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BESW

12:08 AM

@trogdor How does this look?

trogdor

12:37 AM

looks good

she can do most things Dr Light can do, besides probably the science type things

BESW

She'll want to keep her Staff of Seven Calamities, so I figure "Doctor Light" will claim he stole it when he escaped.

trogdor

it's a little odd to see one character changed to be a little more like another one

@BESW lol

BESW

@trogdor Aside from the stunts that changed with her shift in form, it's mostly just a focusing on her aspects to be specific to the immediate situation.

trogdor

yeah

but even her aspects have changed

BESW

Only in scope.

trogdor

12:43 AM

the only thing that is exactly the same are approaches, I think

yeah not entirely

BESW

I must study the Ancients' Leader is the current step toward her general Motive aspect I must bring Umdaar to its knees.

trogdor

but keep in mind,. aspects tend to change slowly

I am not complaining about it, I am just mentioning how odd it is to witness it

BESW

Her shared aspect is just talking about exactly what good advice Sko-Larr gave her for this mission.

NPCs get to be wobbly.

trogdor

true

but she is also sorta a PC for a while XD

it certainly isn't permanent but still

BESW

If she were still an NPC under my control, I'd leave the aspects alone but remember that narratively she's got more focused goals derived from them.

trogdor

12:46 AM

yeah

I think it is good you changed them the way you did for now

it will help me remember what I am supposed to do with them

BESW

(And technically Hulking Plant Mutant isn't a character aspect, it's just the result of a Create Advantage action. But for our purposes, partly because you'll be playing alongside PCs with five character aspects, we'll act like it's a character aspect for most purposes.)

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BESW

2:41 AM

@KyleS. [wave]

Kyle S.

@BESW Hey! How ya been?

BESW

Not bad. My campaign is making me happy, at least. Yourself?

Kyle S.

Busy as hell trying to finish up my degree this year

All else has been put on hold, so that I can graduate and get a job lol

BESW

That seems reasonable.

Kyle S.

I did run a FAE game for some little cousins of mine back in October though

BESW

2:50 AM

Cool!

How'd that work out?

Kyle S.

I asked them each to pick a topic they wanted to play in, and one said Hogwarts and another said Zelda

Sooo, I modeled the world in that there were three schools, one for adventurers, one for wizards, and another for fairies, and there was a tournament involving all the schools where they had to form teams with one student from each school

Because, you know, one wanted to be a wizard and the other a young Link

BESW

Nice. Mashup concepts can be fun.

Kyle S.

They ended up having a blast. Fighting some monsters, getting double crossed by another team of students

BESW

(My current campaign is just starting an adventure that's basically "Hellboy meets Thundercats.")

Kyle S.

I tried to make the cave they all got sent into have things where each of them could shine with their characters, and it worked pretty well.

Nice!

I love the mashup concept in general. Fun to imagine "what happens if we cross X with this bit of Y"

BESW

2:54 AM

@KyleS. One of the cool things about FAE is that Approaches make it very easy to just use narrative for spotlighting; skill-based systems often require more focus on mechanics to orchestrate spotlights.

Kyle S.

I love it everytime I have another interaction with it

Just need to get my main group to give it another serious go

We're so D&D minded that it's been difficult to convince them to try anything else. Not that we've been playing D&D lately either...

BESW

Maybe try some of the more D&D-like versions of Fate?

Or, go for something totally different to break out of the mould and get into different patterns of thought.

I suggest looking at the Worlds of Adventure for Fate. They're free and awesome and cover a wide variety of genres and styles.

My group is really loving Masters of Umdaar, which is an homage to Thundercats, He-Man, and other similar "laser fantasy" pulp adventures.

Kyle S.

How are those modules? Good since you're using them?

Shalvenay

@BESW yeah -- I tend to do a fair bit of mashing myself in my head -- one theme has been tossing my D&D chars across the interview table from that infamous Pointy-Haired Boss xD

doppelgreener

6:28 AM

@Magician We got clarification on that limb loss question, I've removed my comment and edited the question a bit

Magician

Cool. I gotta leave now, so I'll just say that, imo, going straight for "your group is terrible, leave now" in response to a paragraph of text is not at all helpful. All sorts of context you could be missing.

Not a kind of advice that should be handed out without a conversation first.

doppelgreener

@Magician I missed the "friendly arguments" thing at the start.

All sorts of context could be missing, but all of that sounded like every question we've had on that ever, all of which have been people having a terrible time and being terrible to each other.

(this is legitimately the first time I've read something like this which was friendly)

doppelgreener

6:44 AM

(of course, sounds completely different with the "friendly arguments" thing that i missed and you did not)

Shalvenay

7:14 AM

@doppelgreener the tone of the question was confusing, yes -- it was very unclear whether this was a theorycrafting gedankenexperiment or something the DM was actually threatening to do to someone's PC

BESW

@KyleS. The ones I've used work quite well, and they all seem to be good quality. Generally they each present a setting, a way to run character creation to fit the setting, at least one modification to the basic Fate ruleset to make it reinforce the setting, and a short adventure to get you started.

BESW

9:08 AM

One of my players made this, anticipating that it will be relephant for tomorrow night's session: