New to Fabula Ultima, my adventure through Press Start solo play. I became a big fan!
I am a huge JRPG fan but new to the TTRPG hobby about 3 months ago after watching Me, Myself, and Die. I have been doing solo one-shots of DnD 5.5e but came across Fabula Ultima’s kickstarter. I love Amano’s work and am subject to FOMO so I am deeply considering the collector’s edition but felt like it would be more responsible of me to see if I enjoy the game first haha.
I ended last night making a couple of tokens, pages, and downloading the Press Start campaign. I started today with 2 cups of coffee and solo 4-handed but lost against Desdemona and Tristan. Decided I would play through it again after the kids went to bed, but this time I ran 5-handed with the addition of Mako.
I also enjoy masochist challenge JRPG runs such as full draconian DQXI so I decided that upon encountering Desdemona and Tristan, Cassandra would turn on us and join the fight to stop us. I continued to run the suggested rules with Mako’s addition, bumping Desdemona up her hp and having her take 3 turns per round; however I did allow myself to unlock the advanced skills like protect, potion rain, and Blair’s multi-heal spell.
Well this was surely a nail biter. I turned on the Fabula Ultima OST battle music on loop on YouTube and began crunching.
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Our party keeps up with Desdemona’s onslaught of magic attacks with the use of potion rain and Blair’s multi-heal whilst managing those Iron Gauntlet counters. We stack damage onto Lavigne as she does big damage to Desdemona (Octopath style) for multiple rounds until she escapes into her brother’s armor and became untargetable.
Cassandra and Tristan take advantage of their single target abilities and get a lucky KO against our healer Blair. With Edgar out of sufficient inventory points for potion rain, it was time to change strategies and press offense.
Mako and Edgar bursts down Tristan and Cassandra as Lavigne prioritizes using potions on Mako and providing a protect per turn. Cassandra is down to 5 HP and she feels that this will be her last turn before she is stuck down. And so she rolls high to take down Mako. Our party stand 2 versus 3 now.
Edgar rains down a barrage of bullets and uses enough Fabula Points to reroll and ensure his shots get past Tristan’s armor while knocking out the recent turncoat Cassandra. Desdemona and Tristan focus attacks on Lavigne who retaliates and destroys the armor shell of Tristan.
Desdemona stands in front of us, “I will not fall today, I will not fail my brother!” She casts one last spell in attempt to drop Lavigne below threshold to disable her dark damage skill. Lavigne faces the spell head-on, sacrificing her own health and swings her greatsword down onto Desdemona who is overwhelmed by the blow.
Desdemona, Tristan, and Cassandra are defeated and each use their last Ultima point to escape.
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Kickstarter ends on Aug 31! I’m hoping to run some journeys with Mythic GME and see how it all goes before then! Thanks for joining me and my ramblings!