The Priest of the Road

The Priest of the Road is a tabletop roleplaying game, and hack of Meguey & Vincent Baker's The Wizard's Grimoire.

The player assumes the role of a Priest of the Road. Their job is to help maintain the elaborate web of agreements among humans and spirits that help keep the roads safe for travelers, known as the Weave, and to help people traveling the roads. They're a sort of animist riff on the D&D cleric with a heavily sociological bent.

The Priest of the Road has a lot of social power, some magical power, and a lot of obligations expressed most concretely in their vows to their Order. The player's goal is to follow the road wherever it may lead, to have their vows tested, and to try and do the right thing, in the end.

It's also a game about road trips I guess.

This game's development is documented on github using the Method for Design Materialisation (MDM).