How do you handle spellcasting? The concept of stress is fundamental to the spellcasting. Without it spellcasting (especially evocation) could become a bi...
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Greg
elsalamanca
Sep 1, 2011 11:41 am
If your goal is to maintain mechanical balance, you're going to run into trouble with all of those tweaks except (1). The main balance issues are going to come...
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Greg
elsalamanca
Sep 1, 2011 11:47 am
In my experience, the trickiest thing for new GMs to do is to use Compels. They are, in some ways, the most important part of the game. I've been running for...
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Jayson Stevens
palmerofthet...
Sep 1, 2011 11:51 am
... SotC has decent mook rules. 1: Mooks have a rating, 1-3 (Average to Good). This is both their skill roll for everything, and their stress. 2: Mook stress...
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Jon Lang
dataweaver42
Sep 1, 2011 12:11 pm
... Not familiar with DFRPG; does it use physical stress with spellcasting? If not, then the OP's tweaks should have no impact on it (as he's apparently only...
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Bloomfield
etbloomfield
Sep 1, 2011 1:03 pm
I haven't fully thought through the spell casting. But I don't think it will be too complicated. The main idea here is after all to regard attacks as a ...
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Bloomfield
etbloomfield
Sep 1, 2011 1:16 pm
This part of my post wasn't clear: Magic can have physical effects, in which case the physical stress/consequences system works. If the stress track is...
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Bill Burdick
zotimersnerd
Sep 1, 2011 1:38 pm
It took us quite a while playing FATE to fully grok aspects. My advice is just to play when you get the chance and not to worry too much about "doing it...
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Tim Hall
timjh
Sep 1, 2011 1:59 pm
... You could solve that the way Awesome Adventures does - you can't free-tag consequences, only aspects resulting from maneuvers. -- Tim Hall Weblog ->...
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Bloomfield
etbloomfield
Sep 1, 2011 2:02 pm
Can you tell us what those things were you kept? I'm intrigued. I am running DFRPG now with a group of 3.5/4e and World of Darkness junkies, who were into the...
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Jeff
dkain001
Sep 1, 2011 2:35 pm
Hi there, One item you mentioned below jumped out at me: *" . . . or compelling the opposition."* I must have completely missed this! I'd image the player...
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Bloomfield
etbloomfield
Sep 1, 2011 3:55 pm
There is still a reason to use maneuvers, which is actually hitting foes that sufficiently powerful that they shrug off everything except a really solid hit. I...
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manuel_sambs
Sep 1, 2011 6:51 pm
Greetings, fellow FATE fans! I apologise in advance for all the horror I will bring over the written english language in my postings, as I am german and...
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Bloomfield
etbloomfield
Sep 1, 2011 9:17 pm
"Since the mentioned websites and wikis do not get sued into oblivion and I do not plan to make any money, I believe that "FATE in the Potterverse" is doable."...
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Robert Stewart
hazardps
Sep 1, 2011 10:21 pm
I direct you to Pottermore (http://www.pottermore.com ) Pretty much if it doesn't come from Rowling's people right now, she'll eat you for lunch. However, the...
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Jayson Stevens
palmerofthet...
Sep 1, 2011 10:31 pm
... You have to remember that nobody actually DODGES gunfire, the way they dodge a thrown knife or a punch to the face. That kind of dodging is seeing the...
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Lisa Steele
steele_esq
Sep 1, 2011 11:21 pm
At the risk of being simulationist, in real world gunfights, most bullets miss. Police study this sort of thing. The FBI has done various tests (some of which...
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Robert Rendell
rob_p_rendell
Sep 1, 2011 11:59 pm
It's not the canonical Potterverse (more "Hogwarts with the serial numbers filed off"), but you might be interested in having a look at Boarsdraft by Josh "JB"...
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Travis Casey
efindel
Sep 2, 2011 12:12 am
Actually, there are a few Harry Potter P&P games already in existence... just none can call themselves that, for legal reasons. Take a look at: ...
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ezra_n_bradford
Sep 2, 2011 4:32 am
There's an unofficial GURPS sourcebook, too. http://www.sabledrake.com/2002/0205_harry_potter1.shtml...
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manuel_sambs
Sep 2, 2011 4:45 am
Sadly, the magic and powers sections of the DFRPG are not OGL content as of right now, which makes them unusable for what I planned to do, at least as far as I...
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Jayson Stevens
palmerofthet...
Sep 2, 2011 4:49 am
... On average, under low-stress situations, the average hit rate for police is around 20%. At rnges of 15 FEET or less. For actual shootouts, lots of lead...
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manuel_sambs
Sep 2, 2011 5:00 am
And yet there are dozens of wikis and roleplaying forums, which not only use copyrighted names in their domain names, but also within their forum play (some of...
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Ryan Macklin
signature_rm
Sep 2, 2011 5:02 am
... Point of note: we have no plans to make Dresden's Magic system open content. It's far too intertwined with Jim's IP, to where it would look like a cheesy...
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manuel_sambs
Sep 2, 2011 5:05 am
Yes, that is exactly my point. Wizardry and Witchcraft and the GURPS sourcebook even use the copyrighted names and they are still up and running. Since the...
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Jayson Stevens
palmerofthet...
Sep 2, 2011 5:54 am
... The law is not something to be making assumptions about. Just because a fan work exists and has not been shut down does not, by ANY stretch, mean that it...
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manuel_sambs
Sep 2, 2011 6:09 am
Thank you for that info, Ryan! :) As for the "Like Dresden": Because then people would have to buy the DFRPG books to know what the new rules are talking about...
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Ryan Macklin
signature_rm
Sep 2, 2011 6:10 am
Consider it a starting point. A free product, once published, isn't set in stone. Do what you need to do in order to get your idea out there in the first...
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vmakkone
Sep 2, 2011 8:36 am
What sort of scene and zone aspects have you successfully used or come across? Nobody in our gaming group has enough experience yet with FATE to come up with...
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Manuel
manuel_sambs
Sep 2, 2011 11:30 am
Maybe. Or maybe a pure framework of rules, as it is provided there, does not count as much more than fan fiction, of which there are uncountable amounts. On...
