Subscriptions and tiers

Fabled has a free tier and a small set of paid tiers. The free tier is genuinely usable: a casual group can run a long-running campaign on it without hitting any of the limits that matter at the table. Paid tiers add capacity, advanced features, and access to selling on the marketplace.

Tiers attach to your account, not to a specific campaign. As a player you only need to match the tier of the campaign you join when the GM uses a feature gated by that tier; otherwise free is fine for everyone at the table.

What every tier includes

Free accounts have access to:

• Building characters in The Forge.
• Joining campaigns as a player and running a small number of campaigns as a GM. Both have tier-limited caps; hitting one shows an in-app upgrade prompt rather than failing silently.
• Buying content from the marketplace. Free-tier accounts can buy and use any bundle.
• The dice tray, character sheets, the chat log, voice and video at the table.

What free-tier limits actually look like

Free accounts hit two kinds of limit in practice:

• Campaign count. A free GM can run a small number of active campaigns at once. Archived campaigns do not count, so finishing or pausing a campaign frees up the slot.
• Media storage. Uploads (portraits, maps, sound clips) count against your tier's storage cap. Marketplace-bought content does not, even on free.

The exact numbers are on the subscriptions page; they change occasionally. Hitting a limit shows a clear in-app upgrade prompt rather than failing silently.

What paid tiers add

Paid tiers come in steps. The exact entitlements per step are on the subscriptions page; the broad shape is:

• Custom-content authoring. Building frameworks and frames (the homebrew rules editor and the visual layout designer) starts on the Standard tier. Free-tier users can play and build characters; the framework / frame editors prompt to upgrade when you open them.
• Larger media storage and larger campaign caps. The single most-common reason to upgrade.
• Advanced session features. Higher attendee caps, longer session recording, more concurrent voice channels.
• Marketplace selling. Publishing bundles for sale opens up on the Premium tier. Buying is free-tier-friendly; selling needs Premium so the platform has a payouts relationship with the creator.
• Priority support. Faster response from the support team and earlier access to test features.

Changing tiers

Upgrades take effect the moment the payment clears; new entitlements are available immediately. Downgrades take effect at the end of the current billing period (you keep what you paid for until then). Cancelling drops you to the free tier when the period ends; the account itself stays alive and all your content is preserved, with anything that exceeds the free-tier caps marked read-only until you either upgrade again or trim down.

Stripe handles the billing. Refund and dispute requests go through the support team in-app, not through Stripe directly.

Where to go from here

• If you are about to upgrade, the Manage your subscription how-to walks through the upgrade and downgrade flows.
• If you are wondering whether your media library is about to hit the storage cap, the Media and assets concept covers usage views and how marketplace content sits outside the cap.