Is anyone here familiar with "FATE Polyhedral" ? Some of the wording is ambiguous & I have questions. Specifically around how sometimes it seems to want you to use the value shown on the dice you rolled, and sometimes it seems to want you to use the SIZE of the die.
There are multiple places where i don't understand which it wants me to use.
Also, is there a character sheet for this? I couldn't find one. Does it use the normal #FATE sheet?
At a high level, it’s a good port of the D&D tropes to the FATE mechanics.
I have a lot of nits to pick: mostly technical writing, tone, and precision issues.
However, the more important issue is that I just don’t care about porting D&D to any other system. That’s not interesting to me.
I was hoping for a fun and creative way of playing a dungeon delving / fantasy adventure using #FATE . This just feels like simpler D&D with different dice.
@apontious There's one important limitation: the fiction. Fate requires a firm grasp of the underlying fiction and a common understanding of what that means. If you have any players who aren't onboard with that, it doesn't work as well.
The reason I want a game system is to give boundaries to that common understanding. Those boundaries can be preset, or they can be defined by the group writing up little paper computer programs defining how this and that work, but they need to be there.
Fate doesn't do that. It provides randomizers and an opinionated pacing mechanism, but its ability to help define the boundaries of the fiction itself is weak.
I ordered things from two different places and the delivery people arrived at the same time. They then took turns checking each other out during the byplay of our respective transactions, flirted in my driveway for 10 minutes, and exchanged numbers.
I had so much fun with @espttrpg last week with Yule Dresden Files special. #Fate is still difficult for me tho. DFRPG has been my White Whale of a system so it was so great to play the accelerated version! Still not ready to run it though 😞
What's your White Whale #ttrpg?
@Celticdenefew I'd say Exalted, since I made multiple attempts to run it but the system just doesn't work for me (TBF I've never been fond of Storyteller). The answer of course would be to just use another system for it.
My trick to grokking Fate was internalizing that not everything is an aspect, and aspects aren't the only way to make things mechanically significant.
Played in my second session of my brother's Fate/Marvel FASERIP game and I made a different hero. It was super fun again. Hopefully we can get more people to show up and have even more fun. #Fate#MarvelFASERIP#ttrpg
If there's one thing I appreciate #SimonPegg for it's a 2010 interview where he explains his views on 'quantum attraction'.
"micro-decisions drawing people towards each other. It explains how you come across the like-minded, even if it feels like coincidence, dependent on weird things you attribute to fate, but which might actually be assisted coincidence."
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All that ofc depends on a world view where the world being complex + patterned enough to levels we can't even spot (yet) is what is in any case. Belief in it doesn't much matter, the asteroid themes are where they are for each of us + don't much need specific meanings or our understanding.
We can interpret connections+ suggestions & we respond to some things in any case, whether we know it or not. We don't have the full picture in any case to get it all. Limited understanding, 4 now.
Poking @khthoniaa + @MadameXimon + when around again, @Aqua_Unicorn for possible further musing on the things talked in the first post ⬆️ of the thread, the linked post below here. How does quantum attraction sound to you slightly more pondering people followed?
If feeling like it that is, or if the thing stirs any Sunday thoughts. 🙏 👍
Well, this made me happy. I was purchasing supplements for the #FATE#TTRPG called the FATE Space Toolkit.
As I read it, I found it very scientifically accurate. Further, as I read it I found a couple of bits that seemed familiar.
All was explained when I came to the bibliography. Among the erudite sources was a reference to my Atomic Rockets website. This brought a smile to my face. The purpose of my site is to help authors, I'm always glad when it does.