Fabula Ultima general thread [+]

[Faolyn]

Is the GM expected to perform a one person show for the players when their PCs aren't present?

I've done cutscenes in my Monster of the Week game and they rarely take more than 2-3 minutes. So if it's a one-person show, it's really short.

But mine are more like extended flavor text than anything else.

 

[CandyLaser]

I'd add that if people are interested in listening to people play Fabula Ultima, Perpetua is the current season of the excellent and long-running AP series Friends at the Table and a great choice. Some of their seasons are sequels or otherwise connected to one another, but this is a standalone, so there's no need to listen to anything that has come before. The premise of the season is that there are two groups of PCs exploring a world which periodically undergoes cycles of world-ending apocalypse followed by rebirth, with some beings and items managing to persist across this cycle. The current cycle is a fantasy world inspired by Dreamcast-era JRPGs with some anachronistic tech elements; the world contains a clock which is inexorably counting down to the end of the current cycle, and the PCs are learning about various mysteries associated with the cycles and the things that manage to survive from one world to the other.