Questions tagged [fate-accelerated]
The Fate Accelerated Edition (FAE) is an official version of the Fate Core rules designed for simplified play.
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In a Conflict, what does it mean to Defend on your turn?
According to the rules for Conflicts:
Next, each character takes a turn in order. On their turn, a character can take one of the four actions. Resolve the action to determine the outcome. The ...
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What are the consequences of using Fate Accelerated approaches for magic, but skills from the Core book elsewhere?
Some time in the future I want to run a game of FATE, with magic, but reading through the example characters used in the Core SRD, but it looked like it might be smoother to base the magic 'system' (...
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Fate conflicts are taking too long due to players stacking advantages
I am looking for advice regarding Fate/FAE conflict.
In my group, the conflict takes quite a while. Not because our team is just doing simple attacking and defending. We spend lots of time on "...
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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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How to manage sharing the spotlight outside of combat in a fun way?
I noticed something as a game master of one ongoing game and a player in another. In both games, whenever a decision had to be made outside of combat, the most high energy players were blurting out ...
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When should I mark the Summer/Winter Courtier condition?
Dresden Files Accelerated introduces a new way to use Conditions, by turning some ability on/off (The Third Eye, for example).
Some of them, however (which are always marked), doesn't look much ...
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How Do Core and Accelerated Resolution Mechanics Differ?
The differences between the two versions of the game are quite noticeable, and also spelled out in the conversion guide. Differences in various resolution mechanics seem subtler, and easier to ...
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Is the Opposition Rating for a roll known to the player?
In Fate, is the Opposition Rating for a roll known to the player? Is it an option to keep this number a secret? Actions and Outcomes (Fate Core) does not explicitly say.
What I mean by "opposition ...
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Is Fate Accelerated well-suited for a one-shot game?
Me and some friends want to try out Fate Accelerated as a one-shot game (three to four hours) to pass up the time during a hiatus in our larger campaign. However, one of them expressed concern that ...
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Is there any simple way to migrate player characters from FAE to Fate Core?
I'd like to start campaign in a more narration focused system with an existing group of players. They're used to systems with heavier mechanics than Fate Core, so I decided to start campaign in FAE, ...
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Create/use aspects in game that do not fit well with approaches
How do you deal in Fate Accelerated with actions that would be based on either material (resources) or relational (rapport, contacts) skills from Fate Core?
I had a couple of occasions at my table ...
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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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How to make Fate combat fast & fun?
I love the Fate system, both Core and FAE. However, I have been having a really hard time making combat fun for my players.
It is hard to explain the combat in Fate to my players in a non-abstract ...
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How would a character in Dresden Files Accelerated do what Molly did?
In the book Turn Coat, there's a scene where Dresden and others are surrounded by a ton of Grey Men summoned by Binder. It seems in game terms the scene would be a Conflict between the PCs (Dresden ...
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Why does proposing a compel against another player cost a fate point? [Nevermind] [closed]
Fate Core p. 71
Finally, and this is very important: if a player wants to compel
another character, it costs a fate point to propose the
complication. The GM can always compel for free, and any ...
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