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Fate Space Toolkit
Take your Fate game into the great unknown with the Fate Space Toolkit! Fate Space Toolkit is an expansion for the Fate Core System.
Inside you’ll find:
- Guidelines for creating a space-faring game without breaking your table’s sense of what’s plausible.
- Multiple options for deciding how space-travel works in your setting, from star charts to rocket ships.
- A variety of tools for making your space fights exciting and consistent with your setting.
- Guidance on creating aliens and alien worlds.
- Five ready-to-go campaign-starter settings showcasing all of the toolkit’s tools in action.
This is the Prototype Edition of the Fate Space Toolkit. What’s that mean?
TL;DR: There’s no art, but sales of this will help us get art, and once we get art, we’ll upgrade your PDF to one with art at no added cost.
The Fate Space Toolkit has had a rocky ride through asteroid-filled space to reach you in its present form.
Towards the end of 2018, after the text and layout was done, but before we could schedule its release and art acquisition effort, Evil Hat realized it was over-extended and needed to slim back its product offerings for the coming year. You can read more about this in our public blog post from then, found here: https://www.evilhat.com/home/refocused-resized-hat-mode-activated/
At any rate, Fate Space ended up right on the cusp there—in the “neutral zone” as it were. There wasn’t budget to make the art happen any time soon, let alone put it into print. But the text, the glorious text, that was done, and well worth reading. So how to get it out to folks?
In the end we’ve landed on this, the Prototype Edition of the Fate Space Toolkit. We’ll sell it in this art-free form (the lavender rectangles throughout the text are place-holders for eventual artwork) until it generates enough revenue to pay for the missing art budget (that’ll require at least 500 sales). Once we have that, we can commission the art, and at least provide a final version of the book in electronic form. (If that happy event comes to pass, we’ll upgrade all purchases of the Prototype Edition PDF to the full final PDF version at no added cost.)
As to whether or not the book will see print, who knows? At the least, if we get the budget for art, we’ll be able to take a look at making it available as a print-on-demand title here on DriveThruRPG.
Fate Toolkits. All the tools to build your stage.
Expansion Information
Number of players: 3-6
Age of players: 12+
Length: 2-8 hours
Type of Game: Roleplaying Game Supplement for Fate Core
Languages Available: English
Prototype Edition Price: $10
Length: 176 Pages
Format: PDF
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Game Designers: Bill White, Mikki Kendall, Joshua A.C. Newman, C.W. Marshall
Is this product going to eventually be available in hard copy? I would prefer hard copy to pdf.
We will make our plans w/r/t print after the art is in. If we do move it to print, it will likely be only as a print-on-demand item through DriveThruRPG. But that cart must come after the horse of the art and the upgrade to the digital-only version.
Thanks for the update, Fred. I got a preview PDF of the Space Toolkit during the Tachyon Squadron kickstarter campaign and truly love both books, so it’s nice to hear that the Space Toolkit may yet see physical existence as a PoD.
I know Evil Hat has already invested in a lot of other planned Toolkits, and think you’d find a ready audience for the remaining unpublished titles as PoD titles, even if you had to Kickstart for additional art and layout and offer PoD at cost as a Kickstarter reward– just a suggestion, but of course you know your business far better than I. Only mentioning this because a) it’d be a shame for this completed work to go unpublished, and b) We wants me preciousssss, yessss. I know you’re doing what you can and that you’re trying not to over-extend, but please do what you can to let me throw more Toolkit money at you LOL.
Thanks!
If there is a POD available, will there be a discount available for those that purchased the PDF?
Frankly, I don’t know DriveThruRPG’s POD program well enough to answer this. If they make it trivially easy, then yes. If they don’t, it’s unclear.
Is it possible to put this toolkit on Kickstarter, perhaps, in order to possibly get help with funds for art and maybe even a hardcover printing?
Hi Bryan,
With DriveThru we were funded for art so that is happening for sure. We wouldn’t kickstarter it, but pending sales a print run or POD offering may be in the works too.
Make more rules for playing Hard Science Fiction tropes. Here is what I like. No FTL! At best pseudo-FTL in terms of Stargates that have to be crearted and towed STL to other starsystem. No paragravity-either spin yer ship, make torch ship that constantly accelerates & invent advanced medical to solve zero-G health problems. No aliens and or if you have them don’t make them humanoid but truely alien.
That would be ultra-cool.
I suspect you’d get a lot out of the (pre-Fate Core) game Diaspora, James.