Fate Point Cap

As another note, I will most likely be implementing something similar with Hero Points in the Witch Hunter: Revelations campaign.

I hope that the Fate Point cap would be considered/thought of when writing and balancing encounters then. I’m willing to spend them, but I’d prefer it not feel like a requirement to compete/succeed at an event…

Well, to respond on your points, I’m rerunning the first arc for a new group, so I’ve started to look at the encounters more but have not examined the BI’s too much yet. You did identify the first-run BIs, which I’ve been at and definitely drew out Fate Points at times – if this was done to draw out Fate Points, I understand the intent/desire during those events. I’ll agree that Fate Points were high/pooled too much, and the awarding of Fate Points seemed to vary greatly judge to judge.

Just wanted to post a gentle reminder going forward on this resource being limited now. Overall, the earlier BI I played via home play seemed fine, from what I remember – the first runs, which I’ve only been to two, seemed to draw/require their expenditure much more.

I definitely like the Fate mechanic, and prefer it be used and earn on a even footing, but requiring to spend and change Fate all the time is the only concern I wanted to address.

Pretty sure PCs can spend their fate score per scene, which does change things a little. Assuming a score of 3, over three combats a PC could spend 9 fate. Add a couple fate spent on various action rolls in other scenes (Perception, Knowledge, etc) and you could easily run over the cap in a standard mod.

I agree that the cap will have the largest impact at BIs though, as you can easily drop 20-30 fate in a BI.

My understanding has been that you can spend your fate score per adventure (or round in a two round module). Do I have that wrong?

Patrick, while that fight is certainly difficult, its not unwinnable. it just requires players to think outside of the box, and use tactics they may not have used before.

This isn’t the forum to discuss that fight in specific tho, we can discuss it in a spoiler forum if you wish

A shameless plug, but ArcanisCon seems to be a place where all the cool kids hand out in the winter ( well … U-Con too )

At the end of the day, the cap has been set.

Going forward, we’ll be doing our best to ensure that no fight *requires* Fate points to live (barring bad dice rolls, which is something we can’t control).

Also, as a teaser for ArcaniCon directly related to this:

Halden Vulgar peruses the documents that lay scattered on his desk. Hundreds of pages waited, copied from the originals in the Great Library of Althares and sent to him through an intricate network, finally arriving at the Milandisian Museum of Art and Antiquity. He sighs. I don’t see how they expect me to find anything in all this,he mutters to himself. Someone obviously went out of their way to purge as much mention of this place as they could… Halden picks up one of the pages, and reads: “Buried deep in the Corlathian mountains… … civil relations with the local Gar … .” The next one is not much better: “Once long, long ago, far away on the edge of the Blessed Lands, there was a great fortress built to keep … .”

His hands stray along the papers, until slowly coming to rest on a pair. Thoughtfully, he pulls them out of their sheaf. The first one is written in stark, solid letters, in an old but common dialect of Ancient Altharin and very brief: “The Vault is buried for a reason. Its secrets can remain there beyond the end of time itself. No good can come from Larissa’s Tear, nor aught else that may be found within.” The second is an alchemical formula involving some sort of venom. The text is an archaic form of Ancient Altharin, clearly from around the time of the First Imperium. Most of the text was damaged beyond repair, but one phrase near the bottom catches Halden’s attention: “With these ingredients and techniques we were able to imbue our tools and the weapons of our defenders with Larissa’s kiss. We are able to literally hold our own Fate in our hands and work wonders.” Halden frowns, then sets the papers to the side, before methodically returning to searching for more information on the Vault of Larissa’s Lament.