Abstract Fate Rpg Campaigns

Looking for the perfect trap puzzle or challenge to keep your players on their toes and add a little spice to your rpg campaign or dungeon crawl. If players want an effect for their character theres a way to define these via collections or combinations of stunts skills or aspects. It doesnt take me long to shift fate to new campaigns.

This means linear story driven adventures dont really make much sense for many sorts of groups.

Abstract fate rpg campaigns. In a campaign game players spend up to hours creating their own characters. Fates abstraction means that these can be easily built from other parts of the system. Freeport is green ronins signature city setting and has been home to thousands of rpg campaigns since its launch in 2000. After a long discussion we decided to go with all of the above and try an alternate world andor time traveling game sort of doctor who crossed with sliders.

The chindi from freeport bestiary. Just counting the continuing campaigns ive run 18 sessions we meet semi regularly but sadly not as often as id like. Human beings are pattern making machines and its very likely that youll naturally pick up on what the long term plot devices of your campaign need to be by keying into unanswered questions from the arcs and scenarios. The story of the city of adventure continues to evolve more dangerous than ever.

Again the easiest way to do this is not to botherjust let your scenarios and arcs emergently create a story for the campaign. Here are 101 awesome ideas you can grab modify reuse or otherwise tweak as many ways or times as youd like to give your players something fresh to run across every time they dive into the danger zone. Im in the midst of my third campaign using fate core in addition to the two or three one shots ive run. Fae is a grab n go version of fate written for easy prep and easy playdont let that simplicity fool you use these rules to run any style and any length campaign.

Fate core or the strange for a world hopping campaign my group is getting a little burned out on mainline fantasy lately so we started spitballing other genres for our next campaign. In a one shot rpg adventure putting effort into your character sheets really matters. They dont 11 translate to fate because fate characters have the agency of high level dd characters and the power of midlevel dd characters the second theyre created. Ive run a homebrewed fantasy swords and sorcery type campaign and its been a blast.

They consider classes and abilities roll dice shop for equipment and think of a backstory. Like other universal systems you have to spend some time doing additional tooling to fit the game to the genre or setting you want to play.