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<h1>Publisher's Foreword</h1>
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I grew up with JRPGs, I learned a lot and I shared powerful emotions and
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incredible adventures: they're my greatest passion, second only to my love for
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tabletop RPGs. I felt hatred for Kefka and his laughter; I screamed and cried
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during "that scene" with the kind Aerith and the brilliant Sephiroth; I felt
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the smell of gasoline and clanging of metal as I piloted Fei Fong Wong's mech
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and the Monado gripped in my hands with each of Shulk's strikes; I jumped
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through time together with Crono, Marie, Lucca and Robo; I was among the Stars
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of Destiny in Tir's Liberation Army; I smelled the gunpowder from Squall's
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gunblade; I was moved by Vivi's existential crisis and I fell in love with
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Tifa. My whole generation fell in love with Tifa. Whenever I finished a JRPG,
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I felt an emptiness inside. I wanted the plot to continue, I wanted the
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protagonists I loved and villains I hated to stay with me: every single time,
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I wished again and again for a tabletop RPG that would allow me to keep those
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stories and emotions alive. I tried many systems; I hacked and pasted together
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rules from different games, reskinned like there was no tomorrow, created
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house rules, but it never worked. I wanted an accurate way to play the JRPGs I
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loved, to create and experience new stories in the style of my favourite genre
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with the people at my table, but I could not find anything that truly
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satisfied me. Now, when I finish a JRPG and feel that familiar emptiness, I
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can simply schedule a session of Fabula Ultima and fill it whenever I want. I
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am very happy that Fabula Ultima is the first roleplaying game entirely
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produced by Need Games. I still remember when Emanuele told me how they wished
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to write a tabletop RPG based on JRPGs: I said "I know we're small today, but
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I'd love for this Fabula Ultima to be our first original game!". And so it
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was. To quote the greatest villain in the history of JRPGs (yes, of course I
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mean Kefka Palazzo): "Son of a submariner!!!" You're still reading the
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foreword! Come on! Go ahead, an airship awaits you to set sail for endless
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adventures...
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