Help me Run Fun Fate Campaigns

Enlightened · January 20, 2015, 07:22:24 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;811039Fate Core sounds like a shitty version of FATE. FATE works pretty well if you take out the idea of fate points being usable by players to change external reality (and obviously, if I read this right, the idea in Fate Core that some kind of "consensus" of the GM needing player permission for things) is removed.

The thread, which you don't seem to have read, debunks every part of that as not being how Fate Core works.

The consensus thing is no more than in any other game, and the book explicitly gives the last word on all things to the GM.

robiswrong · January 21, 2015, 02:06:06 AM

I've made the offer before, and I'll do it again, to run an online Fate game for anyone curious.

PencilBoy99 · January 21, 2015, 10:03:13 AM

Quote from: robiswrong;811120I've made the offer before, and I'll do it again, to run an online Fate game for anyone curious.

YES YES YES!

Also, there's a quote someone found for me buried in the Fate core book that essentially says that as GM you do have the final say, so this was just a misreading on my part.

I did not read the above mentioned thread. Thanks!

PencilBoy99 · January 21, 2015, 10:44:28 AM

Ill also look into ICONS, since a lot of people have recommended it.

Will · January 21, 2015, 11:04:45 AM

Can someone give us a rundown on the good elements of ICONS?

How workable does it seem for non-supers games?

Enlightened · January 21, 2015, 01:38:08 PM

Quote from: Will;811197Can someone give us a rundown on the good elements of ICONS?

How workable does it seem for non-supers games?

There was a bit of a scuffle back in the day about ICONS not really being a Fate game, or some such. In the end, the author said it's Fate "inspired" but not really "Fate" per se.

Here's a thread from when it first came out that gives a run down on both the rules of the game and on the "It's Fate! No, it's not!" argument.

Will · January 21, 2015, 01:49:49 PM

Hmm. Seems less up my alley.

I love Aspects, but increasingly feel Fate points don't thrill me.

robiswrong · January 21, 2015, 03:04:35 PM

Quote from: Will;811222Hmm. Seems less up my alley.

I love Aspects, but increasingly feel Fate points don't thrill me.

I'm going to be running a Fate Core game for PencilBoy99. You're welcome to join in, and maybe get a different perspective. Or maybe not, and solidify your opinion. Up to you.

PencilBoy99 · January 21, 2015, 03:13:41 PM

Quote from: robiswrong;811237I'm going to be running a Fate Core game for PencilBoy99. You're welcome to join in, and maybe get a different perspective. Or maybe not, and solidify your opinion. Up to you.

Yay.

Will · January 21, 2015, 04:58:00 PM

No time, but thanks for the offer!

RPGPundit · January 23, 2015, 03:29:18 PM

Quote from: Will;811197Can someone give us a rundown on the good elements of ICONS?

How workable does it seem for non-supers games?

ICONS is the best game I've ever seen for running supers. The only one that I've run that really worked well at feeling like the genre.

As far as how it would work for non-supers game, I think it depends. It could probably do pulp or high fantasy pretty well, if you replaced the Powers with other special abilities.

PencilBoy99 · January 26, 2015, 01:08:01 PM

It turns out I've been a complete dufus.

See Playing Fate the Traditional Way

Apparently it runs just fine if you do it the way I've been bitching you can't do it. :-)