I just made a youtube video, like LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE and posted it. Big whoop, right?

I feel a bit like I'm struggling upstream when trying to create some kinds of characters in fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons. Time for a bit of a rant about rules-enforced tropes.

A continuing series on the #CommonComplaints of #FateCore

A continuing series on the #CommonComplaints of #FateCore

I just released The Lost Soul Blues, a short dark-fantasy #ttrpg set in Hell.

I know what I Like
And I like what I know
— Genesis

A continuing series on the #CommonComplaints of #FateCore

A continuing series on the #CommonComplaints of #FateCore

A continuing series on the #CommonComplaints of #FateCore

Now this is a hard one, because it can be true. But at the same time (at the risk of being called out for “whataboutism”) D&D and other systems often have identical mechanical events that just aren't phrased the same way.

The basic problem goes like this: The core resolution mechanic of Fate Core has too many steps to determine success or failure:

Fate gets a lot of hate on social media. Some people hate it, some people love it. As a designer, I want to know what the issues are, so that I can avoid them in systems I design, and patch them in games that I write using Fate.