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Dresden is wet garbage steaming in a dumpster fire.
Fate is a little too narrative for my tastes but it's good for quick one-shots.

Fate and its derivatives all suffer from the same shallow mechanical structure that fails to create interesting or tense situations. In the majority of cases, success is guaranteed, or at worst it comes with a minor cost. The game de-emphasizes immersion in favor of metagaming and "narrative play," which translates to stockpiling Fate points until you care about something enough to spend them on. Even the dice rolling system is yawn-inducing: the four Fudge dice even out to a nice, flat zero on your rolls because the potential for extraordinary success and failure are too interesting for Fate players. No, the entire SJW hugbox relies on ALWAYS SUCCEED ALL THE TIME because rainbow-haired, problem glasses-wearing hipsters are easily triggered if they fail a roll (it reminds them of their own personal failings).

Once the novelty of the game has worn off, the system turns into a perpetual churn of the same boring skill spam: Create an Advantage, Create an Advantage, Create an Advantage, okay we've stacked up enough bonuses that we easily succeed, roll 4dF, get a +0, oh look, we have a +10 total YAY WE WIN. Zero challenge. If you really want to speed things up, just throw down some Fate points and flimsy Aspect justifications and you win the game. Forever. That was fun and rewarding, wasn't it?

Compare this to D&D's rich system of mechanics, where the d20 roll provides drama and tension by itself because you could just as easily roll a 1 or roll a 20. On top of that, you have a diversity of spells, combat options, and mechanical interactions that sends the typical brainlet Fatefag scrambling to his rules-lite safe space.

Fate's mechanics are garbage, but Fate players themselves are the worst part of the system. Give me some beer, a bowl of pretzels, and a handful of seasoned dungeon crawlers any day of the week.

Clever is even more useful in it than other FAE variants, which is kinda bullshit.

>>55219682
No

>>55219693
Ow, okay then

>>55218572
washizu bump for interest

Washizu Iwao (GURPS)
ST9 DX9 IQ11 HT9
HP9 Will11 Per13 FP9
Advantages
Super Luck
Ridicoulus Luck
Wealth 8
Status 3
Charisma 6
Mortal foes (younglings)
Personalized gear (Washizu Mahjong - Blood draining machine)

Disadvantages
Secret (Homicides)
Sadism
Old
Deathwish

Skills
Mahjong 30
Forced Entry 9
Weapon(Cane) 9

Throw them in a net, tie them to the back of a car/horse, drive/ride a mile down the road/trail, profit

>>55215834
I'd try washing paints, ala what you'd use to achive that effects on miniatures. Maybe scratch them with a knife somewhat.

>>55215768
>juteboxes
>jute

Ayyyyyyy

>>55215768
>ability to activate juteboxes
>not the 1950's anymore
>fonz is a false god

I'm finally at 20 charisma.

>>55213169
I ran a quest on SB for a while, it's kinda hit or miss. Some DMs are pretty good, others obviously have no idea what they're doing.

>>55213169
This thread's gonna get pruned, so ask on /qst/, probably in the general.

>>55213169
From what little I've seen of it, it's almost a monoculture of fan fiction quests. If that's your thing go for it.

>>55212196
>charop
You are everything wrong with DnD.

>>55212196
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>>55210488
A thread died for this

>>55212225
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction

>>55210021
>>DM calls the session short because he wants to think of a way to not TPK us

I was thinking "sounds awesome" right up until I got to this easy-mode bullshit.

>>55210072
We got greedy
We could have just observed from afar and awaited extraction, but we wanted to cause more havoc

The DM's wife is playing the Rule 63 Thor, Thorina, and all she really cares about it killing things
She finally found Mjolnir this session and now her character is probably going to die

So long, Fistpuncher
The three sessions I had with you will always be remembered after you are cut to ribbons

>>55209992
I cant imagine it would have been very good with the rulebook being that tiny. hard to read

Been reading some reviews, and it sounds interesting.
Seriously - any resources for it out there?

>he keeps bragging about his unsleeved 3 color commander deck that has exactly 2 non-basics

>He shitposts hoping no one will see through the paper thin ruse trying to convince people he's actually ever been in a single social group

>>55211472
please delete this post

>>55209509
His death.

>>55209509

>gitmobs that are actually good
>and funny
why is this an improvement?

Enlarge Person is a pretty great spell to give a Monk.

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>>55208327
It's not about the size of the fighter in the fight, it's about the size of the fight in the fighter.

>>55208327

https://youtu.be/wA6lxnz6W5w

>>55206237
>>Humans harnessing the magic in their soul can only be expelled throughout their body
Isn't that exactly what monks do?

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>>55206814
N-No?

This is a world of Muscle Wizards, Punch Monks, Alchemist Bodybuilders

Ogres have the strongest souls and their bodies warp to accommodate the massive amount of magic that they gather.

Start with basic information about the town/surrounding you have placed them in. Let small details flow like the government and local hot spots. After that try using npcs to inject information and plot lines to influence them to flow with your story. Lastly improvise

Everything, in the sense that you need some sort of backing so that when you make NPCs, they all follow a common thread that the PCs might not necessarily notice, but may understand. Maybe you have a big ol history book you've written as to why the two cities are at war with each other, and how the two towns' outlooks on life affect their citizens. When you go into one, they'll be friendly if you do X, in the other, if you do Y.

But, you're going to want nothing down, because no matter what you do, the players will ignore it, or just plain not notice, and they'll go only to the places you haven't fleshed out.

It all depends on how you run your games. Personally, I like to have a huge folder filled with general history, cultures, all background information.

Like, maybe in this setting, the sentient races reproduce by carving statues of infants and imbuing them with magic. That's not something the PCs are going to be able to change. But something like the PCs going to Starttown Farm, which is "accidentally" the catalyst for the plot - that they can change by not going there. Hedge your bets.

>>55205662
Only as much as you immediately need for the very first adventure/session. You can figure out the rest as you go along.

Just wanna say, having played Yellow in the Harry Potter tcg, there's almost no way to play that and NOT win. I miss that game, it was really solid.

>>55205814
It would be cool to see it make a comeback since JK Rowling is writing more shit.