Fame & Fable is a strategic card battler that takes the concept of combat in tabletop roleplaying games like D&D and distills it into a deckbuilding bonanza. Taking cues from combat-focussed TTRPGs, it sees you grappling dangerous foes in the name of fame, recruiting a cast of allies, collecting unique magical items, and pushing your luck in order to fulfil contracts for the people. So far as pitches for the best board games go, that's pretty strong.
It's highly competitive as a result with some fun action and light strategic elements that'll have you discovering endless new abilities for your arsenal and combining them for epic takedowns of some truly legendary monsters. Backed by his own wonderfully flamboyant graphic illustrations, Owen Davey told me Fame & Fable was meant to capture the most fun aspects of tabletop RPGs – which for him is the combat – without all the boring gumph surrounding it. And that, it does.
