Can someone provide a link? Just curious enough to look into it and the game info on the publisher's site doesn't really tell much of anything. So far what has been said here about the resource system actually makes it sound really bad... Items are powerful? But getting them can be really random? Yeah... that sounds amusing for short games, nightmare-ish for longer running ones. But I may have just misunderstood.

The official page can be found here.

Via RPGNow.com.

As for the resources and items, I think there may be a misunderstanding.

Resources is a stand-alone trait. Unlike DFRPG where it's all rolled into your resources skill, or Diaspora where it's a stress track, Bulldogs! has it stand alone. Roll resources to buy something. If you succeed, congrats, you buy it! If you fail, you can reduce your resources to represent spending more than you have, it may have a negative aspect that's free taggable once per session (buying a knock-off), settling for a lower-cost item ("I have X amount what can I buy?"), or you just don't have enough cash on hand to buy it. Also, for really expensive things like starships, you can take out a loan.

Items are "powerful," yes...but not that much more than the weapons you'd find in DFRPG. A "regular" pistol is still damage 2, you just have the option of buying an auto-pistol that has the autofire upgrade, and maybe additional range (yes, range is a stat for weapons).

I'm not sure where you got that "getting items can be random." You go to the store, you buy stuff. Simple.

-EF

Like I said if someone wanted to kill the horse they'd roll against my survival to but a maneuver on me, if successful I will have a "Horse shot out from under me" aspect and loose the benefits. The zone attack could be a problem, the easiest answer to me is that it would hit me and not affect the horse. I know this doesn't make much sense but you are able to dodge zone attacks in the wide open with no cover with athletics (outrunning an explosion doesn't make much sense either), my argument for this is that if I'm able to doge the zone attack than I'd just have to explain it so that the horse was fine too. Like I said it's not perfect, but I just don't want a one point power whose explanation takes up half of the power sheet. However I appreciate the criticism, I hadn't thought about a zone attack before.

And just out of curiosity why would the dodge (option #2) be more over powered than the other two? It's only a one point shift to a trapping and (unlike most other powers) I can loose the bonus at any time in the middle of combat.

Wouldn't their "attack roll" just be a manoeuvre to remove your mounted on a steed aspect (YS207-208)?

I actually just got done with my weekly game and we played aspect jockey during the conflict, and it was a blast! Trying to out manoeuvre the other is fun times!

-EF

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@devonapple:  The jargon isn't your fault!  I simply think labeling it "free invoke" and "free compel" would keep things simpler.  And avoid some confusion.  Calling those "tags" and "invokes for effect" just muddied the waters.  For the record, I still think Dresden Files RPG is the best translation of fiction to RPG I've seen.  Bar none.  I simply dislike jargon.  

+1.

The jargon is a bit confusing, but a necessary evil. It's there so we're all on the same page when discussing the rules. I hope I didn't come off as an ass when correcting your jargon, the internet is difficult to covey feeling and intent.

-EF

First tag for +2 to a roll (on a newly discovered/created Aspect):
free
(+2 to attack something, +2 to dodge an attack)

First tag for reroll (on a newly discovered/created Aspect):
free

I agree so far.

First invoke (on a newly discovered/created Aspect) to create a beneficial personal plot effect:
free

Invokes cost a Fate Point. Tags are free. I'm assuming you mean tag here.

First invoke (on a newly discovered/created Aspect) to create a detrimental plot effect on a target that is basically a Compel:
free (for the tagger);
then the GM converts it to a Compel, bankrolls it with a Fate Point, and runs the Compel against the target on his own
(the player gets no FP if the target opts to spend a FP to buy off the Invoke-cum-Compel)

I'm confused. Is it a tag (free), an invoke, or a compel? From my reading of the aspects chapter, compel FPs disappear, while invoke FPs go to the character it is used against.

First invoke (on a newly discovered/created Aspect) to create a serious plot advantage:
may cost the player a few Fate Points


In the case of AoE's, most of the Fate Points you spend are going to be for numerical bonuses, and will be going to the GM, not to any of the individual targets. In situations when you are trying to mass-Compel a group of creatures with the same Aspect, the GM should charge a few Fate Points, but not one per target (this is based on conversations with Fred and Lenny, lead DFRPG game developers)

Again, per my understanding, if someones aspect is invoked, that character (PC or NPC) gets the FP. If it's a compel, the FP disappears, and tags don't cost anything, so no FP changes hands.

-EF

A maneuver just gives you an aspect. It doesn't bypass armor benefits. Of course, the invoke gives you a +2' which could be considered the effect from avoiding the armor. So it works fine.

If you tag that manoeuvre for a +2, that represents aiming at an arm, leg, etc not covered by the Kevlar. Kevlar is Armour:2, so a +2 negates that. If they had heavier armour, the +2 could represent aiming at a weak point, for example. The heavier the armour, the longer it takes to aim for an unarmoured location (stacking aspects for one massive tag).

Just my [-2].

-EF

My advice Mr. Ways is that if your group thinks that it is fair, go ahead and just bank the skill points. There aren't going to be any Dresden police that smash through your windows because you tweaked the rules.

You're right, of course. They would hire Kincaid to snipe your books from a mile away! Bwahaha!

*AHEM*

I now return you to your regularly scheduled post.

-EF

Huh? Don't you tag aspects to increase or decrease a roll?

IE: My character's got a 'broken leg' aspect. Someone attacks the character he tags that aspect to lower my roll by 2. Does that mean the fate point goes to me?

A tag is nothing more than a free invoke, usable once. Once it's been tagged, you may invoke it as normal.

In you example, someone tags your broken leg aspect, and either gets a +2 or a reroll against you. Since it's a tag, no Fate Point was spent, so no FP changes hands. If someone did it to you a second time, that would cost them a FP, which would be given to you!

-EF

So you can have a narrower more specialized tree for example a submerged player could have a tree 3 wide and have 3 skills at good at the first significant milestone or because a character dosen't want skills that don't make sense and has more skill points than skills he wants.   

If it works for the character, do it! Personally, I'd rather have a random +1 skill that I can later buy up or swap out. But I'm more of a generalist kind of player.

-EF