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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Does Fate have any precedent in official material for mechanical inabilities?
Core/FAE has Stunts that give a numerical bonus to actions or otherwise let a character do things beyond the normal rules. But reading through the rulebooks, I haven't found any guidance for the ...
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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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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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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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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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Is there an expiration time for free invocations?
The Fate Core book doesn't seem to indicate when free invocations expire; seemingly they stay around forever. This feels rather broken to me as I could carry several throwing daggers with me, add “...
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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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What are good guidelines and principles for designing and balancing superpower stunts in FATE Core?
I want to make a stronger focus on the F in FATE1 in my future campaigns, and that means I'm expecting said campaigns to involve what I usually see broadly referred to as special or superhuman ...
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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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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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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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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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