Re: Diaspora and General FATE Question
Posted by: "Jens Alfke" jens@... jens_alfke
Date: Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:29 pm ((PST))

On Nov 20, 2009, at 2:14 PM, blowstertag wrote:

>> There is no full-on fantasy version of FATE out right now

>Actually there's "Awesome Adventures" by Willow Palecek:
> http://www.lulu.com/content/2085636
>I haven't read it, but it's apparently an adaptation of the FATE 3 SRD
>for quick-n-dirty fantasy gaming.
>Willow has some blog posts about it:
> http://willowrants.wordpress.com/category/games/awesome-adventures/
>
>I'm curious about it myself, as I'd like to see what's new in FATE 3
>but am not enthused enough about the pulp-adventure genre to buy SotC
>(sorry!) So if anyone's read or played it, what did you think?

I've played it a bit. :)

Awesome Adventures is basically a rules-light version of SOTC, where
the focus is closer to action movie adventures instead of pulp
adventures. The main differences are the lack of stunts and a
streamlined consequence track. If you imagine FATE rules crunchiness
as a spectrum, Star Blazer Adventures would be at one end, Awesome
Adventures would be near the other, with SOTC somewhere between.

You can certainly do swords and sorcery fantasy with Awesome
Adventures, but the system tends to encourage over-the-top heroic or
wushu situations no matter what genre you run in. So if you don't
mind seeing adventurers fighting monsters (or monster adventurers
fighting other monsters) on the back of a giant burning zombie dragon
as it crashes into the exploding floating city of the flying vampire
golems...in the first session...Awesome Adventures may be the game for
you.

-Tim