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OC-Tober Day 7

Maie! I know yesterday I said that there's a big difference between active OCs and designs sitting in the back, and that IS true, BUT it doesn't mean I cant bring them back for this if I feel inclined.

This fellow was an NPC in a long-ish Fate game I ran for a few friends in 2019. They showed up as this kind of mysterious stranger, but ended up being a good ally to the players. The campaign was fun while it lasted, and the npcs from it will likely remain retired... But who knows, maybe a Maie equivalent will show up in my works someday.

[monotone-inkwell]

[videogamepolls]

[gaylink]

[andysocer]

Posting the sketch because I like it hue hue

[shalmonsgamons]

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Fate

this seems to be one that a lot of ppl who were kids in 2005 or so seem really fond of the child proportions + adult faces are really somethin';;;

i flipped through some of the randomly generated names and settled on "Eck" i apparently forgot to screencap, but i picked a cat named "Jek" (also randomly generated) Eck and Jek, on the prowl (the function of the pet seems very similar to the pets in Torchlight, so i have a feeling the overall game will have a similar vibe?) i wonder if all the purple text will be explained?

at first i thought it was just highlighting proper nouns, but nope... maybe it's just highlighting key words to be able to be skimmed quickly? i guess that's kinda helpful shouts-out gimbo tel

really enjoying that there are friendly undead NPCs w/zero explanation; this town is just that chill omg bird alert too??? Fate's NPC game is easily 11/10

did some dungeoning & then returned to town when prompted-- (shouts-out bloodhammer the ancient)

didn't complete any quests or anything, but just wanted to get a feel for things overall seems like casual fun, i'll prob poke at it again~

[ohduhviing]

I started playing FATE (2005) again for the first time in nearly thirteen years, and oh, it’s aged like fine wine.

[ra-horakhty-art]

Anger from fate for my friend

And without thunder

[malinaa]

if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing

[prokopetz]

So what about FATE? How is it not universal as an RPG?

The biggest non-universal dimension of FATE – at least in its modern incarnations – is that it has a very strong set of baked-in assumptions about the relationship between players and player characters.

This is something I've talked about in the past; to somewhat oversimplify, there are roughly four ways for a player in a tabletop RPG to relate to their character:

The Isekai Stance: I am my character, and my character is me. I'll have my character do whatever I myself would do if I happened to be, for example, an elf wizard.

The Actor Stance: I'm an actor, and my character is my role. I'll have my character do what I feel it would be psychologically realistic for them to do under the circumstances.

The Storyteller Stance: I'm a narrator telling a story, and my character is the co-protagonist of that story. I'll have my character do whatever I feel would make for the most interesting story.

The Gamer Stance: I'm a person playing a game, and my character is my playing-piece. I'll do whatever it takes to win.

This generally isn't a useful way to classify either players or games; games typically have weak baked-in assumptions about which stance their players will adopt, and to the extent that these assumptions are present, a game may make different default assumptions for different parts of play. A common set of assumptions is actor mode outside of combat and gamer mode in combat, for example.

FATE is, of course, an exception to the rule, in that it has very strong baked-in assumptions about what stance players will adopt toward their characters, and further assumes that play will occur at least mostly in this mode. The Fate Point economy that forms the core of the gameplay loop 100% assumes that you're going to be playing in storyteller nearly all of the time – the types of decisions it's asking players to make on a moment-by-moment basis are frequently straight up unintelligible from any other perspective.

This is a big part of why suggesting FATE because it can "do anything" can go over like a lead balloon: the folks making this suggestion aren't taking into account the possibility that a given group's players may not vibe with the system's assumptions about how players relate to their characters. Storyteller-mode-all-the-time is actually a fairly uncommon group play style, and it often seems that FATE fans don't realise this!

[gato3pero]

the one time i go to play 😭😭

[oooocleo]

hmm hmmmmm hmmm

[trainerjoshie]

Pokémon TCG SV Promo (2024) & Paldean Fates (2024) illustrations by Kuroimori 😍😍

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[shalmonsgamons]

yesterday's gamin (lots of caps under the cut)

i ended up quitting this Khimera puzzle for another time--idk if i'm so much stuck as just sleepy. but getting stuck at picross is pretty rare for me 🤔 LATER: ????? once again, KPI apparently did not actually close as i moved on to other games;; how does this keep happening, i thought for sure i exited??

did a small quest in Exiled Kingdoms ur welcome markus

did some more Euclidean Skies puzzles i am really having some issues with the unresponsive controls (i thought i was stuck, but it turns out i just...clicked wrong? i guess? sometimes clicks do stuff, sometimes they don't 🙃 very fiddly. i guess this really was meant to be played with touch controls) but gosh i just love looking at it

look how cool this is 😭

had to do some domin' after this week's update!

lol idk how i feel about this menu style i bet there's probably a toggle to make it behave more normally cute tho

oooo new place? 0: (i'm still kinda new to DK, so maybe this was there already)

new things? (that resource portal is SO helpful)

oh!! i actually didn't know this was even a thing (i am playing on easy tho lol)

(omg i just noticed the cute li'l critter corners on the UI here, or maybe that's new?)

played some more fate; it's fun & i can definitely see why ppl are nostalgic for this one ran into a Bird Alert that i can't afford 😭

then i died & got the Title Drop;;

anyway here is Eck's current appearance: (the hulk hands;;;)