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Baltimore is the most fully realized setting,
The Dresden Files RPG books Your Story and Our World cover Baltimore fairly in-depth, with locations, aspects, NPCs, and plot hooks.
Chicago is the default setting,
But it's more covered in the novels than in the game, so although there's a lot of Chicago in the game manuals there's no proper setting bible ...
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I really see this as a problem engendered by 4e and by people introduced to RPGs through MMORGs, although one could argue that it started back when skills were first invented. The principle of "first decide what you want to do narratively and then figure out how to model it mechanically" isn't unique to FATE--it's how all RPGs used to work. Matthew Finch's ...
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I have started people in a couple of fiction-driven "story games" and the greatest issue they have is being unable to choose an action.
To help them with this I generally start the game in medias res which means that they have to respond to an imminent threat of some kind.
With my last group I started by saying "OK, you are pelting down the steep hillside ...
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You actually have two questions here, which should probably be turned into two questions on the site. I'll answer the first one, and come back later for the second.
Q. You want full body armor via magic, and you want it to last until next sunrise.
2 shifts of power equals 1 armor rating increase, plus 1 shift for a duration of a day.
As so frequently ...
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