Fate Core

I'm running a simple game at the moment, over a couple of sessions. I've also run short campaigns in Masters of Umdaar, Venture City and the Shadows of the Century playtest. I don't have it mastered ( I only just realized you couldn't absorb a hit with more than one stress box in one exchange, which certainly changed combat resolution).

One of the reasons it might seem to lack longevity is you don't need to devote too much time to mastering the system, unlike GURPS and Hero.

>>50170946
Thanks for the input. This is the other reason I am hesitant about Fate as a generic system. It seems like a lot of "ooh-ing" and "ahh-ing" as people figure out how to use it properly, resulting in a lot of meta-discussion about the philosophy of the system itself, but again... when it comes to people actually talking about stuff that happened during their sessions, the Fate communities are eerily silent comparatively speaking.

I'm not trying to make any blanket statements here, but nearly all the people I've heard who have experience with it (who aren't ALSO the developers, ahem) have experience similar to yours. That is, still 'getting their feet under the system' and 'have run a few short campaigns' kind of thing.

Not that any of that is a bad thing, mind you, but I keep hearing how brilliant it is and yet I don't want to spend all the effort to wrap my head around it if it's going to bore me after I run a couple games with it once I "get it". If that makes sense.

I actually think FATE has too many rules and too much complexity for what it tries to do.

Health boxes, skill systems, stunts, all of that could be disposed of. Just make the FATE points and aspects everything and dispose of the rest. In fact at that point you'd barely even need the dice.

>>50170784
>>50170946
Another reason why maybe Fate doesn't have indepth playtest reports is the settings and the game itself runs on broadstrokes... you don't need too much nitty gritty detail because you deal with things on a more abstract narrative level, rather than 3-second turns and everything goes faster as a result, for instance using abstracted Challenges to get you through procedural scenes to get to the narrative "good stuff".

>>50171113
You can do that. I think the Three Rocketeers PWYW Fate World offers one way to simplify the system to Aspects-only.

>>50171137
OP here, that's an interesting point. Can you talk at all about how that affects the feel of the system in play? Seems like that could produce a more 'pulpy' or 'handwavey' style of events in play.

>>50170784
>Does anyone here play Fate Core?
I'd love to, but it's something I never see in the Gamefinder thread.