Moonwych is a late medieval roleplaying setting and system, where players take on the roles of anthropomorphic animals living in the Island of Moonwych. Mystery surrounds why the animals of Moonwych can think, talk, craft and farm. Legends speak of a time before thought and speech, when life was ruled by the claw, and there was only the hunter and the hunted. Now otters organise rebellions on riverbanks, foxes gather in thieves' dens and badgers speak in councils beneath oak roots. Politics grows like brambles and the towns are populated by cats and dogs.