Fate Core by Balsera, Leonard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

THE BASICS

Welcome to Fate! What You Need to Play Players and Gamemasters The Character Sheet

Aspects Skills Stunts Stress Consequences Refresh

Taking Action

Rolling the Dice

The Ladder

Interpreting Results

Fate Points

Invoking an Aspect Declaring a Story Detail Compels

Start Playing!

GAME CREATION

What Makes a Good Fate Game?

Proactivity Competence Drama

Setting Up Your Game Making the Setting Work in Fate A Game’s Scale The Setting’s Big Issues

Making the Issues into Aspects Drilling Down

Faces and Places Make Characters

CHARACTER CREATION

Character Creation Is Play Your Character Idea

High Concept Trouble Name

The Phase Trio

Phase One: Your Adventure Phase Two: Crossing Paths Phase Three: Crossing Paths Again

Skills Stunts and Refresh

Adjusting Refresh

Stress and Consequences You’re All Set! Quick Character Creation

Starting Play Filling Aspects in Play Filling Skills in Play Filling Stunts in Play

ASPECTS AND FATE POINTS

DEFINING ASPECTS DEFINING FATE POINTS TYPES OF ASPECTS

Game Aspects Character Aspects Situation Aspects Consequences Boosts

WHAT ASPECTS DO

Importance Deciding When to Use Mechanics

MAKING A GOOD ASPECT

Double-Edged Say More Than One Thing Clear Phrasing

IF YOU GET STUCK

Sometimes, It’s Better Not to Choose Always Ask What Matters and Why Vary It Up Let Your Friends Decide

INVOKING ASPECTS

Free Invocations

COMPELLING ASPECTS

Types of Compels

Events Decisions

Retroactive Compels Compelling with Situation Aspects

USING ASPECTS FOR ROLEPLAYING REMOVING OR CHANGING AN ASPECT CREATING AND DISCOVERING NEW ASPECTS IN PLAY

Secret or Hidden Aspects

THE FATE POINT ECONOMY

Refresh Spending Fate Points Earning Fate Points The GM and Fate Points

SKILLS AND STUNTS

DEFINING SKILLS

The Basic Game Actions

DEFINING STUNTS

Stunts and Refresh

BUILDING STUNTS

Adding a New Action to a Skill Adding a Bonus to an Action Creating a Rules Exception Balancing Stunt Utility Stunt Families

Stacking Effects Branching Effects

THE DEFAULT SKILL LIST

Athletics Burglary

Burglary Stunts

Contacts

Contacts Stunts

Crafts

Crafts Stunts

Deceive

Deceive Stunts

Drive

Drive Stunts

Empathy

Empathy Stunts

Fight

Fight Stunts

Investigate

Investigate Stunts

Lore

Lore Stunts

Notice

Notice Stunts

Physique

Physique Stunts

Provoke

Provoke Stunts

Rapport

Rapport Stunts

Resources

Resources Stunts

Shoot

Shoot Stunts

Stealth

Stealth Stunts

Will

Will Stunts

ACTIONS AND OUTCOMES

IT’S TIME FOR ACTION!

Opposition

THE FOUR OUTCOMES

Fail Tie Succeed Succeed with Style

THE FOUR ACTIONS

Overcome Create an Advantage Attack Defend

CHALLENGES, CONTESTS, AND CONFLICTS

ZOOMING IN ON THE ACTION CHALLENGES

Advantages in a Challenge Attacks in a Challenge

CONTESTS Creating Advantages in a Contest

Attacks in a Contest

CONFLICTS

Setting the Scene

Situation Aspects Zones

Establishing Sides Turn Order The Exchange

Full Defense

Resolving Attacks

Stress Consequences

Naming a Consequence Recovering from a Consequence Extreme Consequences

Conceding the Conflict Getting Taken Out

Character Death

Movement Advantages in a Conflict Other Actions in a Conflict Ending a Conflict

Transitioning to a Contest or Challenge

TEAMWORK

RUNNING THE GAME

WHAT YOU DO

Start and End Scenes Play the World and the NPCs Judge the Use of the Rules Create Scenarios (and Nearly Everything Else)

WHAT TO DO DURING GAME CREATION

Out There vs. Down Here Top Down vs. Bottom Up Small Scale vs. Large Scale Extras: Do You Need Them?

WHAT TO DO DURING PLAY

The Golden Rule When to Roll Dice Making Failure Awesome

Blame the Circumstances Succeed at a Cost Let the Player Do the Work

Setting Difficulties Dealing with Extraordinary Success Dealing with Time

Game Time Story Time

Deadline Pressure Using Story Time in Success and Failure Story Time and the Scope of an Action

Zoom In, Zoom Out

Judging the Use of Skills and Stunts

Aspects and Details: Discovery vs. Creation Skills and Specific Measurements

Dealing with Conflicts and Other Weird Stuff

Affecting Multiple Targets Environmental Hazards

Dealing with Aspects

Invocations Compels

Weaksauce Compels Encouraging the Players to Compel

CREATING THE OPPOSITION

Take Only What You Need to Survive The NPC Types

Nameless NPCs

Average Fair Good Mobs Hits and Overflow Nameless NPCs as Obstacles: NPC First, Name Later

Supporting NPCs Main NPCs

PLAYING THE OPPOSITION

Right-sizing Creating Advantages for NPCs Change Venues of Conflict

SCENES, SESSIONS, AND SCENARIOS

SO, NOW WHAT? DEFINING SCENARIOS FIND PROBLEMS

Problems and Character Aspects Problems and Game Aspects Problems and Aspect Pairs

Character Aspect and Issue

ASK STORY QUESTIONS ESTABLISH THE OPPOSITION SET UP THE FIRST SCENE

Powerful Session-Starting Ninja GM Trick

DEFINING SCENES

Starting Scenes Ending Scenes Using the Pillars (Competence, Proactivity, Drama) Hit Their Aspects

THE SCENARIO IN PLAY RESOLVING THE SCENARIO

THE LONG GAME

DEFINING ARCS DEFINING CAMPAIGNS BUILDING AN ARC BUILDING A CAMPAIGN ADVANCEMENT AND CHANGE DEFINING MILESTONES

Minor Milestones Significant Milestones

Skill Columns

Major Milestones

WORLD ADVANCEMENT

For Minor Milestones For Significant Milestones For Major Milestones Dealing with NPCs Recurring NPCs

EXTRAS

DEFINING EXTRAS THE BRONZE RULE, AKA THE FATE FRACTAL CREATING AN EXTRA

Setting Elements What Extras Do Assigning Character Elements Permissions and Costs The Writeup

Extra: Collegia Arcana Magic

EXTRAS AND ADVANCEMENT MORE EXAMPLES OF EXTRAS

Weapon and Armor Ratings Superpowers

Extra: Energy Blast Extra: Super-Strength Extra: Super-Speed Extra: Super-Resilience Extra: X-Ray Vision

Special Gear

QUICK AND DIRTY STORY-BASED GEAR Extra: Demonbane, The Enchanted Sword Extra: Brace Jovannich’s Dueling Pistol

Cybertech and Super-Skills

Extra: Interface Extra: Media

Wealth

Extra: Resources, Revisited

Vehicles, Locations, and Organizations

Extra: The Galerider Extra: The Plenary of Ghiraul

Magic

Extra: Lucas’s Arts Commune Sujan, the Spirit of Warding Extra: Schools of Power The Black League

CHEAT SHEET VETERANS’ GUIDE

Game and Character Creation Aspects Actions and Stuff Scenario Creation Extras

CHARACTER CREATION WORKSHEET GAME CREATION WORKSHEET LANDON’S CHARACTER SHEET CYNERE’S CHARACTER SHEET ZIRD THE ARCANE’S CHARACTER SHEET CHARACTER SHEET FEEDBACK HEROES

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