Questions tagged [aspects]
For questions about aspects in tabletop RPGs, particularly those that use the Fate role-playing game system. The Fate engine uses these pithy phrases to define character, place, object, and scenario attributes.
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How do you physically handle aspects at a table to avoid slowing down play?
When running FATE at a physical table, I've run into the following problems:
PC aspects are on the players' character sheets, and therefore not visible to me (the GM) at a glance, so I don't remember ...
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What is the difference between Aspect Permissions and Stunts when it comes to determining what you can or can't do in a given situation?
In Fate, what is the difference between Aspect Permissions and Stunts when it comes to determining what you can or can't do in a given situation?
For example, the supplement "Super-Powered Fate&...
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How can I word an aspect that I can potentially veto being compelled without using an X-Card?
I'm trying to recreate an existing character in FATE, but she has an aspect that I'm unsure how to handle.
This aspect is something that I want to be able to bring up in play, and I mostly see myself ...
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What makes Aspect ↔ Boost conversion Stunts worthwhile?
There are multiple Stunts that, under certain conditions, either convert a Boost to an Aspect, or an Aspect to a Boost (usually without changing the number of free Invocations). Now, I know that ...
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What is an Aspect allowed to do (in addition to Invoke, Hostile Invokation, Compel and Always True)?
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The common things that can be done with an aspect are:
Invoke it spending a fate point (or by free invocations sometimes) for a +2 or reroll.
Hostile Invocation.
Compel.
Permission. ...
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When using a fate point to create an aspect, do you have to spend another to invoke it?
I'm running a new game, with just my friend and I on roll20. We're attempting to figure out the mechanics, while running a small game together.
I'm having issues with the Fate Point system. Does ...
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Aspect Permissions and combat
This question and this other question have excellent answers describing the concept of "aspect permissions". To summarize my understanding of the answers, they explain that aspects shift the ...
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How to Use Aspects in Fate Accelerated [closed]
I recently got into playing and running Fate Accelerated, but there's one thing that's been confusing me, how the heck do you use Aspects?
I get that they're like characteristics of your character ...
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Where Are (Narrative) Aspect Permissions Comprehensively Covered?
Repeatedly, in the context of discussions and questions, including questions asked here, I keep running into the topic of Aspect Permissions. To further clarify, I'm talking not about Extras, nor ...
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When should Passive Opposition be 'free', and when should it cost a FP to create from an Aspect?
I've asked this elsewhere before, and am still in search of an answer that will give me clear guidelines for making such decisions in actual play (whether as a GM or as a player who's making up a part ...
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In which order are aspects invoked when defending in Fate Accelerated?
When a character takes one of the four actions and rolls the dice, they can decide to invoke aspects after seeing the total. For example, when chief engineer Yago Awain is trying to repair the broken ...
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What should happen in a legendarily successful attack against a mook?
Last night, I was GMing a game of Fate Accelerated Edition with my friends, and their characters were up against a gang of mooks: the mooks had only 2 stress boxes each and could not take consequences....
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Can there be mechanical disadvantages in Compels?
In Fate, compels of aspects are primarily a narrative tool, and as such don't usually have mechanical trappings in the consequences. But is this a hard and fast rule? I saw someone ask this question,...
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Can I use non-aspects as narrative permissions?
I'm finishing up my Legend of Zelda Fate Core campaign, and I'm still trying to get a feel for how items should be represented. I know that Fate isn't a game where inventory and money are well-tracked,...
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Is it okay to go beyond the rules for Aspects/Boosts?
For example:
Smouldering Cart (scene aspect)
Snow Wolf (opponent): Master of the Tundra.
Gimli (PC): Master of Axes.
Gimli Attacks the Wolf, and spends 2 Fate Points to invoke the Smouldering Cart ...
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