... I'm glad you posted this - I'm at a loss as to how best to handle this using FATE. It seems like you could have effectively two challenges going on ...
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DCA
dcagames
Oct 3, 2005 2:28 pm
... One thing we've done with this kind of thing in our post holocaust game, and in the Hyborian game we experimented with was using a table rule that kept ...
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Darren Hill
demiurgeasta...
Oct 3, 2005 3:05 pm
On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:05:48 +0100, Adrian Price <AdrianFPrice@...> ... The way I've handled it is fairly easy. Basically, the winner of any exchange...
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Adrian Price
afprice75
Oct 3, 2005 3:50 pm
... any ... imprisoned his ... But if ... can ... or ... whatever ... to get ... fighting - ... adding to ... going to ... round ... needing ... the ... ...
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Landon Darkwood
jhudsui
Oct 4, 2005 2:25 am
... For the most part, I'm with Mike on this (big surprise). A few things as an addendum to this whole thread, as food for thought: 1.) Some people have real...
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Robert Wiesehan
the_clydesda...
Oct 5, 2005 7:44 am
When I gave FATE a test drive this summer, I was coming out of a pretty D&D heavy school year, and I wanted a quantifiable measure of character development. I...
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Kurt Rauscher
armchair_gamer
Oct 5, 2005 1:23 pm
Interesting idea, might help those players who expects to "see" some sort of progress all the time. As written, character advancement in power level will be...
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David Hoberman
dphoberman
Oct 5, 2005 2:46 pm
Hi, lurker de-lurking. I really do think that advancement/XP is something the GM should not have to figure out for himself. If anyone's read the "Why did FUDGE...
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Robert Donoghue
r_donoghue
Oct 5, 2005 3:12 pm
... The irony of that is, of course, that it means games that assume you can create a completed character who does not need advancement to do things are less...
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hoberman@...
dphoberman
Oct 5, 2005 4:07 pm
... We may have different expectations of RPGs, but for me, and most players I've gamed with, the expectation is that there's some system in place for our...
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Robert Donoghue
r_donoghue
Oct 5, 2005 4:19 pm
... I'm almost sure we do, but that's more on me. :) I have weird ideas about the nature of advancement and how it relates to the game you're trying to play....
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Daniel Luna
qnavry
Oct 5, 2005 5:58 pm
... [snip] Beep! This is plain wrong. The advancement will have the same pace all the way up. The only difference between this system and the one in the book...
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Darren Hill
demiurgeasta...
Oct 5, 2005 8:08 pm
... Change and growth though are two different things. I've run games where the PCs didn't get any advancement at all, and others where they only get to...
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Darren Hill
demiurgeasta...
Oct 5, 2005 8:20 pm
On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 05:09:15 +0100, Robert Wiesehan ... If you're giving out XP for difficulty of challenge, basing it on Aspect is only one part of the...
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Mike Holmes
mike_c_holmes
Oct 5, 2005 8:27 pm
... This whole thread has just seemed insane to me. This is how it reads to me: 1. FATE should have an advancement system. So here's one from D&D (including ...
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Landon Darkwood
jhudsui
Oct 6, 2005 1:47 am
... Sure. :) In addendum to everything Rob D. said: First, skill advancement based purely on a challenge/achievement model might fall down in practice despite...
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till death does us part
objectvector
Oct 6, 2005 2:35 am
... dirty - yes quick - no basic fate + pyramid reloaded is quicker and cleaner, accomplishes all you want, and also includes both, linear advancement and...
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john doe
opfor32
Oct 11, 2005 5:31 pm
All, Don't know if this idea has been mentioned and doubt if there will be much response as my ideas are usually way off the normal concensos. BFWIW Anytime a...
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Mike Holmes
mike_c_holmes
Oct 11, 2005 7:48 pm
... ... Something like the old CoC, "Use it to get better" system? Given that you only get one +4 in 81 rolls, that's a lot of rolling at terrible on average...
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john doe
opfor32
Oct 12, 2005 1:31 pm
Good points. What about +3 and higher? Also, the GM could track it with ticks. Do players really need to know the mechanic for advancement. Now that I think of...
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Persephone Imytholin
imytholin
Oct 12, 2005 1:43 pm
... Except BRP makes it much, much harder to advance the skills you use as they improve (and fairly elegantly if you ask me, but not in a way that works in...
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Mike Holmes
mike_c_holmes
Oct 12, 2005 7:07 pm
As long as we're talking about this stuff, I don't recall but has anyone looked at using something like the "Key" system from The Shadow of Yesterday for FATE...
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Landon Darkwood
jhudsui
Oct 12, 2005 8:03 pm
... In my long e-mail a few posts back, I kind of proposed a modified version of it. Basic thrust is: You get a point (let's call them Story Points) every time...
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Kurt Rauscher
armchair_gamer
Oct 12, 2005 8:37 pm
... I rather like that. Couple of quick questions: Do aspects invoked on NPCs by the GM also add to the pool or is it entirely based on the PC's aspects?...
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Landon Darkwood
jhudsui
Oct 12, 2005 9:49 pm
... PC only. ... Absolutely, yes. Compels and invocations both count toward the point total. The idea is to encourage the use of aspects as a means of making ...
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Persephone Imytholin
imytholin
Oct 13, 2005 12:00 am
... It sounds a lot like what's in the _Serenity_ RPG. In it, you get a pool of plot points, for which you get more by using your complications (which are...
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Darren Smith
fastinius
Oct 13, 2005 3:15 am
Let me just start off by saying that I love symmetry. So, I was talking with my players about making new characters and we'd pretty much settled on 5 phase ...
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Landon Darkwood
jhudsui
Oct 13, 2005 6:04 am
... I dunno. Fate Points already exist for the whole "dice and plot altering" thing (which is what I assume Serenity RPG's plot points do when they aren't used...
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Adrian Price
afprice75
Oct 16, 2005 9:39 am
Hi, I'm in the process of organising a narrativist FATE play by post game over at rpg.net. If anyone's interested I'm looking for two more players for a game...
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mothlos
Oct 16, 2005 5:38 pm
I have found that the best way for me to handle this is to let everything run in tandum. Every character has its own goals, but by doing multiple things at...
