Me: *sees FATE Core mentioned* Violently pushes the like button even not watching the video! There needs to be more content around FATE and I fully support video for beginners!
Fantastic! I am about to start playing in a FATE game run by my wife. I have wanted to try this system for a while but thought it might be too complicated. Thank you for making this series. It will go a long way in assisting me to figuring out how to play!
I played FATE and FAE, GMed both. I think there are good things in both and usually I end up using a mix of both tailored for my purpose. Will keep this guide to show new players in future. Thanks! :)
don't forget about Fate Condensed! Personally, i tend more towards the full toolkit of Fate Core, but i think Approaches are really neat so i tend to swap those back in
Ah! I think I’m going to do a big video just for condensed as its own little thing :) what do you think about that idea? Also same!! I’ve been using them in both systems lately haha
I have tried both FATE Core and FATE Accelerated. Accelerated is great for one-shots, since approaches clearly define how a character operates. Core is good for longer games - it prevents someone from leaning on the same approach for all their actions, which becomes rote over time. I'll also say this in favour of FATE: There are other games that do storytelling well, but FATE is the rare game that has a strong mechanical support for any improvised storytelling that may happen. Just come up with aspects during play, and FATE's mechanics will handle the rest.
Thanks for this. I had bought Core a long time ago and am finally about to get a group to play it, and want to make it as good as possible. They would definitely be the types to turn their character into one trick ponies, then be upset that their characters were one trick ponies. So I think I'm going to stick with Core, but for the price(s) I'm going to look up the Accelerated and Condensed.
Yes, same! Just this year I just started running a FATE campaign as a backup for when players can't make it, and I looked for something like this to introduce the system to my players and couldn't find something this well done! So they're getting the link to these videos dropped on the Discord now! 😁
Funny enough I played a mini campaign with Fate Accelerated using the Uranium Chef setting. We had so much fun and there were so many moments where each character shined in ways that were unexpected. We were learned the fate system together and I screwed up the rules and mechanics a lot but that didn't matter all too much like it would for D&D or other systems. We told an awesome story and enjoyed what we had made. I will never forget the invention of the stunt "Blasphemous Blessing" whenever rolling to aid an ally or disadvantage an enemy you get a +2 to clever. Whenever it was used the player would almost always get a legendary outcome and we ended up with so many fun and hilarious moments!
Dude that’s sick! I really love that. Also the fact you “bent the rules” a bit is what it’s all about and why sometimes I really prefer fate over other systems. Also that sounds freaking great haha I love it!
Best wishes with your new channel, and maybe covering something other than D&D will work out well too. I feel like that market's over-crowded, but I also think it could use some fresh voices. So good luck!
I've gotten all three versions: Core, Accelerated, and Condensed So far I've only played Core though, as with bringing my group over from 5e i wanted them to have a little more structure and familiarity and that seemed to track the closest to what they were used to.
I'm a Fate CORE GM and I feel like I feels good for everithing except combat. I'ts so simplifyed that I must make a few homebrew rules in order to not to make an all-powerfull character with 3 skills. As a frined of mine told, in Fate, the fights are just a way to do narrative (he is hardcore). Thinking of keeping an eye in Accelerated for a normie group. Btw I love the way the characters are created and the fun of making them, not like D&D that are photocopies... In FATE they have sould.
There are easy ways to make combat more interesting. First of all, use Create an Advantage a whole bunch, it makes the game more fun. Then you can introduce situational combat aspects based on the people engaged. Let's say your player uses Rapier and enemy wears Plate Armor, you can introduce aspect "Plate Armor" which the enemy can use to Defend against rapier, but another player with hammer can invoke that aspect against the enemy, because hammer is great against armored opponents. Also introduce more personalized skills, instead of Fight, use Fencing, Kung-Fu, Fist Fighting etc.
@@Tesoro1996 I agree with you. The main problem is that my players never think on creating advantages or not thinking of weapons narratively so always go to the crude statl. Don't know how to make them think of creating advantages 🥺...
@@oriolbiosca693 you can practice it with them by giving enemies big obvious weaknesses, like a vampire's Trouble "Garlic is Poison", or a mage's "Wards of Weapon Turning" that makes them immune to attacks until the PCs find a way to Overcome or Compel it
@@lawrl777 Yeah it should work. The key point here if the whole stats and aspects are shown or not. I mean, it's quite known that garlic and vampires mixes bad, but some of them don't jave it event in mind, so I make it expicit or it will be useless. :/
I'm going to feature this video on my site! It's a great breakdown of the Fate rules, and I need something like this to help explain my game to my audience! I'll embed the video and also link to your Fate RPG 101 playlist. Keep it going! Don't let me down! lol
Oh my gosh!!! Thank you so much! Wow I’m literally speechless right now!! Thank you so much!! I won’t 🫡 already did the voicing for the second ep I’m now working on the video!! Hoping to release it by the end of this week / early next week. Again thank you so much omg!!!
Great question!! Also thank you so much :) Reason why is that I want to make FATE condensed its own 1 long episode. I feel it deserves its own thing especially for beginners who just wanna get into it ya know
@@danielgomes2576 you’re so awesome that I screenshotted this comment so I can look back to it. Literally people like you are the reason I keep posting. I probably won’t ever make a cent with this channel and you people make it worth me spending hours to make these videos. You have no idea the smile you’ve given me by making this comment ❤️
Good catch! In my next video (I’m editing right now hopefully will upload in a few hours) I explain condensed is getting is own episode :) don’t want to overwhelm newer people to another system.
@@BananaBreakdown absolutely. Condensed has simplified and polished a lot of rough spots in the mechanics, but lots of Fate products still use older Core mechanics because the changes aren’t significant enough to warrant an update. So that kinda forces you and anyone else introducing newcomers to fate to talk about it. But I think it’s more didactic to teach how the easier Condensed works and then show the differences of Core (which are minimal), citing existing products that still use it. Anyway, I really appreciate what you’re doing, and can’t wait for the rest of the series!
Mate I appreciate you so much. Also really love that you pointed this out. It helps me so much! I probably will miss a lot to be honest! Just starting out on UA-cam haha :) only a couple month old!
Well, credit's due, FATE used to stand for FUDGE Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment. Because of it's ancestor, FUDGE. I don't get it why to erase history.... ,
Hey so I totally get what you’re saying! But in my defence the reason I didn’t bring it up was that evil hat actually dropped that and don’t use it anymore. But I probably still should’ve mentioned it! I was just afraid of giving way to much info that isn’t super important so the viewer doesn’t get too overwhelmed with details that aren’t super important. But I really appreciate you saying this as it’s still important!! So thank you!
Haha seeing this you made me realise I need to change my script for the second episode. So you’d be happy to know after a couple times I just go down to “core” and “accelerated” and only say like 5 times the whole vid 🤣
Me: *sees FATE Core mentioned* Violently pushes the like button even not watching the video! There needs to be more content around FATE and I fully support video for beginners!
Haha thank you!!! It’s so underrated right?! Like I’m so shocked there’s barely any content on it.
I love it and can't wait for all of the videos to be released!
Wow thank you so much for commenting! So crazy to hear from you haha that’s high praise!!
Fantastic! I am about to start playing in a FATE game run by my wife. I have wanted to try this system for a while but thought it might be too complicated. Thank you for making this series. It will go a long way in assisting me to figuring out how to play!
I played FATE and FAE, GMed both. I think there are good things in both and usually I end up using a mix of both tailored for my purpose.
Will keep this guide to show new players in future. Thanks! :)
Amazing!! Uploading the next one in a few hours! Thank you so much!
don't forget about Fate Condensed! Personally, i tend more towards the full toolkit of Fate Core, but i think Approaches are really neat so i tend to swap those back in
Ah! I think I’m going to do a big video just for condensed as its own little thing :) what do you think about that idea?
Also same!! I’ve been using them in both systems lately haha
I have tried both FATE Core and FATE Accelerated. Accelerated is great for one-shots, since approaches clearly define how a character operates. Core is good for longer games - it prevents someone from leaning on the same approach for all their actions, which becomes rote over time.
I'll also say this in favour of FATE: There are other games that do storytelling well, but FATE is the rare game that has a strong mechanical support for any improvised storytelling that may happen. Just come up with aspects during play, and FATE's mechanics will handle the rest.
It would help if you tried out Fate Condensed it is the upgrade & only costs $8 or a free pdf
Thanks for this. I had bought Core a long time ago and am finally about to get a group to play it, and want to make it as good as possible. They would definitely be the types to turn their character into one trick ponies, then be upset that their characters were one trick ponies. So I think I'm going to stick with Core, but for the price(s) I'm going to look up the Accelerated and Condensed.
This is a great summary, and I'm looking forward to more discussion with this series on the differences between the 3 versions!
looking foward to see the development of this series
Thank you so much mate, literally making my day over here!
Oh I searched a lot for a video like this a while ago, so glad I got this recommended.
Aw wow! thank you! Making me so happy over here haha. This is such an awesome comment wow!
Yes, same! Just this year I just started running a FATE campaign as a backup for when players can't make it, and I looked for something like this to introduce the system to my players and couldn't find something this well done!
So they're getting the link to these videos dropped on the Discord now! 😁
Same here! Thanks for the videos
great, I needed more good introductions to the system
Thank you :D let me know if you have anything you specifically wanna see!
Funny enough I played a mini campaign with Fate Accelerated using the Uranium Chef setting. We had so much fun and there were so many moments where each character shined in ways that were unexpected. We were learned the fate system together and I screwed up the rules and mechanics a lot but that didn't matter all too much like it would for D&D or other systems. We told an awesome story and enjoyed what we had made. I will never forget the invention of the stunt "Blasphemous Blessing" whenever rolling to aid an ally or disadvantage an enemy you get a +2 to clever. Whenever it was used the player would almost always get a legendary outcome and we ended up with so many fun and hilarious moments!
Dude that’s sick! I really love that. Also the fact you “bent the rules” a bit is what it’s all about and why sometimes I really prefer fate over other systems. Also that sounds freaking great haha I love it!
Best wishes with your new channel, and maybe covering something other than D&D will work out well too. I feel like that market's over-crowded, but I also think it could use some fresh voices. So good luck!
Thank you so much! This is really nice of you to say! I just hope I do it justice!!
Great start! Looking forward to the rest.
Thank you so much!
FATE VIDEO LET'S GOOO!
If you like this get ready ;) I’m gonna make way more FATE vids!!
I've gotten all three versions: Core, Accelerated, and Condensed
So far I've only played Core though, as with bringing my group over from 5e i wanted them to have a little more structure and familiarity and that seemed to track the closest to what they were used to.
I totally get it and in all honestly once you play both you tend to just make a mix of both systems haha
I'm a Fate CORE GM and I feel like I feels good for everithing except combat. I'ts so simplifyed that I must make a few homebrew rules in order to not to make an all-powerfull character with 3 skills. As a frined of mine told, in Fate, the fights are just a way to do narrative (he is hardcore).
Thinking of keeping an eye in Accelerated for a normie group.
Btw I love the way the characters are created and the fun of making them, not like D&D that are photocopies... In FATE they have sould.
There are easy ways to make combat more interesting. First of all, use Create an Advantage a whole bunch, it makes the game more fun. Then you can introduce situational combat aspects based on the people engaged. Let's say your player uses Rapier and enemy wears Plate Armor, you can introduce aspect "Plate Armor" which the enemy can use to Defend against rapier, but another player with hammer can invoke that aspect against the enemy, because hammer is great against armored opponents. Also introduce more personalized skills, instead of Fight, use Fencing, Kung-Fu, Fist Fighting etc.
@@Tesoro1996 I agree with you. The main problem is that my players never think on creating advantages or not thinking of weapons narratively so always go to the crude statl. Don't know how to make them think of creating advantages 🥺...
@@oriolbiosca693 you can practice it with them by giving enemies big obvious weaknesses, like a vampire's Trouble "Garlic is Poison", or a mage's "Wards of Weapon Turning" that makes them immune to attacks until the PCs find a way to Overcome or Compel it
@@lawrl777 Yeah it should work. The key point here if the whole stats and aspects are shown or not. I mean, it's quite known that garlic and vampires mixes bad, but some of them don't jave it event in mind, so I make it expicit or it will be useless. :/
This was really interesting! I may try this at some point
I think someone who’s a really good creative like yourself would really enjoy it cause of the freedoms! Def would if I were you!
I'm going to feature this video on my site! It's a great breakdown of the Fate rules, and I need something like this to help explain my game to my audience! I'll embed the video and also link to your Fate RPG 101 playlist. Keep it going! Don't let me down! lol
Oh my gosh!!! Thank you so much! Wow I’m literally speechless right now!! Thank you so much!! I won’t 🫡 already did the voicing for the second ep I’m now working on the video!! Hoping to release it by the end of this week / early next week.
Again thank you so much omg!!!
@@BananaBreakdown Got it up on the site! Sent you the link in Reddit. Hope it's all good for ya!
Gosh, I’m excited! Fate, let’s go 🎉
Woo! I’m gonna try get the second episode out by this weekend!
Fantastic! Fate is a wonderful system.
Agreed! It’s so under appreciated
Sounds like a very interesting system!
Honestly I love it!
Hope the video was ok! What do you think about me trying something new like this?
@@BananaBreakdownI like the video but I don’t know if my group will ever want to play something less rules-heavy :(
Totally get it! I have a seperate FATE and D&D group lol
Awesome video! I subscribed to the channel and sure will watch the hole series. But not a word on Fate Condensed. Why?
Great question!! Also thank you so much :)
Reason why is that I want to make FATE condensed its own 1 long episode. I feel it deserves its own thing especially for beginners who just wanna get into it ya know
I really messed up by not saying anything about it though!
Commenting to help with the algorithm
@@danielgomes2576 you’re so awesome that I screenshotted this comment so I can look back to it. Literally people like you are the reason I keep posting. I probably won’t ever make a cent with this channel and you people make it worth me spending hours to make these videos. You have no idea the smile you’ve given me by making this comment ❤️
Harrumph!!!
Forget Fate
Try Savage Rifts
Will love to see you make a whole series about that.
Hit North America, South America, Atlantis and sone Europe 🤤👍
I don’t think I’ve heard of savage rift! I’ll do some research and play a few games! Be ready to see some content soon!
Hang on. Fate Condensed is the latest revision.
Good catch! In my next video (I’m editing right now hopefully will upload in a few hours) I explain condensed is getting is own episode :) don’t want to overwhelm newer people to another system.
@@BananaBreakdown absolutely. Condensed has simplified and polished a lot of rough spots in the mechanics, but lots of Fate products still use older Core mechanics because the changes aren’t significant enough to warrant an update. So that kinda forces you and anyone else introducing newcomers to fate to talk about it. But I think it’s more didactic to teach how the easier Condensed works and then show the differences of Core (which are minimal), citing existing products that still use it.
Anyway, I really appreciate what you’re doing, and can’t wait for the rest of the series!
Mate I appreciate you so much. Also really love that you pointed this out. It helps me so much! I probably will miss a lot to be honest! Just starting out on UA-cam haha :) only a couple month old!
@@BananaBreakdown we will watch your career with great interest. Cool new video on the series, BTW!
Thank you so much :) you’re so awesome!!! Seriously made my year haha
The game does have a 300 pg rulebook. Not including the toolkit of course...
Well, credit's due, FATE used to stand for FUDGE Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment. Because of it's ancestor, FUDGE. I don't get it why to erase history.... ,
Hey so I totally get what you’re saying! But in my defence the reason I didn’t bring it up was that evil hat actually dropped that and don’t use it anymore. But I probably still should’ve mentioned it! I was just afraid of giving way to much info that isn’t super important so the viewer doesn’t get too overwhelmed with details that aren’t super important.
But I really appreciate you saying this as it’s still important!! So thank you!
@@BananaBreakdown fair enough. Best luck
@@diegotartaglia thanks mate! Hope you enjoyed the video :)
Fate good. Me like.
Such an underrated system!
Please find a way to stop saying FATE all the time xD
Haha seeing this you made me realise I need to change my script for the second episode. So you’d be happy to know after a couple times I just go down to “core” and “accelerated” and only say like 5 times the whole vid 🤣
This feels like it was written by AI.
@@yeoldeharbinger5880 lol it wasn’t but ok thank you for your input.