Improvising NPCs with Apocalypse World’s motto—“Name everyone, make everyone human”—David Hume’s philosophy, and Cortex Prime’s ruleset. What could go wrong?
Category: Fari
Fate/Cortex–Relationships, Affiliations, and Narrative Support
A Skill-list option from Fate Condensed solves a minor Cortex issue and yields a solid let’s-try-Cortex-out build for Fate folks as a byproduct.
Monkeying Monday–Story Junctions
A never-ending quest to become a better Fate GM sent me on a sidetrack, but I came back with a cool prep trick.
Master Your Fate–3: Get a Job
Continuing the series on one-shot Fate, after character- and game-creation, this post brings a full “generic” adventure (almost) ready to play.
Hardwired Fate–Cyberpunk Scarcity Without Bookkeeping
Cyberpunk is all about quick gains & losses and counting your bullets, not bookkeeping. Here’s how to have your cybercake, and eat it too.
Bronze Rulz!–Sufficiently Advanced Magic (Part II)
Fate’s Minimal Magic-and-Crafting system (from Part I) is beefed up to do cool stuff.
Fate It Until You Make It–A Contest Hack
Build tension with Contests even if you don’t know what your NPCs want out of it.
Storytelling Sunday–On-the-Fly NPCs
How to create memorable NPCs in a pinch. Made with Fari.
Rising to the Challenge–Part 3: Improvised Side-Quests
Sometimes you want the surprise to be the path traveled rather than the destination. This hack is for those times.
Rising to the Challenge–Part 2: A Spotlight Hack for Fate (& Any RPG)
Hacking the Challenge rules to put a player in the spotlight.
The Polverine 