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FATE: Aliens, survival horror (zombies, monsters), DFA.

Posted by Samus Aran
Samus Aran
member, 337 posts
Author, game designer
Part-time Metroid fighter
Wed 19 Jul 2017
at 09:16
  • msg #1

FATE: Aliens, survival horror (zombies, monsters), DFA

I am interested in trying out FATE, and in particular its most engaging aspects: Aspects. Scene aspects, interacting with traits and things like that. Something in the vein of Alien: Isolation would be a pretty cool vehicle for this, I think. I'd love to get in a game that's both a heavy narrative focus but also uses a lot of environmental/scene engagement. Really get into the meat of it all, show me how the game works. I want to mine it for ideas for other games. Here are some cool scenarios to test it out, I think:

ALIENS
Inspired by Alien: Isolation, which I thought would have made a great one-shot story in a narrative-heavy game like FATE. Trapped on a far-flung colony with hostile Aliens (I'd prefer lots of different kinds here, born of different imported and indigenous fauna), synthetics, greedy humans, and others just trying to survive, can we escape the madness before the Aliens destroy us all?

Dresden Files Accelerated
I haven't read any Dresden stuff, but I like urban fantasy, so it seems like it could be fun to try FATE with. This doesn't have to be set in a Dresden setting proper; just using the stuff for supernatural characters would be fine.

Zombie Apocalypse
A classic scenario. I love zombie apocalypse stuff, especially with zombie animals and mutated scary zombie variants. Love the "survival" part of "survival horror." The day-to-day stuff: gathering supplies, sifting through the remnants of lives lost as you search apartments, bed down for the night, etc. Meeting other survivors and the drama therein is also great, and should work well for our purposes.

I'd be willing to discuss any ideas related to the above or similar FATE stuff. Just let me know and we'll figure everything out. One-shot story preferred because of the learning nature of the game.
Zerogrim
member, 7 posts
Wed 26 Jul 2017
at 02:26
  • msg #2

FATE: Aliens, survival horror (zombies, monsters), DFA

hey i am interested in trying out Fate as well, running it that is~

I have a good grasp on the fate core rules but only very minor experience playing it so far, id be happy to run a solo adventure in the Zombie apocalypse setting.

I haven't read the Dresden files version of fate (my experience is with Fate core and Fate Accelerated) and I am fairly low on knowelge when it comes to the alien's setting so if it was any of the three it'll have to be zombies. (which I have run as gritty bean counting survival, whacky comedy, supernatural sci-fi super soldiers and just tons of crazy alternatives)
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