My tabletop studio

The Forge and the Fable

Games, stories and tools for people who gather around a table. Everything here exists to make an evening of play feel like something worth remembering.

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The long project · since 2021

Fable Smith

Fable Smith runs solo tabletop campaigns over Discord.

Solo role-playing lets you tell the story you want to tell, but it is niche and hard to get your head around.

Fable Smith makes it easier to pick up, so more people get to tell their own stories. You start a campaign with a command, build your character with the game master, then play by sending messages. It can run Draw Steel and other rule systems.

A Fable Smith combat in Discord: the Oracle resolving an enemy's turn on a battle map, then the Narrator describing what happens next

  • Battle maps

    Each fight gets a map drawn for the place it happens.

  • A referee

    Every post is checked against the rules and the story so far before you see it.

  • A world that remembers

    People, places and what you did carry over from one session to the next.

  • A recap to start

    Each session opens with a reminder of where you left off.

Fable Smith is in closed beta. For access, message me on Discord at mishandledservitor, or find me on The Forge and the Fable Discord server.

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Three adventurers from one of my games, standing on a harbour pier