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Oh definitely. Most of its mechanical heft is in combat. And most of its JRPG-ness. There is a non-combat resolution mechanic, but it’s basically the same as any game’s non-combat resolution mechanic, and doesn’t scream JRPG. Any more than a skill challenge or Fate contest or whatever Savage...

And they are?

Much like Fate, FabUlt suffers from the assumption that GMs magically know how to “keep the FPs flowing”. With no actual mathematical guidance on what that means. it’s lazy game “design”.

Commentary: Facing the six of them, we "don't dare try to fight"... Why the heck not? We are going to face far, far worse odds on other paths of this book and be offered the chance to fight. --- … but we can "probably" cast a spell. Aaaaargh!!!!! We are a bloody magic-user. Casting spells...

130 We've paddled past the pilings of the pier when our oar slaps the water. Even that tiny sound is enough to alert the keen-eared gnolls. "Hawdip! Come quick! Humans is leaving island!" one of them shouts. Before we can do anything to get away, two more guards emerge from a large sail shed...

Fair point. Also, I would break my marriage vows for 55-year-old Cate Blanchett now, never mind how she looked 24 years ago. Right! As I ranted in the previous there, long-lived fantasy races break plots. There can’t be any mystery about what happened to Bhukod. It should be common knowledge...

30 The entire premise of this expedition is that we are SNEAKING, so let's do that. We whisper to Dalris that if we can get beneath the pier we can stay in its shadows and get past the gnolls. Dalris, her bloodthirsty desire for sword practice instantly abated, nods. We paddle silently towards...

In Sceptre of Power, section (5), Carr's interior monologue remarks, "If she were a human, you'd estimate her age to be no more than thirty years rather than two centuries!" So take "30 in human years" for whatever it's worth!

You can quote me directly. :) And yeah, that chart has a bunch of "off by one row" errors in it. 1d6 & 1d6 your chances to roll a 7+ are 58%, 10+ 17%, 13+ impossible -- but you can crit with 6 & 6 which will happen 2.78% of the time. Still. FabUlt's raw numbers are VERY player unfavorable...

2 We tell the captain to make for Delmer because we used to live near there and know the area. He nods and points the ship in that direction. Dalris points out that we told her that our mother's people refused to let us enter Delmer, even when Marla was dying. We acknowledge the truth of that...

OUR Carr Delling says "We'll just have to choose one [place to land] and hope we're lucky." But we can do better than that. We know that ultimately we want to investigate the College Arcane at Freeton. However, we also know that our only possible ally there, Haslum, got his dumb-ass killed by a...

I love that the whaling vessel captain is just casually hunting THE WORLD SERPENT, who will fight Thor to the death at Ragnarok. — Re: ranged attacks - is there the possibility for a character to be really good at these? Maybe items we bypassed because melee is cooler? Or it’s more like Lone...

Commentary: “While we know Arno’s in Saven, we have a perfect opportunity to scout the Island.” This is a surprisingly cogent and logical analysis by Carr. Maybe his WIS has increased due to proximity to so many druids. We study the map and state there are “only three ways to get past Arno’s...

137 You’re out of bed and dressed before the yellow Tikandian sun casts its first rays through the huge oaks guarding Wealwood. Grabbing your gear and a rolled map, you shut the door behind you. Landor’s secrets were safe under Perth’s watchful eyes for nearly twenty years, and the archdruid...

Nice. And that’s a cool ending. Much like the Doctor Strange movie, it’s neat when the boss fight ends not with a combat round, but with something more cerebral. Of course in gamebook land it has to involve a Capitalized Noun rather than “I’ve come to bargain”, but still cool...

I’m curious — does the book suggest an official way to keep track of which spell you have prepared? Or you’re on your own? (And how DO you keep track?)

I wasn’t familiar with Ian Irvine. Cool! It could be something like that. I am not at liberty to say. I have to clean up my pre-written notes to make sure I don’t give something away that “we” couldn’t possibly know until later. Noted! Then it was all worthwhile. :D I will reveal from my...

Commentary, continued: The following tables show each statement organized first by location and then by temporal order as best I can tell based on the verb tenses. General Location: Tikandian mainland Specific LocationVerb PhraseVerb Tense = When everywhereThe evil has already spread...

Agon. You (can) play as literal demi-gods. http://www.agon-rpg.com/ Each island is a nice self contained "shot" for your one-shots.

Commentary: What we have here is a bunch of confusing verb tense usage combined with confusing location-based confusion. Let's start with verb tenses. Most of the story I quoted is told using the “helping verb” has (singular) / have (plural) plus the past tense of the verb being helped. Thus...