Harry Dresden

15th May, 2013 Leave a comment

This is my attempt at the ‘update Harry Dresden’ contest that was recently launched by the lovely people at Evil Hat:

http://www.evilhat.com/home/the-trouble-with-a-well-known-character-statblocking-contest/

The aim is to represent Harry as he was at the beginning of “Changes”

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Allomancy in Fate Core

10th May, 2013 Leave a comment

Allomancy In Fate Core
Here’s a quick version of Allomancy from Mistborn done in Fate Core – this shows how flexible the system is, if nothing else. This will make little sense for those who haven’t read the Mistborn series but this extremely spoiler-laden Wikipedia article may help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allomancer
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A Game Of Thrones in Fate Core

7th May, 2013 Leave a comment
Here’s one system for modelling the machinations of the Houses of Westeros (and other interested parties) in Fate Core.

Space Conflicts in Fate Core

30th April, 2013 Leave a comment

Following some discussion on the Fate Core Google+ Group in this thread I said I would write in a bit more detail about how I would handle space conflicts in Fate Core from fighter attacks to capital ship on capital ship action to large fleet battles. So, here goes nothing!

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GM’s Blog: Fated Mass Effect Parts 1 & 2

22nd April, 2013 5 comments

Greetings all. I’m running a game of “Mass Effect” in the Fate Core system for the university’s Easter break. I was going to just post about it on the Google+ community, but then I remembered that + is a somewhat transient medium and that all posts are eventually lost, like tears in rain.

So here’s how the game has been going so far…

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One Boy and His Dog (Part 3)

21st February, 2013 Leave a comment

Mark hits a slight bend and is launched into free-fall, a hoarse scream bursting from him as he flies. Then he’s down again with a thud that makes his coccyx throb and sliding on his rear, his passage eased by the layer of slug-slime that  coats the bottom of the tunnel. It’s too dark to see so he closes his eyes; it makes him feel better, somehow.

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GM’s Log – Dresden Files One-Off Game

24th September, 2012 Leave a comment

I’d never run the Dresden Files before but I have a hankering to run the game to the extent that I’m planning to stop my long-running Geist game in favour of it. Being overly confident in my own ability to wing things I decided to learn the basics of the Fate system behind the game in a week and then run it as a one-off sampler game after the AGS Intro Meeting.

This is how it went.

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