Emanuele Galletto

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

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

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

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 In fact, have a TL;DR: I have come to the conclusion that the adventure module "Grudge Immortal" no longer represents who I am a

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

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

What the title says! And I know "creature creation" sounds kinda repetitive, but I don't want to call these "enemies" or "monsters"... :( got any suggestions for a better section title?

Hey! A quick post to showcase some of my current work on Zodiac Echoes, the first in a series of small(ish), single-session role playing games which make use of cards to allow for faster gameplay and character creation. You'll be glad to know that playtest materials for this game are pretty much com

Hello everyone! Just wanted to wish all of you a happy summer holiday (and buon ferragosto to all Italians!), plus a couple updates! I’m in the process of re-designing some of Fabula Ultima’s core rules - specifically the mechanical relevance of Promises between characters. Expect the next Fabula po

Hello! First of all, here's the new (and likely final, but let's not be too hasty) logo for Fabula Ultima. It's dreamy, and green-blue, and JRPGish... and I'm pretty happy with it, but I'd really love to hear your thoughts. However, the meat of this post is... the Eight Pillars! What's that about? G

Hi! If you're thinking "hey, that logo looks suspiciously like a JRPG logo" you're... very right! Fabula Ultima is a big project of mine, one you'll be able to see from its early stages (which is to say, the current state of the game) to its completion (hopefully within a reasonable time) So what's

While the next Patreon release will be Guilds of Coldstone, I’m doing a dramatic overhaul of Blood Red Blossoms, my Blades in the Dark hack inspired by Japanese myth. You’ll soon be able to see more!

Heya! Since some of you might have only recently discovered my work, I wanted to provide a list of everything I've done in the past years - together with the appropriate links. Consider this sort of an anthology-checklist! Blades of the Inquisition is a Blades in the Dark hack that allows you to pla