Fate – Your Primary Resource for Fate Bloggery & Open Source. I’ve been seeing some discussion, off and on, about Fate Core System and Fate Accelerated Edition.

I’ll call them Core and FAE in this post, because it’s Sunday and I am lazy. I figured I’d chime in on the discussion, because I’m discovering that I have some opinions about it. Also, this is just one guy’s opinion. There are a lot of people out there better equipped than I am to do this kind of analysis. It’s a build of Core, as Fred Hicks says, and I agree with him. FAE is what happens when you open the big Core toolbox and pull together the socket wrench set, the allen keys, and the WD- 4. It even still has both lead cables, so we’re in business.

But FAE does behave a bit differently than Core as expressed in the game’s example settings. Why is that? Yes, stunt templates and single stress track, but really it comes down to the difference between FAE’s approaches and Core’s skills. This might seem like arbitrary jargon, but it’s not—it points to a very real difference in what they represent. The major difference is that skills describe what problems you can solve, while approaches describe how you solve problems. The standard approaches in FAE (Forceful, Quick, Careful, Clever, Sneaky, and Flashy) are things everyone can do. They don’t tell you anything all that unusual about your character in terms of your competence – your capabilities tend to be assumed based on genre and setting conventions.

Characters in a Star Wars campaign can drive speeders and operate computers and shoot blasters. You don’t need an aspect to justify it, it’s just part of the setting.

This means you need to make sure everyone is on the same page regarding these assumptions, especially if some players are less familiar with the setting. If you have a capability outside the norm for your setting, take an aspect to reflect it. You probably need a Force- related aspect to be a Jedi in a Star Wars game, for example, because not all the characters in Star Wars have access to using the Force. All this adds up to FAE having a tighter focus on aspects than Core tends to have. Another consequence of aspect + setting- driven competence in FAE is that gradations of competence aren’t important.

If you’re a hacker, you’re a hacker; you won’t find out who the better hacker is by looking at the character sheet. Of course you’ll look for ways to use your character’s highly rated approaches—that Flashy +3 or Forceful +2, over your Sneaky +0. And that’s OK—real people do that, don’t they? They’re almost aspects in themselves—invokable and compellable with a fate point. Sometimes, circumstances demand that you be sneaky; nothing else will do. Which brings up the issue of short skill lists vs.

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Short skill lists are a fascinating topic for another post . Nero 9 4 26 0 Keygen. If you specifically want to use approaches for your game, and you want a list that’s different than the FAE default list, make sure you stick with descriptions of manner—i. D& D stats (as in Fate Freeport Companion) or roles (such as D& D classes or Leverage Hitter- Hacker- Thief- etc. While those may be distinct from skills as well, they’ll play differently than approaches. I guess I don’t really have a conclusion here, so I’m going to sum up what I see as the big differences between FAE and Core: FAE approaches tell you how, Core skills tell you what. FAE requires a firm shared understanding of genre assumptions.

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FAE emphasizes aspects to a larger degree than Core. FAE doesn’t model fine degrees of difference in competence.

Approaches can reveal aspects of personality. All approaches are useable by everyone, which feels different than the Core skill list.

I hope it’s a good one. Also, I’m least interested in stunts of all Fate mechanical bits, so I’ll ignore them here. Missions Of Love Baka Updates Release.