Questions tagged [fate-core]
Fate Core is the official generic implementation of the Fate game engine.
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'Canonical' Precedents for Blink (Short-Range Teleportation)
I'm interested in giving a character a rapid-use short-range tactical teleportation ability (inspired by such things as WarCraft Shadowstep and Dishonoured Blink). Obviously a there are different ways ...
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Can I use a skill to advantage itself?
This is a quick question for which I don’t think there is a specific rule, but it make sense.
I want to use a skill to create an Advantage, and then use the advantage to improve the same skill.
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Doubt on too easy Deceive with FATE
I’m starting with FATE. Please let me understand if I miss something in the scenario below.
The game is a Star Wars story of jedi+smuggler+droid hiding from empire.
The scene is a conflict, in which ...
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Use a Fate Point for perform something without dice roll
What is your opinion about let the PC to use a FP to perform a special action, difficult action consistent with his aspects, but without a specific stunt?
I think I recall some rule about that but I ...
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Tips and help on doubts for our first FATE adventure [closed]
We have just started a Star Wars adventure with FATE.
As with every game, we found the first actions that for which we don’t know the best rule to apply.
Can you help me?
The jedi want to move a ...
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Can multiple characters create an advantage using teamwork?
The rules on invoking aspects state:
You can invoke multiple aspects on a single roll, but you cannot invoke the same aspect multiple times on a single roll.
Does this mean you can only benefit from ...
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Does the person who came up with a compel have to propose it?
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I'm GMing a Fate game set in space, with Starhound, Athens, and Twilliam (the names have been changed to protect the innocent) helping a stalwart band of rebels break the yoke of the Black ...
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Rerolling or taking +2
In Fate Core, the game rules for skill resolution involve rolling four six sided dice, and counting faces 1,2 as -1, face 3,4 as 0, faces 5,6 as +1. You then sum up the resulting numbers and add a ...
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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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Could a wall get a weapons rating?
As rules per written with fate core, types of weapons used give a bonus to the amount of damage that is done - for instance a pistol might be weapons rating 2 while a shotgun 3 or 4.
But, I am ...
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How to make conflicts in Fate Core less boring?
The group in my current Fate Core game tends to get into a lot of combat and conflict situations that I don't really know how to run in a dramatic way that feels narratively satisfying without getting ...
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How to balance FATE when some players just can't fail?
I'm GMing a long-running game in FATE core, and I've been running into a bit of a balance problem. A couple of my players have gotten (what feels to me like) too powerful. They don't really seem to ...
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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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Should I prohibit a player from having a character goal that makes me uncomfortable?
A few friends and I (as game master) are gearing up to start a Fate game set in a society inspired by ancient Greece, with a direct democratic political system.
One of my players wants to play a ...
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Nonviolent "social conflict" in Fate - which skills opposes rapport?
I'm running a campaign with a few nonviolent characters. I understand how to handle physical fights, but am a bit at a loss how to deal with "social conflict", where characters need to ...
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