Re: FATE Hacks for RPOL
Hmmm... I like to track them as a separate line at the bottom of a post, or completely at the top.
I usually don't really look to whatever is under a name.
The main challenge with FATE on RPOL, or any other forum based game I think, is World Creation and Character Creation.
I guess because people don't really see it as part of the game? The book however states that it's part of the game. It's something we can enjoy as doing together.
It could be avoided by having pre-gen settings I suppose. That makes things more easy.
What I've been thinking about, and what I'm currently trying in a game over here, is doing character creation by asking questions. Then interpreting the questions to make aspects, NPC's, factions, Issues and Troubles. However I find that asking things might limit the options of the trouble they can get.
For example. Snitch the thief has just 'liberated' a golden statue from the lost temple of Uz'Romaxxor. All seems to go well, until... What happens that gets Snitch in trouble?
This question can give a few obvious answers, for some good trouble aspects. But if the character wanted to be stealing gold because his mother has gotten ill by some disease and he's finding gold wherever he can to pay off the debts he made for her treatment, that would be very hard to write into there. Of course, they don't need to be limited by the question.