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Fabula Ultima: JRPG Adventures

THE WORLD SO FAR:

A world with a sky wracked with storms. Within the eyes of the storms, sky islands float about. Travel between eyes requires an Airship, while flight within the eyes is safe for flying creatures and less sturdy crafts. While technology is fairly down-to-earth and mundane, remnants of bygone empires can be found on the islands. Most people live fairly simple rustic existences, but travel between towns and islands is common thanks to flying mounts.

NATIONS
Everwing Island- An island where children undergo a coming of age ceremony in which they bond with a flying mount. Most of the ancient magitech here is either shut down or simple lighting.
Hegemony of Yankind: A cluster of islands that has recently begun industrializing and creating machines of war to expand their influence. Unlike most flying machines, theirs are mostly uniform and mass-produced.
Sky Camelot
Isle of Shipwrecked Children
Buccaneer's Bolt- A stormcloud-encrusted island where sky pirates hang their hooks and hats.

MAJOR EVENTS
-Rise of Imperialist Nation
-Crash of a colony airship (probably a recent development if they're still kids)

MYSTERIES
- Just what IS the nature of magic?
- Why do a storm's islands look like they fit together?
- What are the voices in the storm?
- Where is Yankind getting all that metal?
- What's with the weird statues?
- Can the collapsing island of Entegia be repaired? If not, are the other islands doomed to the same fate?

THREATS: Sky Pirates, malfunctioning ancient technology, gathering storms, Imperialist Nation's army

Fabula Ultima: JRPG Adventures

Rin, I'm insulted you didn't think there'd be sky pirates.

I'm kind of imagining that there's... maybe a giant storm, or series of big storms, that contain certain clusters of islands. Within those clusters, people can get around on flying mounts like birds or bats, but travel between them needs an airship. Maybe different clusters use different animals? I'm imagining the sky-pirates giving their mounts little goggles and bandannas, maybe painting a Jolly Roger on them if space permits.

Fabula Ultima: JRPG Adventures

Alright, so first things first: Here's a site where someone uploaded stuff for their personal campaign, including the 19 classes and a Player Aid. Don't worry about chargen just yet, we've gotta build a world!

1. Decide the shape of your world. Is it round, flat, donut-shaped, or are there nations floating in the clouds? Has its shape even been discovered?
2. Draw a map or use a Map Sheet- remember to establish the length of a travel day!
3. What is the role of MAGIC and TECHNOLOGY in your setting? Is it a medieval setting, an age of industrial development, or is it more renaissance-like? Is magic seen as a form of science, or is it more of a grand mystery?

For me, personally, it doesn't feel like a JRPG without at least a few floating islands. Heck, it's in a lot of the promotional art for the game too.

Fabula Ultima: JRPG Adventures

Alright, to elaborate from the book:

Hider

-Great castles whose crystal spires reach the sky, fleets of ornate airships emerging from the clouds, vast stretches of enchanted forests, and ancient, sprawling ruins brimming with magical golems and powerful artifacts. A HIGH FANTASY world is an ageless classic. Every location in a high fantasy world has some magical element to it, and everything is bizarre and wondrous. Magic is abundant and omnipresent.

-Floating amidst a lush expanse of verdant forests, snow-capped mountains, and crystal-clear lakes, small villages slumber peacefully, coexisting with the beasts and elemental forces of the wilderness. Underneath it all lie the ruins of mysterious past civilizations that once ruled this world of NATURAL FANTASY. In a natural fantasy world, every location and vista is deeply immersed in vibrant colors and populated by great beasts. There are no cities or roads, only small villages and narrow paths. Magic is tied to nature, life, and the elements: Its traditions are largely oral, and a mystery to most people.

-Heavy rain falls from polluted clouds, clanking sounds over the brass and steel pipework spreading from one building to another. Casting its shadow over the rundown districts is the massive shape of an industrial chimney, the factory below draining energy and power from the depths of this TECHNO FANTASY world. Techno fantasy locations often take the form of a literal "above and below" where the shining palaces of the wealthy steal the very sun from those less fortunate. Outside the cities lies a barren world turned grey by human greed. Magic has largely been claimed by technology and turned into another source of power, wealth, and warfare.

Fabula Ultima: A JTTRPG

Okay, the title needs work, and give me a minute to grab some resources.

Fabula Ultima: JRPG Adventures

Alright, so first things first: We've got to pick a tone. The suggested ones are High Fantasy (Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy 1-3, Soul Blazer), Natural Fantasy (Ghibli), Techno Fantasy (FF7, Chrono Trigger).

Fabula Ultima: A JTTRPG

Okay, seven interested members... I feel like that's just doable? Yeah, let me toss up a proper thread.

Fabula Ultima: A JTTRPG

Hey- I have a problem. A problem that probably merits intervention. I CANNOT stop buying tabletop rulebooks when they go on sale. It's an addiction, really. Anyway, the local hobby shop had a session, and a discount, so I figured 'why not.'

The gist of Fabula Ultima is that it is a tabletop system designed to emulate the storytelling feel of JRPGs like Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Grandia, Radiant Historia, you get the gist. Because of this, it's less concerned with verisimilitude and emulation, favoring a more "video gamey" feel. Part of the appeal, for me, is that the players and GM work together to build the world and populate it.

I've kind of been away from RPGuild for a long time. I've missed it, and the people here, and was figuring I'd stick my head out again. Who knows, depending on number of players, we might have multiple groups! The sky's the limit.

P2e - Threshold of Knowledge

Right, go ahead and add me to that waitlist- love me some PF2e, and I've got a few too many character concepts to run through.

Who likes isekai and bugs?

Damn, I was hoping this was an Aura Battler Dunbine thing.