Has anyone played Fate Accelerated Edition? - eviltoast

I had been wanting to try it for a while and saw it at a local game store. I picked it and some fudge dice up and want to try it soon. It seems like it will provide the sort of flexibility and less specific focus on combat that I want out of D&D. It also is simple enough that I read the entirety of the rules in one day (and I’m a slow reader).

I’m curious what your experience is with this system.

  • Lortian@ttrpg.network
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    1 year ago

    It’s my go-to system both for new to role-playing players and for “I didn’t know I was game mastering anything five minutes ago, but here we are”.

    It’s fast, simple and easy to learn as you go, generally the only problems I run into with Fate Accelerated are one of three kinds:

    1. Have to deprogram D&D players from “I attack” into “Well, I want to save the prince but the ugly elf is in the way, so I guess I’ll try and shove hime away with my shield to get to him”

    2. Too simple for long-term campaigns (solved by using Fate Core instead)

    3. Sometimes there is a more specific game that does what you want but better (Blades in the Dark for heists, for example). Not a huge issue, though.

    Particularly, Fate (be it Core, Condensed or Accelerated) works very well for my style of gming, which has two particularities:

    1. I improvise heavily, building the world as I go.

    2. I like weird and interesting settings. My latest campaign has a bunch of office workers stopping a Cthulhu Cult by time- traveling to prehistoric hunter-gatherer times.

    As far as I’m concerned Fate is firmly in my top three RPGs that I like and recommend (the other two being Pathfinder 2e and Genesys).

    Hope this helps!