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Rolegend and Fablia

Both are fifth edition with an AI Game Master. Fablia leads on an Android app and worlds you build yourself. Rolegend leads on play: authored campaigns, a Virtual Tabletop, friends at your table, and a game engine that handles the dice and the game state.

Every claim about Fablia below links to the page it was read on. Most recent check: .
Vaelantir: the timbered inn and walled gate of Karth's Hold on a rocky bluff, torches lit at dusk, with travelers and pack mules at the door. To the left, ivied imperial ruins rise from a misted valley, and a dragon crosses an overcast sky.

What Fablia is

Fablia is a solo fantasy RPG from Applogy Studio, on Android and in a browser, with an iOS app announced. Its rules use the SRD 5.2, and its AI Dungeon Master calls for checks that you roll on a 3D d20. A free trial is available, and a PRO subscription adds unlimited chat, custom worlds and narration.

https://fablia.ai

What we could verify

  • Their homepage says 'Fablia is an AI Dungeon Master that runs a fantasy RPG built around you', and lists the iPhone and iPad apps as coming soon, with play in a browser now. (source, checked )
  • Their FAQ says the rules use the System Reference Document 5.2 under Creative Commons, and that 'the Dungeon Master handles the rules'. (source, checked )
  • Their FAQ says the Dungeon Master 'calls for dice rolls, and keeps track of your character, quests and loot'. (source, checked )
  • Their homepage lists eight races, twelve classes and two ways to start: Quick Play from a story shelf, or Custom Game (PRO), where you write the world and choose a Story or Creative mode for the Dungeon Master. (source, checked )
  • Their FAQ says Fablia is not multiplayer: 'built for one player and one Dungeon Master'. (source, checked )
  • Their FAQ lists eleven play languages: English, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese. (source, checked )
  • Their FAQ says the app is free to download with a free trial, and that PRO adds unlimited chatting, custom stories, all adventures, advanced memory, a world map, scene illustrations, premium worlds, narration and no ads. (source, checked )
  • The Google Play listing names Applogy Studio as the developer and shows in-app purchases from $0.99 to $299.99 per item. (source, checked )

What Fablia does better

  • A native phone app. Fablia is on Android now.
  • Building your own world. Custom Game lets you write its laws and tell the Dungeon Master how to run it.
  • A newer ruleset. Fablia uses the SRD 5.2.

What Rolegend does differently

  • Play with friends or solo. A paid host seats up to 6 players at one table, the host included, and friends on the free plan can join. Each player plays their own character. When everyone is online you can play live, and the table updates every few seconds. When they are not, play async play-by-post and drop in whenever you want. In a fight each player acts on their character's turn, and an email says when the table waits for you. Alone, the paid party holds up to 6 characters that you play yourself, and the Game Master plays the companions who join you on the road; the free plan is a single character. The host picks the language that the Game Master narrates in, its tone and the length of its replies.
  • Keystone Engine is a game engine, built apart from the AI. It handles the dice and the game state. Every roll, modifier, hit point, condition, spell slot and item is settled before ROWAN writes a word, and ROWAN gets on with the story. ROWAN cannot change a number or roll again. When your character acts, the game hands you the die to roll, and Keystone Engine adds the modifiers from your sheet.
  • Rolegend's Virtual Tabletop puts a fight on a battle map, with a token for every hero and every enemy, and you drag yours to move. Keystone Engine enforces movement, difficult terrain, cover, line of sight, opportunity attacks, flanking, weapon ranges and light there, and the fog of war hides anything your character cannot see. Every player at the table moves on the same map. Between fights, the map shows the region and the lay of the land in each place. A quick scuffle can also stay in the story, with no map at all.
  • On the paid plan, any Game Master turn can be read aloud, with a narrator voice and a voice of its own for each character who speaks, and you can turn on reading each new reply aloud. One click paints a scene image for a turn or a portrait of your character. You can dictate your own turn on either plan, in a browser with speech recognition (Chrome, Edge and Safari).
  • Authored campaigns with acts, beats and quests, and an ending to play toward.
  • Async play-by-post. Write a turn, come back tomorrow, pick it up mid-scene.

Pick Fablia if

  • You want a native Android app, or a world you write yourself.
  • You want the 2024 rules rather than the 2014 ones.

Pick Rolegend if

  • You want to play with friends, not only alone.
  • You want to see the battle on a Virtual Tabletop, with fog of war that follows what your character can really see.
  • You want a game engine, built apart from the AI, to handle the dice and the game state, so a roll is never shaped by the story.
  • You want a written campaign with acts and an ending, rather than a scene that runs until you stop.
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Rolegend is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Fablia. Their name is used here only to identify their product.