NOTE: Real Life and Interest Drift means that I've not been able to keep this wiki at anything resembling up to date. If anyone wants to take it over, or just contribute to the information, please feel free (contact me if you run into password problems or want any pages unlocked).

***Dave, 1-Aug-05

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This wiki started off as my own "learning by documenting" approach to FATE, but at some point along the way it sort of turned into a FATE RPG resource potentially usable by a larger audience. I'm in the process of doing some housecleaning and tidying up (and still "learning by documenting"), but hopefully it's usable nonetheless.

Things highlighted like this are notes for my In Deo Confidemus espionage campaign. At this point, of course, anything you see like this is still tentative, as I plow through the rules and do some testing.

For an RSS feed of changes to this site, go here.

Consider nothing here definitive about FATE, just interpretations and suggestions and clarifications for the folks running in my campaign. RTFM.

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Introduction

• Why FATE?
• What Is FATE?

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Rules and Concepts

• The Golden Rule Of FATE

• The FATE rules (PDF) - Well-written and quite readable (and, at the moment, free). The current version the material here is based on is v2.0, released 18-Aug-03 by Evil Hat Productions. This site is a mere supplement to this material, not a substitute by any means.

• Starting Each Session

• FATE Mechanics
  • FUDGE Dice and The Ladder
  • Tests And Challenges

• Character Rules
  • Character Building, Phases, Goals
  • Aspect, Skills, Extras, Stunts
  • Op Tech, Items
  • Fate Points
  • Character Sheet (.xls) - designed for my IDC Campaign.

• Combat Rules
  • Combat Modifiers
  • Wounds Table

• Miscellaneous
  • ChaseScenes
  • NPC Guidelines
  • Organizations

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Web links

• The FATE Yahoo group - I've pulled in some threads from this group into various places, to illustrate some of the concepts I had difficulty with.
• The FATE web page
• The FATE LiveJournal
• Other Files

• RPG.net review of FATE.
• And another RPG.net review of FATE.
• FATE as RPGNews Game of the Week.
• FATE won the 2003 Indie RPG awards for Best Free Game and Best Support, as well as the Andy's Award. Many congrats, folks! (And thanks.)

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As a wiki, this site is editable by visitors, if typos or conceptual errors are found. If you have any questions or comments about this site, please contact me.

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This is an unofficial player-run site and holds no affiliation with FATE, Fred Hicks, Robert Donoghue, or Evil Hat Productions.

FATE is copyright Robert Donoghue and Fred Hicks (see page iii of the rules for full credits). No challenge of that copyright is intended with these pages -- the content herein is designed simply to compliment and clarify the excellent work of the FATE system and integrate the published material with some of the online information and clarification that Fred and Rob have provided the gaming community into a (hopefully) concise format.

And lest we forget, there's the official FUDGE Disclaimer.