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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:

ITCH GAME JAM!
about 2 months ago – Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 07:53:52 AM

TAKE A PEAK AT THE CUTTHROAT CLASS FOR FLAIL!

"In FLAIL, Cutthroats have darkvision. Why? Because it makes the game better" :D




ALSO,

Check out the "SWINGS HARD WITH FLAIL" GAME JAM  live right now on itch.io. FLAIL has a third-party license that allows fans and creators to make compatible content for the game, using its mechanics, rules, creatures, names, etc etc. Do whatever you want, we won't take a cut. I'm sure you've seen this around plenty, so you know how it works.

There's already a couple of entries and there's many more coming. One has a bunch of very cool alternative class skills, including new primal gifts for the Druid (plant, fungi!), new Warrior combat talents and new music instruments (my favourite Shawn of Pestilence has an effect "Conjure an indiscriminately hostile swarm of rats", nothing more added to that, which is the most FLAIL thing i've read all day). The second entry is a horror adventure inside a haunted country house.



Did someone say COOKING POTS?!

There's an on going joke in the Discord Server about who's going to make the POKER DICE COOKING SYSTEM. Imagine that, whenever a player decides to use a cooking pot to generate some grub cards/tokens, they have to roll a bunch of d6s and we shall see how that goes exactly! Roll a pair: the food burns; Roll a triplet: uffff that troll liver was absolutely non-cookable (poisoned conditon to all who ate it); Roll a sequence: yay, it's delicious, everybody loves you, +1 to whatever on your next roll.

WHO'S DOING THIS FOR THE JAM? If nobody does it, i'll add it myself to the new Hexcrawl Toolbox guidebook. 





THANKS!

WE STREAMED! ALL STRETCH GOALS DOWN! MORE REVEALED!
2 months ago – Thu, Apr 09, 2026 at 10:07:20 AM

WE STREAMED!

Massive thanks to Evan Diaz (creator of Nimble), Johan Nohr (creator of MÖRK BORG) and Yochai Gal (creator of Cairn) for sitting down with me and talking FLAIL. If you missed the stream, here's the recording. They said goods things about my little game, made me happy, so i need you to witness this. 



MORE GOALS UNLOCKED!

We have the extra Dry-Erase Markers ! Now your players won't have to brawl each other anymore for a pen. THANK YOUUUUUUUU TK YOUUUUUUUU TK YOU

Two more goals have been unlocked:
  • Player Record Envelopes (€85k): all boxsets will come with four player envelopes, designed to store item cards, tokens and other notes between sessions. 
  • Hireling Tear Pad (€100k): we add a hireling tear pad to all boxsets.





ANOTHER GOAL DOWN! EARLY BIRD ENDING SOON!
2 months ago – Thu, Apr 09, 2026 at 02:04:28 AM

TAKE A PEAK AT THE BARD CLASS FOR FLAIL!



ALSO,

The Player Sheets are officially in! Every boxset will now come with two double-sided player-facing sheets. The first contains all basic FLAIL rules and a character creation summary on the other side. The second sheet contains tables with prices for everything. Easy access at the gaming table. THANK THANKKKKKKKKK YOU YOU YOU

Now, it's time for the extra DRY-ERASE MARKERS. We are only €5k away from hitting the goal. This one is extremely important because it prevents players from slaying one another in brutal gladiator matches at the gaming table (IRL). All for a pen. It has happened to me. Making sure it won't happen to you too. 



ALSO,

Early Bird ending soon. If you want a custom FLAIL d6 for free, act now. You have less than 8 hours.



THANKS THANKS

FLAIL STREAM TOMORROW!
2 months ago – Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 09:20:04 AM

Hey everyone!


WE HAVE A STREAMING! I'm sitting down with Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG), Evan Diaz (Nimble), and Yochai Gal (Cairn) to talk about FLAIL, its inspirations, and how it relates to their own games. I'm humbled by their presence - i love their games so much - so please join us, ask lots of questions and etc etc



This is tomorrow, 9th of April. At 4pm Portugal time, 5pm Sweden time, 11am East Coast time. I’m writing all of these down because time zones have betrayed me before and I don’t trust them.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSqcRx2VCi8


ALSO, 

Check out this video explaining the POKER DICE COMBAT system. You roll a bunch of d6s: if you roll a 1, you do weapon damage; if you roll two 1s, you do double weapon damage; if you roll three 1s, your adversary is eliminated! then, there's a bunch of skills, special weapons and abilities that trigger further bonuses when pairs, triplets, sequences, full-houses, etc are scored.



ALSO, 

THANK THANK THANK YOU THANK YOU for the amazing response in the first 24 hours. We're 400% funded. I'm blown away. We have also crushed all stretch goals, so more have been announced. We are adding the player reference booklets, the tomb of 1,000 gears adventure, as well as the GM screen to all boxsets and now it's time to also add player-facing sheets and more dry-erase markers - so players don't have to wrestle for one at the gaming table. This is peak customer service. 
  



THANKS!

ANOTHER GOAL DOWN! MORE GOALS ANNOUNCED!
2 months ago – Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 04:57:47 AM

The GM screen is in! 
All boxsets will have it. THANK THANK THANK THANK THANK THANK YOU

More goals have been unlocked:
  • Player Sheets (€65k): we add two double-sided player reference sheets to all boxsets. The first is a Cheat Sheet on one side (containing all base rules) and a Character Creation summary on the other. The second contains tables with prices for everything: weapons, armour, gear, equipment. 
  • Dry-Erase Markers (€75): we add three extra markers to all boxsets. So players don't have to kill each other at the table to get their hands on one. This is peak customer service.