Author Topic: Cautionary tales - anyone broken their game yet?  (Read 1780 times)

Offline exploding_brain

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Cautionary tales - anyone broken their game yet?
« on: April 21, 2010, 02:57:28 PM »
One of the best features of FATE 3.0 based games is the open-source, hack-friendly nature.  Of course, that aspect can be compelled as well as invoked. ;) I'd love to hear some horror stories or cautionary tales of great ideas that turned out badly.  Before I let my group get all hack happy with the system, I'd like to know what NOT to do, or at least what to be cautious of.

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Re: Cautionary tales - anyone broken their game yet?
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2010, 03:03:56 PM »
The system is hack-friendly, but it also has a number of not immediately obvious interrelationships. While I don't have a horror story to offer here per se, I would encourage folks to try running it "vanilla" before adding tweaks of their own. See how what's there works first.  Don't assume it's all obvious without playing.
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