More than anything, this Fate System Toolkit is a training guide for your brain. Fate’s audience is thousands strong and full of smart people, a whole passel of whom are way smarter than the folks who made Fate in the first place. There are many places where great, excited conversation is happening right now that could use your voice and ideas, whether it’s the FateRPG Yahoo Group, the Fate Core community on Google+, the tabletop gaming forums on RPG.net and RPGGeek, or elsewhere online or off. And when you do find yourself with a new idea, please don’t keep it to yourself. This is not to say that every tool out there could be in here, but there are enough ideas and hard surfaces to push off of that you’re sure to find something that gets you going. Similarly, ways to take on the topic of superheroes in your Fate game are covered by a variety of concepts and sections within this book-only one of which is labeled “superheroes.” Or a strafing run against an orbital death satellite. It also offers you a method for how to handle “boss fights” in general. While it says on the tin “this here’s a method for handling giant monsters,” that’s just how the idea was packaged. Say something in here talks about handling giant monsters as maps or as collections of characters, rather than as a single “scaled-up” character. When looking for the right fit for your game, don’t get suckered by appearances. ![]() To put it another way, when folks asked us for the moon, we decided instead to offer them a variety of methods for building rockets. But it is a collection of ideas, approaches, and other fiddly bits that can get you there. True to its name, our Toolkit is not a device that does exactly what you want right out of the box. And so, expanding outward from our magic toolkit, is this Fate System Toolkit. That said, we knew we had to fulfill the spirit of all those requests, even if we couldn’t match the letter of them. Impossible, mind you-but damn flattering. It was damn flattering to think folks thought we could take on all those topics. And close on its heels, far outstripping the capacity of this book, came the requests for what should go into this book. As the funding for that campaign grew, so did this book. ![]() Originally, it was only the magic system section of the book. This Fate System Toolkit began as a stretch goal for the Fate Core System kickstarter.
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