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Hi All:

The Fate Accelerated Rules are here:
https://fate-srd.com/fate-accelerated

One of the things I find most intimidating in Fate is approving potentially "Rules Breaking" Stunts. Fortunately, the Accelerated edition keeps stunt options down to 2 types: "Bonus stunts" or "once per session" stunts.

In play-by-post, sessions will probably be arbitrarily identified by each encounter or event in the story. So, I gather I'll let everyone know when they get their "refresh" back at different parts of our story.

The "Masters of Umdaar" Fate world has a lot of examples of stunts in the style of 80s "Saturday Morning Cartoons" and 80s Swords & Sorcery movies, provided they could be adapted to a more classic fantasy or fairytale setting (nix the mutant and sci-fi stuff.) In this Fairy Tale world, instead of mutant powers, you might have a fantasy weapon or a magic talisman, pixie dust, or clockwork function, that could provide similar stunts.

For example, suppose you have a magic talisman that was passed down in your family for generations and was given to you by your grandmother:

* Because of my Protective Talisman, I get a +2 when I Quickly defend myself against monsters or magic.

Other examples:

* Because I am made of clockwork and can spin around quickly, I get +2 when I Flashily attack in close combat.

* Because of my sturdy club, I get +2 when I Forcefully attack in close combat.

* Because of my innate Pixie ability, once per game session, I can turn myself invisible for the duration of the scene.

Greetings! Thanks for the invite, Sean!

Welcome @Harrigan!

Hello everyone!

Welcome @TheGenerator

Hello all! :) This should be fun and a solid learning experience for a FATE newbie like me. :)

Welcome @sifu_g!

Hello to all, and thanks for the invite

Welcome @YullyBear

Hi everyone! Bear (ha!) with me this week -- I'm traveling for work and time for posting is tight... I'll try to keep up.

Hi @Harrigan Thanks or the heads up. No worries. This game is officially M W F, so pretty casual; and we're still familiarizing ourselves with some rules. All the same, looking forward to getting the in-character hook rolling and looking forward to you jumping in soon too.

Character posted. And I did use one aspect to hook into another PC, kind of a common practice in Fate. See what you all think.

I cannot choose my character in chapter 1.

@YullyBear Try now.

Could you add the option to submit custom character sheets? I didn't realize it was set to only one system and created my character sheet from the repository of sheets on the forum.

If I need to remake my sheet with the specified system, let me know.

@TheGenerator Oh... I think so. Try now?

@YullyBear Let me know if you'd like to convert yours to "Custom Sheet" as well.

I put my character in a tavern to start with. Hope that's ok. If not, let me know and I'll edit. :)

Great first IC posts. I'm picturing The Idiot Sandwich tavern at Bearokaraistis. EDIT: Assuming no one objects.

@TheGenerator Well, that one went completely over my head :-) -- I had to look that one up. I never saw that show.