FABULUM

The miniature knows it stepped in fire.

Figures and tiles talk on your table. No phone. No PC in the game.

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Same step. Two outcomes.

Miniatures and terrain talk through the board. You hear them. You answer with a card.

Figures and modules exchange state through the tiles
A miniature asks the human player for help
A card barcode sends a command (here: a shield)
With the shield, the figure can step into fire
Without the card, the same step costs health (the light on the figure’s back)

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The table stays the table.

It uses technology, but works independently from computers or smartphones. Modular tiles snap together. The electronics live in the figure, not in a phone.

FABULUM on the table: white play tiles, painted terrain, and spare modules

The three parts

Ordinax (power and card reader), the tiles that form the board, and Fabulor under each miniature.

USB-C, five volts — a phone charger or a power bank
Sixteen nodes on each tile: power, data, colour
Fabulor holds lights, a speaker, and the figure’s memory

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Figures speak to the commander.

When a warrior is low on life, she can call for help — to you, the player who commands the game. Figures can also address each other; you hear that talk as if they were speaking across the board.

Astor’s Rebellion

The first tabletop game on FABULUM. Nyx station has gone silent. Its AI, Astor, is burning satellites. Two people are sent to talk it down — or shut it down.

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Astor remembers the game.

It sees whether one or two astronauts are in play and runs the matching rules.
Astor remembers the highest score and the last run, reads the step count at the start, and tightens or eases the difficulty from that.
Each run hides the items needed to move through the station in different places, so the path is not the same twice.
Werktalos can issue updates. You load them into the miniatures from your computer; the game itself still runs without that computer.

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What inspired this

Why the table felt dull next to computer games — and how the tiles come together.

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The campaign is live.

Fabulum with Astor's Rebellion is open for pledges. From €49 for the analog game, €259 for the electronic kit.

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