What does /tg/ think of Dresden Files/FATE? desu I don't

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.

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Dresden Files is pulp trash and I say that in the nicest of ways. I love Dresden files, but it is the McDonalds of literature.