A generic game engine combining described character traits with numeric skills, and using metagame currency to provide players expanded agency.
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Expand the numeric scale of Strands of Fate
I haven't played any of these narrative focused games like Fate but would like to. My players are very used to other more hands-on type of game where the numbers are plainly what your character is.
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How much does the Sponsor help someone using Sponsored Magic in Dresden?
So, the party is in a fight with one of the Knights of the Faerie Courts (Winter, in this case) and a couple of wildfae mercenaries. During the fight, the Knight
started casting some unseelie ...
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Is hunger stress tracked like other stress tracks? [duplicate]
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What happens when a character's feeding stress track is maxed out?
I've looked at this question, and it assumes that the Hunger Stress track is tracked like the ...
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How would healing magic work in Dresden Files?
So, I have a player in a Dresden Files game I'm setting up who loves playing healing and support characters. Good aligned clerics in D&D, medicine excellencies in Exalted, you get the picture. ...
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Are Changelings With Sponsored Magic subject to the Laws of Magic?
In Dresden files, say you have a Changeling with Seelie Magic. The Changeling has a positive refresh, and thus has free will.
If the changeling uses Seelie Magic to kill another mortal, have they ...
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How long does True Shapeshifting take in Dresden Files?
There are a bunch of powers labeled "Shapeshifting" in dresden files, and in general they are pretty easy to understand and use. It even mentions that, unless otherwise mentioned, shapeshifting is a ...
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Pitfalls and Gotchas of running Dresden Files RPG with round-robin GMs
I really like how in Diaspora, character and cluster creation explicitly allows for everyone (GM included) to have a character tied into the other PCs and the setting, so that anyone can take up the ...
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Skill Point vs. Refresh Progression/Ratio in Dresden Files RPG?
We started our characters at 6 refresh and 20 skill points. The suggested progression is 1 skill point at the end of every scenario (a significant milestone) and 1 refresh + 1 skill point "when a few ...
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In a Neverwhere style game how do I keep players connected to the surface world?
In a Neverwhere style setting, how do I keep the players interested in staying connected to the surface world? How can I make their connections to the mundane world matter to the players and ...
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Are there any examples of modeling “Competence Porn” in FATE?
I was reading Leverage, and listening to a podcast on it, and came up with the idea of modeling this in FATE, or perhaps even in the non-critical parts (non-magical and non-combat) of my Dresden Files ...
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How does the OGL relate to the FATE system?
I was looking at the SRD for Spirit of the Century, and I noticed the Wizards of the Coast OGL license at the bottom of the document. I did a bit of digging, and FATE states that it is a derivative of ...
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What does Mythic Speed do?
I don't have the book in front of me at the moment, but a part of the power Mythic Speed states something along the lines of "Opponents don't get to make checks against you." What does this mean? Do ...
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How does attacking someone work?
OK, I keep going around in circles. In Dresden Files RPG, how do you work out punching someone vs using a knife/sword/weapon vs using a gun?
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Do consequences grant you Fate points when compelled by opponents?
I've run a quick search though the site and I didn't seem to find this topic covered, so I'm asking:
In Dresden Files RPG when an opponent compels one of your consequences against you (spending a ...
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Dealing with a problem player not playing to their character aspects
A player in my Dresden Files game joined the group with a kick-in-the-door, "shoot-first-ask-questions-later"-style cop. The character had some fairly "meh" & a couple of potentially OK aspects. ...
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Transplanting Fortitude Trappings to Other Skills
Presence, Conviction, and Endurance all have a Fortitude trapping that indicates how many stress boxes the character has on the appropriate track, i.e. Conviction has Mental Fortitude that affects the ...
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How do you handle the use of unrelated skills in the Dresden Files?
Back into the breach with our weekly Dresden Files game, and because of the lapse in time between sessions/people missing as much as anything else, I had some unique situations occur.
One of the ones ...
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How can I model corrupting items in FATE?
The One Ring from Lord of the Rings has the property that it corrupts (or tries to corrupt) those around it. They desire its power and do things that they normally wouldn't to get at it.
I was ...
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Explaining the need to use Fate Points for Aspects
How would you explain the need to use Fate Points to tag an Aspect, for newcomers to the system? Some players are asking me "If I have the Aspect 'As strong as Hercules', don't I automatically get a ...
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Using FMA Alchemy as the basis of magic in a fate system
What rules would need to change/be added to use the concept of alchemy from full metal alchemist in an urban magic game using the FATE system.
Are there any synthesized gaming discussions for how ...
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How would a fate “engineering” combat work?
The conflict system in FATE is generalizable to all sorts of conflict. In a game (SotC/dresden hybrid from a rules perspective) my friend and I are playing, we plan to wage a gang war via controlled ...
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“Sharing” enchanted items in Dresden Files RPG
One of my players brought up the example of the Warden's Sword as an enchanted item. For those not so familiar with the source books, these are powerful enchanted swords made by Captain Luccio, the ...
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Can concessions inflict a worse effect on the conceding character than the attacker intended?
When playing the Dresden Files, my Wizard (and other magic practitioners) tend to overpower their spells, not taking into account the foes that they are facing, i.e. 8 shifts of power vs a plain ...
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How does a skill modify another skill?
In a couple of instances we’ve seen in the rules that state that you can use a skill to modify another skill. I think the main one that we’ve seen so far is inhuman strength. It says something about ...
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What happens when an undead character is “Taken Out”
I tried finding this in the books, but I couldn't figure anything out. If you have an undead character, what happens when their physical stress track is filled and they don't take a consequence? Are ...
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Are faeries better than wizards?
I have a changeling goblin in the group, and for one of his abilities, he chose Glamours YS166. It seems like with the phrase
…use your Discipline or Deceit to oppose efforts to discover the ...
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How does social stress work?
I've read through the DFRPG book, but I'm still now quite sure how, or when, you should use the social stress track. When should a player take social stress, and what do you roll for the attack and ...
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When Are Aspects Not Necessary?
Let's say that I'm running a game of Starblazer Adventures, and my players are being chased by bad guys with blaster pistols. They run into a ruined temple which I describe as being full of ancient ...
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Are innocuous actions valid attacks in social combat in The Dresden Files?
I've been attempting unsuccessfully, or at the very least unsatisfactorily, to integrate social conflict into my Dresden Files campaign. It came to a head last night, when one of my players initiated ...
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What kind of goals are valid in Social Combat in the Dresden Files?
I've been attempting unsuccessfully, or at the very least unsatisfactorily, to integrate social conflict into my Dresden Files campaign. It came to a head last night, when one of my players initiated ...
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What is the reasonable limit to a Declaration?
So in the Dresden Files RPG, one can spend a fate point, invoke an aspect, and make a declaration. I'm having trouble coming up with a reasonable set of guidelines as to the scale and scope of ...
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How does Grapple interact with Attacks?
I grapple a guy and am able to hold him down. The rule in the book says a grappled enemy can't do anything unless he beats the grapple. Does this mean that if members of my party attack him he doesn't ...
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Must compels be negative in FATE?
Are GM Compels meant to be necessarily negative? And are they to have an immediate effect, or get the PCs into a situation?
Examining other accounts of compels, it seems that most of the examples ...
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Margin of Success on skill checks in The Dresden Files
Another week, another episode of our Dresden Files game. In this particular situation, the PCs were in a completely alien setting, and trying to get information.
They were in the mind of a hedge ...
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Is a GM meant to compel when the player has no Fate Points Remaining?
So we tried out the Dresden Files RPG earlier. Overall, we had a great time. Some issues came up, though. Specifically, when you compel an aspect, the player has the choice to either accept the ...
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Is there a limit to how many Fate Points can be spent in a single round?
Suppose we're playing the Dresden Files RPG, and one of the characters decides to go for broke. He wants to use fate points on 4 seperate aspects that are relevant, for a whopping +8 to the result. ...
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Noncombat Characters in Combat?
So we played Dresden Files RPG, using a set of premade characters. One of these characters was an investigative paranormal detective type build, which worked extremely well (maybe too well?) in the ...
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How valid is lying to players about the rolls they are making in The Dresden Files?
In last weeks Dresden Files game, the players followed the bad guy using a tracking spell, and found him in the projects at an apartment that they knew little about. Seeing his car, they decided to ...
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How long does Thaumaturgy take?
I get the point that thaumaturgy takes time as opposed to the quick and dirty evocation arts, but how much time hasn't really been spelled out, unless I'm missing it. I've been coming up with my own ...
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Where can I find a foldable character sheet for The Dresden Files
I saw a question on Area 51 for the proposed questions for this site about "What's the point of the foldable character sheet that is available for Diaspora?", and it was flagged as a good question, ...
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Sleep spell in DFRPG
Has anyone here put together a "Sleep" spell in the Dresden Files RPG yet? One of my PC wizards (we're playing a "Submerged", or high-powered game) has a sleep spell as a Rote, and I wanted to see if ...
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Prolonging spells in Dresden Files
I have 2 questions on spell duration for the Dresden Files RPG:
Is it possible to cast a shield spell that has no duration as a rote, but then prolong the shield on my next turn?
Can you prolong an ...
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Creating encounters for a DFRPG party
I've got a 2-person party and i'm having some difficulty with balancing encounters for them. It seems that what i'm making is either way too easy, or harder than i really want it to be (ie, they're ...
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What exactly are advances in FATE?
I'm looking through my copy of Legends of Anglerre for this, and also searched the Spirit of the Century SRD, and I'm completely stumped as to exactly what an "advance" is. In both instances the terms ...
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In FATE, what is the relative value of each characteristic?
There are a lot of FATE variants out there, but most have a few common types of characteristics in common: a number of aspects, a base number of fate points (refresh), skills/abilities, stunts, and ...
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Legends of Anglerre, and FATE, skill questions
In a follow up to my last question, I'm trying to now decipher some inner working of skills in general.
First and foremost, I saw the skill system in Dresden Files RPG, which has a skill stack rather ...
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Legends of Anglerre chargen questions
I looked over Legends of Anglerre's explanation of quick character generation and it doesn't seem to exactly explain what power scope is covers. What characters does it allow?
Additionally, I am not ...
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How to preserve player generated content?
I currently lead a Diaspora group. Diaspora is a hard science fiction Fate-based RPG which allows and basically depends on the generation of content like worlds, cultures, NPCs etc. by the players.
I ...
