Long time reader, first time player. So much joy when my partner and I had our first Wanderhome session last night! A haunted veteran and a bright-eyed young dancer who reminds her of the people she knew in darker times...I am excited for the sweetness and sorrow of their adventures both!
I love how this game encourages so much creativity, and keeps surprising players even without any 'true' random elements. The highlight was improvising the plot of an entire play when the duo attended a community theatre production. I definitely didn't see that coming when we were picking out natures for a new location!
I recently got the chance to play Wanderhome and it is a wonderful, wonderful game that evokes the feeling of a hot mug of cocoa on a cold winter evening.
Even reading through the book (which I do more than I should admit) is a treat.
Wanderhome designer Jay Dragon and book designer Ruby Lavin added a deeply insightful annotated version of the game, one which not only provides fascinating insights into the layout and construction of the text, but also makes explicit a lot of history that was originally obscured. In order to organize these lore tidbits, I’ve taken it upon myself to construct a theoretical timeline of the Haethlands, divided into three, very loosely-defined Ages.
I just played my first session of Wanderhome at Gary Con this past weekend and was absolutely blown away. The group I played with told a truly touching and moving story together that I'm not likely to forget for a long, long time. What an excellent game!
I was about to be sad that I couldn't afford this, but turns out I own it from a previous megabundle. Aaaaa I'm so happy! I'll for sure have to try this game out. It looks so cozy!
i got the pdf in june and then just got the physical copy for christmas and this game is genuinely actually one of the coolest things i've ever seen! i have read it countless times and played it once (planning to do a campaign over the summer tho) and it's changed the way i think about storytelling and got me into ttrpgs
thank you so much jay and everyone else who worked on this !!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
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Long time reader, first time player. So much joy when my partner and I had our first Wanderhome session last night! A haunted veteran and a bright-eyed young dancer who reminds her of the people she knew in darker times...I am excited for the sweetness and sorrow of their adventures both!
I love how this game encourages so much creativity, and keeps surprising players even without any 'true' random elements. The highlight was improvising the plot of an entire play when the duo attended a community theatre production. I definitely didn't see that coming when we were picking out natures for a new location!
I recently got the chance to play Wanderhome and it is a wonderful, wonderful game that evokes the feeling of a hot mug of cocoa on a cold winter evening.
Even reading through the book (which I do more than I should admit) is a treat.
Highly recommended.
I just played my first session of Wanderhome at Gary Con this past weekend and was absolutely blown away. The group I played with told a truly touching and moving story together that I'm not likely to forget for a long, long time. What an excellent game!
I was about to be sad that I couldn't afford this, but turns out I own it from a previous megabundle. Aaaaa I'm so happy! I'll for sure have to try this game out. It looks so cozy!
i got the pdf in june and then just got the physical copy for christmas and this game is genuinely actually one of the coolest things i've ever seen! i have read it countless times and played it once (planning to do a campaign over the summer tho) and it's changed the way i think about storytelling and got me into ttrpgs
thank you so much jay and everyone else who worked on this !!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖