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FLAIL: an old-school fantasy brawler

Created by Games Omnivorous

FLAIL is an old-school, fantasy RPG where spells act up, weapons fall apart, and characters survive mostly through nerve and sheer luck. Designed for people who like single-session dungeons and short campaigns of 10~15 sessions. Low-prep, max play.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

ONLY €3K AWAY NEXT GOAL!
3 months ago – Fri, May 01, 2026 at 09:27:40 AM

TAKE A PEEK AT THE BONE WHISPERER CLASS FOR FLAIL!

"Death is just another reagent."



ALSO, FOUNDRY VTT IMPLEMENTATION!

We are €3k away from hitting the next stretch goal. A virtual tabletop implementation for Foundry with character sheets, item cards, maps and other resources. So that all of you can play FLAIL online easily. Help us get there!



THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

ONLINE TOOLS!
3 months ago – Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 04:18:39 AM

TAKE A PEEK AT THE WIZARD CLASS FOR FLAIL!

"Every great wizard starts as someone's terrible apprentice."

In FLAIL, Wizards choose a master to apprentice under, unlocking cool customs spells which are only available this way. Choose between Flakumeg, the Flame Whisperer, OR Û-Kraal, the Shadow Manipulator, OR Choo-Choo, Master of Deceit, and others.



DID YOU KNOW WE HAVE ONLINE TOOLS?!

If you hop over to FLAIL's official website, you may find a couple of free online tools: the item card studio and the hexcrawl toolbox app.

With the Hexcrawl Toolbox app, you can easily generate hexcrawl and maps for your own games. Choose hexes from nine different biomes - desert, forest, jungle, mountains, ocean, pastoral, steppes, swamp and weird/alien - and mix them freely to create unique settings tailored to your adventures.



With Item Card Studio, you can quickly select or create item cards for your own games. Choose from the full range of items available in FLAIL, or design your own by uploading an image and customising every detail to match your vision. Then, upload it to the sheet and print. Simple!



AND A RESOURCES FOLDER?

Everything you need one click away. In the free online resources folder, you may find character sheets, player reference booklets, item/condition cards (to print at home), construct and hireling sheets, hexcrawl aids, pre-generated hexcrawl maps, and more! Check it out.

ALSO, LET'S PUSH INTO THE NEXT STRETCH GOAL! LESS THAN €8K AWAY!
THANK YOU THANKKKKKKKKKKK TK YOU 

SHOUT OUT TO THE FLAIL COMMUNITY!
3 months ago – Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 08:27:06 AM

TAKE A PEEK AT THE WARRIOR CLASS FOR FLAIL!

"In FLAIL, Warriors choose from different combat trees, specialising in certain weapons. Or maybe even in no weapons at all, if they follow the martial artist path."



JOIN THE DISCORD!

There's a growing community of FLAIL gamers, GMs and third-party creators emerging on our Discord Server. I wanna publicly thank everyone who has joined already and taken part in awesome debates to clarify certain rules of the game, or to offer suggestions on how to improve it, or to share game reports, or to contribute with new content, etc etc etc. We even have a game room where people are actively playing, plus a Dice Bot now. Join the server and make a To Hit roll to see if you land a Death Blow :D




ALSO, THE GAME JAM!

Don't forget SWINGS HARD WITH FLAIL JAM is live on itch right now. There are already some very cool entries/submissions which you can totally download and check out. The game jam runs until the end this campaign so you still have time to submit content if you wish. Check out our third-party license if you need further details on how to make your own content. 





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UNBOXING VIDEO! VOTING FOR THE GM SCREEN! AND MORE!
3 months ago – Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 07:04:32 AM

TAKE A PEEK AT THE OFFICIAL UNBOXING VIDEO!



ALSO,

Let's make a poll for the GM screen. I'm very undecided on the final art for the GM screen. To be honest, I've kinda grown accustomed to the current piece by Justin McElroy (@thoughtographic) but let's see what you think. I have four alternative concepts, so if there's one in particular that gets some sort of mass voting, i'll reconsider. Scroll down and vote please. 


ALSO, SHOUT OUT TO FRIENDS!

There's a lot of cool projects and campaigns that have either ended recently or are still live right now. I really like the idea of building a community with fellow creators and artists and designers so here's a shout out to some cool things that you should totally check out.

  • BREATHLESS: FRIGHTMARE EDITION - this is a really cool project by our friends at Mythworks (who did the incredible Wildsea RPG). A zombie horror roleplaying game about surviving in a world gone bad and trying to build a resilient community amidst the chaos. The whole thing is styled as classic VHS tapes and looks sick. 
  • FOMORIA, EPIC FOLK HORROR - Johan Nohr of MÖRK BORG fame is teaming up with Tania Herrero to deliver a new folk horror game where there is no sun and characters of different clans must come together to survive, hunt the Eldritch, and purge the Red Plague. 
  • DUNGEON INC. - our good friends The Merry Mushmen (Knock!, Black Sword Hack, etc) are back. This game is "about monsters working for an organisation running the largest megadungeon in the land". Which means "players are hosts, tasked with solving ‘client issues’, mostly adventurers refusing to die". I wanna play this so badly. 

THANK YOU! POLL BELOW. 

€100K REACHED! NEW GOAL REVEALED! WASD20 REVIEW!
4 months ago – Sun, Apr 19, 2026 at 02:35:47 AM

WASD20 FLAIL REVIEW!

Nate at WASD20 just made a stellar review of FLAIL. If you're still on the fence and wanna take a closer look at the game, step right up.



WE DID IT! THE €100K GOAL IS DOWN!

All boxsets now officially include the Hireling Tear Pad ! Let's see how long these actually last at your gaming table :D THAAAAANK YOU TK YOU TK YOU




€125K NEW GOAL FOUNDRY VTT IMPLEMENTATION!

At €125k, we're committing to build a cool VTT implementation of FLAIL for Foundry Virtual Tabletop. A lot of you have (fairly!) pointed out that the game was very much designed to shine IRL, in person-play with all the item cards, tokens, dry-erase sheets and tactile bits. And i guess you're right? That's fair. So now - thanks to your support and feedback - we are in the position to take FLAIL to the next level and, hopefully, bring a similar experience to virtual tables. Thanks to your generosity, we can hire someone to properly build a VTT Foundry implementation with all the rules, character sheets, item cards, everything really you need to run a game of FLAIL. Let's do this?!



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