[Torg] Fate & Aspects in Torg

[Kansas Jim]

On 2/23/2010 8:18 AM, Jasyn Jones wrote:

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> What if Torg's Fate Points were cards from the Drama Deck? "Pool that refreshes every adventure"- isn't that a description of the Cards?

Yeah, interacting and crossing over with the Drama Deck were aspects of 
Aspects that I figured would have to be playtested to find a good 
balance. In addition to all the bonus cards there's crossover with other 
cards too because you can "invoke for effect". For example, if you had 
"member of a secret society" as an Aspect you could invoke it and say 
that there's a chapter of said secret society in the town your character 
is visiting, similar to playing a Connection card.

And there's similar crossover between the Drama Deck and Stunts too. For 
example, there are a number of Stunts which can provide benefits similar 
to Connection and Alertness cards and many give specific skill bonuses 
which could be seen as similar but more narrow than cards like 
Adrenalin, Willpower and Presence. (Actually you could define a lot of 
the Stunts as advantages too.)

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> Tagging, I'm not sure about because I don't know how it exactly works.

At it's most basic tagging is just invoking an Aspect that isn't one of 
your character's Aspects. Say you know that an NPC has "Gullible" as an 
Aspect, you could tag that and your character gets a bonus on a Trick 
attempt made against him.

You can also do maneuvers to create temporary Aspects that get applied 
to other characters and then tag them on later actions, similar to 
making someone Unskilled or Setback in Torg and taking advantage of it. 
I probably wouldn't go that far with importing Aspects into Torg since 
the interaction rules already cover a lot of the same ground and unlike 
Aspects with the Drama Deck I don't see a lot of synergy potential.

-- 
Kansas Jim, Torg guru (ksjim (at) sdc (dot) org)
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