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A group of people suffers a myserious memory loss. The last thing they remember is that they were on their way to meet with/investigate/research a newly found intelligent species. Now they are lost in a place they have no knowledge of...


Jan 30, 2022 6:28 pm
Hello! I'm looking for 4 players to join me on a Fate Condensed campaign. In a homebrew sci-fi setting (the details of which we will sketch out together), you will be playing a group of researchers losing their consciousness and waking up on a room on their way to a planet to research a newly found intelligent species.

I have purposefully left the details vague for the campaign. For the setting and the plot, I only have a few "constants" in my mind:

1- This is a sci-fi story, set in the future of our world, roughly 24th to 25th century (much like Star Trek in terms of technology, alien species knowing each other etc).
2- Characters will be a research group that has carried out missions (or adventures) together before.
3- Main reason for your voyage is to learn something about a new intelligent species that humanity just made a contact.
4- You find yourselves in a mysterious room without any memory of what happened to you.


Fate games have a special session called "Session 0" in which players determine the relationship between their characters and if necessary, details pertaining to the worldbuilding. We won't have sessions per se, but I will open a Session 0 thread and we won't start the actual game until we are satisfied with what we have. To give an example, you could be an official research group sent by the government (or Federation, or Collective, whatever we decide) OR you may be a group of adventurers trying to sneak into this new planet, with the hopes of meeting this species OR you may not even be an intellectual group driven by the pursuit of knowledge, you could be spies OR you could be a group that goes to the planet to take advantage of the poossible newly found riches.

As the ones familiar with Fate may already know, this is a highly colloborative system that is open to homebrew content maybe more than any other system. It is very important to play in a world that is created by contributions from all the players. If you are a player who prefers pre-set stories, this game may not be for you.

This will be my first time GM'ing a Fate game (or GM'ing any type of TTRPG game). I'm sure there will be players who knows Fate more than I do. For them and others, I apologize from the beginning for my highly possible mistakes. I'm open to players beginner of Fate, I will happily explain the details and supply extra materials for you to properly learn the system.

One last thing to mention. I realized that for PBP games usually have an inverse exponential relationship between the players' interest in game and the amount of time passed. I mean, first few weeks are great, players usually are very enthusiastic about and interested in the game. However, this enthusiasm quickly drops with time because of the nature of this type of game playing. To prevent this up to a degree, I want all of the players to write at least one post per day, if not one post per two days and I highly discourage short, one or two sentence posts. I don't think this is a tight rule, I hope you will agree with me.

I hope I have covered everything needed in the beginning. Feel free to ask me anything about the campaign. Hope meeting you soon!
Last edited February 5, 2022 9:14 am
Jan 30, 2022 6:47 pm
This looks like fun!
Jan 30, 2022 7:17 pm
I'm happy to hear that! I made the game forum public since players won't submit character before they discuss it with each other. You can access it here. As soon as another person decides to join we can start the conversation.
Jan 30, 2022 8:12 pm
I have read FATE rules some time ago, and tried GM'ing a Dresden files game, but I havent been a fate player.

I like the pressise of the game and think I would like to play
ireneofunyes says:
4- You find yourselves in a mysterious room without any memory of what happened to you.
Full-on amnesia or 36 hours ago I were in the shuttle and I'm now here- kind of thing?
Jan 30, 2022 9:56 pm
Great! Welcome runekyndig.
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Full-on amnesia or 36 hours ago I were in the shuttle and I'm now here- kind of thing?
The second one. There was not even a crash. The last thing you remember is reading the ETA and thinking "we're about to arrive".
Jan 31, 2022 6:27 am
Dig seeing Fate on offer, ireneofunyes! I don't have bandwidth at the moment for another game, but if you run into challenges from the GM's seat or have some specific questions about Fate, please feel free to hit me up. I've run and played in lots of Fate over the years and am always happy to assist wherever I can.
Jan 31, 2022 10:07 am
Harrigan says:
Dig seeing Fate on offer, ireneofunyes! I don't have bandwidth at the moment for another game, but if you run into challenges from the GM's seat or have some specific questions about Fate, please feel free to hit me up. I've run and played in lots of Fate over the years and am always happy to assist wherever I can.
Thank you very much. It's good to know I have people I can consult. Hope we can have a decent game :)
Feb 1, 2022 12:43 am
I'd like to join if you'll have me. I've wanted to try Fate for ages. I did want to let other people have a chance first as I'm in quite a few games already but it looks like you still need a fourth.
Your posting rate requirement is not a problem and I am new to the system so I might need some hand holding.
Feb 1, 2022 2:29 am
Love all flavors of Fate, and particularly Condensed. If you've got a nother slot, I'd be glad to throw my hat in.
Feb 1, 2022 4:03 am
Please give my spot to Flux if you're sticking with 4 players. I don't mind stepping back.
Feb 1, 2022 8:28 am
With naelick, runekyndig, Windyridge and FluxCapacitor we have four people. Harrigan will not be a player, they just wanter to help me in case I have some difficulties.

If all of you are good to go, you can start to write to the Session 0 thread in the game forum to discuss the details.
Feb 1, 2022 8:54 am
Sounds great. Thank you!
Feb 1, 2022 9:10 am
If you want, you can just create an empty Fate Core character and submit it to the game, just to fill out the applications. After we are done with details you can edit your character and submit it back.
Feb 1, 2022 2:13 pm
ireneofunyes says:

If all of you are good to go, you can start to write to the Session 0 thread in the game forum to discuss the details.
Will do and will submit a sheet as requested.
Feb 1, 2022 4:58 pm
Blank sheet is ready and I have applied to the game. Just need to be accepted.
Feb 1, 2022 6:38 pm
I have accepted your character (and will accept others as soon as I see them). If you are ready, just hop on to the Session 0 thread and we'll start discussing the details of the setting and characters.
Feb 2, 2022 12:15 pm
Sorry, I'm not quite sure what to do for the next step. I've applied to the game, but it hasn't shown up in Games page yet. I'm still learning the ropes here.
Feb 2, 2022 12:29 pm
you can apply to the game on this page, and then let irenofunyes know that you've applied, once irenofunyes accepts you'll be able to see the game.

Alternatively if irenofunyes invites players then they don't have to wait to be accepted they can on the same page accept the Invite and get into the game.
Feb 2, 2022 1:06 pm
FluxCapacitor says:
Sorry, I'm not quite sure what to do for the next step. I've applied to the game, but it hasn't shown up in Games page yet. I'm still learning the ropes here.
Applying isn't enough, you have to create a character and submit it too. As I've said, at first you can just submit an empty character. After we are done sketching out the details you can edit the character and submit it again.

Also thank you @KoldikSteelskin for your help.
Feb 2, 2022 1:09 pm
ireneofunyes says:
FluxCapacitor says:
Sorry, I'm not quite sure what to do for the next step. I've applied to the game, but it hasn't shown up in Games page yet. I'm still learning the ropes here.
Applying isn't enough, you have to create a character and submit it too. As I've said, at first you can just submit an empty character. After we are done sketching out the details you can edit the character and submit it again.

Also thank you @KoldikSteelskin for your help.
You can't submit the character until you've been accepted, but you can still work on it once your in the game there will be a dropdown you submit your character there.
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