Playground Games is doing a lot to adapt classic Fable in modern ways with its upcoming reboot, but that doesn't mean the Forza Horizon maker is being completely faithful. Classic Fable's binary good and evil morality has been hugely overhauled, for instance, partly to represent how "morality exists in the world that we live in today." RPGs in general have almost entirely moved away from good and evil binaries, too. Compare Mass Effect's morality, which existed along a linear bar that would go up and down, to Dragon Age: Inquisition's, where decisions more so affect how individual people and factions feel about you. Fable's "shades of gray approach to morality" directly ties into the RPG's living population Fable isn't a sequel, Playground Games lead says, because "we needed to reboot the franchise" and "put our stamp on it" Fable head says "we can't try to make a Lionhead game" and that the RPG reboot isn't fantasy – it's fairytale "We've pursued a much more shades of gray approach to morality, where the things you do are the things you do, and if you do them enough, or if enough people see you doing them, you'll gain a reputation in that particular settlement, that particular area of the world, for doing that thing," Fulton explained. The Playground Games lead said the way the new Fable approaches things is "an approximation in a game system," sure, but it still "is more probably representative of how morality exists in the world that we live in today." The Fable reboot's system also allows you to craft "different combinations" of reputations, which can apparently lead to unexpected, more granular reactions from the people of Albion, who will loudly heckle or praise you in public. "In that classic Fable way, they act as this kind of Greek chorus and tell you exactly what they think about the things that you've done," Fulton added. "And I think that is classically Fable, and I think the fact that it works in this maybe more nuanced morality system is a really great thing in our game." Fable head says "we can't try to make a Lionhead game," and the RPG reboot isn't fantasy either: "We all know what fantasy is – it's The Witcher, it's Skyrim, it's Lord of the Rings"