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The Dresden Files RPG is Fate-based, and it has Physical, Mental, and Social stress tracks.

Taken Out in Fate means you’re not in the scene anymore; it doesn’t necessarily mean dead (Emphasis mine) Edit: It should be noted...

No, the hints are not the encounter. Following the hints leads to the encounter. Deliberately avoiding those hints is bypassing the...

Ah. I’ve only read the book once so I missed that!

That’s a table choice kind of thing. From p176: “Some players love getting new weapons and armor, while others may have established an...

This is a complete tangent, but this just made me realise something I really want to share. In chess on a player's turn you do a "move"...

That was the point, though. The GM describes tracks. Following the tracks would lead to an encounter with a potentially hostile group...

Would it make more sense to you if we took away the threat? During my RPG upbringing, an encounter was anytime the PCs interacted with...

I don't think I've ever encountered someone who was on the verge of having a bear encounter but it could have happened. If I encounter...

A bunch of other games have similar. Fate has mental stress, which you can take from social encounters, and in Fate Accelerated and Fate...

No. As I’ve said multiple times, it’s possible, even easy to have completely improvised encounters and to bypass them.

Literally the entire definition in the dictionary is the same as the typical RPG usages. In many RPGs, “move” means movement, as in “my...

Because there isn’t. Or rather, there isn’t always. I prep NPCs with their own interests and goals. The players may choose to interact...

An encounter doesn’t have to include a threat. A social encounter is an encounter that can be avoided, even though the only threat might...