with PDF copies of game material available in Q4 2020. It’s not what we’d been hoping for, but we’re confident that it will still ensure we get you the best possible game, books, and paraphernalia.
With that said, we’re making progress on as many different components as we can. Our GM screen design is in layout and we’re getting samples of the cardboard to make sure they’re what we’re looking for. We’ve begun full design on the Deck of Equipment with the Deck of Denizens soon to follow. And, we’ve all but finalized the design of the Woodland Notepads, including the Clearing Notepad and the Campaign Notepad!
As we said in our last update, we determined that we’d be making the pages of these pads double-sided so we’d be able to provide you with a fuller set of notes to track important information. Now, we can give you an idea of what these pages will look like in their final version!
We’re very excited about how these have turned out and how useful they were in our playtests! There’s always going to be more information to track than what we could fit, but we’re confident that these play aids are going to be a huge boon at your table! We'll be providing a high resolution digital version of the same sheets later, once they're finalized.
Last but not least—stay tuned for more information about the Free RPG Day booklet soon! It has a pre-made clearing and some pre-made characters to get you playing an interesting scenario quickly and easily! We're excited to see what you all do with it!
Roads, Traveled More and Less
The work continues, and we’re all striving here to make a game you’re going to be thrilled to see on your shelves! As always, thanks so much for your support and patience, and we’ll check back in with you in August!
Backerkit Charging Soon! Plus Changes, Tweaks, and Progress
over 6 years ago
– Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 11:16:27 PM
Funambulating foxes! It’s time for our beginning of June 2020 update on Root: The RPG!
Backerkit Charging
We’re going to officially charge the Backerkit in two weeks, on June 22nd. You don’t have to do anything here—orders are placed and locked. We just want to keep you informed and aware. If you have any questions here, please drop us a line at [email protected]
Covid-19 Effects on Production: June
We don’t have much to update on here—we’re still working with our production partners to keep on top of manufacturing as best we can at this point, and we’re hoping that the effects and delays will be relatively minor, in the scheme of things. We’re still keeping safe, we hope you’re all keeping safe, and we’ll let you know once we have a more concrete sense of the effects.
Production Update: Beginning of June
As mentioned in the last update, we’re tackling Root: The RPG on many fronts at once, so we have a few interesting updates across the board!
Firstly, our book and rules development continues apace. We’re tweaking things as we stress test multiple systems—in particular, we’re in the process of taking a hard look at the Exhaustion/Nature cycle, to make sure that PCs have enough Exhaustion to be effective, but not so much that they can’t get themselves into trouble or avoid using their Natures.
That said, we can confirm one element of rules development that we are going to engage with moving forward—The Ronin!
The Ronin is an extra vagabond that the awesome folks at Leder Games added to the Root: Underworld expansion, along with the Harrier and the Adventurer. At the time of the original Root: The RPG Kickstarter, the Ronin hadn’t yet been released, so it wasn’t included in the spec for the book. But now, we can officially say, we’ll be creating a playbook for the Ronin, to be included in the Root: The RPG Core Book!
Next—our awesome layout team has come up with a design for our dicebox and the dice themselves! Miguel Angel Espinoza, our layout artist, and Marissa Kelly, our art director, worked together with our partners at Longpak to design awesome dice we think you’re going to love! Here’s a mock-up of what they’ll look like, and as soon as we have physical production samples we’ll show them off!
And finally—we’ve been developing the two notepads, the Campaign Notepad and the Clearing Notepad. The idea here was always to provide useful tracking sheets for GMs to note down important NPCs, important facets of the clearings and the Woodland at large, and important events that occur both during play and in between sessions as time passes. We were also originally planning on trying to do this on single-sided sheets—our theory being that it would be more useful to not have to flip over the sheet to access all sides during play.
After testing initial versions, we’ve decided to instead do double-sided sheets for both the Campaign Notepad and the Clearing Notepad. While this does mean that you may have to flip them during the session, it gives us so much more space to make sure you can record useful information without the page being overly crammed. So every sheet in both notepads will now be upgraded to have information on both sides!
Paths to be Tread!
Everything is proceeding apace, and we’re excited to keep showing off more and more awesome stuff to you. Thank you as always for being an awesome, supportive, and interested group of backers! Until next time, friends!
