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I’ve vaguely imagining it along the vein of fairytales like Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel & Gretel, maybe with Riders instead of witches as stock villains.

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Ah, yeah, I could see whatever fairy tales (literary genre) that aren’t Fairy Tales (Chuubo genre of transformation and adversity) being Walking Field/Adventure Fantasy material. When I think of what I’d do for Walking Field games, I mostly jump to freaky carnival fairs and the like.

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What WOULD a Walking Fields game be like anyway?

I’m asking this at all my haunts. What would a Walking Fields game be like? Over the Garden Wall is like the first thing that comes to mind, but I have no experience with childhood forest adventure-based fiction, so there might be other options out there.

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Grandmother Bloodroot, Flower-Alchemist

You may find Grandmother Bloodroot deep in the Walking Fields, two days' journey west of the schoolhouse that has a shell for a roof. Her house is a giant bell covered with rust - a diving bell, the locals'll tell you, that she sang up from the depths of the Lake.

Really, they'll tell you a lot of things like that. They'll tell you about the time a Riding came through the Walking Fields, and she stood there in her garden and spread her arms and bade them halt, so they took her truck instead of the spirits they'd come for. Or they'll tell you about finding a dead man in the fields, with his guts torn out and scattered, so she ("quite reasonably") replaced the man's guts with flowers and he worked for her for two years before leaving to make his fortune on the Lake.

Grandmother Bloodroot herself steadfastly refuses to have an opinion on these stories. She'll brew you a cup of tea and tell you that you should make up your own mind, and sit there and listen to you talk until you figure out your own view of the subject.

But if you come to her with an impossible problem, something you cannot solve? Give her something you made with your own two hands; and in exchange, she'll give you a vial of oil or powdered herbs which'll give you a fighting chance.

Grandmother Bloodroot has

Sentimental 1+ (increase if you want her to be an active player in events)

Visionary 1+ (increase if you'd rather have her be an enigmatic sponsor-figure)

Either way I'd expect her to have about as many arcs as the PCs have at the time, in total. Maybe one less.

Plant Lore and Flower Alchemy 4

Self-Sufficiency 2

Active Listening 2

Organization -1

Bond (2): [I need to be tending to my garden.]

She also might have

a small wind-up clockwork assistant who helps her with chopping, stirring, and other such repetitive activities

a locket with pressed violets instead of portraits inside