{"id":737,"date":"2004-05-20T10:43:44","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T10:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=737"},"modified":"2004-05-20T10:43:44","modified_gmt":"2004-05-20T10:43:44","slug":"fudging-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2004\/05\/fudging-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"Fudging Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.”<\/i>
\n— Dame Rose Macaulay
\nOkay, so ***Dave has (rightfully) voiced some concern over the problems with running Spycraft d20 — while it’s a great adaptation of the system to the genre, the d20 cruft-accumulation added to the not-at-all-inconsiderable Spycraft-additions to the rules has created a sort of never-ending learning curve on the rules.
\nTranslation: we spend as much time looking up stuff now as we did 4 levels and 16 sessions ago. Frankly, that shouldn’t happen.
\nSo, in an effort to keep the ship airborn by jettisoning unwanted baggage, he started looking at other systems. Since I am currently the designated system-whore, I offered up some suggestions, which lead to FATE<\/a>, which is basically Fudge all growed-up. It’s good stuff, people.
\nThe problem — the only real problem thus far (and one that presents itself even moreso in vanilla Fudge as well), is that there’s some customization required. Granted, this isn’t Fudge, where you have to create your own stats, your own … everything…
\nbut it is a generic system* with all the good and bad that comes with that, and that means custom-built skill lists.
\nWhich means, after digging into the rules (and digging the rules), you’re still stuck hammering out a skill list that isn’t (a) too long (b) too short (c) too plain (d) so ‘flavorful’ that you can’t play it.
\nIt feels a lot like designing a game, which is… well, fun if that’s what you’re in the mood for, but not fun if you’re… not. My brain (and, I’m sure, Dave’s) is fried — turning over questions like “do we need scrounge if we have Streetwise? what level of detail should that kind of activity need in this genre?”
\nUgh. I’m down to “Fire bad. Tree pretty.” Pass me the beer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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