Emanuele Galletto

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 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

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.

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

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 -

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

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

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

Here’s a link to Ron Edwards’ post concerning Blood Red Blossoms on his website Adept Play, for those of you who might be interested in our little chat that took place at Lucca Comics & Games 2018. Again, Ron’s enthusiasm towards the game fills me with joy. He also managed to immediately pinpoint th

Hi! It’s now eleven in the morning here in Italy, and I’ve finally been able to enjoy a full night of sleep - that had not been possible ever since last Monday. This Lucca Comic convention has been great, as well as exceptionally tiring. In no particular order: Ron Edwards ran a game of Blood Red Bl

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?

Fabula Ultima sarà giocabile per la prima volta in occasione del 5° DGI Birthday presso la casa dei giochi UESM di Milano! L'evento dedicato è accessibile qui su facebook. La demo (per 3-5 giocatori, con materiale in italiano) consisterà di due parti: la creazione del mondo e del gruppo di gioco, co

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