I had good luck with Neutral Grounds. Campaign ongoing with characters starting from that scenario (even the bad guy!). ... I had good luck with Neutral...
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JohnS
johnsdba
May 3, 2012 12:23 pm
Thanks Rob - these look really high quality....
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bwridge
May 3, 2012 6:59 pm
I'm working on using LEgends of Anglerre to run a fantasy game in the Midnight setting from Fantasy Flight Games. One thing I find peculiar about the LoA rules...
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Frank Eastman
fjeastman
May 3, 2012 7:29 pm
Racial aspects are very much worth having, and one of the things in DFRPG that tends to work well in character archetype selection .... you have to develop an...
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Stephen Figgins
srfig
May 3, 2012 7:31 pm
I liked how LoA handled races. It seemed pretty true to Fate as I understand it. First off, a racial aspect seems rather broad and could easily make racial ...
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Jan Willms
isenhertz
May 3, 2012 7:55 pm
Personally, as much as I like LoA for the fantastic stuff on expanding the FATE fractal to organisations and giant monsters and whatnot, I am of two minds...
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Stuart Broz
stuartbroz
May 3, 2012 9:18 pm
The way I'm leaning toward handling races in the FATE-inspired game I'm working on: Characters have what amounts to a background aspect. This includes their ...
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pmelwhite
May 3, 2012 9:56 pm
I've plugged this before, but here is a SOTC adventure I wrote: http://archive.org/details/YangtzeRocketPatrol. Yangtze Rocket Patrol is about rocket pack...
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gremlin1384
May 3, 2012 11:05 pm
I agree that a single all-encompassing Racial stunt is problematic and implies a unity and stereotype. However: I recommend taking a look at Bulldogs! (the...
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Robert Rendell
rob_p_rendell
May 4, 2012 1:24 am
Your link there included the full stop at the end, causing it to give a 404-equivalent. Corrected link: http://archive.org/details/YangtzeRocketPatrol ... -- ...
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TomM
sjsamurai007
May 4, 2012 2:26 am
I created the 2-part racial packages in LoA (Aspect and stunts) with the idea that the Aspect would cover the general background stuff and be tagged or...
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ian_orourke
May 4, 2012 4:37 pm
So, it looks like I'm going to start running a Fate Fading Suns game in July. All good. I've been ruminating on it for a while. The system will be Starblazer...
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TomM
sjsamurai007
May 4, 2012 4:45 pm
It uses Stress as Hit Points, which makes it go much faster. If you are hit for 4 stress, you mark off 4 boxes, not just box #4. Combined with damage bonuses...
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ian_orourke
May 4, 2012 5:01 pm
Okay, did you find a comfort zone between the type of weapon damage and the type of armour. Just trying to get a feel for it really. Is there an implied...
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pmelwhite
May 4, 2012 7:12 pm
Thanks for correcting that!...
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ian_orourke
May 5, 2012 7:28 am
In our limited experience of Fate it would seem that social-style conflicts (i.e about something non-physical) seem to work better in PTA and Smallville than...
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Fred Hicks
iago23
May 5, 2012 11:56 am
There's nothing saying you must use the full conflict engine to resolve social situations in Fate. It's a toolbox, not a pair of shackles. Consider not rolling...
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TomM
sjsamurai007
May 5, 2012 2:06 pm
Starblazer, IIRC, has not only damage reduction but also additional consequences for armor. I've never liked that, it made it feel like good armor was better...
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Dustin Evermore
dsevermore
May 5, 2012 8:04 pm
Seems to work pretty well. I ran a Star Wars KotOR game for about a year. Results can be found here. <https://sites.google.com/site/kotorfate/>. I have a PDF...
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Dustin Evermore
dsevermore
May 5, 2012 8:06 pm
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...
