Games like The Painter - A Wanderhome Playbook

After many long years drifting in space, you were found. Where you came from or how you were made has never been explained. Everything around you is so small, and yet some things, you will never outgrow. Are you alive? You need care that is patient, understanding, and longer lasting than anyone can give. The Iron Giant is a set piece from the World of Wanderhome, inspired by The Iron Man by Ted Hu…

The Prognosticator is a playbook for the fantastic Wanderhome tabletop role-playing game. Wanderhome is a game about stories of the past meeting the search for the future.  The Prognosticator playbook explores our wanting certainty about predicting our futures, and the writing of the astrological Almanacks which can guide our plantings. You bring the future into reach, gathering the paths of the s…

The Postilion is a playbook for the fantastic Wanderhome tabletop role-playing game.Wanderhome is a story about travel.  The roads of the Haeth guide those who walk or ride from place to place to place.  For some, their calling is the carrying of kith and kind from coaching inn to coaching inn, village to village, town to town.  Their bugs act as both steed and family, and they greet familiar face…

The Phyik is a playbook for the fantastic Wanderhome tabletop role-playing game. Wanderhome is a story about exploration and healing.  The Physik studies illness and injury in a hope to, with effort, heal what ails those around them.The Physik playbook is about playing an itinerant healer or barber-surgeon, traveling the Haeth, lessening pain, easing injury, while learning what makes pain -- and w…

The dark is beautiful, deep, terrifying — and necessary. Without the dark, we would not see the stars shine. Even in the emptiest of spaces, there is always hope and always dreams of how things could be better. You are alive. Your care is vast, knowing, and out of this world. The Astronaut is a playbook from the World of Wanderhome, influenced by Doctor Who, wild theories about ancient astronauts,…

You are beautiful. You are loved. And above all. You are alive. YOUR CARE IS... is a collection of  six player options for Wanderhome. Each focuses one of the many ways people care, truly, deeply and profoundly, about the people and world around them. The Almanagist,  researcher for the latest issue of the Hæth Almanack. The Gravedigger, stoic and respectful in their treatment of the dead. The Sta…

You care for and feed the Traveling Fire and those that gather around it.  You are alive. Your care is cozy, reassuring, and nourishing The Hearthkeeper is a playbook for Wanderhome that focuses on making a home on the road. Is it wanderlust that keeps you and your cart moving from place to place, are you passively seeking something, or is there something in your past that drives you ever forward?…

The Bibliobug is a playbook for the fantastic Wanderhome tabletop role-playing game. Wanderhome is a story about travel. The Haeth is as large as our imagination, and many places are not close to any metropolis with its centres of learning.  Just as in the real world, that leaves traveling librarians to wander the paths from village to village, shire to shire, carrying stories and learning from af…

The Collector is a playbook for the fantastic Wanderhome tabletop role-playing game. Wanderhome is a game about how we heal our traumas.  This playbook explores the burdens of carrying a trauma, your own and others', while working toward healing. When the war was over, some things did change. For example, recently, you discovered that you have inherited your late uncle’s Antiques Shoppe.  You also…

You are a worm. You are alive. Your hat is long, special, and wrigglesome.  This playbook was made as a bit of a joke as part of a playbook jam on the Wanderhome Fan Server. But oh no - it has wriggled its way out! It's been played in sessions, and is pretty nice, if unconventional! The list of jam topics is here,  and you can join the Wanderhome fan server here! This playbook would not exist wit…