#fate system

[it-was-dead-when-i-found-it]

I'm listening to my friend/future GM discuss the upcoming campaign and they just said the words, "but then of course there's the goblin rain-"

Y'all I am SO SCREWED

[tesseract-gm]

Rock the Stars: Cosmic Battle of the Bands (One-shot)

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Beneath the glittering lights of Stardust Station we find the Stardust Sonic Gauntlet. Musical groups from all corners of the galaxy come he

Beneath the glittering lights of Stardust Station we find the Stardust Sonic Gauntlet. Musical groups from all corners of the galaxy come here to show their prowess and chase eternal glory. Build your ragtag group of alien dreamers and face off against the reigning champion, the Empress of Pop, Zaylor Lightspeed.

Players will build a team of alien rockstars, come up with a genre and band name, and throw themselves into the waiting maw of the Gauntlet, in this Hitchhiker's Guide meets Scott Pilgrim one-shot romp.

We will be running in FATE Core, with a couple elements from Accelerated. This game is a friendly introduction for first-time FATE players.

[wrenbirdii]

Pele Delphine, the elf that helped to takedown a whole campaign because she became F A R too busted and broke the game itself…whoops

HER BUILD WAS COMPLETELY LEGAL THE DM WAS BUILDING HIS OWN SYSTEM AND I SO HAPPENED TO BUILD A CHARACTER WITH SUPER STRENGTH…THEN SHE WAS GIVEN A STRENGTH BOOST…the ability to control storms and lightning…the ability to transform into different animals and teleport.

She broke mountains and islands in half on the regular 😔

[alexissara]

Top 10 TTRPGs I want to play but haven't yet.

It's time to talk about TTRPGs, in particular, one's I think look cool but haven't got a chance to play yet. I am only going to include games that are out right now because they exist and I could potentially play them like, tonight otherwise. Games being on this list aren't really a sign of quality or not, I'll explain what is drawing me to them but I have no fucking clue if their good or not, haven't played them in in several cases haven't read them.

Tension

This game is more intense then my standard taste but it also seems incredible. I think the cat and mouse action, the queer longing for someone dangerous and the intense fallout of things no matter what way things go just sounds, ahhh so much fun. Plus I really love TTRPGs I can do 2 player, it's a lot easier to arrange a 1 on 1 session with someone then getting 4 people to all agree to be in a room together for multiple hours.

Lesbian Werewolves On A Beach

I mean, you put Lesbian in your title and I want to play it. I love beaches, werewolves and lesbians, it's that simple. I don't have a whole lot more to say, it sounds like my kinda thing, that's it, I wanna play it.

This World Summons Too Many Heroes

Really I just wanna see how other people are doing Isekai TTRPGs. TBH, I have no idea if this one is good, no idea, I skimmed the book but I am really here for the gimmick. I want to read it, study it and then hopefully play it. I really like Isekai type stories and have done Isekai type settings before and will probably do them after for TTRPGs so it's good to see the work others are doing.

Fate

This is one I've tried to play several times but never got through a session 0. Fate has such a roleplay focused form of play that always captivated me since I first heard of it. The way you get strengths and weaknesses and the way your traits work, it's just, a really exciting system that is so flexible and so well positioned. This system is a staple in the TTRPG space now and unlike a lot of other staples it's one I actually want to play.

Power Couple

Looks like a cute way to tell fantasy romance stories, I wanna try it. My favorite trope in the world is the power of love conquering all. This us against the world game is just exciting, totally focused on an existing relationship an the way they handle the obstacles ahead of them. I am thrilled at the idea of playing this.

Only One Bed

This collection of mini games are just really cute and I think it be fun to take a set of characters through an AU for each game. Each games concept is fairly simple but pretty cute. I think this could be a really fun game for a nice shipping session where I take a pair of OCs that date in some roleplay and get to explore their love from a bunch of lenses.

De:throne

I am all about killing gods, that's basically what I do in any TTRPG. However, a focus on this mechanically just seems like perfect for my taste. I really want to see how this game handles it and if this can be a staple in my play! I really look forward to telling a story focused on god slaying.

SUEper Powered

This game feels like it just gets me. I want to play a game where we are all really overpowered and it's just like a really cute and fun and emotional and sweet power fantasy. This whole hearted powerful embrace of playing a group of Mary Sue's is just really sweet, so often people try to make a game balanced but there is something great about characters who just kinda fucking rock. From Sailor Moon to grand magicans to Goku, sometimes you just kinda wanna be someone who is the best and I think a group of people who rock is suck a fun fantasy for me.

The Exceptionals

I am so curious about this games mechanics, after reading it I was really excited about giving it a try but i haven't found the right group or time yet. While I fell out of love with super heroes I can't deny a part of my hear still wants to tell stories about heroes. Masks: A New Generation just isn't for me anymore but this though I think is a tool to tell super hero stories I give a shit about.

The game itself is super well written and is one of those games where I read it and saw the mechanics and since then have been itching to go into character building.

Cozy Town

While these games aren't in any particular any game designed by Rae Nedjadi is gonna be on the top of my list. Basically any Rae game I haven't played is also in this spot, Cozy Town is just sitting on top because I bought it and it is very cute. While normally I play games based around killing gods and complicated political situations and stuff like that, it be nice to have a game to play that is just like, "Hey, let's live a little utopian life for a minute". I think this really scratches an itch I didn't even know I had until I read it.

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If you liked this list and want me to talk about anything else let me know, tell me what your wish list of games you want to play are.

[altamirage-blogs]

Play FATE Online | Auriga Stars: Fantasy Magical Girl-like

High fantasy magical girl genre mixed with tokusatsu, partly cheesy and dumb, partly intense and emotional. Have fun with a magical Chosen (no gender restrictions) of your creation, pick a constellation to inherit power from, and... enroll in a high fantasy magical university floating above the grand sparkling city of Auriga!! Beginner friendly

i started a startplaying.games!!! and i have a few games looking for players!! this one is every thurs, 5:30pm pst, 10$/session

here’s my profile on startplaying <3

[m0thcl0wn]

“Welcome to The Game, Max Green.”

[unpowered-dreams]

Just saw a post about how 5e is so good for homebrew and like I didn’t want to add on to that post and clown on it, because if they’re enjoying 5e and having fun with it, that’s all that matters, but like, D&D 5e, by definition, is a “setting based system,” and while it’s a HUGE improvement over 4e, 4e was so much more transparent about where the balance came from I homebrewed for 5e for a couple of years and you literally have to dig through the books figuring out things like “strong vs weak saves” and “strong vs weak damage types” and stuff, none of which is really mentioned in any of the books, before you start homebrewing to homebrew well, meanwhile general use systems like Savage Worlds and Fate you can literally look at a creature and see exactly how it was made, what things it has, and what, numerically, all of those abilities and stats are worth. 5e is so wonderful, I’m so glad it’s gotten so many people into TTRPGS, and I love playing it, but it’s literally not designed for easy homebrew, it’s literally just that so many people have made homebrew for it out of passion that it’s easy to make that mistake. Like how people think “Doom is easy to port and can run on anything!” but the truth is that passionate fans have actually just put so much effort into porting it onto everything, not an easy task

[cait-sith]

Three quick doodles of character ideas for a ttrpg game.

I ended up going with the paint-splash one, since I figured it would be fun to play something a bit out of my usual design comfort zone. The setting was something magic-steampunky with industrial + victorian era aesthetics, with the core idea being that all written information prior to a certain point was destroyed and the only surviving information was in the form of art.

I'll put some rough information on each idea below, though in order they are: Painter Historian, Medcanic, Factory Worker. I hope to maybe get to play the others in another game someday, I got rather attached to them all. XD

Painter Historian - Named Creativity, a somewhat strange person from beyond the Emerald Sea, the huge forest that parts the continent. They hail from an elven university, and have come to this city to study it's paintings in the hopes of deciphering more of the world's history. Their life's work is to create a way of conveying complex information in art, a kind of language which hopefully will be capable of preserving information through another literature purge. Their anatomy seems to not quite fit their body, not clearly belonging to any particular species and they get fatigued easily, hence the crutches.

Medcanic - There's little difference between humans and machines as far as this character is concerned. When something's broken, you just need to know how to fix it. Though admittedly humans complain a lot more. This character works on the airships that traverse the Emerald Sea, ensuring that both passenger and vehicle arrive at their destination safely. She lost her legs in a crash and now wears double prosthetics.

Factory Worker - Being small, compact and dextrous, this fellow often finds himself put on the most dangerous jobs, climbing into the great machines that keep the industry running, smeared in coal and oil. His wrench is oversized even for human hands, let alone his Halfling ones and quite heavy, a fact a few knees have experienced. Usually a little gruff but friendly, he has little patience for nonsense, an iron set of morals and a short fuse with abuse of authority. Despite that, he's efficient at his job but has no love for the people running the factory and can often be found in the midst of many of the conflicts sparking up among the workers.