‘Root RPG’s New Ruins & Expedition Expansion – Woodland Dungeon Crawls For All
An upcoming new expansion for the Root RPG promises to have your vagabonds exploring all manner of Ruins & Expeditions.
Magpie Games has a new expansion for the award-winning Root tabletop role-playing game out for pre-order. Ruins & Expeditions, as the name implies, is all about finding new avenues for Woodland adventures. Your Vagabonds can delve deep into all sorts of things – from the ancient ruins hidden in the forest, to new monsters, even new factions to get on the good or bad side of. Let’s check it out.
Root RPG: Ruins & Expedition – On Pre-Order
This is the big book o’ dungeon crawling for the Root RPG. If you’re unfamiliar with the game, it takes place in the same setting as the award-winning board game of internecine woodland warfare also known as Root: A Game of Woodland Might. In the RPG you play as a group of Vagabonds, the wandering adventurers/thieves whom you might know from the board game.
Using the Powered-by-the-Apocalypse framework, the RPG takes you deeper into the complicated politics of Root. And the new expansion adds more of an adventure framework, with new playbooks, new rules for heading out on expeditions, and a whole lot of what it means to do a “dungeon crawl” in this world.
Because if you know Root, then you know it’s not a game that’s afraid to pull its punches. The various forces are all differing shades of grey. There are no obvious villains, nor are there obvious heroes. The only real downtrodden are the poor woodland critters just trying to live a peaceful life.
“Root: The Roleplaying Gane – Ruins & Expeditions expands the award-winning woodland RPG with deep delves into ancient ruins, exciting new playbooks, fresh factions, and a host of terrifying monsters and treasures waiting to be discovered. Built on the beloved Root universe, this supplement gives players more narrative tools and mechanics to explore forgotten places, uncover relics, and shape their own adventures with new characters and story hooks that elevate every game session.”
In Ruins & Expeditions, you’ll find six new Vagabond playbooks. You’ll get the Dealer, the Gourmand, the Hunter, the Nomad, the Orphan, and the Scourge. There are also two new Factions with their own mechanics, as well as a host of horrible new monsters. Big ones.
And of course, there are plenty of new moves, new weapon skills, roguish feats – all manner of new player options for those of you already hooked into the game. You can see for yourself at the link below.
Root RPG: Ruins & Expeditions is due out later this year, with shipping expected before April 1st!
