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Post by EricaOdd on May 29, 2017 7:20:53 GMT -8
Point taken.
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Post by joecrak on May 29, 2017 19:49:09 GMT -8
Suuuuuuure now Fate L5R (F5R?) is gonna keep me up all night Already spent quite a bit of time on an ORE hack. Why not use Fate for L5R? There are ways to up the lethality in Fate. War of Ashes: Fate of Agatptus introduced lethal attacks; attacks that don't deal stress but go right to Consequences. My belief is as such. I don't think most Fate games would properly capture the spirit of L5R, or most samurai fiction stories. In basic fate, it's rarely a question of whether or not you will succeed. You are almost always going to succeed. It's just how much will it cost you to succeed? In many samurai fiction stories, there's no guarantee of "of course we'll accomplish the task given to us", and this is something I don't think translates well to fate. Brennan Taylor had a l5r hack for PbtA that was pretty stellar. But he's changing it to be sort of about historical Japanese fiction, so he can publish it and make money.
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Post by joecrak on May 29, 2017 19:54:51 GMT -8
Personally, I wouldn't play L5R in FATE. I like FATE, and I think it does good things, but a big part of L5R is the system as far as I'm concerned. Exploding dice, void points, skill + attribute, rings, etc. Its all L5R to me. I played a game once where a friend took the L5R system and hacked it into a sort of cyberpunk future Rokugan. I hated it. It felt wrong. The story was fine, his GMing was great, but the system ruined it because it felt completely wrong. It's amusing how much I've changed over the years, because I used to love the L5R system, but nowadays it's just not for me. I love the setting a bunch, but that system is just too crunchy for me anymore.
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Post by lowkeyoh on May 29, 2017 20:16:57 GMT -8
Kindling
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Post by zoomfarg on May 29, 2017 20:26:36 GMT -8
C'mon, you're just trying to start a flame war EDIT: So I tried using my Fate PDF as kindling, but my computer overheated and now it doesn't work. Help???
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Post by chronovore on May 29, 2017 21:29:33 GMT -8
C'mon, you're just trying to start a flame war EDIT: So I tried using my Fate PDF as kindling, but my computer overheated and now it doesn't work. Help??? I've got a FATE PDF on my kindle, is that the same thing?
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Post by zoomfarg on May 29, 2017 22:09:00 GMT -8
I read a help post that said if the plastic casing melts you're doing it right.
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Post by the0gekko0state on Jun 10, 2017 14:00:46 GMT -8
I recently picked up Venture City Stories. So I may use it for a supers game I'm planning. I know I'm planning all kinds of things, but I swear this time I'm sticking to it.
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SteveFromAtlanta
Initiate Douchebag
Posts: 8
Preferred Game Systems: Fate/Savage Worlds
Currently Playing: DnD 3.5
Currently Running: Numenera, Savage Dresden
Favorite Species of Monkey: Spider
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Post by SteveFromAtlanta on Jul 3, 2017 19:05:19 GMT -8
Have used Fate for Dresden Files (Modern Urban), a Revolutionary War era game with shaman style magic, an escape from Auschwitz, complete with zombie Nazis, and a near future space battle over colonized Mars.
All worked well, and felt very different to run. Overall good system.
Moving towards SW as some of my players want a bit more crunch, but not DnD level :-)
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