For example A White Court Vampire in combat uses only her Inhuman Strength which is a 2 refresh, so after combat is over they only need to make a 2 on their...
19611
Fred Hicks
iago23
Apr 4, 2011 8:10 pm
... Ah, I see what you're getting at. You could certainly run it that way if you wanted, but I had some specific design goals in mind with the way it's ...
19612
Jan Willms
isenhertz
Apr 4, 2011 8:19 pm
Also, on the fluffy side of things, if a WCV isn't neck-deep into their bag of tricks by the end of the first round of combat, you're dealing with a very...
19613
Fred Hicks
iago23
Apr 4, 2011 8:21 pm
... Yep. As implemented, I think a WCV or RCI or what have you has a potentially interesting little resource-management game to play. Or from another ...
19614
ajfixer
Apr 4, 2011 8:30 pm
Are you familiar with the social conflict rules from Diaspora? The system would be easily integrated into SotC, and they would be absolutely perfect for this...
19615
ajfixer
Apr 4, 2011 8:34 pm
I'm looking to run a game of Pendragon using FATE. What books do you think I would need for managing the "gettin' medieval" side of things? Which rules set has...
19616
Lisa Steele
steele_esq
Apr 4, 2011 8:44 pm
I've seen discussions here of Diaspora, but I'm not looking at a rules mechanics problem. My problem is more about how to involve all of the PCs, rather than...
19617
Brad Murray
bjmurray.hal...
Apr 4, 2011 8:53 pm
Mystic combat strikes me as basically physical combat with some new alternatives. So, what do non-mystics do during the combat? Well, are they there? If not,...
19618
Leonard Balsera
jhudsui
Apr 4, 2011 8:57 pm
A friend of mine suggested hunger would have more punch if it were an attack, too. So instead of a Fantastic difficulty in Fred's example, it'd be a Fantastic...
19619
ezra_n_bradford
Apr 4, 2011 9:25 pm
Well, it should be simple to apply Deceit either to the task of getting Caesar's Ghost to depart or to the task of convincing the madman Caesar's Ghost has...
19620
mrdroobles egghead
mrdroobles
Apr 4, 2011 10:01 pm
The way I do it is something more like ampire with a little of the way magic works in Dresden Files. First: Whenever hey use a power in a scene they...
19621
chris@...
cczernia
Apr 4, 2011 10:39 pm
Also, remember one of the great things about doing vampires in Dresden is that "vampire" is directly in one of the character's aspects. This is easily...
19622
Hollis McCray
ascensionschild
Apr 4, 2011 10:41 pm
... I can't speak for Diaspora or LoA, but of the FATE games I own*, Strands has the best equipment rules. *SotC, Dresden, Starblazer Adventures, and SoF -- ...
19623
adam Forman
adamforman1180
Apr 4, 2011 11:03 pm
Sorry I think I was misunderstood you don't roll a discipline roll for each skill used. I'll give another example. A White Court Vampire in combat uses Inhuman...
19624
jeffj@...
drnuncheon
Apr 4, 2011 11:43 pm
Hmm…you could run this much like a Thaumaturgy spell in Dresden Files, really, with some of the skills being used to prep for the ritual and others being...
19625
mrdroobles egghead
mrdroobles
Apr 4, 2011 11:56 pm
Yeah, but wouldn't this compel be more in the cases of temptation? They saw a nice prey and suffer a compel to feed from it. The rules I proposed are more to...
19626
bil
theuteck
Apr 5, 2011 12:33 am
Remember the White Court King was not able to feed, and had not for years. So, for the game to be true the books, you need to be able to resist the Hunger to...
19627
Oliver Graf
enuroj
Apr 5, 2011 5:20 am
Hi! (For the German speaking folks on this list) Malmsturm - Die Regeln (The Rules), a German FATE 3.0 SRD based Sword & Sorcery RPG, has been released as free...
19628
Jan Willms
isenhertz
Apr 5, 2011 5:42 am
... A fantastic job on the translation! There's always contention as to whether stuff was translated just right, but regardless, that was a lot of work, and...
19629
Kamikaze
yog_slogoth
Apr 5, 2011 7:28 am
I had a first look on it and it just makes a super impression on me. Especially the ideas for stunts were streamlined in a Diaspora way in contrast to LoA....
19630
ezra_n_bradford
Apr 5, 2011 8:25 am
Paging through, it looks way cool. The illustrations abound and seem to match with the text. Their art direction is consistent and solid. And it looks like...
19631
Paolo
vonpaulus...
Apr 5, 2011 1:08 pm
... I played Loa and I think it would be a good game if you want to have epic level adventures which iinvolves creat organisations and/or kingdom. LoA has also...
19632
Andreas Stein
amstein99
Apr 5, 2011 4:45 pm
Toll! :)...
19633
chris@...
cczernia
Apr 5, 2011 6:44 pm
You would compel for an interesting scene. I you look at classic Vampire tM and vamp lost a blood point every time they woke up. Eventually, they would get low...
19634
Thorin
sdjthorin
Apr 5, 2011 8:24 pm
Beautiful... Now if I only spoke German! Any chance that they might make an English version? Otherwise, I'll need to start bugging my German speaking friends...
19635
scott.mcgougan
Apr 5, 2011 11:23 pm
I'm looking for some advice and commentary regarding intermixing physical and social conflicts in DFRPG. After a very satisfying few weeks of city and...
19636
Max Kaehn
catslaugh
Apr 5, 2011 11:52 pm
As I see it, social skills mostly run at a different timescale than combat skills. If the described action is something that could reasonably happen in the...
19637
Lisa Steele
steele_esq
Apr 6, 2011 1:56 am
Sure...Intimidation as a block -- "Don't move or else." (This may be modified by the Intimidator's ability to carry out the threat.) Rapport as a block, maybe...
19638
Lisa Steele
steele_esq
Apr 6, 2011 2:01 am
Note that distracting someone either at the start of or during combat with some sort of patter is a known real-world technique. Now and then it is discussed in...
19639
Dominik Dießlin
rollsomedice
Apr 6, 2011 4:46 am
thank you very very much! there is a chance put first we have to bring it to the german market and release the relams book. after that we can make plans for a ...
