Emanuele Galletto

Artwork: Scraproid, by Akadama (from Bestiary Vol. I) Hello hello! As many of you probably know, among the various stretch goals unlocked by the Fabula Ultima crowdfunding campaign is the development of a solo mode. This presents a large variety of challenges, considering that Fabula Ultima is a gam

Howdy! It's been a bit since I made a new post here, but sometimes I get the urge to decompress and stretch my design muscles on a little pocket size TRPG. So, as a fan of Miro Haverinen's Fear & Hunger series, today I decided to write a poker size system for it - based on coinflips, of course. If y

Hello everyone! During today's Need Games Show on their twitch channel, Need Games has showcased some art and provided information about the upcoming Kickstarter, which began as "the Bestiary Kickstarter" but has evolved into something more - we won't waste the opportunity to deliver on some unique

Tonight I spent around 4 hours decompressing and doodling this soulslike map on a little notebook. Figured some of you might use it for something (I might even do so in the future, who knows), so I scanned it, cleaned it up a bit, and shared it here. In terms of how you can use it, consider it relea

Hi, everyone! This is an important post, and I decided to start things off with a video - the one I recorded so that I could give my thanks to the GenCon2023 Ennies Awards audience, had Fabula Ultima managed to win any awards (I was unable to attend personally due to excessive travel and stay costs,

Hello hello hello! Some of you might know that I'm a bit of an Atelier fan, especially the Dusk trilogy and Atelier Sophie :D In fact, one of my long term projects, Time of the Essence, is pretty much based upon the Atelier formula. BUT that's something that will come online in the future, not now,

Hello hello! So, as I manage the next Fabula Ultima playtest update and work on UnGodly, I've had this sudden urge to try and make a Persona 5 - inspired rpg on a business card. This was largely due to Luca Negri's work on SCRAPCAT, a business card-sized rpg. Luca is also the author of the amazing i

Hi everyone! I recently watched Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and it gave me the push to do something I'd been wanting to do for a while - a second version of Broken Binary, as well as a spin-off title from the perspective of runners and rogue in its futuristic metropolis. So there you have it - two minim

Howdy howdy howdy! Hope you're all doing well, or at least as well as one can given the scorching heat and general mess we live in. Today I want to share with you a work in progress file for a little project called Fighting Hearts: Overdrive! ("Martial Hearts" was already taken, unfortunately). It's

Cover GIF image from Final Fantasy X-2 Hello folks! Today I wanted to share a couple pdf files with you: the rules (in English and Italian) for Technospheres, an optional equipment and class system inspired by FFVII's Materia, Orbments from the Trails Series, Dresspheres from FFX-2, and more. They'r

Let's celebrate, everyone!!! Fabula Ultima's core book has won first place in the surveys conducted by Italian specialized magazine IoGioco (lit. "I play"), in the Best Tabletop RPG Product category! I absolutely want to thank all of you (patrons and non-patrons, veterans and newcomers) for supporti

Howdy everyone! As i develop the rules and materials for Time of the Essence, I've had this cool little idea for combat speeds in OSR (or at least, most OSR games). Now, weapon speeds and "speed factors" have always been a bit of a sore spot in RPGs - some people spend a lot of time trying to implem

Greetings, everyone! Just wanted to wish you all happy winter holidays. These are tough years (tougher than normal!) and we all need some time to rest, breathe, and hopefully have some fun with the people we hold dear. I also must thank all of you, guests new and old, for supporting my efforts and m

Disclaimer: this whole thing is 100% unofficial content, I have zero ownership of anything Pokémon related and there is no "secret Pokémon project" behind the scenes, let's be clear! The image above is from Pokémon Let's go Eevee/Pikachu. Howdy, you wonderful people! Today's post was inspired by a s

Just a quick reminder that the Press Start tutorial scenario for Fabula Ultima will be available in physical form for Free RPG Day 2021!!! For more info: https://www.freerpgday.com/

Da qui fino al 6 Agosto 2021, sarà possibile preordinare la versione softcover e hardcover di Fabula Ultima dal negozio online di Need Games! Le due versioni sono in formato A5 e hanno i medesimi contenuti interni, ma la softcover ha copertina morbida e sovracopertina illustrata, mentre la hardcover

Un brevissimo post per comunicarvi che il sito dedicato a Fabula Ultima è ora online: www.fabulaultima.it Potete trovare la versione italiana della Quickstart e iniziare a giocare fin da subito!!

Hi everyone! Attached to this post you can find the pdf document for the Full Party Strike System, which anyone can use as a base to design action-oriented, beat 'em up-like tabletop games. It draws inspiration from many titles, among which figure Hades, Borderlands, Dragon's Crown, Metal Slug, Pers

Hi everyone! Today I have a little gift for you. You see, about a year ago, while discussing gacha games, I said that I have a weak spot for female-presenting characters who fight with swords. Jokingly, some of my patrons (you know who you are!) told me I now had to write a game about sword waifus.

Most of you probably know that Ryuutama was the basis to Fabula Ultima's system; still, every now and then I enjoy homebrewing some custom classes for the game. Below you can find the beggar and maid classes, which I developed as a result of conversations in the Ryuutama discord - hopefully you like

Hello everyone! From now on, this post will be used as a general repository for the latest playtest materials for Fabula Ultima - new classes, heroic skills, options and more. These contents will be posted as attachments and marked with a date, so that you may always check whether you have the most

Much like my previous experiment with Demon Contracts, here's my take on achievement-based progression for Questing Beast's Knave, which I'm currently playing (my PC, Amelia, might actually make it to level 2!) How do these work? Simply put, when you level up you may gain one of the Talents below, a

Just a quick post to wish you all a happy winter holiday! Please make sure to stay safe and enjoy the company of your loved ones responsibly ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ As for announcements, we've recently had an influx of new patrons, so I want to say welcome to the new arrivals, and also thank you for the veteran suppo

Hello everyone! Just a quick early access post here to inform you that the fan-favorite class, the Gourmet, has been extensively reworked with the aid of the community (special thanks go to Gyromitre, Alena, Deshter, Cryo, Gatto_Fatuo). And if you haven't done so yet, check out the amazing manga Dun

Greetings, everyone! We're coming to the end of a very tough year, and my heart goes out to all of you. I want you to know that your support and participation might very well be what has kept me going this year - without it, I don't think I would have made it this far without saying "screw it all!"

HELLOOOOO! It's been a while since the last post, although many of you no doubt have kept in touch with me via the Italian Telegram Chat and our Discord server! Just wanted to make a little announcement/presentation about one of the projects I'm working on while Fabula moves to its new print form -

And finally, cat's out the bag! Today, Italian TRPG publisher Need Games (translators and distributors of titles such as Seventh Sea, Adventures in Middle Earth, The Witcher RPG, Cyberpunk Red and more) announced a physical release of Fabula Ultima for November 2021. This will be an international re

And it's already funded! This is a game that I haven't personally designed (the author is Cory T. Burns), but I'm the one who took care of the graphic and layout aspect - from the book, to the character sheets, to the condition cards. If you're a fan of Persona, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and of simi

Art and gifs in this post is from Atlus' Shin Megami Tensei series. Howdy y'all, here's just a little random thing I came up with while working on a bigger announcement (yes yes you'll see more soon!) So you know by now that I'm a bit of a Shin Megami Tensei/Persona fan, and recently I've been playi

Hi everyone! This is a post I've been meaning to write for quite a while. It's gonna get somewhat long, I think, and it's okay if you don't want to read through all of it. In fact, have a TL;DR: I have come to the conclusion that the adventure module "Grudge Immortal" no longer represents who I am a

Hi! These days we're all pretty much stuck inside our homes, and due to this my roleplaying schedule dramatically increased. Specifically, I've been running a Fabula Ultima campaign for three players in my area, seizing this opportunity to test the limits of the system in the long run (we even use t

Update: Obviously enough, this was an April's Fools post! Hello everyone! Emanuele here with an extremely important announcement to make: it's done! After extended months of playtest, and having gathered a vast amount of feedback and comments, I am ready to bring Fabula Ultima to its ultimate iterat

Are you ready for some silly, heartwarming and slightly supernatural slice-of-life anime action? Then I guess this minigame might suit your needs! ... and yes, this is a direct homage to Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. Anyway, the game is derived from John Harper's excellent Lasers & Feelings, just wi

Greetings, you doomed souls! Death Spiral here is a little thing I've been working on during the past few weeks. It is a profoundly hopeless dungeon crawl game (some would perhaps call it a deconstruction?) about doomed explorers and their inevitable demise in the dark depths of the abyss below. It'

Here we are for another non-core class: the Dancer! This one's been in the works for a while, and while its appeal might seem a bit narrow at first, you shouldn't let yourself be fooled by the name - it's a great choice for performers, swashbucklers and other "showy" heroes! The core mechanic this t

Important note: these rules are kept here as a piece of development history, but do not really work well with Fabula Ultima. They tend to kill the action and make the game extremely slow, and do not take into account the many additional classes released over the years. Hooray hooray! A few of you ha

Artwork: Gustave Doré, Death on a Pale Horse You might be wondering: what the #@*! does a Gustave Doré piece have to do with Fabula Ultima? That's easy: today I'm gonna try my hand at a level 100 champion (the kind of adversary that can threaten an entire group by themselves) and I wanted a badass a

Hi everyone! Here we are with another hypothetical class for Fabula Ultima: the merchant! I know I know, this is a bit of a weird one - it's not that common in JRPGs, and the main examples are the Merchant crown in Four Heroes of Light (that's where the picture above comes from) and the Merchant ast

So, I've been tinkering with Fabula Ultima's alternative XP options and I'd love to know about your favorite advancement/xp systems. This is a really short post, I know, but that's because I want you people to talk - well, write actually, but you get what I mean!!! If you feel like it, drop a commen

Hello everyone! I'm writing this post for those of you who might not be familiar with my Tabletop Role Playing Game, Fabula Ultima! The Latin title Fabula Ultima could roughly be translated as "Last Fable" or "Ultimate Story". Most of you have probably realized where this title comes from already: i

Ever since I played Final Fantasy IV and met its protagonist Cecil, I've been fascinated by the Dark Knight. I've always liked any risk-reward classes, and the ability to trade health for damage is right up my alley. It's also the perfect amount of edgy, if you ask me. As of now, Fabula Ultima doesn