Tabletop Roleplaying Games
Nimble
Beginner-friendly
High-Fantasy
English
Nimble is a fast, tactical fantasy tabletop roleplaying game designed by Evan Diaz and published by Nimble Co., a standalone system that stays compatible with Dungeons & Dragons 5E adventures and monster books. It began as a small booklet of rules tweaks for 5E, which Nimble Co. funded on Kickstarter in October and November 2023, raising $17,815 from 1,762 backers against a goal of $1,000. The 2024 BackerKit campaign turned it into a complete game in three A5 books, raising $265,912 from 4,290 backers, and it is now sold as Nimble Second Edition. A 2026 Kickstarter for a monster book and reprints, Monsters & More, raised $1,105,407 from 6,529 backers.
Description
Players take on Heroes from 11 classes with more than 22 subclasses, and the Game Master (GM) runs encounters built to be quick to prepare. Published adventures include The Ruins of Stormwatch, which takes characters from level 1 to 3. The game keeps the class, level and spell structure of 5E but removes much of the arithmetic and many of the steps between a player's turn and its result.
The game asks a table to think about positioning and action use every round, because armour and defence only help when a Hero spends effort on them. It is a streamlined class-and-level game, not a rules-light narrative one, and a GM coming from 5E should expect to relearn the terms. It suits groups who like 5E's heroic fantasy but find combat slow, and GMs who want to be ready in minutes.