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| 3-6 | 13+ | 2-8 Hours | PWYW |
Fate Condensed is an updated, streamlined, 50-pages-or-less version of Fate Core System. It’s completely stand-alone and features new refinements to the Fate Core engine that’ll have it running better than ever. Call it Fate 4.5, if you like—it covers all the ground (and uses the same skills) as Fate Core, in about a sixth the size.
You can use Fate Condensed (FCon) to drive any game, any scenario, with proactive, capable player-characters leading dramatic lives. The easy-to-digest rules are presented here with a minimum of verbiage, letting you get to the table and roll the dice, fast.
For game creators, the text of Fate Condensed is available for development under an open license, at a word-count that won’t bust your budget when making an all-in-one-book stand-alone game Powered by Fate.
Fate veterans will appreciate the refinements and additions to the Fate Core engine, including:
- A shift to one-point stress boxes to help reduce player confusion.
- The use of “Balsera Style” initiative (also known as “elective action order” or “popcorn initiative”) as the default rather than using skills to determine turn order.
- Improvements to advancement, eliminating significant milestones and finessing major milestones to compensate.
- Changing active opposition so it’s no longer separate from the defend action.
- Eight pages of optional rules to make building your variant of choice easy, including Dresden Files Accelerated scale rules, extreme consequences, countdowns, and a variety of ways to make your Big Bads bigger and badder.
Fate Condensed.
Refined. Streamlined. Stand-alone. Open licensed.
Download now at DriveThruRPG or itch.io
Is there a character sheet yet?
Ty: there is indeed.
https://www.evilhat.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Fate-Condensed-Character-Sheet.pdf
Yeah, the character sheet is in the PDF and as a separate file when you get the game.
Is this going to be available in print? I’d love to support my FLGS.
Given that we’ve done two revision updates to it in the past three weeks, it’s too early to send it to print. That’s on our eventual radar, it’s just premature.
I love this! All the compactness I loved about FAE, with just enough of the dials I like to tweak explicitly included.
Being fully aware of the pagecount limitation, I’d like to make a humble request for one more inclusion into the optional rules: namely the *reduced version* of the **Consumables** from the Horror Toolkit (p.96-98) as an alternative way for keeping tabs on equipment/resources (like depletion of supplies, wear on gears, fluctuating sanity/wealth/power/mana).
Thanks for the work and effort put into this iteration of Fate!
With apologies, we’re unlikely to add those. You can always use them as given in FHT tho!
It is hard to figure out what has changed since last revision update. Do you have a change list?
Yup; it’s posted in the product comments on DriveThruRPG.com and in a devlog on evilhat.itch.io each time I post a new revision. Look at the bottom of https://evilhat.itch.io/fate-condensed for all the changelogs posted to date.
Luckily I did a search on FATE tonight or I wouldn’t even realize there had been an update to the core system! Will FAE be getting an update as well, out of curiosity?
I ask this knowing that FAE IS Core with a different skills system. To clarify my question, would Condense breed an offshoot FAE style like core did?