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In the head of Fred - Q&A with Fred Hicks

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Papa Gruff:
Would be awesome if we could make something like this semi regular. Perhaps with a thread were we compile a list of questions and example situations...

... I mean if Fred would be willing to participate of cause.

Set Abominae:

--- Quote from: Papa Gruff on June 09, 2011, 04:43:15 PM ---Would be awesome if we could make something like this semi regular. Perhaps with a thread were we compile a list of questions and example situations...

... I mean if Fred would be willing to participate of cause.

--- End quote ---

Maybe, but I imagine Fred is plenty busy enough already.

That said, I don't see how it could hurt to have anyone else who has had Q&A with Fred and the Evil Hat crew add their Q&A results to this thread to make a kinda FAQ master list. Would probably help if people followed the same formatting that Devon and I did, for ease and consistency of reading.

Yukidaore:
Couldn't help but think of this when I read this post, and I apologize if it's been covered somewhere else a more in-depth search than I gave would have found, but... assume you lay out those 10 On Fire Aspects on all the baddies in a room at once, with a free tag on each.  Next round are you then able to tag them all for a followup AoE spell, adding +20 to your roll?  Seems legal, though well beyond abusive.  Or can you only benefit from one unique tag per roll, or some such?

Drachasor:
If Bob is On Fire, and standing in the same zone as Steve, does it make sense to get a +2 bonus on Steve when you invoke Bob's being On Fire?  I'd say in this case you just get the +2 bonus with respect to Bob (essentially Bob has a harder time with the spell/effect than Steve).  So in the 10 person scenario, you'd get a +2 bonus on all of them, rather than just one of them.  That seems to make the most sense.  (Though, AFAIK, you can't tag an aspect with the same name to get the same effect anyhow, so your initial concern is handled by that as you suspected).

More interesting here is that Frank is saying you can do a zone-wide maneuver with a spell, which actually isn't something the rules spell out as possible -- they only go over maneuvers on a scene or on one target.  I think this makes sense to allow, however, since it is definitely better for the game.  Otherwise maneuvers become less and less worthwhile for an evoker as he grows in power, which makes the game less fun and interesting -- and honestly, a zone-wide spell that puts a maneuver on everyone is generally a lot less powerful than a weapon 8 attack or whatever, but it is a lot more party-friendly.

So I guess in this view, one should treat Maneuvers as having the same options as attacks and at the same cost (this seems to make the most sense).  You can also treat the whole scene as one target.

DFJunkie:

--- Quote ---Next round are you then able to tag them all for a followup AoE spell, adding +20 to your roll?  Seems legal, though well beyond abusive.  Or can you only benefit from one unique tag per roll, or some such?
--- End quote ---

The appropriate GM response to that sort of request is to roll up a newspaper and smack the offending player on the nose whilst yelling "bad!" in a sharp voice. 

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