Wanderhome

Winner of 3 ENnie Awards:
– Best Family-Friendly Game (Gold)
– Best Cover Art (Gold)
– Best Interior Art (Silver)
Wanderhome is a pastoral fantasy role-playing game about traveling animals, the world they inhabit, and the changing seasons. Journey to a world of grassy fields, moss-covered shrines, where bumblebees move in herds, rabbits sunbathe, and geckos wear suspenders, with starry skies and sunsets as beautiful as you can imagine.

You might be a tamarin dancing with forgotten little deities, a rabbit postman relying on moths to deliver packages, a small lizard with a big heart and a mysterious past, or nearly infinite other exciting possibilities. In any case, you are always animal travelers moving from village to village, able to see far and wide across the world of Hæth. The seasons will change as you play, and you will change with them.

A Belonging Outside Belonging game
Wanderhome is inspired by the No Dice, No Masters engine (also known as Belonging Outside Belonging) designed by Avery Alder and Benjamin Rosenbaum. This means no dice, math, Game Master, or complicated rules. The goal is to get you into the game as smoothly as possible and fill your imagination with richly developed worlds and evocative texts.

The game is designed for sessions of any length and any number of people. Whether sitting with a couple of friends for a cozy after-dinner or organizing a decade-long campaign party, Wanderhome always has room for your experiences and needs.

The world of Hæth
Wanderhome is set in the completely original fantasy world of Hæth, inspired by the works of Brian Jacques, Tove Jansson, and Hayao Miyazaki. The game hints at and builds a mythological language around forces like the bitter King of the Floating Mountain, the Lily Rebellion, the Grumpy God and the blade that killed him, and the fall of the great dragons of old, but refuses to elaborate or define them, leaving this exercise to the players through the journey itself. Instead, Wanderhome focuses on the lives of ordinary people and the world that exists for farmers, merchants, and artisans.

Wanderhome is a world full of animals and their livestock. Unlike many other worlds with animals, there is no morality or judgment attributed to the various animals of Hæth: a snake can be as gentle a farmer as a rabbit, and you cannot assume much about someone based on their animal. You might find a soft shepherd with a flock of bumblebees, a grumpy merchant riding a stag beetle as big as a house, a solitary fox riding a grasshopper from place to place, or a praying mantis hanging out in a gecko’s pocket.