The Hidden Lore of Wanderhome

[@RollForFelicity]

Love the video! When you said "Minos, but with fish" that of course made me think of a daemon called the Minnowtaur that I fear I must now incorporate into one of my Wanderhome games.

[@ahcoffeebeans]

can't wait to learn how the Veteran is connected to Marika's lineage via her marriage to Godfrey

[@aavoigt]

IF YOU FACTOR IN MARIKA’S RELATIONSHIP TO THE CRUCIBLE, ALL EVIDENCE POINTS TO- *I am forcibly ejected from the golden order barbecue*

[@AmbarsRoom]

AAAAAH WANDERHOME IS ONE OF MY FAV GAMES AND THIS VIDEO MAKES ME SO HAPPY!!! The way you create a framework of time and certain specific characters from the bits and pieces Jay Dragon has laid out thru the years, while still leaving room for interpretation is so cool! Honestly one of the coolest parts of the game for me as a GM is the wiggle room to create folklore (I made up some city now ruined by the war, that worshipped the so called Gods of the Rose Dawn) that has all the plausibility to have been real. Can I extend a request for you to post links to the sources of the video? (aside from the og book print)

[@aavoigt]

Glad you enjoyed it! Sources for the videos, music, and information used are in the transcript. If you're looking for the Guest Playbooks, they're on Possum Creek's website. aavoigt.com/f/the-hidden-lore-of-wanderhome possumcreekgames.com/products/wanderhome-stretch-goal-pdf

[@AmbarsRoom]

@@aavoigt thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[@AndrewAulenback]

I adore the little circle of hints around the king and the Rebellion. That the true heir is living as a wandering child protected by a Guardian; that the King was overthrown by the Rebellion; that the Rebellion was "useless" in the end; and so on. My "head canon" is that the Rebellion was successful in overthrowing the crown, the heir escaping, but that some hero from the Rebellion then simply took up the crown, replacing one monarch with another monarch -- old terror becomes new terror, perhaps similarly to the French Revolution, or the English Civil War. The problem of heroes, after all. The Rebellion was won, but at what cost, and to what outcome? Replacing one tyrant with another tyrant? I am enamored of just how much setting is written in how few words, throughout the book.

[@LunykStormdragon]

i’m absolutely enamored of this video, and especially how it’s the complete opposite response of what my Wanderhome playgroup did. during session zero, we decided that we would never, ever set in stone what exactly the last war was about. even the kith who fought in the rebellion relinquished the authority to determine (and set in our game’s canon) what the war was fought over or who ended it. wars are bigger than any one person or group of people and our game focuses on the immediate, the lives of people and places who live their lives on the ground. we can talk about how the war affected them, and even how they participated, but we won’t give the war respect by paying attention to it.

[@yukikosan5468]

Thanks for this great video, it's even more inspiring for a project I'm working on involving a Star Wars game in a Folk Horror atmosphere!

[@IrisDImtv]

Great angle, it enriches even more this whimsical game.

[@aavoigt]

Glad you liked it, thanks for watching!

[@runawaythoughts5183]

As someone who began playing Wanderhome recently, I absolutely adored this. I loved seeing hints and pieces of the lore throughout the game, but had no idea there was even a directors commentary! I will definitely be using your timeline as inspiration for a future campaign.

[@histrion2]

I'm going to remember this video. Well done.

[@follypersist]

What a great premise!

[@wasabiburger3047]

I'm so glad you actually went for the thumbnail hahaha

[@padraigmumper6956]

Awesome video! I have a copy of wanderhome from a charity bundle a while back, I read it and it looked cool but never ran it, I'm definitely gonna have to play it someday now when i have the opportunity

[@tylerhildebran3479]

Hey, sorry if this isn't something you wanna say publicly, but your local game store wouldn't happen to be Atomic Empire would it? I run the rpg book club there, and that isn't a concept I've seen very often elsewhere, so I was curious if I maybe played at the same table with you!

[@aavoigt]

Not me, sorry!