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Concept
Invoke To…
Rescue friends and allies
Get everyone out safely
Compel To…
Make you go back for everyone you can
Make you save an enemy from death
Adam Xenor
Earth of 20th century have many scholars and engineers, and at the first glance Adam Xenor doesn't stand out. He, like many of his colleagues, gathers knowledge, shunning the company of...
Here's the advancement system we're trying out. It's based on FATE 2e, but with a few twists. Feel free to tweak and let me know what you think! The Stunt and Aspect limitations are a little...
Advancement1: Bill Burdick's submission, heavily based on FATE 2.0
Advancement2: D. Edward Sauve's submission, based on the SotC Character Creation Rules.
Advancement3: Fred Hick's proposed...
This simple approach was proposed by Brad Murray on the FateRPG list.
Start with a 3-cap pyramid.
Allow each "level" to increase one skill. No rank in the pyramid can have the same or more skills...
Advancement Pyramid and Refinement
by Tom Miskey
After each major adventure, which may last anywhere from a few sessions to a half dozen or more, players will receive a chance to refine and advance...
The purpose of this (meta) page is to describe the purpose, style, and format of the various Advice pages.
Purpose of Advice For GMs and Players
The purpose of these pages is to give advice on...
Dice: If you don't have Fudge Dice, you can instead use 2d6, each of them a different color, such as white die (positive) and a red die (negative). One die represents pluses, the other minuses....
What the Project is About
The idea of the Aspect Examples site project is to provide a community-driven 'database' of all sorts of aspect examples for the Fate RPG, which GMs and players can draw...
Aspects
The Aspect system in Fate v3 is a direct extension of the system used in Fate v2, and the following discussion assumes that the reader is reasonably familiar with the use of Aspects in Fate...
Basil "Double Deuce" Lary
The Lary family was known to their neighbors as honest hard-working people. Unfortunately, there was exception among them – their youngest son, Basil, was lazy. He hated...
Concept
You have an amazing affinity with wild and domesticated animals.
Invoke To…
Calm a rampaging beast
Ride, train, heal, hunt, and even fight animals.
Get a pet to perform clever...
Concept
You lost your arm, but it's been replaced, thanks to the wonders of Science! Your new arm is tougher, stronger and better than the original!
Invoke To…
Aid anything where the strength or...
Concept
You wear swish clothes and have other nice possessions without any visible income, and you always know someone who knows someone. Think Arthur Dayley from Minder, or Private Joe Walker from...
"So you're not afraid of death, Mr. Malachite?"
"I'd venture a guess that death is afraid of me."
A photo of Blake at a Century Club convention in Geneva. From left to right: Devin Sinclair, Blake...
(From the Fate 2.0 rulebook)
Concept
You are well versed in all manner of obscure lore. Your knowledge is, unfortunately, almost entirely from books, and theory is not always the same as...
Concept
You're just plain stubborn.
Invoke To…
Stand your ground
Win an argument
Compel To…
Force you to continue with a foolish plan
Upset or alienate people in a social setting
Cameron Sage, Master of Memory!
Phase One:
Cameron's parents were missionaries…at least, that's what he thinks they were. When he was a small boy, he was in a plane crash in the mountains of...
Cao Qi the Intelligent Monkey
Phase 1: Background
She was an ordinary monkey right up until her curiosity and fondness
for humans got her captured and used as a lab animal. She got
subjected to...
Cardinal Carvaux
When Didier Carvaux fought alongside his fellow Frenchmen in the Great War, he saw something beyond the battlefield caranage. He saw visions of vile, boneless beasts devouring the...
Carlo Rambaldi, the Spectre, the Spectronium Man
Rumors spread in the underworld of a killer who can walk through walls and turn invisible. Who is this shadowy figure? Who is … the Spectre?
Found...
Cars
Somebody who knows more about this subject should probably tweak these stats!
All car costs are Fantastic.
The Performance attribute indicates how maneuverable a car is. When performing...
"Catastrophe" Lee, Cursed Gun for Hire!
Josiah Lee was the eldest son of a prosperous Texas cattle rancher. When he was twelve years old, he accompanied his father on a business trip to San...
Character Creation
Steps of Character Creation
Think about your character concept, reviewing the ideas below.
Make up a cool pulp name for your character.
Go through the phases (see below) in...
The EvilHat's Character Creation Manifesto
(This lines were posted originally by Fred Hicks and Rob Donoghue over at This Forge Thread.)
What Fred said (the abstract points)
We believe that...
You might have listened to too many romantic tales of heroic knights and noble heroes as a child. You are an idealist, believing those with power and might should help those who have none.
I use...
Articles in this section discuss techniques for running tactical combat in SotC.
Effective minion combat - Get the most out of your minions!
Using Aspects, Tags and Maneuvers - Get the most bang...
Companion & Minions Reloaded for SotC
By Tom Miskey
This is an effort to provide a single, unified set of Minion and Companion rules for SotC. It incorporates the new Companion rules introduced...
Concept
No matter how illogical, confusing or just plain nonsensical something is… it makes sense to you
Invoke To…
Decipher codes, cyphers and riddles
Understand foreign languages
Make sense...
Contact Bill dot Burdick on gmail to obtain the password to join the wiki.
Concept
Doesn't matter what it is, you have to poke your nose in it.
Invoke To…
Discover hard to find things
Compel To…
Make you spend time and effort exploring and examinging things
Lure...
Dan "Wheels" Derren
If you hear about some car-related death or crime, then it probably was Wheels' job.
Bank robbed and bandits escaped by car? That was him. Celebrity died in freak car accident?...
Maybe you drove yourself beyond your limits, attempting to do the impossible. You succeeded — but it was too late. Despite your heroic efforts, everything went to hell anyway… and it took part...
Delilah Darrow
Phase One:
She wasn't born Darrow. None of her fans would believe the blonde
bombshell of the Silver Screen was Devorah Darrowitz, the daughter of humble
Polish-Jewish immigrants....
Landon Darkwood's Suggestions for Designing Sessions Around Aspects
Here is a chat log with the meat — it started out about the PDQ-FATE mashup and also got into some good stuff about using PCs...
Concept
You work (or worked) as a professional police detective.
Invoke To…
Investigate, intimidate and otherwise do detective stuff.
Compel To…
Have people recognise you as a cop when...
Devin “Ladykiller” Sinclair, Playboy of the Air
Phase One:
Devin was born to a rich family and didn’t want for many things. He was there at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and as soon as he saw that...
Forum Discussions
Spot a juicy forum thread? Post it here!
Minion Cards
Location Cards
28 Character Challenge ( 28 characters, each based around a different skill.)
Halls of Villainy - Villains...
Concept
Your ancestry has a touch of the divine in it. Not enough to make you inhuman, but the holy power in your veins manifests it's influence in a few noticable ways.
Invoke To…
Aid dealings...
Doctor Henry "Indiana" Jones Junior
Phase One: Early Life
Phase Two: Young Adult
Phase Three: First Adventure
Phase Four: Other Adventures
Phase Five: Other...
Before your character does anything, ask yourself this question: What's the most dangerous thing that someone might barely plausibly do in this situation? Then ask yourself if there's any good...
Having a chase scene followed by a fight can handle a lot of conflicts in the air. The escape by plane in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? Totally chase rules. Mixing it up with the Red Baron?...
Links
Don't Rest Your Head - EvilHat Site
Developer's Blog
Unofficial Don't Rest Your Head FAQ
Fan-made Nightmares
Actual Play
If you've played this game and posted about it anywhere, don't be...
Links
Dresden Files RPG - Primary Site
Dresden Files RPG - EvilHat Site
Dresden Files RPG - Yahoo! Group Chat
Jim-Butcher.Com Web Forum Chat
Jim Butcher's Website
Concept
You are well-read and well-informed. While you have a great respect for the value of knowledge for its own sake, youâre also good at finding ways to apply that knowledge. You might be...
by Jetan
One of the main kinds of encounter is combat with minions. In a vanilla encounter, heroes can often sweep through a group of minions with little effort or risk, and little color added to...
If you've played this game and posted about it anywhere, don't be shy — share the link!
Djinn 1: The crew of the Djinni visit the South Seas
Djinn 2: Monkeys Attack! -- Actual Play with GM...
Spirit of the Century Consequences
Mild
Addled (M)
At a Loss for Words (M/S)
Bad First Impression (S)
Befuddled (M)
Bruised (P)
Crackpot (S)
Crestfallen (M/S)
Embarrassed (S)
Flustered...
Concept
It doesn't matter what the odds are, you'll face them. Alone if need be.
Invoke To…
Fight against foes that outnumber you
Stand firm in the face of overwhelming odds
Compel To…
Keep...
Your (pagan) faith demands that people be noble hearted, strong of spirit, honourable and true. Youknow the the eyes of the spirits and the Gods are upon you in everything you do, and if you...
Fred Hicks says:
Here's what I'd do to make Fate hurt more.
Reduce the number of stress boxes
The simplest change. Give everyone a base of 2 or 3 instead of 5, and those fights will start feeling...
PDQ FATE implementation
Use PDQ mechanics for qualities (i.e. skills and stunts) and combat and add in things from FATE 3 (via SotC)
use PDQ qualities, combat rules, advancement, … the whole...
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...
Links
Fate v3.0 (beta)
Fate RPG - EvilHat Site
Fate RPG - Main Site
The 'Old' Fate Wiki
Yahoo! Discussion Group
Organization Rules
Related Wiki Projects
Aspect Examples
Zero-Sum Fate Hack A FATE...
Fate v3
This Wiki page is dedicated to a description of the Fate version 3 rules, as used in Spirit of the Century and Dresden Files RPG. At some time in the future, Evil Hat has promised a free...
Why do Aspects no longer have levels? Why are Fate Points now used to activate aspects?
RD: So, in play, we wanted something to make aspects come up more often, and one idea that was floated was...
You may, at a certain point, find yourself a little bored with how a scene is going. Find a reason to be interested. Invoke or Compel something into the scene to make it interesting, if you wish....
Get on with it. Get to the adventure, get to the fun. It seems like some GMs are inclined to make the players spend a certain amount of time groping around in the dark for something to do. You...
Concept
You've spent much of your life travelling around the world.
Invoke To…
Get along in a foreign locale
Have obscure cultural knowledge
Compel To…
Come down with a rare disease
Commit a...
Concept
You strive to do what you believe to be right.
Invoke To…
Do better when doing the right thing.
Compel To…
Make your good intentions pave a certain well-known road.
Concept
Seek wealth, land, titles, power! Never be satisfied with what you have.
You might justify your greed by claiming you need the wealth or power for some great task or ridding the land of...
Concept
You grew up (and survived) in a rough part of town.
Invoke To…
Drink, brawl and blend in with a rough crowd.
Know people who have gone on to all sorts of colourful careers.
Compel...
Concept
You are the rider of Griever the Mutant Demon Horse, a hideously twisted abomination against nature.
Invoke To…
Have Griever show up at just the right moment to carry you away to...
Concept
Your catch-phrase, anyone who's met you more than once has heard you say this.
Invoke To…
Wheel and deal.
Get people to stop and listen to you.
Compel To…
Make you unable to walk...
Concept
When you're in the driver's seat, this advice is best heeded by others!
Invoke To…
Retain control of a vehicle
Make extremely sharp turns
Not fall out of a vehicle
Compel To…
Make...
Characters in your games are going to do a lot. For most things they do, there’s no real need for rules. Characters can stand, walk, talk, go shopping and otherwise do normal things without...
If you are allowed to edit pages in this Site, simply click on edit button at the bottom of the page. This will open an editor with a toolbar pallette with options.
To create a link to a new page,...
Concept
You have a habit of taking senseless risks
Invoke To…
Handle an extremely risky situation with finesse (at least more finesse than anyone has a right to have)
Compel To…
Make you do...
Concept
You have lightning fast reactions, and excellent instincts. Others use such phrases as <i> rash</i> and <i>acts first, thinks later (if at...
Slight departure from the standard SotC conflict mechanics, which tries to capture some of the color of the car chase rules…
1) the attacker specifies difficulty (at this point GM usually asks...
Concept
You have a quick mind, able to think on the move and find solutions to problems that baffle others.
Invoke To…
Find a legal loophole,
Manipulate someone into revealing their secrets or...
Ingino 'Gi' Whiz
Phase 1: Background
Ingino grew up in a Catholic orphanage near Florence Italy. When he was 9 years old he was adopted by Americans George and Susan Astor. They were
struck by...
Alternative rules for determining initiative order in conflict.
Order by Alertness
This is the default rule; highest Alertness goes first, then second highest, etc.
Roll Alertness
Instead of simply...
Concept
You are curious and inquisitive, and can't resist sticking your nose where it doesn't belong.
Invoke To…
Find something out - question people, perform research, etc.
Covertly pick up...
(From the Fate 2.0 rulebook)
Concept
You enthusiastically embrace your heritage.
Invoke To…
Drink, brawl and spin yarns
Compel To…
Make it hard to refrain from drinking or to keep your temper.
Concept
You are the very image of beauty in your culture, and you know it. You are used to being the centre of attention, and you like it! 'Men are such simple creatures.'
Invoke To…
Get your...
Concept
You have an uncanny knack for identifying traps and alerting others to them. Now, if only you could consistently do it BEFORE the trap goes off…
Invoke To…
Sense when a trap or ambush...
Jack Archer, the Sharpshooter
Phase One
Jack Archer was born in a small rural town in Notrthen England. His father was a huntsman and wanted to pass his trade to his son, so Jack spent a lot of...
Jareph Labatt, the Illustrious One
Who haven't heard of Jareph Labatt? He was a poor boy, whose studies of science allowed him to increase his already staggering intellect to the heights unknown...
Jean Allain, the Jackdaw, the Knave of Diamonds
Jean Allain grew up in a French travelling circus, the son of a dancer and an acrobat. From an early age, he was a cunning, dangerous, amoral child....
Johnny Dorado, International Gambler
Phase One:
Johnny ran away from home a young age to live on the road with his “shiftless, good-for-nothing” Uncle Pete. His uncle had noted young Johnny’s...
Johnny Weasel
(Based mostly on Vila Restal from “Blakes’s 7”)
Johnny is more of a nuisance than an actual villain. He ends up working for bigger bad guys more often than not.
ASPECTS
“I...
Kiet Chulalongkorn
Phase 1
Kiet was born into a relatively obscure part of the royal Siamese line. Although he was
not much involved in politics, he was aware of his heritage and his father made...
Look, even if your character is the most bookish, nebbish, fragile pansy ever to have graced a pulp novel, you want to seriously consider putting some sort of physical combat skill somewhere in the...
Dice: Fate uses 4D6's with the results of each D6 giving the following modifiers: 1-2 = “-1”, 3-4 = “0”, 5-6 = “+1”. There are also dice available that are specifically marked with +,...
Lillian Webb aka “The Spider” or Spider Webb
Phase One
Lillian Schwartzberg was born into a wealthy New York family. Her family made their considerable fortune in the mercantile and import...
Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
Heroes
Doctor Henry "Indiana" Jones Junior
Doctor Henry Jones
Sallah
Villains
Doctor Rene Belloq
Doctor Elsa Schneider
Walter Donovan
Big Trouble in Little...
Concept
You have a slight physical frame.
Invoke To…
Dodge, squeeze through small spaces and otherwise take advantage of your small size.
Compel To…
Make it harder for you to run, jump or...
Concept
The Boy Scouts taught you well. A little too well.
Invoke To…
Have a convenient, minor object on hand when you need it
Not run out of supplies or ammunition
Compel To…
Slow you down...
FATE of the Rings (Draft two point five)
Notes about this draft
I'm changing a lot of things that evolved in the year or so we've been playing FATE. The changes will reflect in this document as I...
Original Post
NOTE: This is starting as a quote from the website. It will hopefully be edited in a more baked explanation.
I want to do a fantasy game with the Fate rules, using fairly common...
Original Post. NOTE: this is a starter article derived from the original post. It will be refined in the future.
I was also thinking of ways to statistically require a fate point (inspired by some...
Try asking less questions and making more statements. For example, instead of asking "Do I find the cultists' trail through the jungle?" try "Hey look! I found the cultists' trail through the...
Concept
You love your Mama so very very much. And you always were her favorite.
Invoke To…
Get some help from Mama in some fashion
Do anything that would make Mama proud
Compel To…
Stop you...
Maximilian Xhavius
Years ago, before the turn of the Century, there was a man named Maximilian Xhavius. A more dreadful person could not be imagined. The horrible murders of Whitechapel murders are...
Combat
Stress and Consequences
Stunts
Meg Chan, the Hearts Collector
Phase One
Megumi Aiko was born and raised to be a Geisha in a Japan of dying traditions and rising technology. Her natural beauty and insight into the hearts of...
Michel d'Artaud, The Duelist
Phase 1: Background
Michel d'Artaud was born in Paris, to a hard-working family. His uncle ran a fencing school, and Michel became an accomplished fencer. He idolized...
This chain of stunts is for knights and soldiers who rely on heavy weapons like broadswords, great swords, maces, and axes.
The stunts can't be used with lighter weapons like sabres and...
Character growth is something that runs high on many a role players list of things an RPG can handle. Fate 3.0, at first brush, seems ill suited to handle this. But that's because the means it has...
M-me Miriam McGreede
Little Miriam was the only child of rich and influential businessman and grew up very capricious and spoiled. From the very early age she had everything that she wanted. Her...
A fast-paced beer & pretzels PDQ game focused on laughter and sweet, sweet uranium.
Resources
The Monkey Ninja Pirate Robot RPG Website
Actual Play Links
If you've posted anywhere about your...
Concept
You can't help poking into things that people with
more taste or weaker stomachs wouldn't.
Invoke To…
Know gory or anatomical facts.
Keep your cool when dealing with morbid...
All content by Leonard Balsera
http://darkwood.wikidot.com/weapons-and-equipment-rules - Alpha rules for a Cthulhu-esque modern day campaign using Fate called...
Concept
When you're the wheelman, nobody and nowhere is safe.
Invoke To…
Perform aggresive driving maneuvers
Attack from your vehicle
Compel To…
Run down innocent pedestrians
Crash into...
Mythos Magic [mysteries] – requires a mythos-flavored aspect
Note that this stunt is tied to an aspect. 'Appeasing' or 'exercising' their nature (or the forces responsible for it) will keep stunt...
Weaker and Stronger Weapons: Different weapons may have different damage capabilities. A single Improvement can either increase all damage by 1, or increase it against a specific common target type...
Conflict resolution
Initiative: Alternative rules for initiative order in conflict.
Showdown: Rules for Gunslinger and Swordsman face-offs. Think Noon at the OK Corrall.
Dogfighting: Optional...
Old Skills with New Stunts
Academics
Weight of Reputation Requires Scholar. For a fate point, you may use your Academics skill instead of Rapport, Intimidation, Contacting, or Deceit, provided...
Old Skills with New Stunts
Academics
Weight of Reputation Requires Scholar. For a fate point, you may use your Academics skill instead of Rapport, Intimidation, Contacting, or Deceit, provided...
Poster #15672's Nightmares
The Jonesin' Boyz
'hey baby…did you ever want to fly…or make the whole big bad world fly away from you? you can fly me…i'm free as free can be…i love you and...
Guaranteed Delivery in 30 minutes or less, or we commit Seppuku…
Ninja Burger is a parody website started in late 1999, purporting that a sect of noble ninja have taken to secretly delivering...
Anything Goes
As the Weapons stunt of the same name. This stunt serves as the basis for a no holds barred style of weapon fighting.
Dirty Fighter
Requires Anything Goes
You have a talent for...
Don't feel like it's your job to somehow get the characters and/or the players some sort of motivation for the adventure. They probably don't need it; if they do, they can darn well provide it...
Concept
You're used to facing all or nothing odds… so when you're at the limit, you give it your all.
Invoke To…
Take risks when you're out of options
Stand your ground in the face of extreme...
The details of this aspect will vary, depending on the setting and the object of the obsession.
One example: in a modern-day urban fantasy setting, where a policeman suspects that the people he's...
Some minor errors/clarifications of Spirit of the Century Book/PDF.
Changes indicated in italics.
Stunts
Master of Shadows [Stealth] :
Requires In Plain Sight.
Your character is one with the...
Concept
You went to school with XYZ, or grew up in the same village, or otherwise met and became fast friends. You've helped each other out over the years, and value his/her good opinion of you...
Welcome to your new site! Please read this first!
This page is just a welcome-page and you really might want to change it using the "edit" button at the bottom of this page and delete this...
Concept
You only have one eye, having lost the other in some fashion. An eyepatch, while optional, is recommended. Saying 'Arrrr!' and having a pet parrot comes down to what your GM will put up...
Cutthroats, silk-stranglers, muggers, kidnappers, scouts silencing sentries and even many pickpockets agree that the best place to be in relation to a target when striking is one foot behind...
These rules are for Fate 2.0, and are being pulled out of an old RTF, so apologies for any formatting weirdness.
Constructing Organizations with Fate
Organizations are built in much the same way...
Note: The following is not how one would define a generic 'paranoid' aspect, but is just one possible spin that can be used.
Concept
They're out there… pretenders, looking like humans, but...
This Unofficial Don't Rest Your Head FAQ lists topics in the order of the game's table of contents. The exception to this is errata and Gming advice, which go at the beginning and end,...
Concept
You have keen senses and instincts, and grasp complex and instant quickly changing situations instantly.
I use this to: Notice things. React quickly to surprise. Avert mistakes by noticing...
Concept
Your a seafarer, the sort that raids towns or other ships for their booty. You have a strong bond to your fellow shipmates, and would not think of betraying them, but you might have a...
Feel free to push some of the detailing back on to the players. This is the way I personally think it should work:
GM: Okay, so you got a Superb result on your attempt to Research the mysterious...
Concept
You worked on the streets as a policeman.
Invoke To…
Intimidate, chase, know people and places and otherwise do policeman stuff.
Compel To…
Have people recognise you as a cop when...
Preston Changeo - "The Showbiz Wiz!"
Phase One
Preston was born to a poor family living in Venice, Italy on January 1st, 1900. He had a large family of two brothers and two sisters, which his...
Princess of the Pythons!
The woman known as the "Princess of the Pythons" was a native to the jungles of the Congo when something seemed to call to her. It was her instinct of survival. She was to...
Like all good villains, this one will bend the rules. I don’t really see villains being created by the ‘phase’ method.
Professor Überstahl – Man of Metal
The man who became Professor...
Prop-powered fighters
Somebody who knows more about this subject should probably tweak these stats. The Dogfighting article might make these stats more useful to you.
All plane costs are...
Concept
You have a tendency to come up with obscure and bizzare sounding scientific theories… and tell others about them at length, while they stare at you uncomprehending.
Invoke To…
Make a...
This aspect is going to vary dramatically depending on the setting. Here is one example:
Concept
You get flashes of insight into events in the present or future. These psychic flashes hurt like...
Your players will be that much more invested in the game if something personal or important to them is at stake. Don't be shy about bringing aspects of your players' backstories to bear in your...
Concept
You just have this knack for taking all sorts of disparate information and figuring out how it all interconects.
Invoke To…
Put together a working hypothesis from random...
By Darren Hill
This system was inspired by Trollbabe by Ron Edwards. It is very fast in play (at the table, at any rate). It cuts down on the number of rolls - many conflicts are decided after 1-3...
Raymond Spencer
Dear young Ray was a child prodigy. From a young age he showed precocious intelligence that shocked all of his teacher, and even his veteran detective father. Math, science, art, it...
Concept
You never give up, never give in, and never let anything drop; you keep going, no matter what. You also tend to be stubborn, unbending, callous, determined, and unforgiving.
Invoke...
I present to you Richard Fox, or, as he prefers to call himself, Aurelius the Terrible, Master of Conjuration, Hunter of Magical Beasts and Magister of the Order of Shambala.
Aurelius the Terrible...
Concept
You speak your mind, don't suffer fools and never fail to show how right you are. You also act with devotion to your faith, comfortable in the knowledge that your God personally supports...
Concept
Rogue's luck: things often just go your way. Of course, sometimes 'your way' isn't the smartest option. Think of the sorts of things that happen to Indiana Jones…
Invoke To…
Be...
Concept
Some people are polished and refined, possessing all the social graces.
You ain't what is being one of them folk.
Invoke To…
Get along with lower class people
Tolerate rough and...
Rudolph "Rough" Hauser, the Blue-Blooded Brawler!
Born into a life of wealth and privilege, Rudolph Hauser quickly became a spoiled bully and the terror of his peers. Being sent to military school...
Ingino 'Gi' Whiz
Vicki Vision
Cao Qi, the Intelligent Monkey
Delilah Darrow, Ingenue
The Brothers Rajput, Indian Princes
Kiet Chulalongkorn, Ex-Monk
PC's by skill
The Red Owl, Chosen of...
Villains by skill
Adam Xenor - Academics
[[[]]] - Alertness
M-me Miriam McGreede - Art
Jean Allain, The Knave of Diamonds - Athletics
Johnny Weasel - Burglary
Jareph Labatt, the Illustrious One -...
Concept
You know the world isn't a fair place, and if you want justice (or anything else…), you have to take it. After all, God helps those who help themselves. So you're contemptuous of...
He's crossed the Sahara on foot, survived the Antarctic winter, and swum with the mermaids of Atlantis. He eats snakes and shits nails. He's…
Shark Kennedy
Phase One
Shark Kennedy was born of the...
Shield Wall
Whenever you mount a full defence using a shield, you have a defence bonus of +3 instead of +2.
Shield Sacrifice
Requires Shield Wall
Any time you are fighting with a shield and take a...
by Fred Hicks, edited by GM Skarka:
A showdown is comprised of a series of contests that happen *prior* to The Shot.
Basically, there's a list of preamble maneuvers people can go through; each side...
Evil Hat Productions
Fate System
Fate RPG
Dresden Files RPG
Spirit of the Century
PDQ
The PDQ System
Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies
Other Games
Don't Rest Your Head
Wheel of Fate
How...
If you want a flexible but dirt-freaking-simple magic system, consider taking the "Theory in Practice" stunt (from Science) as a baseline model. It lets you spend a fate point to use your Science...
Mythos is another version of Rare Artifact, but you don't need an actual artifact and it allows some additional kinds of improvements. In exchange for this increased power, the temporary aspect may...
Members:
Moderators
Admins
Skills...
Concept
Sometimes it's just not possible to do things the open and “honest” way. Besides, sneaking around in the night is fun! While you have a natural talent for stealth and secrecy, you are...
Concept
You're a cut above the rest, and you'll show anyone who looks at you long enough to see
Invoke To…
Call up extra effort when overmatched
Put on a show of bravado
Compel To…
Make you...
Spell Memorization for SoS&S Magic system
Not all GMs like freeform spellcasting. It can slow the game down with the need to allocate Effect to range, duration, and all the other variables. It...
Dice: Fate uses 4D6's with the results of each D6 giving the following modifiers: 1-2 = “-1”, 3-4 = “0”, 5-6 = “+1”. There are also dice available that are specifically marked with +,...
Quick Draw
“If you want to keep your hand, I suggest you stand back.”
This is the Weapons stunt of the same name from the rule book.
Lightning Blade
Requires Quick Draw
You and your weapon move...
Spirits of Steam & Sorcery
These rules began as an adaptation of the Fate 3.0 rules, as seen in Spirit of the Century, to the Castle Falkenstein setting. It eventually evolved into a slightly...
Order
The game may be ordered in paperback or PDF from IPR.
SotC Rules and Adjudication Articles
SotC Summary (by Leonard Balsera)
Official Errata New 2008/05/05
Discussions and Advice - ideas,...
I have long been disappointed in the ability of most RPGs to handle rules for supers. Most **system’s rules heavy approach just don’t deal with the wide range of abilities that can pop up very...
Concept
Your conduct as a policeman has been exempliary, and everyone in the force knows it.
Invoke To…
Turn aside suspicion of wrongdoing.
Compel To…
Make you the subject of envy amongst...
Want advancement?
Consider the starting character in SOTC to be the end-point: 15 skills with a 'Superb' peak, 5 stunts.
So step back from that and come up with a Junior Centurion, following this...
Start the game off with a Compel. Heck, start every single scene with a Compel. It has a number of good effects. From a purely mechanical viewpoint, it gives the whole Fate Point economy a bit of a...
Concept
You're studying at uni (or college or wherever), but money is tight. Very tight.
Invoke To…
Study, scrounge and know where to get the cheapest food that isn't actually toxic.
Compel...
Stunt Categories
This is an attempt to find basic templates and categories of Stunt that transcend individual skills. Ideally, this will make it easy to improvise Stunts during character creation...
GOING STUNTLESS
Stunts are a lot of fun, but they are a little more detail than many people are comfortable with. Sometimes, such as when playing a pickup game, they can slow things down,...
What Stunts Do
Stunts exist to provide guaranteed situational benefits, or special abilities or minor powers, under particular circumstances.
A stunt may grant a character the ability to use a...
Concept
Don't accept things at face value. Look for the hidden motive or secret. Don't share information lightly; get involved in intrigues and plots.
Invoke To…
Discover mysteries and secrets....
Skyships ply the 7 Skies, soaring from Cloud-Island to Cloud-Island for conquest, espionage, trade, and piracy. Kingdoms clash, cultures collide, and secrets abound. Heroes and villains roam Above...
Swordbearer Reincarnated Templar Avenger
The story of the Knights Templar is widely known. What isn't known, however, is the story about one of them who forsake God's grace to gain his revenge....
Concept
You don't talk much. Ever.
Invoke To…
Hide your intentions or feelings.
Compel To…
Inhibit attempts at socialising.
NOTE: this is a magic system proposal in progress by Jetan. There are several gaps still….
This is a magic system that provides lots of flexibility, but requires time, preparation, and...
Concept
Temper temper… some people have a long one. Some people have short ones. You wonder why they bother with one at all.
Invoke To…
Threaten or intimidate someone with a show of...
Tessie Temple – The Tiny Genius
Phase One
Tess was left on the doorstep of the famed Professor Thaddeus Temple in a bassinet. At first, the Professor ignored the young girl, leaving her rearing...
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Table of Contents
Things You Should Have
The Ladder
Rolling the Dice
Difficulty
Skills
Aspects
Stunts
Fate Points
Gain a Bonus
Invoke an Aspect
Tag an Aspect
Power a Stunt
Make a...
Sons of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir the brothers Raj were born to greatness. Their legacy is the 21 gun salute, the finest Oxford education, the best Brahmin tutors in the ancient mysteries,...
Concept
You've suffered some sort of mental breakdown relating to
the monsters you saw in your living room, and now you find yourself
haunted by nightmares and jumping at shadows.
Invoke...
The Chairman of the Fate Academy has a premise.
A simple premise:
You will be provided with five items— five ingredients to include in at least 5000 words of Fate stuff.
You have a week. A week...
The Man of Iron
A Babylonian sorcerer once made an iron statue that could walk and talk like a man. Unfortunately, he could not control his creation, and the thing ran wild, toppling temples,...
Keep 'em Coming
“Just one? I’ll take on you and your friends!”
This is identical to the Fists stunt: Brawling, but for Weapons.
Eyes In The Back Of Your Head
Requires Keep 'em Coming
Your...
Categories of aspects
Partially excerpted from Lenny's FATE/PDQ doc: http://lcdarkwood.livejournal.com/2155.html
An aspect usually falls into one or more of the following categories:
Description...
The PDQ System
The PDQ ("Prose Descriptive Qualities") Core Rules is a free PDF (13 pages, 738K), containing the stripped-down basics of the game engine used for Dead Inside and Monkey, Ninja,...
By D Edward Sauve
Powers in Fate? Powers in Fate are easy, dude.
LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!
Quite simply, anything you can do in Fate can be defined as a skill, its trappings and stunts.
That's the only...
The Red Owl, Chosen of Athena!
Phase 1: Background
Aristarchos was raised by his father Adrastos. Both were members of the Cult of Ares, a secret group that worshipped the God of War from an...
Concept
You were born under a dark star, and the omens say that tragedy and supernatural threats will shadow you to your death. Being touched by the Other Side has left its mark; you can feel the...
Once Upon a Time, in the Zantabulous Land of Zo…
Tailors face giants, enchanted queens dance with human peasants, talking creatures perform domestic duties, witches cast curses and fairies grant...
Concept
A favorite phrase among dentists, field medics and interrogators the world around!
Invoke To…
Cause someone a world of hurt
Patch up a wounded ally
Scare a prisoner silly with the threat...
Concept
You may not be the strongest, or the brightest, or the best out there. But you'll be damned if you fail because of that.
Invoke To…
Succeed at anything that is beyond your ability
Do...
(originally drafted by Leonard Balsera)
Threat characters are a little bit tougher to defeat than minions, but don't quite have the versatility and punch of named NPCs. They're intended to...
Concept
You serve a power higher than you, be it your boss, or your god.
Invoke To…
Follow to your orders or instructions
Do anything that further's your master's agenda
Compel To…
Have your...
Concept
You grew up out-competing the boys in physical games and sports, eschewing the company of your fellow girls.
Invoke To…
climb, run and generally perform whole-body physical...
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Don't Rest Your Head
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Put a little check mark beside each Aspect as they're Invoked or Compelled. Occasionally review which ones are not seeing any action, and which ones are constantly in use. Neither are necessarily...
Concept
You're in love. This love may or may not be reciprocated.
Invoke To…
Aid or protect the one you love.
Carry out deeds that show devotion to your true love .
Succeed at the things your...
Concept
A mechanic is only as good as his tools, so you keep your best set with you all the time.
Invoke To…
Have the right tool for the job on hand
Clobber someone over the head with a...
A man in crazy pajamas atop a skyscraper rains laser death down on the streets. He's laughing as he does it.
Below, fires bloom for the news cameras. Reporters duck debris as they yammer on about...
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Table of Contents
1. PUBLISHING & ERRATA
2. GAME MECHANICS
2.1 UPSHIFTS
2.2 NORMAL SCALE & SUPER-SCALE
3. POWERS — GENERAL
3.1 SPECIFIC POWERS
3.1.1 LUCK CONTROL
3.2...
Two Weapon Fighting
Requires Flawless Parry and an aspect describing your unusual training.
Functions exactly as Two Gun Joe, but for the Weapons skill.
Off-Hand Disarm
Requires Two Weapon...
The details of this aspect probably vary with the setting more than the average aspect. This example is a 'temptation of the dark side of the force' variety, where the aspect acts as an apparently...
Review the Social Combat rules and use them. A lot of games don't have a good system, or any system at all, for this sort of thing, so you might need to consciously go looking for times to use it...
by Rob Donoghue (excerpted from this RPG.net thread)
"[T]the impact of maneuvers cannot be overstated, especially for purposes of teamwork, where the first PC sets up the maneuver and the second...
By: Dave Hallett
If you want to differentiate between weapon types in SotC/FATE, Consequences are the logical place to do it. So here's a variant based on that notion.
Stress and consequences work...
This page lists links to vehicle stat pages.
Cars
Prop-powered airplanes
Vicki Vision
Phase 1: Background
Victoria was born to Peter and Monica Petrov on a farm in southern Illinois. Being one of 8 children (5 brothers and 2 sisters) meant that Vicki was never at a loss...
Concept
You see things. Things that other people don't see.
Invoke To…
Have a vision, granting some aid or insight
Make sense of confusing imagery
Compel To…
Have a sudden vision, which...
Concept
Books books books. You can't get enough of them, and every possible spare moment you have, your nose is buried in one.
Invoke To…
Aid in research
Understand written works
Know obscure...
Concept
You're ready to take the fight to them! All you need is a whiff of their hidden resting places, a band of brave and loyal followers… and some actual skill.
Invoke To…
Hunt the...
Concept
You're a woman who has been raised as a warrior, in a culture that disproves of that sort of thing.
Invoke To…
Do anything a man can do, but better!
Overcome prejudice.
Compel...
Concept
You're not content with simply knowing how to fight, you are driven to become one with the weapons you use. Your ultimate goal might be to found your own weapon school.
Invoke To…
Fight...
Weapon Finesse
Fighting is not simply a matter of survival for you, it’s a vocation. You study the art and science of combat, learning all the techniques you can and studying other warriors to...
Concept
There's something about you that makes other people move away from you on the train or cross the street when you're walking alone at night.
Invoke To…
Freak out overly straight-laced...
Welcome to the Evil Hat Wiki
This wiki holds house rules, game ideas, and fan projects inspired by the Evil Hat product line.
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Fate System
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This is what I want you to know about Fate v3:
The way aspects work and all related facets of the fate point economy are core. I see this changing very minimally over time, apart from some...
According to Wikipedia, the world largest wiki site:
A Wiki ([ˈwiː.kiː] <wee-kee> or [ˈwɪ.kiː] <wick-ey>) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit...
The Wheel of Fate is a highly streamlined rpg that makes a few assumptions, most notably that the reader has at least some exposure to RPGs, and has a sense of what players do and what the role of...
Yelena "Red Eyes"
Phase One:
Yelena was born on a day filled with ill omens. The moment her parents looked at their child, they were sure they had given birth to a demon. The baby's eyes were blood...