Root Database

Lizard Cult NEO

A rework of the original Lizard Cult. Featuring 2 new Conspiracies and a general faction board layout for easier readability. Major changes to Crafting as well as a change to the Revenge ability. Acolytes are now generated when your warriors are removed outside your turn. The Garden Scoring VP Track has also changed to encourage more Garden creation.

La Papessa Floreale

Art by verti

Tension, representing fear and unrest, are generated by battles between other factions, or by special actions. Papessa warriors may collect Pollen in Harvest Clearings, bake it into Bee Bread, and deliver it to Tension in order to score. Each turn, the Papessa chooses a new Doctrine - special abilities that provide passive bonuses, or active effects triggered by spending cards. Use them to recruit swathes of warriors in a single turn, generate or remove tension in special ways, manage your hive workers box, or enhance your capacity for battling.

Militant (7 Reach)

Fan Made Faction

Inactive

Wayward Flock

by Tor

Inspired by your visionary council to escape an oppressive regime, you strive to build a new home as a refuge from the nameless evils of their former coop. As you smuggle more and more of your brethren from captivity, be wary lest you attract the very aggressors you sought to escape! This is a faction for the board game Root, created as part of RootJam 2025. These chickens need your leadership to pilot them to lasting freedom! By following their pecking order, they hope to prosper and thrive away from their oppressive captors. Their power grows with their impressive numbers, but sooner or later they may trigger a calamity, attracting their former owners to the woodland to bring them all back to the barnyard. Will you help them hatch a plot to fly the coop?

Royal Conservatory

The Royal Conservatory is dismayed by the barbary of these warring factions and of the ruin they are laying waste to the Woodland. Seeking to preserve the beauty and culture of the Woodland itself, the Royal Conservatory establishes Preserves and tears down those buildings in the way. It swarms the board with a heavy recruiting power and a collective movement feature. But because of its disdain for military conquest and primary interest in maintaining status quo, its warriors do not contribute to rule and do little damage in battle.

Sun's Kaleidoscope

Art by Duncan

The core idea behind the Sun’s Kaleidoscope is a faction deeply devoted to their god, with a theology where it is not a clergy that rules, but the god itself. To please the Sun, the Kaleidoscope must act like the Sun wants from building temples to sacrifice ennemies. To win, players must carefully balance expansion spreading the truth of their god with the protection of cornfields, which are essential to crafting and maintaining the Sun’s Favor.

Cluckton Inns

Art by Tuesdaywarrior

As the Cluckton Resorts, you will create the best vacation spot right here in the woodland. You will score points as the visiting grub tourists check-out of your resorts having had wonderful experiences and made memories. Whether or not the attending chickens eat some of the departing grubs is beside the point.