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Comment on It’s On Fire by Jesse Pudewell

Jesse Pudewell — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:19:34 +0000

You know, this makes me want to make each one of my Dresden Adventures a character. With a stress track. And Aspects. But that seems pretty meta.

However, it does more adequately address the “ON FIRE” topic than, “Oh, well, it’s an aspect” which always felt like a poor copout to me.

Comment on It’s On Fire by Silverwizard

Silverwizard — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:39:23 +0000

Thanks for this!

I often give mysteries Stress tracks, and really love the fractal – this summation is awesome!

Comment on It’s On Fire by Paul Weimer (@princejvstin)

Paul Weimer (@princejvstin) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:20:41 +0000

Thanks, Fred. Going to share this around, and grok it for myself.

Comment on It’s On Fire by Nick

Nick — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:13:44 +0000

I’ve done that before with investigations. The mystery, instead of being just a straight target number, also has a stress track. Every couple levels is a more significant clue. The players may make a roll against that target number at the end of a scene. Rolling below the highest discovered clue rolls up, as if the stress track was filled up to that point. If they deduce a given clue, they automatically assume that place on the track. Not sure how solid this method is, but it makes sense to me.

Comment on The Core of Fate Core by It’s On Fire » Fate

It’s On Fire » Fate — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:55:16 +0000

[...] from a design perspective — is the Fate Fractal principle. Search for that text here - http://www.faterpg.com/2011/the-core-of-fate-core/ - but in short, it’s the idea that anything in the system can be treated as a character. [...]

Comment on Fate and Its Branches by Shadom

Shadom — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:44:42 +0000

Hi there. The article is up.
In German: http://d6ideas.com/node/187
and in english: http://d6ideas.com/node/186

If anything bothers you let me know and I will change it right away!

Comment on About Fate Core by Pillgr1mm

Pillgr1mm — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:00:20 +0000

Huge high five from me as well! Immensely excited and waiting to see what FATE Core 3.0 has to offer, but I just HAD to pop in and offer my two cents (even though it’s probably too late by now, but what the hey).

I love the aspect system, but having had to deal with a lot of new players I’m not too fond of the skill pyramid. Is there a chance of a method of play using only the ladder and aspects (even loads of them) finding its way on the book? I think the entire aspect concept is strong enough to carry the entire game on its shoulders. Plus, less mechanics to get in the way! If it’s supposed to be lightweight, let’s make it less than a feather! (At its core, at the very least. )

Comment on Phase 2 by cintain

cintain — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:09:02 +0000

Just checked in the site after a few months and saw this. I can only echo everyone else and say WOOT! I’m so looking forward to Fate Core. I’ve been wanting to run Dresden Files with my regular group for months in order to learn the system, so I can then try my hand at adapting a homebrew setting to Fate. The Core product will be a great help, also to help convince some of my players that it is awesome.

Thank you for all the great work, keep it up!

@Miguel Angel Espinoza I have some experience with professional translation (English-Spanish and Spanish-English); if you need a hand, a proofread, or an edit, I’d love to help you with your translation of Fate Core once it’s out.

Cheers, everyone!

Comment on About Fate Core by fred

fred — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:27:27 +0000

Yep, that’s the dice method we suggest as an alternative in the Dresden Files RPG. Seen in other third-party variants as well, including Starblazer Adventures.

Comment on About Fate Core by andrew

andrew — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:03:31 +0000

Really fascinating system. Has anyone ever considered this alternate dice mechanic, for those desiring a little more randomness and greater possibility of very high and very low rolls: Use 2 six-sided dice and designate one “negative” and one “positive.” Roll both and add them together, effectively subtracting the negative die from the positive.

It produces a range from -5 to 5 with a little less concentration in the middle. There’s about a 45% chance of getting between -1 and 1, as opposed to a 63% chance with regular Fudge dice. A 0 is still the most common result at 16.7%, and one or the other extreme of -5 and 5 will come up about 5% of the time.

As an alternate, it would produce a much different feel, perhaps friendlier to those used to d20.