... Whatever is fun in your game is good. ...but my (admittedly limited) experiences say that this is not a "best practice" unless the item is key to the...
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DominusDigg
thelorddiggus
Nov 4, 2010 2:02 am
"... a handy excuse to invoke an aspect." It's being used a lot and maybe frivolously? The phases are to give back story and create context for the aspects ...
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Lisa Steele
steele_esq
Nov 4, 2010 2:35 am
Remember that aspects should be compellable as well -- my nosy reporter PC in SotC has "my trusty leica" as an aspect -- I've used it to improve Artist rolls,...
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Wayne Peacock
waynedpeacock
Nov 4, 2010 1:48 pm
So, my credentials were compromised for about an hour yesterday and someone from China sent out one email to folks. I fixed the issue, but I apologize for the...
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Lisa Steele
steele_esq
Nov 4, 2010 3:32 pm
My sense had always been that one had to have a success to do stress damage - if someone gets a net 0 or negative result, then there's no reason to roll a...
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Fred Hicks
iago23
Nov 4, 2010 3:50 pm
Fate doesn't care about simulating real world probabilities. But: It does say don't roll if it's not interesting. So look at your pilots -- most of those are...
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Lisa Steele
steele_esq
Nov 4, 2010 4:04 pm
Agreed that FATE is not a simulationist game -- but it does pay heed to a certain willing suspension of disbelief. The mechanics shouldn't produce results that...
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Fred Hicks
iago23
Nov 4, 2010 4:11 pm
Combat is all relative. Chris's way is how I run it. Flip your question around, would it be cool to ignore a +4 result? I don't think so, really. Those -4...
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Lisa Steele
steele_esq
Nov 4, 2010 4:29 pm
It is more a question of getting PCs to take risks. If I have a character with that skill of 0 or 1, what can I do to encourage him/her not to play it safe and...
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Fred Hicks
iago23
Nov 4, 2010 4:50 pm
... Man, really? That's dull. I like encouraging the spending of those excess shifts -- extra facts, additional stress, reducing the time to get the task done....
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chris@...
cczernia
Nov 4, 2010 5:52 pm
On Thu Nov 4 9:29 , 'Lisa Steele' sent: It is more a question of getting PCs to take risks. If I have a character with that skill of 0 or 1, what can I do to...
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Lisa Steele
steele_esq
Nov 4, 2010 5:56 pm
... If there's something to spend it on, sure. In light of this conversation and your response, I may think about a truly astounding roll far exceeding what's...
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Lisa Steele
steele_esq
Nov 4, 2010 6:06 pm
It wasn't changing the ladder as an apparent misinterpretation of the -2 on the ladder as a floor, rather than it being open-ended. In my first SotC game, I...
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Brad Murray
bjmurray.hal...
Nov 4, 2010 9:54 pm
Now you all have me wondering about how best to build a FATE MOO.... ... -- Brad Murray (halfjack) VSCA Publishing...
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J B Bell
tquidca
Nov 4, 2010 10:18 pm
No, Brad! Not you too! Could be a way to spend the Xmas holiday when all those less-l337 players are spending time with (*pfft*) *family* and whatnot . . ....
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Mark Horton
hortons2002
Nov 5, 2010 2:54 am
Difficult conditions and poor skills yielding bad results seems very plausible to me. ________________________________ From: Lisa Steele...
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stanshinn
Nov 5, 2010 3:05 pm
10 Fate Points seems like a good amount when your game sessions last 4 hours or more. But what if you instead (like many busy people these days) find you only...
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Lisa Steele
steele_esq
Nov 5, 2010 3:06 pm
Again, I'm not being clear. The problem I raised is one, in effect, of statistics and willing suspension of disbelief (ie the ability of the players to accept...
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Lisa Steele
steele_esq
Nov 5, 2010 3:07 pm
[Try 2, looks like YahooGroups swallowed the post yesterday.] It wasn't changing the ladder as an apparent misinterpretation of the -2 on the ladder as a...
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Lisa Steele
steele_esq
Nov 5, 2010 3:15 pm
{Try 2, Yahoogroups swallowed the last one.) ... If there's something to spend it on, sure. The point where this tends to get lost is either when someone rolls...
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Fred Hicks
iago23
Nov 5, 2010 4:27 pm
I don't ever have the defender NOT roll. So... at least at my table, the "if the defender chooses to roll" thing doesn't happen. Fred ... -- Fred Hicks Evil...
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Brett Ritter
swiftonespeaks
Nov 5, 2010 4:30 pm
... A DFRPG game has a "power level" that sets how many skill points characters start with (the "pyramid", though DF doesn't require a pyramid) and the...
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Lisa Steele
steele_esq
Nov 5, 2010 4:36 pm
So even if attacker's net result is 0 or negative, defender must roll a defense? And thus defender with low defense skills can knock him or herself out by...
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Fred Hicks
iago23
Nov 5, 2010 4:39 pm
If you want to interpret it like that, yes. That's not how I interpret it, but you seem to have a bit of a bias there. :) Fred ... -- Fred Hicks Evil Hat...
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Aidan Grey
taalenmaple
Nov 5, 2010 4:47 pm
You keep forgetting that there are all sorts of ways that a player can mitigate bad rolls - FP, Aspects to tag, and so on. Dying (or getting knocked out)...
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Lisa Steele
steele_esq
Nov 5, 2010 5:18 pm
I'm looking more at "does the world maintain plausibility". PCs are, by definition, special. They have more FPs than the typical person, more Aspects, and...
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Fred Hicks
iago23
Nov 5, 2010 5:23 pm
I think the problem is that the quest for a suspension of disbelief seems to be based on needing to believe the system behaves in a way that simulates -- which...
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Brad Murray
bjmurray.hal...
Nov 5, 2010 5:25 pm
Actually you are talking about simulation, just not in the way that you are defining it. All games are simulations. A critical design decision for all...
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chris@...
cczernia
Nov 5, 2010 5:39 pm
I think part of the problem is that you are getting hung up on the ladder and why I'm not a big fan of the the adjectives. If attacker rolled a +4 and a...
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Travis Casey
efindel
Nov 5, 2010 6:02 pm
A couple of things strike me about this whole discussion. First off, as others have pointed out, the FATE system isn't meant to be used for "routine" tasks....
