The Champions
Fabula Ultima
By Emanuele Galletto
1 Oct, 2024
Roleplaying Games
Emanuele Galletto1’s 2023’s Ennie-award-winning Fabula Ultima is a level and class-based tabletop (in Japanese vernacular, “table talk”) role-playing game. Fabula Ultima’s2 goal is to emulate the techno-magical worlds of Japanese role-playing computers games (JRPGs) like the Final Fantasy series3.
What do these games have in common? Fabula Ultima’s eight pillars, common to all its settings are: ancient ruins and harsh lands, a world in peril, clashing communities, everything has a soul, magic and technology, heroes of many sizes and shapes, it’s all about the heroes, and mystery, discovery, and growth. Basically, decent people doing good in a dangerous world and having it mean something.
Normally, I would wait until I had the hardcopy in hand to review the game. My enthusiasm overcame my executive functions and I splurged on the PDF version of the game.