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 playing some OS...
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I have come to the conclusion that the adventure module "Grudge Immortal" no longer represents who I am and who I want to be as an a...
2020-06-22 14:34:51 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
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 the level boost rule to q...
2020-04-11 15:20:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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, ...
2020-04-01 11:29:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2020-03-14 15:09:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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. 2020-02-25 17:29:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
![[outdated] Fabula Ultima: Tactical Rules Module](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/10/hf/sj/4e9b88-019e8ba9-08c4-7cc2-80a1-d79c9b06a215.gif)
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 have been waiting for this since.....
2020-01-15 17:58:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Artwork by Akihiko Yoshida for Final Fantasy III
Hi everyone, and welcome to yet another Fabula Ultima experiment! <cackles madly> Today we're looking at something I've been toying with in my mind for a while: Signature Skills.
Strictly speaking, these skills are an optional rule, a...
2019-12-02 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 artwork. Let's...
2019-11-12 19:41:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 asterisk in Br...
2019-10-23 18:15:44 +0000 UTC View PostSo, 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 comment here (ENG or ITA are a b...
2019-09-21 14:11:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy!
Today I have a bit of a work-in-progress post for you - just like the previous post on the Blood Knight, these are not finalized designs.
We're talking heroic class skills! This addition has been the subject of discussion for quite a while, and now I can finally show you some of the ideas I came up with.
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 Fab...
2019-07-08 14:30:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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 amou...
2019-05-31 15:26:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday, the Italian RPG journalist duo MorgenGabe published a Facebook post and an associated YouTube video dealing with how to create a Villain for your tabletop RPG campaign. I...
2019-05-20 11:34:10 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
The following is a link to a Discord Server for Rooster Games: https://discord.gg/fMfV8Ty
If you are a patron of mine and join the server, please send me your username - this way, I can upgrade you to a Patron role and grant you access to special Patron-o...
2019-03-08 19:09:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Similarly to what I did for Fabula Ultima, here's a comprehensive post that will include all Zodiac Echoes updates and files. I have also changed the fonts in order to improve readability!
2019-02-20 23:54:35 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! This is a quick public poll concerning Zodiac Echoes, specifically the city that this game will be set in. I am curious:
When it comes to the contemporary city the game is set in, would you prefer for it to be...?
2019-01-22 18:22:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I finally managed to make one!
Looks sweet as a mobile wallpaper, just sayin' ;D
2019-01-12 14:27:42 +0000 UTC View PostHo ho ho!
Just wanted to wish all of you a happy holiday and new year's beginning. I myself will mostly spend these days setting up OBS for Twitch streaming, translating a bunch of chapters from Italian to English for The Silence of Hollowind, and hopefully running some playtests - assuming I can find some people who haven't been ...
2018-12-24 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi! If you'd like to get constant updates on my work, consider joining my Telegram channel:
This will allow me to do more frequent updates, while also making sure that the Patreon posts don't become a total mess. Major update...
2018-12-14 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised in Monday's update post, I want to talk a bit about Zodiac Echoes, specifically what is going to change about it and why. You could say I simply want to share a bit of my creative process, but I feel like my musings go a bit beyond that - they have more to do with the tabletop role-playing medium as a whole, in fact. Tr...
2018-12-13 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post![[ITA] Shinobigami sheets](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/2/zt/rs/4e9b88-019e8ba9-0b80-71fd-973f-72c3479c000d.jpg)
Anche se completamente slegato dai contenuti del Patreon, volevo condividere anche con voi le schede per Shinobigami che ho tradotto in italiano.
Trovate qui il link a google drive per scaricarle!
Se non conoscet...
2018-12-03 13:18:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
Just a quick post to show you a bit of progress I've been making when it comes to Zodiac Echoes: XII Before Silence.
While the game runs fairly well during playtests, I have realized some of its aspects are lacking. It's actually not that much of a "rules" problem - it's about the way characters are built, w...
2018-11-30 00:05:06 +0000 UTC View PostAs some of you may have noticed, the google drive doc for Zodiac Echoes is undergoing continuous changes these days; once I get my hands back on InDesign I’ll also begin work on the rulebook layout - if possible, I want to make it really pocket sized and easy to carry around, perhaps even A6 or something like that.
When it come...
2018-11-21 20:18:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! I hope you're all having a wonderful day.
Yesterday night I came back from a convention in Milan (managed to play some kick-ass Broken Binary and had a great time with Cyberpunk 2020). As soon as I touched the bed I fell asleep and woke up this morning at 11 a.m. ... only to discover I had missed ...
2018-11-20 14:06:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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 the two big conceptual inspirationa for ...
2018-11-14 15:38:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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:
Hello everyone! Sorry for not posting much these days, but between preparations for Lucca Comics & Games and gathering info about the new PC (BTW, I can confirm the previous one is 120% dead) I really haven't had much time for writing posts.
I am, however, working on Fabula Ultima (specifically, a page-long list of fixes that I'll implement o...
2018-10-24 20:59:31 +0000 UTC View Post