History TabletopGame / Wanderhome

*** Bright: Bloommeadow, Devildays, and the holiday of the Day of Song. Corresponds to late spring and early summer.

* AlternativeCalendar: Campaign play is dictated by "the great arc of the year," which is divided into five seasons of two months each, which a holiday concluding each season. Meanwhile, each year is given its own name, with the starting year being "The Year of the Waterlily," and subsequent year names being up to the players.
** The seasons in order are:
*** Leap: Tillsoil, Monsoon, and the holiday of the Sun Parade. Corresponds to late winter and early spring.

*** Breathe: Swarming, Gateling, and the holiday of the Moon Dance. Corresponds to a mix of spring and summer.
*** Silt: Firetop, Grasping, and the holiday of the Candle Feast. Corresponds to fall.
*** Chill: Snowblanket, Frostbite, and the holiday of New Years. Corresponds to early winter.

* CarnivoreConfusion: ''Wanderhome'' resolves the tension between predatory and prey animals by having insects be the FantasticFaunaCounterpart. Whether herbivore animal-folk partake in eating insects, that is up to the table to decide.

* ExperiencePoints: Averted. Playbooks do have an advancement system, but players choose advancements during each holiday between the seasons, instead of accumulating XP. ''Wanderhome'' does have a token economy, where players get and spend tokens for specific actions.

* GameMaster: As the name "No Dice, No Masters" suggests, this system is GM-optional, and the group is encouraged to collaborate and trade responsibilities for running the settings and non-player characters.

Set in [[GhibliHills the idyllic world]] of the Hæth, the players of ''Wanderhome'' follow a party of traveling [[FunnyAnimal animal-folk]] as they go from village to village, meet other inhabitants of Hæth, and watch the seasons change. This game is not a HeroicFantasy, as it instead focuses on [[SliceOfLife the lives of ordinary folk]].

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Bugs serve as the pets, livestock, and wild creatures of Hæth, so they are accordingly large. Unlike most depiction of giant bugs, they are supposed to be less creepy and more cuddly.

* ExtraordinaryWorldOrdinaryProblems: Hæth is a world full of spirits and gods, with the aftermath of a war looming over the land. At the same time, the text predisposes players to problems that are interpersonal and local such as "conflict between expectations and demand" in a village workshop. Even if the characters do end up encountering any major gods or conquerers, any epic-level adventures exist outside the game's scope.
* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: The fauna of Hæth are insects and other assorted bugs. The playbooks paint this dynamic, as a Moth-Tender can be a pigeon carrying for carrier moths, or a Shepherd could be a ram herding chubby bumblebees.

* GhibliHills: Jay Dragon cites Creator/HayaoMiyazaki as an influence of the world of Hæth, and both the setting descriptions and illustrations depict Hæth's rolling, colorful valleys and bright blue skies.

* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: Hæth is a fantasy world of animal-folk, with the animal-folk serving as the setting's people.

Set in [[GhibliHills the idyllic world]] of Hæth, the players of ''Wanderhome'' follow a party of traveling [[FunnyAnimal animal-folk]] as they go from village to village, meet other inhabitants of Hæth, and watch the seasons change. This game is not a HeroicFantasy, as it instead focuses on [[SliceOfLife the lives of ordinary folk]].

On July 2020, the free preview playkit was released, [[https://possumcreekgames.itch.io/wanderhome which can still be downloaded from Itch.io.]] The following month, [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdragsky/wanderhome the ''Wanderhome'' funding campaign]] launched on Website/{{Kickstarter}}, and it raised more than $300,000 across 6,600+ backers.

The full rulebook for ''Wanderhome'' is slated for release in April 2021. It can be pre-ordered through [[https://www.possumcreekgames.com/wanderhome its page on Possum Creek Games]].

* FiveRaces: Averted. There are suggestions for the type of animal each playbook can be, but animal races are not defined in a centralized way, defying any mapping onto the five fantasy races. For NPC generation, there are no animal forms assigned to any of the traits.

The full rulebook for ''Wanderhome'' is slated for release in early 2021. It can be pre-ordered through [[https://www.possumcreekgames.com/wanderhome its page on Possum Creek Games]].

* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: Hæth is a fantasy world of animal-folk, with animal-folk serving as setting's people.

''Wanderhome'' is a TabletopRPG by Jay Dragon, published through Possum Creek Games. It is a pastoral fantasy RPG game built through the No Dice, No Masters engine (more often called Belonging Outside Belonging), a design philosophy related to the UsefulNotes/PoweredByTheApocalypse engine. This is Jay Dragon's major-project follow-up to the 2019 [=BoB=] game ''TabletopGame/{{Sleepaway}}''.

Set in [[GhibliHills the idyllic world]] of Hæth, the players of ''Wanderhome'' follow a party of traveling [[FunnyAnimal animal-folk]] as they go from village to village, meet other inhabitants of Hæth, and watch the seasons change. This game is not a HeroicFantasy, as it insteads focuses on [[SliceOfLife the lives of ordinary folk]].

The full rulebook for ''Wanderhome'' is slated for released in early 2021. It can be pre-ordered through [[https://www.possumcreekgames.com/wanderhome its page on Possum Creek Games]].

* AlternativeCalendar: Campaign play is dictated by "the great arc of the year," which is divded into five seasons of two months each, which a holiday concluding each season. Meanwhile, each year is given its own name, with the starting year being "The Year of the Waterlily," and subsequent year names being up to the players.

* CarnivoreConfusion: ''Wanderhome'' resolves the tension between predatory and prey animals by having insects be the FantasticFaunaCounterpart. Whether herbivore animal-fok partake in eating insects, that is up to the table to decide.

* FunnyAnimals: The player characters and the NPC kith are animal-folk, who are depicted in the artwork as bipedial, capable of manual manipulation, and of human intelligence.
* GameMaster: As the name "No Dice, No Masters" suggests, this system is GM-optional, and the group is encouraged to collaborate and trade off responsibilities for running the settings and non-player characters.
* GhibliHills: Jay Dragon cites Creator/HayaoMiyazaki as an influence of the world of Hæth, and both the setting descriptions and illustrations depict Hæth's rolling, colorful valleys and brightly blue skies.
* ExperiencePoints: Averted. Playbooks do have an advancement system, but players choose advancements during each hol iday between the seasons, instead of accumulating XP. ''Wanderhome'' does have a token economy, where players get and spend tokens for specific actions.