The Wildsea Summary
🌿 What is The Wildsea?
The Wildsea is a narrative-forward RPG of wild exploration, post-apocalyptic overgrowth, and strange cultures. Sail atop the treetop canopy of a vast, world-spanning jungle aboard living ships. It’s Miyazaki meets Sunless Sea, with rules that encourage collaboration, poetic detail, and surreal adventure.
This is a game about:
- Weird voyages on chainsaw-driven ships cutting through plant-choked wilds
- Personal stories of growth, scars, and strange discoveries
- A world reclaimed by nature, teeming with fungus, insect swarms, and forgotten relics
- Improv-rich narration and flavorful fiction-first play
🎲 How Does It Play?
The Wildsea uses a custom narrative engine built on:
- Multiple d6s: Roll a handful and keep the best result. Traits, skills, and gear all feed into your dice pool.
- Narrative resolution: No strict initiative—players narrate risks, rolls determine tone (triumph, success, twist, failure).
- Drives and scars: Characters evolve through trauma, discovery, and inner conflict.
- Collaborative worldbuilding: Setting is created at the table, guided by poetic prompts and vivid descriptors.
🌱 Ships, Factions, and the Green Sea
Players belong to a motley crew of:
- Half-plant, half-human hybrids, sentient fungi, symbiotic wanderers
- Sky-sailors and hedge-scouts who brave dangers from seedstorms to tree leviathans
- Living ships that groan and dream as they slice through tangle and vine
The Wildsea offers:
- Factions and cults, each with deep beliefs and weird tech
- Journeys over destinations, where the stories bloom along the way
🍃 Why You Should Play
This game is:
- Lush and lyrical: The world is strange, beautiful, and always growing.
- Player-led and poetic: Rules support evocative storytelling and wild imagination.
- Mechanically light but narratively rich
- Unique in tone and setting: There's truly nothing else quite like it.
If you want to explore a weird green ocean of tree-tops with your chainsaw-powered sailboat, The Wildsea is calling.