A tabletop gaming studio

Prophetic Fools is a tabletop gaming studio creating meaningful and engaging play experiences. We make games that aim to capture a slice of the human experience, touching a wide array of topics that are often unusual, complex, or emotionally loaded. We design mechanics to match the theme to deliver compelling, immersive, and challenging interactions that invite repeat play.

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Two at the table

D12 Ball: four players of the four species on a night field

D12 Ball

IN PLAYTESTING

A fast playing fantasy sports game with tense last-ditch efforts and dramatic comebacks, where two teams of fantasy creatures compete by maneuvering around the field, manipulating the ball and outwitting the other team on their way to score epic goals.

2 PLAYERS 30-45 MINUTES AGES 10+
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The Fortune die showing 12 and the Doom die showing 1, with the six coins round them

Prophetic Folly

IN DEVELOPMENT

A streamlined tabletop roleplaying system, providing a robust mechanics for action resolution with lots of flexibility for narrative driven interactions.

A novel action resolution based on two twelve-sided dice: a Fortune die and a Doom die. Rolling with Hope makes it possible to beat challenges you wouldn't otherwise be able to face but is overall less successful. Rolling with Fear makes spectacular successes less likely but also avoids catastrophic failures.

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