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The last news post to Pen & Paper Games is dated March of 2015. Is the site dead? Does anyone go there and check their account anymore? I certainly haven't received any emails from the site since March of 2015.

Any RPGers in Philadelphia interested in a game of FATE? Setting is negotiable.

In the Fate Core system, there is no mention as to whether NPCs get built with their own personal FATE points (FPs). The Rules as Written seem to say in a bit of a circuitous way that NPCs don't get personal FPs like PCs do, but I have found at least a single contradiction in the rulebook. I...

Google+, which once hosted a dedicated FATE forum, has shut down its Google Groups. YahooGroups, which also hosted a dedicated FATE forum, is shutting down ITS groups. Evil Hat's website doesn't seem to have a forum. So...is there anywhere on the internet that has a dedicated FATE forum? Is EN...

I'm going to be running a podrace scenario in my Star Wars Fate Accelerated game on Monday that will involve 2 PCs and a group of NPCs (the character sheets for which I will probably give to the other players). I was hoping folks could make some suggestions on how I might structure the race...

I had a discussion with my friend about what makes stories compelling and interesting. His position boiled down to a single principle: relationships. He argued that the stories we enjoy the most are those that are inextricably tied to the relationships among the characters, whether they are...

Google Plus Community user Jeremy Downey came up with a way to convert Ars Magica spellcasting to FATE, and created a cool "starter" rules set and character sheet for it. I ran with it, and expanded the "starter" rules to be as complete as possible, and made a few tweaks to the character sheet...

Damn him! I have never read Game of Thrones nor have I ever seen an episode of the HBO Series or have any idea what goes on, except that Peter Dinklage and Captain Phasma are cast members. That said, I am running an Ars Magica campaign set in the 1220s in Corsica, and was planning for...

After twenty years of keeping it packed away in a dusty box, I have dug out my 4th Edition Ars Magica books and begun to run a campaign for my Sunday gaming group. Unfortunately, I disposed of the immense amount of Ars Magica material I had created twenty years ago and, even more unfortunately...

I've played and GM'd 'em all in my 33 years of gaming. Right now I'm into Fate Accelerated and wouldn't mind running a Star Wars game -- or any game, really -- in that system. Shout if you're interested.

My first experience with FAE was *after* I had already played and become comfortable with the rules of Fate Core, and that may have shaped the way I interpreted the FAE rules. I then took a long hiatus from gaming, after which the rules of FATE/FAE became less crisp in my mind. When I...

I'm running a one-shot FAE (Fate Accelerated) game set at the Battle of Hoth. We all know how the battle turns out. But I'm looking for a human interest story to drive the plot of the session and give it emotional impact. I'm looking for your help. I've created a boatload of pregens with...

While aware that there is a WWII Cthulhu FATE Kickstarter called "Achtung! Cthulhu" in the works, I asked the folks on the FateRPG Yahoo!Group for ideas about how to run a Cthulhu game using FATE Core. Some ideas I had off the top of my head for tweaks to the Core system for Cthulu included...

Mmmm....I really like this: Recently, a style of DMing known as Location-in-Motion has become a bit of a thing on various RPG boards, and it interested me. Even if this isn't something you find helpful, it's an interesting read. What is LIM? LIM is a style of DMing in which...

Has anyone ever run a roleplaying game that was NOT an Action/Adventure story? If so, what gaming system did you use, and what was your plot? Cthulhu is the closest thing I can think of to non-Action/Adventure, but even that tends to include some adventure story elements.

Okay, folks...we are through the looking glass: Tomorrow, Saturday, is usually the day I take the kids (ages 8, 7 and 5) to the beach, but it's going to be a rainy Saturday. What to do, what to do? During a commercial for the cartoon "Adventure Time" -- which frequently makes references to...

Hi, gang. I just wanted to announce that I've begun a forum for discussing the FATE system and all its games. You can join at: http://faterpg.forumotion.com/ Also, since the forum is brand-spankin' new, there are admin posts available. Hope to see you there. Rob P.

For those of you who can't keep all the names of the Ainur/Valar/Maiar straight in the Silmarillion, maybe this will help: http://www.mediafire.com/view/726k8cjuuk8mi89/Valar.pdf Enjoy!

Any MERP Supplements for Mórenorë / Hyarmenor? I know there are MERP supplements that flesh out the Harad and Far Harad, Tolkien's versions of the East and Far East (which he mentions in passing but never develops), but are there any dedicated to the land of Mórenorë or Hyarmenor, which is...

I'm running a game set in Tolkien's Second Age (circa II 1598 - 1599) using the FATE system. I've dedicated a website to the game, if you're interested: http://robertpetrone.wix.com/fateoftherings One of the players is playing, as she described it when she first gave me her character concept...