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How was your last game? (lemmy.zip)
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Mine was a battle against a rival gang (we are working with them for backstory reasons), they had a manticore and we are level 3 so it was intense. Most of us finished with 2 or so hp! But looking forward to finally be level 4 after a year.

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[–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wow, your DM should learn some design best practices. I have started to look for a new system a while ago, my main problem has been that my party is not as deep as me in RPGs. Im a fate guy and them are dnd because its their first game

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    @Phantaminum @jjjalljs I enjoyed Fate more in concept and rules book than as played. My GM was a firm believer in giving me as many opportunities to earn fate points as possible, and "constantly failing" didn't feel good

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why were you constantly failing? The few times I've been able to play Fate I felt like I succeeded on all the stuff I wanted to, and picked my poisons on troubles.

    It was really satisfying for my Space Nazi Hunter to invoke like four aspects at once to really make sure the space Nazi leader got his head blown clean off. Also satisfying to get fate points by starting nonsense with my "faked own death to escape corporate espionage charges" trouble.

    Might've just been lucky with a good gm

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    @jjjalljs kinda exactly? "Hero" a-la Snow Crash obviously had a "best swordsman in the meta verse" aspect. But did he have to spend a fate point to win the swordfight when he was challenged in a bar early on?

    In my game, my character was supposed to be talky-McTalk face, and I failed to talk my way into a bar because I wasn't willing to spend a fate point to do so. I shouldnt have had to.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I made a mistake when I tried to run it for one group of setting the difficulties too high, which can give results like you experienced.

    I also found that when it went well, the players pushed for more "this aspect gives me permission without even having to roll". So if someone was playing "smooth talker" and the gm said to roll to get past a bouncer, the player might push back.

    The time it went worst I think the players didn't really offer any creative input. Failures just turned into "I give up" instead of like "what if I convince him to let us in by lying that I'm someone famous, and then the real person shows up?" or whatever. I think it's hard for some players to zoom out from just their character and get more into the writer room space.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    @jjjalljs I was focused more on the direct role-playing and less on the writers-room aspect... So by the time I was going "wait what?, I shouldnt need to roll?", the RP had already gone off the rails because the GM declared the bouncer pulled out a magical face id thingy and declared some trivial lie of mine was false

    I.e.: failure always unless I spent fate points

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are you me? Fate is my big game crush and it's hard to get people to play it. And then hard to break them out of the DND mindset.

    At least I finally got some people to play Mage. Been wanting to do that for years.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Perhaps, well, i didn't think you will find it this easy...

    Is hard to invite people to fate beside some oneshot.

    Mage could fry some of my friends mind, is too much hahaha but some of them are willing to try Lvl up advanced 5e. I have some really good hopes on that game.

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