Author Topic: Recruiting: Short Fate RPG Game  (Read 6749 times)

Snow

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on: January 17, 2014, 02:04:15 PM
I'd like to try the Fate RPG system. Takers? Proposed details:

Length: 2-3 sessions
When: Evenings (starting maybe 7-8 PM Eastern if not on a Friday-Sunday), making sure not to conflict with Raf_Cian's thing
Rules: Fate, available free/pay-what-you-want at http://www.evilhat.com/home/fate-core-downloads/ or http://www.faterpg.com/ . I'd like to use the Fate Core system rather than Accelerated, but looking at the shorter FAE rulebook will tell you most of what you need to know.
Premise: One of the following unless someone has a better idea. (A) Fantasy Wild West, with enchanted revolvers and hostile kobold tribes. You're likely frontier traders with rugged self-reliance and arcane magic. (B) Awakened Raccoons: you're smart gengineered critters living in a lab where surely nothing will go horribly wrong. (C) Isle of Dread: I'll dig out a 1980s D&D adventure and run it using far simpler rules. (D) Faded Suns: an fan-made adventure from "Exalted", hold the excessive rules detail, about taking over a mysterious magitech fortress.

Character creation is meant to be a cooperative process in Fate, so we'd need to discuss that. Basically you're defining a "high concept" like "Gruff Frontier Smith", a "trouble" like "Banished From the Big City", and some notion of a past adventure that you and two other players somehow participated in, each defining a character aspect from it. A big difference from FAE is that you have specific skills instead of "approaches".
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Selden

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Reply #1 on: January 17, 2014, 07:27:26 PM
I'll throw my name into the hat.  The frontier traders idea sounds fun to me, but I'll go along with what the majority want if there is a vote.

One question, though:  how many people are you looking for?  The only indication I can see is that it must be at least three for the 'past adventure that you and two other players somehow participated in'.

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Snow

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Reply #2 on: January 17, 2014, 10:46:15 PM
Doesn't have to be three; there are character creation variants. I'm looking for 2-4 players.

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Reply #3 on: January 23, 2014, 03:57:38 PM
Something to do! Huzzah! Might as well sign up just in case.

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Reply #4 on: January 25, 2014, 11:03:47 AM
Interested in a Saturday or Sunday evening game?

Re: the "Faded Suns" scenario, you're one of several people having dreams of a magitech castle you apparently built in a past life (equipped with servants, now-lost tech, and magic power sources), and are feeling obligated to find it in the jungle and check the place out. By default you're Solars, people Cursed With Awesome by the sun god for having done something courageously heroic in the fantasy-medieval world you live in. I'm guessing people might want to play Lunars, similarly empowered by the moon god with an animal totem beastman theme. Other options are available.

Re: the Western magical idea, I haven't got specifics yet but would like to hear from possible players about what you'd like to see. Combat? Social conflict? Puzzles? Large networks of 10' wide hallways with piles of gold lying about?

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Reply #5 on: January 25, 2014, 08:33:41 PM
As I mentioned in the chat, I'm up for it.



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Reply #6 on: January 27, 2014, 11:24:02 PM
I request a Thursday evening, 9 PM Eastern, meeting with those who can make it, to settle on a game and reliable time. If it doesn't happen, try Saturday?

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