Hey guys,

Just thought I would let you all know about a recent website set up by the government over here. It allows you to enter the name of a city, town or street; or a postcode and get a map with details of the levels and kind of crime reported in the area.
The address is http://www.police.uk/

I think it's a wee bit overloaded at the minute and there has been quite a bit of negative press so how long it will be around for I don't know but it's sure to come in useful for any groups looking to set a game in the UK.

Hi guys,

This a set of more general questions, I dont mean to flood the board but I felt that there were enough might questions to justify its own topic.

-Is intimidation the only social attack skill?

-Im concerned about over use of Atheltics for characters/npcs with atheltics as an apex skill and/or supernatural speed. Obviously they have paid the points for this but I found it being used for manuevers both against the character themselves and opponents; defence against manuevers and defence against physical attacks. What are your views?

-Related to the above, I feel perhaps my maps are not big enough or my zones are too big. Characters with superspeed couldnt take advantage of their ability to put distance between themsevles and an attacker as there were so few zones/ the zones were so big that it was easily matched by who they were trying to get away from.

-Is it possible for an enemy that has not yet been seen by a character to use stealth and gain bonuses from the abush trapping when physical combat has already started?

-If a grappled opponent has incite emotion [touch] can they use it without having to break free of the grapple since they are already touching/being touched by the opponent?

-What is the max limit for stress tracks? One of my players took hulking size, supernatural toughness and has a high endurance so his physical stress track is ridiculous.  In addition to claws and supernatural strength it is very difficult to affect him even slightly in physical combat.

Thanks again
Ihadris

Hi guys,

I have a couple of tools to reccomend for those of you that are thinking of running a session online.

First and foremost is Googlewave- this has been an absolute godsend to us, especially as I'm currently living in Japan and the players are all back in England.It keeps everyone on the same page and is dead easy to use. Made City and Character creation an absolute breeze since everybody is able to edit and comment on each others posts.  Theres also a dice rolling bot with fudge dice pre-programed in. 

I realise that not everyone can get hold of googlewave as its in beta which is why its lucky that I have a bunch of invites. Consider it my gift to such a helpful community.

Secondly is Cacoo.com. Its a website where you can collaborativley draw pictures with others. Why is this useful? It has a suite of "stamps" which work exactly like word art does and has most of the same shapes and functions. Filling, colouring, adding text, grouping objects, sending objects forward or backward etc. On top of that you can save and export the drawings and have multiple tabs open at once.

Since everyone can view and everyone can edit creating zone maps takes barely any time at all and best of all you can create small icons to represent the characters that can be moved around the different zones which can really help keep track of how everything is going.

It requires sign up but it is free to do so.

Ihadris

Hi guys,

Ive been going through the use of guns and the gun stunts in game with one of my players and he asked a lot of questions that I felt myself unable to answer.

Firstly regarding the Fast reload stunt:

Fast reload: Provided you have a supply of ammunition, reloads are rarely an issue. You take no penalty when reloading as a supplemental action (page 213); if you're in a race to see who reloads first, or anything else having to do with your speed or ability to reload, gain a +1 on the roll.

- emphasis is my own.

No where else in the rule book does it mention supplies of ammunition or whether or not there would normally be a penalty for reloading. Indeed I see nothing for keeping track of ammunition. Now I love the simplicty of this system so I dont want to over complicate things but one of our characters is carrying a revolver, one throwing knives and another one of the players wants to make a character based on Kincaid.

Im certain that under normal circumstances that the knives would run out far sooner then any rifle Kincaid might carry and that the revolver would frequently have to reload. I hadn't even considered this anything other then perhaps narrative colour till the player pointed out the details of this stunt.

Also, in the books character sometimes carry custom ammunition. - Small Favour spoiler.  How would you handle this? A fate point decleration? A custom built stunt?

Any help you guys can give is greatly appreciated.
-Ihadris

Hi all,

This is in regards to the rules on prolonging evocations (YS:259). As I understand it you can use the standard action of a turn following the casting of an evocation to 'add more energy' to it and so increase the duration of the effect by casting another spell where each shift of power is equal to another exchange of duration.

I am wondering if it possible to use this mechanic to extend the duration of a rote spell. The reasons for this are that it says "...you don't have to sacrifice the efficacy of the original spell- it keeps the rating of the original roll." and the spell in the example is Harry's shield spell, which I believe is one of his rote spells.

The rules for rote spells say that "Any change in the parameters of the spell disqualifies it from being rote". Since the 'original roll' of the spell is not modified under the rules for prolonging spells that means it wouldn't change the rote spell either right?

Hi guys,

Ive been re-reading through the rules for Spirit of the Century in anticipation for Dresden. Unfortunatly I never managed to get a group together to play Spirit so I'm appealing to those with experiance of running fate games to help me out with this one.

How do you go about running a 'timed event' in your games? Im feeling that the same need for action is a common theme in Dresden, Harry rarely seems to get much downtime

The section of the rule book that references this stars on page 304. I understand the basics of it- that there be an immediate need for action to be taken by the players for whatever reason. One of the exmaples cited is players battling ontop of a train running out of track. Obviously saying to the players 'You weren't quick enough, the train runs out of track and you all die' isn't the best thing to do but I feel that if there was never any chance of the dire consequences actually happening that it would seem both obvious and fake.

So how do you measure the progress of the impending doom? Actual time? Rounds?

Thanks in advance
Ihadris

Hi,

When looking back over older posts I stumbled across the stat block for . I noticed that he only has one spell despite his -11 refresh. For a normal game about how many spells would you be looking at for at for a PC? Does each spell cost points from their refresh?

I kno that you guys really don't want to talk indepth about the magic system so I understand if It isnt possible to answer my question!

Thanks

Ihadris