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Chainsword-wielding wizard go! It's got to be more than that. I've noticed the vehemence since long before the Internet as we know it was a Thing.

Speaking of FitD hacks... I helped playtest one called Vigil: Lights in the Dark in which you play Keepers who help recently-deceased souls work out their issues in a Purgatory-like environment so they can move on, while being opposed by the forces of darkness. A "job" here is a Vigil - going...

Meanwhile Marco our scholar is all afire to create an item that would let me switch bloodlines with a relatively simple ritual - which would cement his reputation as a magical crafter forever. Oh, and remember what bloodline Marco has? Yeah. Envy. Ludovico gaining this power boost may be a problem.

"Dun dun DUNNN!!! Big reveal!" Or, to be more descriptive: "I guess I'm... somebody else?" Okay. It was a short session, but a bunch of stuff went down. First, you gotta know that the Face power comes with one little hitch: The only face and form you can't ever take on is your real one...

Dun dun DUNNN!!! Big reveal! Or, to be more descriptive: I guess I'm... somebody else?

...I have questions. ;)

My own take is, just rip alignment out of the game entirely, except maybe for extraplanar beings. There, done. I do have to say, though... Have people seen a lot of, "Let's go kill some orcs!"? Because in my experience, fighting orcs is almost always something a lot closer to self-defense. Is...

I'll grant that Fate could do more in this regard, which is why I was somewhat hesitant. But just breaking things into scenes and arcs helps give that orientation. A game that really leans into the story-telling and story-making end of things is Prime Time Adventures. It's very different from...

Yep. This is key to understanding Fate: If the game is trying to simulate anything, it's story beats rather than reality.

That's more undiluted horror than anything Lovecraft ever came up with! I lost SAN just reading that!

Long ago, I toyed with the idea of creating a form of mental combat in which the mental attributes were treated as physical ones: Charisma acted like Strength, Intelligence like Dexterity, and Wisdom like Constitution. You could equip various "weapons" (psionic attack modes) and "armor" -...

Interesting. I haven't played (or even read) BitD, but I have played in a full campaign of Scum & Villainy. And we didn't find it difficult to switch out the setting for one of our own making. Now, granted, our setting did need to share some particular things with the book's setting - Precursor...

Totally!! I love Fate to pieces for this - it's become my group's favorite game. The power of Aspects to reinforce the campaign premises simply cannot be overstated. Nevertheless, one issue is that if you do want to introduce crunch beyond aspects and stunts, you're pretty much on your own. The...

Congratulations on funding on day 4!

I've seen systems in which you can get in a bidding war with resources until one person backs down. I've also seen one in which if you want to change something in someone else's wheelhouse, they get to say what it will cost you (within the limits of the fiction). And then there's Amber...

Yes - though there's at least one lawyer on here who thinks even the CC isn't ironclad. I was replying to someone saying what it would take to restore trust: and if I were a 3PP, I don't think there would BE anything.

I dunno, man. I'm not a 3PP, but I do own a small business (not related to the hobby). And I'm telling you right now, if a company betrayed me to that extent and put me in grave fear for my livelihood, there's no way I'd ever trust them again. Even if the current people do everything right...

I have no particular expertise in psychology, but my life experience strongly suggests that the best way to deal with narcissists is to not. That is, not to have dealings with them at all. Life is too short.

Ugh. Let me guess, he likes to play Chaotic Neutral? Yes, I've met people like that. In at least some cases, I suspect passive aggression.

He seems pretty inconsistent - he's "doing what his character would do", but he's criticizing you guys for not following along? What if that's what your characters would do? I mean yes, I love having a backstory for my characters and sometimes I do feel a need to give them their head and let...