The Bibliobug - a playbook for Wanderhome
A downloadable playbook
The Bibliobug is a playbook for the fantastic Wanderhome tabletop role-playing game. Wanderhome is a story about travel. The Haeth is as large as our imagination, and many places are not close to any metropolis with its centres of learning. Just as in the real world, that leaves traveling librarians to wander the paths from village to village, shire to shire, carrying stories and learning from afar, for the borrowing. In our world, traveling libraries are almost as old as public libraries themselves, and mobile libraries almost two centuries old, and so it is in the Haeth, where stories are like the air we breathe.
You long not only to gather and preserve archival knowledge, but also to share it. With your buggy companion, you bring distant learning to far places. You are alive. Your care is patient, guiding, and protective.
Have a look at contemporary mobile libraries around the world, including the Biblioburro of Colombia, a direct inspiration for this playbook:
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2018/4/23/for-the-love-of-books-mobile-librar...
The Bibliobug Playbook is an independent production by Andrew Aulenback and Eric Drew and is not affiliated with Possum Creek Games Inc. It is published under the Wanderhome Third Party License. Made possible by the generous Wanderhome Third Party License.
Update 12 January 2022: Added a second pdf, this one a collection of additional books for inspiration, from the comments here at itch.io and also from the Wanderhome Discord group.
Update 01 November 2022: Added a third pdf, of even more additional books for inspiration.
Update 20 March 2023: Added a fourth pdf to the list, yet still more additional books for inspiration, because this community is brilliant.
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Oh, my word! Even more books added for inspiration!
And yet another update, of even more books to inspire your bibliobug's collection.
And the very earliest beginnings of a third collection of titles:
Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Bugs, by Cowen Weeks. A memoir by a thoughtful poet.
Mist Again, by Cowen Weeks. A collection of travel poems written in and about the community of Brokart Falls.
Want an idea for what your Bibliobug could have been up to during the Rebellion?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_book_smugglers
Looking to expand the library-ness of your story? Look at adding a home branch with this Library Nature by trouser_mouse:
https://trouser-mouse.itch.io/the-library
and this home-branch librarian playbook, by the same:
https://trouser-mouse.itch.io/the-librarian
And yet another Library Nature, in French and in English, at
https://axolotl-jdr.itch.io/wanderhome-independent-content
So, any ideas of more book titles? What invented, fictional books would YOU add?
do they have to be non fiction sounding books? It could be cool to have fiction in there too.
like, The Wolf Boy and his Seven Parents. The Bee that Became a Forest. The Heaven that Flew on the Other Wind.
Thoughts?
Lovely additions!
I actually meant The Feather that Flew on the Other Wind haha, but whichever catches your fancy!
Aphid Tending For Fun and Profit by E. R. Mousekowitz
Narratives of the Lily Rebellion by the Hæth Historical Society
Play Therapy With Theropods by Dr. Dino
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, a Beginner's Guide to Daemonology by Paracelcius
The Complete Works of Ibid
I love all of these, Tea!
Cow Tools: Farming and Agriculture in Contemporary Hæth by Wiley Mallard
Waiting for Escargot by Samuel Beakit
The Origin of Kith by Charlese Finch
Lightning Strikes Twice: An Aesthetic History of the Lightning Dancers, by a poetic and/or honest art historian
The Mystery of Mirrorlake Mountain, a detective story/travelogue by a dramatic or quiet author
Ars Pscantur: The Key of Salmon, a book on fishing by a mysterious author, lost to time.
The Complete Ymistland, a compendium of Ursa K Legume's stories and writings of a fictional history
Ha! Excellent! All of you!