Indie TTRPG of the Week

Fellowship 2e

Fellowship 2e

Don't tell the elf

Touchstones: LOTR (duh), Avatar the last airbender, Wakfu, most of Final Fantasy

Genre: Fantasy, Adventure

What is this game?: Fellowship is a tabletop game about creating not just a character, but an entire culture around said character, then going on a journey with other people and dealing with your strange culture shock

How's the gameplay?: Fellowship runs in a fairly standard 2d6 PBTA system. A core difference is that the GM also gets to choose a playbook! This playbook determines the threat the players will go against, they could fight against the environment itself in an exploratory journey, an evil dark lord, or an oppressive empire. The other big difference is that the player's playbook doesn't just determine their character, but rather their character's entire culture! if you play a Dwarf for example, you get to define what a "Dwarf" is, and if you play an "elf" you get to define what an Elf is, so on so forth.

What's the setting (If any) like?: None! in fact the players are encouraged/required to sort of build their own setting using the game's guidelines, it's at its core a collaborative world building game where in players create cultures of their own, with the GM also getting to create part of the world by defining their own playbook.

What's the tone?: Fellowship is at its core about tales of humble heroes and great dark lords to be defeated, evil will always have a good to defeat it and people will always band together if it means defeating a greater evil, its optimistic for the most part

Session length: 2 hours is usually enough time to do plenty

Number of Players: 3-6 is best

Malleability: Extremely malleable! its best suited for roughly fantasy settings, but the game is meant to allow many different settings

Resources: the game has 3 expansions, no shared sheet from what I can tell however

Fellowship is a very cool game, creating your own culture around your character is definitely one of its strong suits but its honestly just a pretty fun narrative-first game in general