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Yeah, it looks fantastic. I basically learnt to read on the Pokémon Emerald Prima guide, so I have a lot of love for the style.

The physical books are about the size of Manga Chapter books (Something that is intentional from what I recall correctly.) if a bit thicker than some. Which makes it bit more portable than the Pathfinder 1e books I tend to bring to an in-person campaign. Which to me is a big plus. I have seen a comment or two on videos where some people don't like the book layout. I don't get it so much. It's easy to navigate. You can find what you are looking for because certain sections in the core rulebook are colored on the side to easily pick out the sections.

Yeah, I wanted to make it as visual as possible. The characters and scenario are actually pulled directly from The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero, which is the sequel to Trails in the Sky, my favourite game.

Thanks, I figured that a practical example would probably be the most helpful thing I could do.

Oh, I also thought that acceleration has a lot of potential to be broken, while initiative looked actually more balanced than in most traditional rpgs (including dnd) because it just gives an extra action no matter how much everyone invests in to initiative, didn't like it from a flavor perspective because is likely that the one with highest initiative doesn't act like the leader of the party

The fact that there are regular playtests and updates is really cool. You can tell that the dev is really looking at how people are playing their game.

Do not be discouraged. Playing a good natured player character helps balance out any trauma-based/rougher edge type characters in a group. With the right character synergy you can help put that other player character on a character arc to better themselves. Or in the case of a FF d20 campaign in, I am the grump to a cheerful character, or the straight man to an eccentric/crazy character. On roleplaying. Roleplaying isn't something that always come naturally to someone, and you have to have opportunities to improve at it. The benefit of this game is the use of Scenes. You can always initiate one if you want to have a moment between characters, without the GM having to prompt it. And players agree on who is involved, and who isn't at the moment. They can be simply reacting to something that happened prior, a flashback or a memory emerging, or simply a conversation while walking or resting. And much more. To help practice a bit I often draw inspiration from an existing character to act as bit of a base template to build a character from, then I tweak the character idea. I also add in one aspect of my personality to help get better in character. I try avoid bleed by putting in some degrees of separation between myself and the character. A simple exercise is thinking of simple scenarios and how would the character act in them. You can't account for every scenario that can come up in a game, but getting use to the general idea of how your character would act helps.

Thankies for encouragement, I just gotta find a game now I suppose

The Crossbell crew are probably my favourite 'traditional' four man band RPG party, and I think that I did a pretty good job of building them. Glad that some Trails fans got to see this too.

@@the_twig131 crossbell is the one arc i havent played but i want to. Do you have plans for more follow up videos like character building or other aspects of the system to highlight? Or do you have perhaps other systems of interest?

The Crossbell games are pretty great. Not as good as Sky, but given that Sky is my favourite series ever, that should be obvious. I don't really have any specific plans, but I might do more depending on what people think of this.

Yeah, the playtest updates are really nice.

I always try to add examples when explaining something complicated or new. They just help understanding so much.

I'm glad people are liking the combat so much. I thought it was super important to see how the game plays in context. I was a little worried that it would drag too much.

Yeah, it's a really well made game.

So the music was one of the many subliminal messages to play Trails in the Sky. You should do that.

@@the_twig131 so ALL OST of this video is from this game?

Yep. Every single track. I was completely lying when I said that the video wasn't about Trails, there were an ungodly number of references to it.

Have fun. It's really simple to learn, so you should be able to get a game going pretty quickly.

Any in particular that you think would be good to talk about?

Thanks, glad that there's an audience who likes this so much.

Brilliant, did you enjoy it?

Yeah, it's a really easy system to learn.

Yeah, it's pretty cool. I've seen similar stuff in games like Blades in the Dark, where you can accumulate stress to retcon in the fact that you set a tripwire, but Fabula is way more open about it.

Elie only took 2 actions. Elemental Weapon lets you make a free attack if you use it on yourself.

Thanks for that.

If you liked the music, you should play Trails in the Sky. All of it came from there.

So first off, the battle I showed in this video was stupidly easy. It was mostly designed for the party to show off, whilst trying to remain only about 5 minutes long. Real combats are normally a lot more complicated, with more monsters in different combinations, some of which can fly or have multiple attacks or other complicating features. Characters tend to have a lot of different actions in combat, and are typically rewarded for doing things like studying the monsters to identify their strengths and weaknesses, or for spreading status conditions. The existence of Fabula Points allowing you to just make stuff up on the spot always exists as well. The way my group ended up describing it was "rules heavy, rules easy, and designed for you to break the rules." As for characters themselves, the only things that I would call overpowered are specifically the Acceleration spell, and having more than one tank, just because of the way Defence works. I'm pretty sure I heard that Acceleration was getting an errata though, so one of those issues will hopefully go away.

@@the_twig131 - And this is why I like this channel. Actual information, and just want I wanted to hear!

Yeah, it's definitely a style or subgenre. I wouldn't call something like Skyrim just an RPG either, that's more like an ARPG, and Baldur's Gate is probably a SRPG. I expect that that was probably just a small group of devs lashing out at people who were actually belittling them. As for Lodoss War, I've never played that, but it did get a really cool 1990 anime.

Huh? What's that? This video wasn't about Trails... Have fun. Chimerist is a really cool and flexible class.

Yeah, go for it. As I said, it's super easy to learn. I do genuinely recommend Press Start. It's a great introduction, and isn't too long.

You only crit if your double is 6 or better. This is basically to make it so that increasing your stats doesn't reduce your crit chance, and so that having d6s isn't the optimal choice for builds which care about critting.

@@the_twig131 ooooohh. Right! I'm new. Thank-you!!

Nah, it's an incredibly easy game to learn. Way simpler than game like D&D.

The double 5 at the end wasn't a crit, because you only get a crit on double 6 or better. This is so that you don't get worse at critting as you level up. Rolling a double on 2d6 is a lot easier than rolling a double on 2d12, so the 6+ rule is there to prevent that. As for 'everyone deciding the story', it's a very lopsided 'everyone'. The GM still has control, players can just spend a resource (which has many other good uses as well) to impact it, and the DM always has veto powers. It's more there to encourage interaction rather than to allow players equal input to the plot.

So with Fabula Points and Opportunities, the DM can always veto things if they are deemed too powerful. Saying "I put an instakill poison into the villain's drink" just isn't fun for anyone. The game is fairly built around collaborative storytelling and world building though, it's not designed to be the DM's world that the players just exist in. It actually goes as far in the book as suggesting that players write some locations on the map. As for out of combat, there aren't many mechanics for it, but that works fairly well for a group that likes heavy roleplay. The fact that you can't see that you have -1 Persuasion means that you're more likely to try to talk to the king instead of doing that thing of awkwardly turning to the Bard and saying "Can you say this for me?". It also means the the GM can say what abilities you should roll based on how you behave, rather than talking to someone basically always being Charisma.

@@the_twig131 Gotcha, might not be for me then. I'll still consider it though. Thanks for the reply! (and the video, of course) Happy gaming!

To a degree yes but every ttrpg has taken inspiration from other games. That being said I can't remember if fabula credits ryuutama. Both games have a different focus and are a joy to play. Ryuutama is a beautiful masterpiece that is overall more rewarding. "If you only do what you can do you will never be more than who you are now." -Master Shifu

@@gabrielroias8373 Yes, Fabula Ultima credits Ryuutama. They put it right at the top of their Origin and Inspirations section on page 4, saying that Fabula Ultima is "partially based" on Ryuutama.