From the introduction: Root: The Roleplaying Game is a pen-and-paper tabletop storytelling game. Alongside a few friends, you spin out the stories of roguish vagabonds as they journey throughout the Woodland, acting as something between knaves and heroes! ... Root: The Roleplaying Game is based on the same fictional world as Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right, playing with many of the same themes and ideas, but from a different perspective—that of a tabletop roleplaying game focused on the vagabonds themselves. What Makes Root: The Roleplaying Game Unique? Root: The Roleplaying Game is a tabletop roleplaying game in which the characters you play are anthropomorphic animal vagabonds—miscreants, rogues, outcasts, and renegade heroes—adventuring across the Woodland. The vagabonds are highly skilled and capable, but they’re not really at home anywhere in the myriad clearings of the Woodland. So they move around, traveling the paths and crossing the dangerous forests, taking jobs for pay and equipment. Whether they mean to be or not, the vagabonds are often drawn into the overarching conflict between the powerful factions of the Woodland. As those factions wage war against each other, the vagabonds may prove the key to tipping the balance in favor of one faction or the other…or they may act as heroes, protecting the average Woodland denizens from a war that might consume them. Whatever they do and whomever they support is your choice as you play!