So due to a number of previous bad judgement calls, our campaign has kind of been devolving for a while.  At this point, we're up to full-out Outsider Armageddon via an outsider who can 'infect' and then co-opt people, and the party winds up in some fun fights wherein they win back a little bit of time for the world.  This, naturally, draws all sorts of supernatural attention to them -- namely, Queen Mab.  So she shows up, icing the remaining outsider-infested humans menacing the party currently.

One of the party members starts mouthing off at her for killing the humans under 'his protection'.  I think about it, decide *not* to press the matter here and now -- Mab is subtle, and she doesn't have an 'in' on him yet.  She's pissed and will balance the books for his yelling at her, calling her a failure, and insulting her to her face, but not... just... yet.

She invites the party to take refuge in her kingdom, with the rest of the human beings she's saving -- basically everyone she can that isn't already infested.  She also makes a few pointed hints about the fact that she's working with some other heavy weights who *specifically* want the party involved in the plan.  Because in a week or so, the Archangels will blow their trumps and 'purge the world by fire'.

Mr. Big-Mouth then proceeds to blow up in her face even more angrily, but whatever.  She simply turns and starts throwing compels at each party member to Follow The Damned Plot Hook.  Guess who decides to resist and take off on his own?  So she takes most of the party with her and they get to watch an evacuation occur, with humans being herded in through a portal into Arctis Tor -- along with all the foodstuffs she can get her pretty little hands on, *especially* things like cows, sheep, dogs, cats, rabbits, etc etc.  She makes an off-hand comment comparing this to Noah's Ark -- don't remember the exact wording, but part of it was to call him a piker.  (This also helps cement for the party that This Is A Serious Situation)

They then see the people fighting the retreat -- members of her army, the local Knight (ex-player), and a group of monsters of various forms -- a massive, half-dog half-rhino, an obsidian bird, a woman with a bad hair day (razor sharp hair, that is), and a man flying on shadowy wings.  The 30 monsters are the last ones to retreat as Mab shoos the (remaining) party through the portal, then calls on her power to cover the retreat -- basically calling up ice walls and gusts of wind so that the fey and allies can retreat and leave the field to the Denarians.

Nicodemus comes in to retreat, then bounces away from the portal.  Mab smiles, then looks at him.  "As I said, I will allow those who bear the coins into my domain.  The coins will have to remain behind, however."

Double cross number one has the party blowing their lid, in a good way.  They liked it.

Then one of them made a comment about wanting to watch the fate of the council -- she's a warlock, wants to watch them all die.  So Mab smiles, and says "I do happen to have an opening in my court...  for a new winter knight.  You can find out all about the council's fate if you take up the job."

Player accepts, and Lloyd Slate is dragged out to die.  Bingo, new Winter Knight in town, and the player is now playing a Creepy Witch Knight.  And Mab takes the party along to a chamber in Arctis Tor where a man stands waiting.  At her nod, he opens a portal... and in start streaming a number of wizards from Edinburgh.  Then wardens.  Then 6 individuals in purple stoles, just in time for Gatekeeper to slam shut the door.

Oh the look on the Witch's player's face.  Oh the look.

I've got some friends who are interested in RPGs, and have been having fun with 5E D&D.  Unfortunately, several of them are struggling with the rules-heavy nature of D&D -- and it's simply impossible for me as the DM to remember all the rules of every feature for them.  Just too much text.

DFRPG, on the other hand, is much lighter on the rules, and the 'exact text' rarely matters as much except as a clarifier for the basic concept.  It's easier to learn, easier to teach, and I think the fudge die approach is much better than a generic D20 roll.  Especially with fate points flying around.  Character sheets are a lot easier to read and understand, and there's a lot less 'inventory management' hassles.

That said, there is a lot of setting-oriented material to plow through, and I don't want to try and drag them all through it.  Most of them will read the actual books, eventually, and I don't want to spoil it for them -- and I'm simply too lazy to repeatedly info dump for some of the others, who will probably need a reminder every single time.  So I don't want to use the basic setting.

I went and looked, and as far as I can tell there aren't very many high-fantasy FATE systems currently.  (Found a referenence to one, but it was discontinued).  So -- as I imagine is obvious by now -- I had the bright idea of hacking DFRPG into a high fantasy system.

I'd love the advice of people more familiar than I am to extend, revise, and improve the basic conversion.

Here is a link to the google doc, please let me know what you think.  Thanks in advance.