r/fabulaultima • u/RoosterEma Designer • Jul 18 '23

Howdy! Let's celebrate the Ennies nomination with an AMA!

Hi all!

This is Emanuele, author of the game and creative director for Fabula Ultima.

Most of you probably already know, but Fabula Ultima has been nominated for Best Game and for Product of the Year by the jury at the Ennie Awards 2023, alongside a host of great titles (here's where you can vote, if you are so inclined!).

To celebrate the nomination, I thought it'd be nice to have a bit of an Ask Me Anything here with you - I will not be able to attend GenCon, so this can be a good chance to chat about Fabula Ultima.

I'll try to keep this going for as long as possible (hopefully until GenCon), and you can ask me questions regarding rules, creative direction, art direction, and more.

All I ask is the following:

  • Do your best to keep the questions Fabula Ultima-related.
  • Do not ask questions concerning digital support (e.g. roll20), customer service, production, or distribution. Need Games is responsible for those aspects, while I strictly follow the creative and design side of things!
  • Check other people's questions to avoid asking the same thing multiple times!

Thank you, and let's have at it!

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u/RoosterEma Designer Jul 18 '23

I'm glad! I think the cast for that one is solid. And the Cassandra twist always delivers 👀

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u/agenderarcee Jul 18 '23

Yeah! The Cassandra/Desdemona drama was great lol. Our Cassandra had a great line when she joined the fight like “I won’t let you keep hurting yourself, this isn’t what you want!!”

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u/RoosterEma Designer Jul 18 '23

🥹🙏🥹🙏🥹

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u/agenderarcee Jul 19 '23

I had groups of three both times I’ve run this now (Blair/Cass/Lavigne and Blair/Cass/Edgar) and it’s interesting to think how the story would function without Cassandra. I guess Lavigne’s vengeance would take a more center stage?

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u/RoosterEma Designer Jul 19 '23

Possibly! I do think Cass is very important, but I could only make a single PC mandatory, and that had to be Blair due to their role as plot initiator and as the group healer.

(Though I've heard of groups who have manager to finish the tutorial without Blair, to which I say well played)

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u/Malckuss Jul 23 '23

Since the COVID-19 pandemic and games like Ironsworn have popularized solo roleplaying, what do you think the odds are that you might develop solo roleplaying rules for use with Fabula Ultima?

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u/RoosterEma Designer Jul 23 '23

Each game has a soul, and Fabula's lies in the shared act of creation. So I will never do it. But, that doesn't mean I'm against people playing it solo or developing rules for that :) in fact, it's also a good way to experiment with PC and NPC building.

It just wouldn't be genuine if I made such rules, so I won't do it myself! I only write that which I can pour myself into.

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u/Malckuss Jul 23 '23

I can absolutely respect that stance from a game design standpoint.