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The more active your players, the more likely it'll survive.  All too often players come to a game and then find that it's not for them and they beg off.

I'd suggest you all create the game together.  That would also tie in with Create Advantage and the players creating facts for the setting.  Some GMs want more control than that, but I've played in a FAE game where players were invested and it was a blast.

For the more "magic-y" elements, you could look at Fate Codex v2n2 for the Corruption rules.  That might be a nice dark element for humans tampering with unknown forces.  The mechanics, if you don't have the Codex (which I highly suggest) is that when you Succeed at Great Cost, you can choose Corruption for one of your Approaches, which then changes, e.g. Forceful becomes Aggressive.  When all your Approaches become Corrupted, you become an NPC (as you've completely gone over to the Dark Side, if you will).  You can redeem yourself, naturally, so it's not a one way street, and, of course, there's more to it than that.

While you say not to suggest another system, Fate Core might allow for more distinction between players "specialties," e.g. Lore/Knowledge, in that a Cryptozoologist should be quite different in their niche than a Parapsychologist.  While I love FAE, two characters with Clever +3 and similar higher education backgrounds will provide quite a lot of overlap.  That doesn't happen so much, say, in the supers genre where Aspects/Power Facts give different permissions.

This message was deleted by the user at 18:19, Mon 27 Mar 2017.

It definitely sounds interesting! I normally only play freeform on Roll, but this seems interesting enough I'd be willing to try a system game again.

I like this, it sounds very XCOM.

Too bad you're not using FATE Core though (I know, I know), since it's much more expansive than FAE and has the Squad rules supplement.

I personally dislike FAE, but do like FATE, so unless you are changing the system, I'd have to pass.


All that said, expansive concept that I'd generally be interested in playing :)

This message was deleted by the user at 23:37, Fri 24 Feb 2017.

I'm totally down, including using FAE.  And the mantles/conditions tweaks from Dresden Accelerated are awesome, I hope you'll be importing them in some form or another.

Does that mean you'll only allow one military/combatant type character as well, for example? How many roles/niches/specialities to you envision there being?

edit: Ah, I see it now: "soldiers, spies, scientists, computer hackers, those warped by the "unnatural" and gifted with special abilities." Fair enough.
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This message was deleted by the user at 16:13, Fri 07 Apr 2017.

 What's the flavour of the unnatural? Paranormal? Lovecraftian? Mad/fringe science?

I'm not sure yet. I was either going to have it be part of game creation, or figure something out for myself. The initial post is just the setting skeleton devised by Ryan Macklin.

Sounds good to me. I'm down with FAE (though like some of the others, I prefer Fate Core).

I'd be down for this. Never played with Fate Accelerated, but it looks simple enough. Count me in.

Personally, I don't think niche/concept protection happens at the level of Approaches... it happens at the level of High Concept.  You've got Harry Dresden and John Reese from Person of Interest both having Forceful as their highest rated Approach... but there is absolutely no mistaking Reese encroaching on Harry's niche or vice versa.

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That looks like four expressions of interest to me. Enough for you, airellian? 8-]

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I'm up for game creation. I know Fate games can stumble at that point in PbP format, but I'm excited to give it a shot from the player's side - and we can always poach ideas from Macklin's blog if we get stuck.

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I'd pitch in with world creation if you want, though I've never really done something like this from the player's side.

I'm interested in playing and creation, though Fate Core would be even better.
Will enthusiastically participate with FAE.

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