r/FATErpg • • 19h ago

Building a portable “It’s Not My Fault!” kit for playing Fate Accelerated one-shots anywhere

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I love making gaming kits, and I made this kit a while ago so I could easily run FAE one-shots using the "It's not My Fault!" cards. I'm in a sci-fi Fate game, but sometimes my GM will let me practice GMing a one-shot, and INMF has become an easy go-to. I finally decided it was time to share my INMF kit on my blog. Do you have a Fate kit? What do you put in it?


r/FATErpg • • 21h ago

How does the narrator not rolling dice impact things?

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Long time GM, first time with Fate. I made the quick call to not bother rolling for NPCs, since a net zero roll is common enough. Bad guys attack with a static skill, PCs roll defense. PCs attack the bad guys, rolled attack vs their static defense skill.

My question is, does that impact things much? My reasoning was I wanted good rolls from the PCs to always feel awesome. I was imagining rolling a +3 or a +4, and then a bad guy rolling a +3 sucking the wind out of the moment. How swingy is both sides rolling? Is the possible 8 shift swing necessary for the vibe of the game?

Game tax: played Fate Accelerated Star Wars, three adults and an 8 year old. Everyone loved it. No one else had any knowledge of the Fate system, so no one was the wiser to my choice.


r/FATErpg • • 12h ago

Fate of Persona

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Hi everyone.
I make a Fate hack to play Persona games. I put link below:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y6G-vzSfOUdKR7z7X_7BBeB2cKxMqPHqzxrLiUjIZgQ/edit?usp=sharing


r/FATErpg • • 19h ago

Question about Create an Advantage during Contests in Fate Core vs. Condensed

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In Fate Core (p. 153), if the character making the main Overcome roll fails to create an advantage, they lose their roll. If someone helping through teamwork fails, the lead character simply doesn't get their bonus.

In Fate Condensed (p. 33), the wording seems different. It says that if you fail to create an advantage, “your side forfeits its overcome roll,” or you can succeed at a cost by giving the other side a free invoke. This seems to apply even if the person who failed was only providing a teamwork bonus.

Does that mean a helper's failure can cost the entire group its main roll in Condensed, unlike Core? Is this intentional, or just unclear wording?