Stories that answer back.

How it started

A few friends, a lot of stories

Fabelfeuer started at a kitchen table. A handful of us had been telling stories together for years: pen and paper on long weekends, text roleplay late at night, campaigns that never quite ended. What we wanted was a table that is always set. A character to talk to at two in the morning, a tavern that looks the way you pictured it, a hangman with a voice you can actually hear.

So we built one. Just for us, just for the fun of it, one evening at a time.

“You are building what? Can I try?”

Then friends started asking to play. Then their friends. Every new player brought a character we had never thought of and took a story somewhere none of us saw coming. That is the best part of roleplay, and it is why we are opening the door a little wider now.

Not to turn it into a business. A story simply gets better the more people sit at the table, and we would love for you to pull up a chair.

— The Fabelfeuer table

The name

What “Fabelfeuer” means

Fabelfeuer is German, and it is two words put together. Fabel is a fable, a tale: the kind with talking animals, dragons and a moral, or just a story worth telling. Feuer is fire. Together it reads as “fable fire”, or the fire where tales are told.

That is the picture we had in mind: people around a fire in the evening, passing a story from one to the next, and the story changes a little with every teller. It is pronounced roughly “FAH-bel-FOY-er”.