Late pledge store – Fame and Fable: a fantasy board game

Video Tutorials & Playthroughs
25 days ago – Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 08:57:30 AM

I've Been Talking to Myself

All our videos are now live. Here are all the links to our tutorials and full playthroughs on our YouTube channel (click the right image below to take you to the video you want). If you like to learn new games by watching others, these videos should tell you all the key stuff you need to know. If you have further questions after watching the videos, please consult your rulebooks or comment on the YouTube videos. 

You can find the English Language PDFs of the rulebooks here and here. If you're playing solo, you will need to read the main rulebook before reading The Trial rulebook.

And if anybody needs to download the solo honour badges, you can download them for free from here. 

As a little end note, all of the major shipments have now arrived at their destinations. Once they're through customs and with fulfilment partners, US, EU and UK backers should start receiving their games as well. If you have any further questions about your order, please reach out to [email protected] for help.

When you receive your packages (or even better, when you get your copy to the table), please share your photos on Instagram and tag @owendaveygames

If you enjoy your experience, please share your thoughts on Board Game Geek too—every positive review is a massive help to us. 

These are exciting and nerve-wracking times. I'm so excited for you all to get your games and get playing. I really appreciate the trust, patience and kind comments you've shared with me throughout this campaign.

Bye!

June Update | Shipment Progress | US Tariffs | Replacement Parts | Video Tutorial
about 1 month ago – Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 08:56:07 AM

Hello adventurers

Ships Ahoy!

I'm delighted to share that nearly all the shipments have arrived at their destination ports and some of you are already starting to receive your orders. If you haven't had a notification about your delivery yet, you should hear from the relevant fulfilment company over the coming weeks. Below, you can find a more in-depth fulfilment update by Naylor Games Back Office, who are handling the logistics & fulfilment for this project.

During the fulfilment process, when your order status changes, you will receive notifications
from Backerkit’s pledge manager. Here is what each status means:
Address check notification: please check your address and, if required, update it within 48
hours. If you have moved Country or State, please email [email protected] for
further assistance.
Fulfilled / Shipped: This does NOT mean your package has left the fulfilment centre! It
means we’ve instructed your order to them. You will be sent tracking information, if
applicable, once your order is dispatched. Large campaigns take longer for fulfilment centres
to dispatch. Do not be alarmed if you do not receive a tracking number right away.

Current fulfilment timelines*:

*Please note these are estimated timelines based on the most up-to-date information available to us. If these change, you will be informed.

Asia: The shipment has arrived at VFI, and deliveries to backers in China and Hong Kong are underway. Deliveries from VFI to other fulfilment centres are underway.

Australia & New Zealand: The shipment has arrived at Heroes and Knights; deliveries have been completed. If you were a late survey completion, you may be part of a catch-up wave.

Canada: The shipment has arrived at Board Game Bliss. Fulfilment should begin soon.

Europe: The shipment has arrived in Europe, but not yet at the fulfilment centre.

Rest of World: Deliveries from VFI to other hubs is underway.

UK: The shipment is expected to arrive in the UK very shortly—there still may be a couple of weeks before it arrives at the fulfilment hub.

US: The shipment is expected to arrive in the US in the next week, there may still be a couple of weeks before it arrives at the fulfilment hub.

If you have any further questions about your delivery, please contact [email protected]

Tariffs – A Note to Our US Backers

Replacement Parts

If you're unlucky enough to have missing, damaged or incorrect components within your order, please reach out to [email protected] — they will be happy to assist you in delivering relevant replacements as soon as possible. I cannot assist you with this personally, so you must contact them instead.

Multiplayer Video Tutorial

We have worked with Joseph Brett again (the man behind the live-action sections of the campaign video) to bring you some How-To-Play videos. Only the multiplayer one is currently available, but the solo tutorial is on its way!

How to Play Fame and Fable (Multiplayer)

This how-to-play is designed to mimic the way I teach the game in person, so it is not a set of exhaustive rules—simply the fundamentals to get you going on a few games. If you have further rules-based questions or edge cases, please consult the rulebook. If you feel your question is not covered definitively by the rulebook, comment on the video or reach out to me and I'll do my best to answer when I get the chance.

I know some of you lovely folk like to learn by watching other people play, so I'm delighted to share that we will also have playthrough videos available soon. I will send a further update when the other videos are live.

Playtime

IV Studio games seem to have permeated my life lately and I am a fan! Gorgeous production and fantastic gameplay—what more could you want!?

We had our first game of Realm of Reckoning in June and I loved it, despite not usually being a huge fan of closed drafting or bidding mechanics (yes, I know there's a little bit of bidding in Mariners). My favourite bit about it was that you were bidding to choose options on a card, but even if you didn't win, you might get second pick and get exactly what you wanted anyway. So even if you don't think you can win the bid, it might be worth putting loads of your resources into getting to pick early—what makes it even spicier is that you can choose to remove some of your presence on the board or even take away some of your accumulated points to bid higher. There's an excellent push-pull there. It's just so well done, and we all had a great time with it. 

I also backed their new title, Altera, which is worker placement and a dice bag-builder—this sounds right up my street! The Gamefound crowdfunding has now ended, but you can sign up here to be notified when Late Pledges are available.

Bye!

May Update | Schedule | UK Games Expo
2 months ago – Mon, Jun 08, 2026 at 12:41:31 AM

The Journey

All your games are on ships, making their way to you. When they arrive at port and clear customs, they will be picked up by the relevant fulfilment companies, who will begin packing orders and sending them out to all of you. You should be notified when your order is packed and due for delivery. We have very little control over the speed of the packing and sending of orders, but the following shows the rough timelines for when deliveries should begin from our global hubs:

Australia - Deliveries should begin later this month

Canada - Deliveries should begin early July

USA - Deliveries should begin mid-July

UK - Deliveries should begin mid-July

EU - Deliveries should begin mid-July

Rest of the World - Deliveries should begin in July

Addresses will be locked very soon, so please update your address in BackerKit as soon as possible if needed. If you have any issues, please contact [email protected]

UKGE

What a weekend we had at the end of May! So many of you came to say hello, book a demo and win yourself some goodies. We loved meeting you all and hearing your enthusiasm for Fame and Fable (and the excitement for the new game, Mariners). Here are a few select shots from the weekend:

Danny did a fabulous job teaching Fame and Fable for me over the weekend. Thank you!

And a massive thank you Chris and Matt who joined me on the stand over the weekend too.

I caught a glimpse of the beautiful Personal Demons, the exciting new title by Tettix Games (of Deep Regrets fame), which is coming to Kickstarter later this year:

And I spied SHUG in the wild during a brief moment of calm before the chaos (more about SHUG at the end of this update).

Dressed in Dodo

For those of you who have visited us at either Paradice or UK Games Expo, you will have seen the Owen Davey Games crew dressed in our new staff shirts, screen-printed by Hello Dodo, a local (to us) family business who make 100% organic cotton t-shirts using non-toxic inks. If you walked away with a tote bag from UKGE, this was also printed by the Dodos, so a huge shout-out to them for their awesome work. 

Go check out their site for some colourful, pun-based, ethically-produced clothing. 

Playtime

SHUG! SHUG! SHUG!

SHUG is a cross between party game and dungeon crawler. The self-dubbed Shug Brothers and I have crossed paths many times over the past few years at different expos and they are lovely, supportive humans who are immensely talented. SHUG is live on Kickstarter now and I'm delighted to see how well the campaign is doing. The game is fun, ridiculous, chaotic, and really weird—it also won the UK Games Expo prize for Best Party Game (before being stripped of the title 10 minutes later for not being released in retail yet). Steeped in its own colourful and bizarre folklore (dubbed Shuglore) and a surprising amount of sandwiches, this is definitely one to check out!  

You can even watch the delightful No Rolls Barred crew sit down for a playthrough if you fancy seeing how it plays. 

Bye!

April Update | Schedule | Free Stuff at UK Games Expo |
3 months ago – Fri, May 01, 2026 at 11:04:20 AM

And We're Off!

The games are ready at the factory and are in the process of making their way to freight ships bound for hubs around the world. Shipping is a slow mode of transport, so they will likely be on the ocean for a couple of months for most backers. When the ships reach their destination and make it to the warehouses of fulfilment partners, it will likely take another couple of weeks for them to check your orders, pack up your games and get them sent out to you. Fulfilment should begin in July, and we hope to have the vast majority of games delivered by September!

During that time, you can update your address by going to your account in the BackerKit Pledge Manager. Here is an article explaining that process if you're not sure how to do it. If you haven't filled in the Pledge Manager, please do so as soon as possible, or we will not be able to deliver your game to you. 

As always, if you have any issues with your order, please reach out to [email protected]

Free Stuff at UK Games Expo

Owen Davey Games will be at Stand 3-962 at UK Games Expofrom the 29th to the 31st of May, and if you come to say hello, you might walk away with some fun free stuff. There is a limited number of these things, so make sure you come by as early as you can to avoid disappointment. We will require proof of purchase of the game.

We will be running a booking system for all demos. If you're keen to table Fame and Fable and try out our fabulous new space game, Mariners, visit us early to ensure you bag a slot for that day.

Playtime

Questiny has such a gorgeous, nostalgic feel. I love a co-op, and this dungeon-crawler delves into the genre with fun at its centre—potions, loot, legendary weapons, rotating labyrinth tiles, tense dice rolls, devilish enemies and swinging axes! 

Questiny is steeped in handmade watercolour artworks from Flintica and it's clear that bringing this game to life has been a labour of love for all involved. I've hung out with Leon at several board game events over the past few years and it's super exciting to hear that Questiny will soon go live on Kickstarter! I'm going to be first in the queue to get my copy.

Bye!

March Update | Unboxing MPC | UK Games Expo
4 months ago – Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 08:10:32 AM

I have been waiting for mass production copies (MPCs) of the game for a good while now, and they were finally delivered! This is a BIG DEAL—MPCs aren't prototypes or digital test prints or anything like that—they're the real components, printed, constructed and packed exactly how all yours will be. So opening the MPCs was basically a recreation of exactly what all of you will see when you open up your parcels!  

I'm so proud of these games! They have come out great (the cards look especially sublime). I thought some of you might like to watch me unbox them, so here's the full YouTube video of just that:

The MPCs have all been approved, so the factory is now in the final stages of assembly. Once they're all complete, your games should ship out this month! In the next update, I will provide more information and projected timelines for when those shipments will get to where they're going!

UK Games Expo

Owen Davey Games will be on the road again at the end of May in Birmingham, for my favourite games convention, UK Games Expo! Three days of tabletop-based nerdery and a whole heap of wonderful humans piling into some intimidatingly huge warehouses. We will be sharing Stand 3-962 with the wonderful folk of Split Stone Games, and they have a phenomenal new game called STAG, so make sure you check that out.

I will be there, demoing the final version of Fame and Fable and our new title, Mariners, which I'm really excited to share with you all—come say hey.

Playtime

I was recently lucky enough to play a prototype version of Fetching Feathers by Chris Priscott, the designer of Moving Wild (formerly Zuuli). This new game uses simultaneous closed drafting for players to add to their hands before passing the remaining cards to the next player. It is set-collection gaming at its finest and is a really clever, succinct, and satisfying little puzzly card game—there's even a really cool mechanic involving changing seasons.

Fetching Feather is now available for late pledge, so check it out if this sounds like it's up your alley. Plus, you know ... birds wearing hats! What's not to love?! Talking of the artwork, they were created by Faizul Mudhakir.

Bye!

See you in the next update!