Fate Pdq Take 2

PDQ FATE implementation

This is taken from our campaign using the Spirit of the Century setting, so it has an SotC feel

Qualities form a pyramid

• 1 Master quality
• 2 Excellent qualities
• 3 Good qualities

Aspects/Fate Points

• Fate Points and Aspects as in SotC (maneuvers, scenes, assessment and declaration, etc.)
• PC start with 7 aspects, with 3 suggested to be allocated for stunts (below are suggestions)
  • description (women can't resist me, I will never give in, I can't afford to love, family first) — motivations, tendencies, etc. (capabilities are MOSTLY covered by qualities — see stunt)
  • connection (jetpack, Master Tong's Nephew in Law) — probably not needed because of qualities
  • situation (someone's out to break me down)
  • story (going from rags to riches, The State Must Prevail)
  • stunt (Wire Fu Manchu, fencer extraordinare)
  • check out Twist of FATE for cool aspects and ideas
• Qualities double as aspects but do not increase refresh rate (this seemed to water things down)
• Fate points function as in SotC (e.g. dice rolls; unfocused: +1, focused: +2 or reroll choosing best result)

Spin spin occurs when you beat a roll by 4

Stunts — Dramatic invocation as in the Stuntless Rules

Mysterious qualities

• Suggested limit: one per character
• Can accomplish normally impossible things
• Cost points as if they were one level higher
• Reduce refresh by 1 per mysterious quality
• Make one of the dice automatically a 6 during a roll where they are the primary quality
• Cost the user one failure rank for a successful use, one damage rank for backlash (roll of all 1s)
• Can be very general but are normally used in specific ways
  • The PC can choose MOD specific uses at the beginning of each day which are immediately available for use (write them up)
  • Unforseen uses don't work well during conflicts because they take several minutes to perform

Improvement

• every 2 sessions, each PC gets one additional quality level
• qualities stay in pyramid arrangement
  • you must have more Good qualities than Expert qualities and more Expert qualities than Master qualities
  • every session, you can exchange two qualities if they are in adjacent levels (upper/lower)
  • this means you can get a new Master quality every 12 sessions (roughly one per quarter for weekly sessions)
• tweak the "2 sessions" number if you don't like that rate
• when you have more qualities than aspects, take an additional aspect

Conflicts

• Mooks defend with their target number (not opposed roll) and if they lose, they're taken out
• NPCs (not named) defend with their target number and if they lose, they take damage
• Named NPCs defend as normal characters (opposed rolls)
• Against a normal NPC (not named), players can choose to defend with their target number instead of rolling (normal FP rules still apply — on a failed defense, the player can still spend an FP for 1d+6, etc.)

For reference: FATE + PDQ, Take 1