Root: The Roleplaying Game returns with a new supplement—Ruins & Expeditions—and new faction inclusion dice from Fanroll!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Clearing Booklet 2 Preview!
about 1 year ago
– Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 05:20:08 PM
Bellicose badgers, vagabonds! It’s time for another update on what’s going on with the project! Let’s dive in!
Project Update
Things are moving along nicely, vagabonds! In great news, almost all of the art is done, which is super exciting! Once it’s complete we’ll have it ready for layout in the new book! We’re also thrilled that we’ve sent all the accessory files to their production places and will be getting samples back soon. The only one outstanding is the sticker sheet and it should be done by the end of this week.
We’re also very close to finalizing the new playbooks. As such, we’ll be closing feedback on the new playbooks on April 11th! So if you have feedback, please get it in as soon as possible!
Clearing Booklet 2 Preview
We are very excited to bring you a preview of Clearing Booklet 2! This is a PDF preview for your perusal.
Clearing Booklet #2 brings all four of the previously released free clearings into one book, matching the layout and format of Clearing Booklet #1. In addition to some new art, this new version of these clearings puts all of the content in one place so you can introduce these clearings into any game you’re running with ease!
You can access your copy of the preview in Backerkit by going to the following link. If your Backerkit isn’t complete, you will not have access to your digital downloads yet.
Please have a look and if you see anything that isn’t quite right, like a typo or layout error, please send us your feedback! You can email feedback to [email protected] with “Clearing Booklet 2 Feedback” in the subject line!
Gratitude from the Woodland
As always, thank you for all your support, feedback, and excitement! It’s such a joy to make a project for folks genuinely invested in the book! We’ll be back next month with more updates as we get this new book ready to go!
Project Update & Map Preview
about 1 year ago
– Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 12:40:21 PM
Revolutionary raccoons, vagabonds! We’re back for another update and thrilled to return for a project update and a sneak peek at the maps!
Project Update
As we reported last month, we’re very close to finishing up the writing for the book. The last 10% is taking a bit longer than we planned just because of some staff illnesses. That said, folks are taking a bit of time to recover and once they’re back, we’ll wrap up that last bit of the book and get everything fully into development! We can’t wait to update you once the book goes fully into dev and copy editing! So exciting!
All the accessories are now in production. That means dice are being made, dice trays are being printed, and dice bags are being sewn! Once we have the final products to show you, we’ll post some preview photos for you!
Map Preview
We are very excited to let you know that a lot of art resources have been rolling in! Our map artist has submitted all the maps to us. These maps will be part of the map pack and will keep the clearing names blank so you can insert your own names as your vagabonds explore clearings and wander about the woodland!
Gratitude from the Woodland
Thanks for your support, vagabonds! We’re so excited as things are start moving into production! We’ll be back next month with more updates on what all is happening with the project!
New Playbook: The Orphan!
about 1 year ago
– Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 12:09:22 PM
Bellicose bunnies, vagabonds! We’re excited for another update AND another shiny new playbook!
Project Update
We are very excited to let you know that around 90% of the book is fully written and has moved into the developmental editing stage. The remaining 10% is still being worked on steadily. Developmental editing is a collaborative process between the writers and the project editors and leads as they hammer out the text to be exactly what they need, including content and cohesiveness, approachability, and continuity. This process has the text passing back and forth until everyone agrees it’s perfect for the book. Once this process is over, we’ll head to copy editing.
New Playbook: The Orphan
Ruins & Expeditions welcomes six new playbooks to the Woodland: The Dealer, the Gourmand, the Scourge, and the Hunter (plus the two you unlocked with stretch goals, the Nomad and the Orphan). We’re excited to release the Orphan playbook to you today!
You grew up alone, your parents lost in the war or simply unable to care for you. Now you’ve set out to find your own way, learning the ways of the forest and roads from the vagabonds who know them best.
The orphan is a truly unique playbook for Root: The Roleplaying Game—a proto-vagabond whose full identity isn’t yet resolved! While other vagabonds have a tried and true method of solving problems—whether that be a sword (The Arbiter), sneaking around (The Ranger), or arson (The Scoundrel)—the Orphan hasn’t quite figured out who they are yet.
But… they do look up to someone: their idol! And when the Orphan acts as they think their idol would act, they usually find a way to succeed, marking their confidence track to take a 10+ instead of rolling. They clear the track by fulfilling their idol’s nature, but the track gets shorter every time they clear it; the Orphan has to eventually find a new idol…or grow up into the full version of themselves!
We’d love any feedback you have on the Orphan, especially playtesting feedback. Please email your feedback to [email protected] and put Root Orphan Feedback as the subject line! We can’t wait to hear what you think of the new playbook!
Gratitude from the Woodland
Thank you, as always brave vagabonds, for your kindness and support on the project! We’re excited to bring you the final new playbook and to be working through the book toward copy edits! Stay tuned next month for more updates!
New Playbook: the Nomad!
over 1 year ago
– Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 08:44:39 AM
Egocentric eagles, vagabonds! It’s time for an update and do we ever have some important intel for you!
Project Update
Things are moving! Right now we’re getting art, writing chapters, and editing the chapters that are complete. The art coming in is spectacular and we can’t wait to give you a sneak peek when some of the art is ready from Kyle! We’ll have a full update for you on how the book is progressing at the end of January!
New Playbook: The Nomad
Ruins & Expeditions welcomes six new playbooks to the Woodland: The Dealer, the Gourmand, the Scourge, and the Hunter (plus the two you unlocked with stretch goals, the Nomad and the Orphan). We’re excited to release the Nomad playbook to you today!
You aren’t from the Woodland; you’ve traveled far and wide in the wider world, and your journey has now brought you here. You seek to see all there is to see—and learn all there is to learn—in this strange land at war with itself.
The Nomad is a true vagabond, a wanderer from outside the Woodland who now travels with the band in search of strange and new experiences. True to that journey, the Nomad has a lot of interesting knowledge from their travels… but the longer they stay in one place, the less interested they are in it! The Nomad wants to keep moving from clearing to clearing, never tied down to just one set of problems.
Mechanically, this means the Nomad can mark a condition to leverage their knowledge and succeed at any roll with a 10+. But each condition represents their growing discontent with staying in one place. The Nomad will need to find new experiences to clear those conditions…or hit the road for the next clearing!
We’d love any feedback you have on the Nomad, especially playtesting feedback. Please email your feedback to [email protected] and put Root Nomad Feedback as the subject line! We can’t wait to hear what you think of the new playbook!
Gratitude from the Woodland
We’re so grateful to have your support and joy over this Root: The RPG expansion! It’s been an absolute delight to create these playbooks, and we can’t wait to show you the fuller mechanics for ruins early next year. Have a wonderful Winter holiday and we’ll see you in the New Year!
The Dealer & Backerkit Surveys!
over 1 year ago
– Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 11:39:03 AM
Contemptible cats, vagabonds! We’ve got some project updates and a shiny new playbook for you! Let’s dive into what we’ve been up to at Magpie Games HQ!
New Playbook: The Dealer
Ruins & Expeditions welcomes six new playbooks to the Woodland: The Dealer, the Gourman, the Scourge, and the Hunter (plus the two you unlocked with stretch goals, the Nomad and the Orphan). We’re excited to release the Dealer playbook to you today!
You traffic in important items–relics, artifacts, and more. But you aren’t just putting money away for a rainy day; you’ve got an empire to build!
The Dealer traffics in treasures, the most important and rare items of the Woodland. But their real gift is their Investments, new upgrades that the Dealer can buy for individual clearings! Rather than just roll through a clearing and spend a little coin on gear, the Dealer can actually buy allies and business resources (Investments) that persist long enough for the Dealer to return to them later. Always wanted to have a gang of thugs on call or an important political leader in your pocket? Then the Dealer is your playbook!
To make sure these Investment options are robust, we’re not squeezing them onto the playbook. Instead, you can find them in the book AND on a separate Investments sheet, where the Dealer can track each clearing they’ve invested in to expand their empire…
We’d love any feedback you have on the Dealer, especially playtesting feedback. Please email your feedback to [email protected] and put Root Dealer Feedback as the subject line! We can’t wait to hear what you think of the last new playbook!
Backerkit Surveys
We are excited to work with Backerkit for fulfillment! Backerkit utilizes software designed for pledge management. We’ll be using Backerkit to get your shipping information, allow you to get more add-ons if you want them, deliver digital rewards, and manage your pledges!
Backerkit surveys will be sent to everyone via the email address on your Kickstarter account. These surveys will be sent in waves, so don’t panic if you don’t get it right away. We’ve submitted it for review with Backerkit earlier this week, and we’ll do a smoke test with a small number of backers before it goes out to everyone. You should see it before American Thanksgiving!
If you haven’t received your survey by December 1st, please shoot us an email at [email protected]
You must complete your Backerkit survey to get your rewards!
If you run into any issues navigating Backerkit, please email us at [email protected] and we’re happy to help you out. Do not DM us on social media or message us via Backerkit.
Failed Pledges If you backed the project, and your pledge failed, you will still get a Backerkit survey and the opportunity to fix your dropped pledge. If you have already late-pledged after your payment failed, you will have two orders, one for your late pledge and one for your failed pledge during the campaign. Please do not pay for both. If you need help because you have two orders, please email us at [email protected].
Gratitude from the Woodland
Thank you so much for all your support and excitement! We can’t wait to talk to you next month with updates on how the book is going! We hope you have a great November and enjoy the Dealer!
