Not DnD is a weekly show discussing tabletop roleplaying games. Each week EN Publishing’s @tabletopjess interviews the creators behind different tabletop roleplaying games that aren’t D&D!
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In November we are looking at tabletop RPGs where you play anthropomorphic animals!
Root
Based on the Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right board game, Root: The RPG brings the tales of the Woodland to your RPG table!
In Root: The RPG, you play vagabonds, outcasts from the normal society of the Woodland who have come to live in the spaces between, whether that’s in the forests themselves or on the fringes of society. You are competent and skilled—you have to be to survive as vagabonds—and you aren’t tied down to any particular place or faction.
The game is built on the Powered by the Apocalypse framework, and features a slew of specific and carefully designed systems to represent life in the Woodland.
Join us as we speak to creator Brendan Conway to learn more on 10th November
Primrose
Primrose is a tabletop roleplaying game set within the Primrose Territories: a small peninsula disconnected geographically from the wider world by a dangerous and unforgiving mountain range. The PDF is currently available for free on itch.
Within the Territories small communities have formed by various woodland critters known as Inhabitants: Mice, Squirrels, Hares, Moles, Badgers, Rats and Weasels have built their homes within the shrouded confines of dens, hollows, caves and caverns. Most are naïve and unaware of the pending threats from beyond the mountains.
The game uses a unique D10 dice pool system inspired by Brian Jacques (Redwall) and David Petersen (Mouse Guard). Find out more on 17th November when we speak to Bilge Rat Books.
24th November
We are in the process of confirming the final guest for 24th November. It is the first game I think about when playing animal rpgs, so I hope we can make our schedules align for recording! Can you guess which one it is?
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