Random Fate Game Idea Time! The Doom Which Comes For Rock City! You’re an unsigned rock band, and you’ve managed score an invite to a legendary Battle of the Bands in the heart of Detroit. Of course so have those…
Don’t Panic: A Hitchhiker’s Game of the Galaxy
In honor of Towel Day, how about a quickly thrown together Fate game of gonzo slapstick science fiction, for when you want to play around in Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy stories? Before we get any farther, I…
Fate’s Unlabeled Hostile Invocations
Hostile Invocation is a term applied to a part of Fate Core’s mechanics that is often overlooked, but can be a very powerful tool for aiding the fate point economy. It’s a concept that is actually included in the core…
More Entities For Fate VoidCallers
I very much enjoyed the VoidCallers “magic system” that was put in the Fate Toolkit. Recently I popped onto the Fate Core Google+ community and asked if anyone had expanded the list of entities… and was a bit surprised that…
Lord Fluffy Tail the Lore Keeper (Cat)
Ok, I can’t resist. Let’s make a character for The Secrets of Cats (Fate Core) game. It’s a pay what you want PDF, and the Fate Core rules are OGC/CC licensed, so this essentially free to play! (Although I recommend…
Atomic Robo: Action Science Intern
I was listening to an Atomic Robo RPG actual play podcast, and I got an idea for an Atomic Robo RPG character with its own weird mode and skill. The Tesladyne Action Science Intern, a character built around carrying gear,…
Where I’ve Been
…And I’m back. Some of you may have wondered where I’d gotten to in the last few months, seeing as I hadn’t updated the site since May. The short answer is that I’ve been distracted, thankfully by mostly good news.…
Fate Core: Designing Skill Modes
I’m doing some rough design work on a Fate game, and I want to use Skill Modes, but it’s giving me trouble. Skill lists for Fate can have a large impact on the game and it’s style of play, and…