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Hi all, hope this is the right place to put a question like this.

I am looking for a potential roleplaying game to play with my kid (9 years), but there is absolutely no interest for anything fantasy or sci-fi. Just a love of anything animals and recently we discovered Everdell as a cool boardgame for our family. Root is another boardgame that in style would fit our interests.

Does anyone know of any roleplaying game featuring animals having jobs, building communities? Fighting monsters or evil dudes is not completely off the table I think, I am sure I could tone that down myself if necessary. Bonus plus if it features art like the two games I mentioned.

Thanks!

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[โ€“] naught101@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There's The Defender's Almanac, which is a RPG designed to go along with a board game. The setting (forest animals in guerilla warfare against a mech invasion, with magic) and the board game are cool. The RPG has lots of good narrative content, but the mechanics are not great (I wrote a review with more details at that link). Could probably just use the setting with the Root RPG rules though.

[โ€“] bonenode@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Huh, interesting, thanks for sharing.