The Fable Engine
You bring the vision
The Engine brings it to life
Not generated, but written by a GM with eight years at real tables
Custom campaign kits and character backstories, written by a GM with 8+ years at real tables — no templates, no AI output. Delivered in 48 hours, tailored to your vision, character, or world
Commission something built for no one else's campaign
Every piece is reviewed by me against one standard: will this work when real people sit down at a proper game of D&D? Not generic templates or boilerplate documents. Built from the ground up, specific to you
From worldbuilding to NPCs, from the BBEG to the end-of-session cliffhangers — every element designed around your ideas and your group’s playstyle, tone, and experience level
- Full three-act structure with chapter breakdowns
- 10–15 NPCs with secrets and motivations
- Gameable location descriptions
- Encounter tables and boss fight design
- Three possible campaign endings
- Session zero player guide
Not just a list of bullet points to rattle off, but a true origin story for your character. Not just what happened to them in bygone days — but why it made them who they are, who shaped their stories, and what is yet to be written. A backstory your GM will pull threads from for the whole campaign (sorry in advance for any IRL psychic damage inflicted)
- Up to 2,400-word narrative backstory
- NPCs from their past, ready for GM use
- Playable flaw, fear, secret and goal
- Character voice guide and dialogue samples
- Three GM-ready plot hooks
- Character arc projection
- Character Introduction — A read-aloud passage to introduce your character at session zero. $15 AUD
- Character Moment — A 500-word short story dramatising one scene from your character's history. $20 AUD
- Session Recap — A 400-word narrative recap of a memorable session, written as an in-world journal entry. $25 AUD
- Character Retirement — A 600-word epilogue for a character who died or retired at the end of a campaign. $30 AUD
Creativity fuels the Fable Engine
Fill your brief
A guided intake form captures your premise, tone, setting, and requirements. Only a few minutes of your time. More detail means richer output.
We build
Eight years of GMing applies judgment to every NPC, hook, and encounter. Your brief is the raw material. Experience is the engine.
You play
Your kit arrives as a formatted Google Doc with a Loom walkthrough. The Engine has fulfilled its purpose. Take your new creation and enjoy!
A sample commission — Elara Nighthollow, Full Backstory
Every order is built from your brief
Mira grew up in Kettlemoor, a backwater port town that always smelled of the morning's catch. She and her father were always viewed with suspicion by the neighbours — to meet their furtive glances was to see them avert their gaze elsewhere. Sideways, quickly, away.
Her peaceful life ended on her birthday. The simple act of blowing out the candles set the roof beams ablaze. She and her father put the fire out together. They never spoke of it again.
This is the wound she carries: not the secret of her magic, but the fear that the secret was never hers to begin with. Was this why Kettlemoor watched her? Did it have anything to do with her mother, lost at sea before Mira could remember? Is this a secret she has been keeping — or one that has been kept from her?
See a complete commissioned backstory and a full campaign kit — formatted, structured, and ready to run. These are the actual documents your customers receive.
6 sections: origin, NPCs, D&D traits, voice guide, GM plot hooks, and arc projection.
9 sections: premise, three acts, NPCs, locations, encounters, random tables, and three endings.
Downloads as a Word document (.docx) — opens in Google Docs, Microsoft Word, or Pages.
More than a document
A complete campaign resource
Every Fable Engine commission is delivered as a professionally formatted document — not a Google Doc draft or a text file. Here is what arrives in your inbox.
Delivered as a Google Doc within your package timeframe. Formatted in Cinzel and Garamond at 16pt — built to be read on a phone, tablet, or laptop at the table.
Commission something written for your table, not assembled from one
- 500–700 words
- Origin & defining event
- 1 playable flaw
- 1 GM plot hook
- 1,000–1,400 words
- 3 NPCs from their past
- Flaw, fear, secret & goal
- Character voice sample
- 3 GM plot hooks
- 1 revision round
- 1,800–2,400 words
- 5 fully realised NPCs
- Campaign integration
- Full voice guide — how they speak, move, and hold silence
- Character arc framework — where they could go, and what it will cost them
- Unlimited revisions
Not right for your table? Full refund, no questions.
After payment you'll fill a 5-minute brief — your commission starts then.
- 3-chapter arc
- 5 NPCs with secrets
- 2 location descriptions
- Encounter table + hook
- 5-chapter arc
- 10 full NPC profiles
- 4 gameable locations
- Encounters + boss fight
- Session zero guide
- 3 campaign endings
- 10-chapter arc
- 15 NPCs + faction system
- 6 detailed locations
- PC integration + strategy call
- Unlimited revisions
Not right for your table? Full refund, no questions.
After payment you'll fill a 5-minute brief — your commission starts then.
- 150-word read-aloud passage for session zero. Your character's first impression, written to be performed.
- 500 words. One scene from your character's history — the one you think about between sessions — written as it deserved to be written.
- 400 words. A narrative recap of a memorable session in your character's voice, formatted as a journal entry.
- 600 words. The proper ending for a character who died or retired. The campaign is over. The story shouldn't be.
Not right for your table? Full refund, no questions.
After payment you'll fill a 5-minute brief — your commission starts then.
- 4 x Quick Backstory — one per player
- Quick Reference table for each character
- Origin, key NPCs, personality & flaw
- 4 x Voice Tester Pro access codes
- Saves $20 vs individual orders
- Single brief, delivered together
- Up to 4 x Full Backstory — one per player
- 1 x Mini Campaign Kit — 3-chapter arc
- Voice Tester Pro codes for all players
- Session zero guide included
- Priority 72-hour delivery
- Arc Planner pre-consultation welcome
- 1 x Full Campaign Kit — 5-chapter arc
- Delivered to your GM directly
- Session zero guide & epilogue framework
- Stat blocks, magic items, random tables
- Appendix with all encounter references
- Gift note included on request
- Coordinated directly with your GM's email or Discord
- Priority delivery — jumps the commission queue
Not right for your table? Full refund, no questions.
After payment you'll fill a 5-minute brief — your commission starts then.
Need it faster? Add a Rush Delivery upgrade (+$25 AUD) to any order for guaranteed 24-hour turnaround — mention it in your commission brief.
Written by someone who has run this scene before
I have been both GMing and playing Dungeons and Dragons 5e / 5.5e games for over 8 years across home games, hosted games, and even some event games; falling absolutely in love with so many aspects of D&D and the TTRPG genre. I started the Fable Engine because I wanted to solve a problem for both new and veteran members of the D&D community — the time it takes to write content. I know what it’s like to have your session zero start tomorrow and still not have a finished backstory. I know what it’s like to be so excited to start your homebrew campaign, only to get bogged down in worldbuilding. So I created the Fable Engine — a wondrous machine that allows me to help you on your adventures through the sharing of ideas and the creation of brand new worlds!
Early customers receive direct contact with the GM and an additional revision round on their first order — no extra charge.
Commission your first order →Reviews will appear here once the first orders are delivered. We’re not going to fake them.
Free tools for your table
Use these tools wisely to enhance your game, plan your sessions, or see the world through the mind (and voice) of your character
Walk through a guided brief builder for campaigns or backstories. See exactly what to include before you commission.
Open intake builder →The only character performance coaching tool for D&D. Generates dialogue, vocal delivery, physicality, and arc guidance for your character in any scene.
Try the performance coach →Map your campaign’s three acts, plot your tension arc session by session, and export a formatted summary.
Plan your arc →If you have questions for the Engine, you are not alone
Well, I guess you can. A simple prompt gives you a villain with a backstory and a list of locations - all of which can be helpful. What it doesn’t give you is genuine experience — knowing which hooks actually land in a real campaign, which villain motivations players find compelling versus bland, what to cut from a session when players go on tangents or shopping episodes, what read-aloud text actually sounds good at 9pm after many hours of play, several coffees and players getting sleepier by the minute. The writing I can provide here is shaped by eight years of running these scenes and watching what works and what doesn't, what feels fun and what tugs at heartstrings. Eight years of knowing which scenes land is not a prompt.
Fiverr backstory services offer 300–500 words of plain text for $10–$25 with variable quality and no specialist knowledge. A Fable Engine commission delivers a structured, formatted document across six sections — origin, key NPCs, voice guide, character arc, plot hooks, and a personal magic item — written by a GM who has run these scenes at a real table. The format is designed for use during play, not just reading once. The price difference reflects a different product, not the same product at a higher margin.
Yes (hello - Benjamin here). Every piece of prose or backstory is written, structured, and reviewed by a GM with eight years running D&D campaigns at real tables. The process of the Fable Engine — helping bring your vision to life with the experience and knowledge of what works in this genre — is human at its core. I love getting to do this, and want to share that joy with you; what better way to do that than by writing something brilliant together?
Primarily D&D 5e and 5.5e, but the narrative elements work equally well for Pathfinder 2e, Draw Steel, and most other TTRPGs. Just mention your system in the brief.
If I genuinely cannot produce something that works for your table, I offer a full refund. Full and Deluxe packages include a revision round. Bespoke campaigns have unlimited revisions for two weeks.
Yes — and homebrew is where the work gets most interesting. The intake form has a full worldbuilding section. The more lore you share, the more precisely I can integrate the order (or chaos) into your world :)
Your commission arrives as a formatted Google Doc within the timeframe shown for your package. Full and Bespoke packages also include a short Loom walkthrough explaining how to use the material.
Commission something written for your table,not assembled from one
Every great campaign starts with a premise, a vision, a thought. Fill out a brief and we’ll build what comes after.
Letters from the Engine
GM tools, encounter hooks, and early access to what we're building — sent when it's worth your time.
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