Oh duh. And here is the HTML version. *head smack*. <http://www.devermore.net/kotor-fate/Star%20Wars%20Fate.html> ... A closed mouth gathers no feet....
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galacticcmdr
May 6, 2012 2:43 am
Okay, let me jump in here, because I am having the same dilemma. We go ahead and role-play things out and things just kind of bam-zoom wrap-up. However, I...
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galacticcmdr
May 6, 2012 2:49 am
Interesting. For my LoA game I went the other way. I decreased the soak damage, but left the weapon damage the same. I find that this decreases the "I hit for...
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galacticcmdr
May 6, 2012 2:58 am
Actually, after writing my response to a previous post I remembered something I wanted some advise one. I have one character that is tearing his way through...
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Travis Casey
efindel
May 6, 2012 3:41 am
... Here's a question: Why are you letting them do this? Consider: if a player who's an auto mechanic took no skill in, say, Craftsmanship for their character,...
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Travis Casey
efindel
May 6, 2012 3:51 am
... I don't have LoA, but it seems to me that the +1 with all weapons and the +2 with swords should not stack, which would bring the damage down to +4. Still...
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Jon Lang
dataweaver42
May 6, 2012 4:56 am
Is he the only one with a weapon? IOW, why does he get a +2 "gear bonus" while nobody else does? -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang...
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grant_erswell@...
grant_erswell
May 6, 2012 9:26 am
My suggestion is to not focus on combats with single big foes but instead have lots of separate foes and/or groups of minions. So while your hard hitting PC...
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Robert Rendell
rob_p_rendell
May 6, 2012 10:04 am
I was going to say something similar. Sure, if sword-guy is the combat wombat for the group, and they're facing a single big nasty, it's reasonable both...
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Lisa Steele
steele_esq
May 6, 2012 11:34 am
The other thing a combat system involving multiple rolls does is smooth out dice luck. There's enough skill rolls in a physical combat that the character with...
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Ryan Macklin
signature_rm
May 6, 2012 6:50 pm
Here are some thoughts, having played a bunch of all those games and thinking about this aspect of Fate for years. This may get long. First of all, you have to...
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Fred Hicks
iago23
May 8, 2012 9:29 pm
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/102090/Dinocalypse-Now%3A-Hell-Comes-to-Hollywood---A-Spirit-of-the-Century-Adventure Thought y'all might be interested....
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Dustin Evermore
dsevermore
May 9, 2012 1:06 pm
Thanks guys for the extra effort to create the free adventure! D Evermore ... Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else....
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Ryan Macklin
signature_rm
May 10, 2012 11:10 pm
Gang, Since some of you are interested in Core, I thought I would share a couple posts with you. One is my post today, about knowing who your audience is: ...
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ian_orourke
May 11, 2012 11:17 am
Hi Fred, I think yourself and Ryan (this can be considered a reply to his post as well) have it. It's about using the system in the right way and then using...
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Jon Lang
dataweaver42
May 11, 2012 10:03 pm
I wonder if something like the Milestones system would be worth looking at here: if a given social conflict has less story impact than a Minor Milestone, just...
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Brett Ritter
swiftonespeaks
May 11, 2012 10:23 pm
... Where might I learn more of this "Milestones" system? -- Brett Ritter / SwiftOne swiftone@......
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Ryan Macklin
signature_rm
May 11, 2012 10:33 pm
I'm always meh on "just roleplay it" solutions. Not that I think everything needs dice, but there needs to be some decent guidance, and there isn't one in...
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Jon Lang
dataweaver42
May 11, 2012 10:33 pm
... at here ... It's the Dresdon Files character advancement system; it's available for free on the Fate website. -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang...
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Ryan Macklin
signature_rm
May 11, 2012 10:33 pm
It's from Dresden Files RPG. - Ryan -- Ryan Macklin Game Designer, Writer, Editor blog: http://RyanMacklin.com | @RyanMacklin...
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Ryan Macklin
signature_rm
May 11, 2012 10:39 pm
Incidentally, Milestones will be part of Fate Core as well. - Ryan -- Ryan Macklin Game Designer, Writer, Editor blog: http://RyanMacklin.com | @RyanMacklin...
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David Dunham
alakoring@...
May 12, 2012 2:11 am
Ian ... One of the reasons I used social conflict rules in my Diaspora game was that it's fairly easy to get all the players involved (at the very least with...
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Michael Bowman
bowmancal
May 21, 2012 2:00 am
My group has been recording our gaming sessions and posting them for over a year now. Among other games, we've recorded 5 Spirit of the Century sessions, 3...
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fraorlando333
Jun 2, 2012 9:00 am
Our take on initiative is card based - and is directly stolen from SavageWorlds. You have a poker deck. At the beginning of a conflict each one draws a card. ...
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Bryan
weregamers
Jun 2, 2012 10:07 am
I finally got to play an ORE game last weekend at Kubla Con. It certainly had a gritty feel to combat. But I missed aspects. Here's what I would do. Your width...
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Jonathan Gwilliams
sanguin_tear
Jun 2, 2012 4:56 pm
I personally feel that initiative is a dinosaur. Who acts first in a combat round? Does it matter so much when, regardless of who acts *first*, everyone gets ...
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Brad Murray
bjmurray.hal...
Jun 2, 2012 5:01 pm
Any traditional (on your turn you choose an action) turn-based system needs to decide who goes when, and there are usually advantages to some positions in the...
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Jonathan Gwilliams
sanguin_tear
Jun 3, 2012 8:32 am
Sorry Brad, I just don't see it that way. IF two people have potentially conflict-ending actions AND they both care enough about their version of events to...
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Jan Willms
isenhertz
Jun 3, 2012 9:54 am
It might be possible to port something like Shadowrun's system for Initiative, where turn order is established by a character's Reaction rating plus the amount...
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uteck
theuteck
Jun 3, 2012 12:54 pm
The White Wolf system still has people rolling to see who goes first, then the tick system is used when people do an action. The problem with it is that when...
