[Recruitment Thread] Dresden Files FAE

Well folks, which will it be? Hither comes Conan, multiverse spanning adventures through alternate histories, or demon hunting in the urban jungle?

I'll monitor this thread until midnight CST Friday Jan 19th, at which point I'll choose four players to go forward. Anyone who expressed interest in the initial IC thread will automatically be considered.

This one is a huge YES from me

A stargate'isk game would also be nice, but time-shenanigans is not for me.

I'm for any (or all) of those...by all, if one were to use a Stargate like concept, I mean that you could replicate multiple environments/themes based on the mission they are on, especially if the stargate system travels between multiverses. Conan type world here, dragons and trolls there, demon infested jungles, etc.

Regardless, I'm interested :)

Count me as potentially interested, in case you end up with one of the following:

1st preference: multiverse spanning adventures through alternate histories
2nd preference: urban fantasy à la Dresden

Thanks! :)

Count me in too, please! Most excited by the urban setting or multiverse adventures.

Very cool! Once again Urban Fantasy/Dresden inspired gets my top vote, followed by the Conan inspired one. Multiverse alternate history does sound interesting so I'm still in if it goes that route.

As I said, I'd be happy with any...but if I had to chose...

A story of multi-dimensional time police who prevent criminals and terrorists from disrupting timelines for their own ends.

Reminds me of Star Trek's TIC:

The Temporal Integrity Commission was a 29th century Federation agency tasked with protecting the timeline from temporal incursions.

But they only focused on protecting their own timeline...protecting the timelines of other multiverses is an interesting twist.

I've been doing a lot of fantasy and I'm not really a history buff so I would vote for the demon hunting in the urban jungle

Seems like the urban fantasy is getting a lot of traction. I wonder if I should just run the Dresden Files RPG, which is based on Fate.

multiverse / time travel settings are not my cup of tea - but keep me posted if this ends up being a Hyperboria Era setting. Happy gaming!

That's a cool option! You should also have a look at Dresden Files Accelerated, if you have access. It kinda streamlined many of the rules, as the DF RPG was quite complex/crunchy, while still keeping plenty of options for character creation.

Not sure I want to go that route. I prefer Fate Core to Fate Accelerated in general. I'll give it a look though.

I am unfamiliar with any Dresden files RPGs, and I'm not very familiar with the Dresden files overall.

The Dresden Files is a novel series by Jim Butcher. The titular character, Harry Dresden, is a wizard private investigator in modern day Chicago. He's a sort of Jim Rockford type, in that he struggles financially and things never seem to go his way. In the beginning of the series he's dealing with other magic users, vampires, fae, werewolves... etc. As the series is coming to its conclusion some twenty books later he's grown a great deal in power and battles powerful necromancers, fairie royalty, demons (both Christian and otherwise), and most recently a demi-god.

The game is enough like Fate Core/Condensed that you can use those as reference for the rules.

Just so everyone knows what to expect there's a lot of collaborative world building and character creation involved in Fate. We'll probably spend a week or two on that before we actually begin play.

Sounds very exciting! In terms of urban centers, do you see it set in an Earth city, or somewhere else?

An Earth city. Los Angeles California, San Antonio Texas, and New York are my go to choices simply because I'm from/in the United States and am familiar with them. I'd be happy to set the game somewhere else if that's what the group decides.

Now that's if we go with Dresden Files, which I must admit I'm leaning more and more toward. If we do the time travel multiverse game then who knows.

That sounds great! I’d vote San Antonio, since I’m not as familiar with it and it would feel new to me. :)

Oh look, they actually make a FATE book. I got it on my shelf

Yes, I prefer Core too, but DFA is not as simple as vanilla FAE, I was positively surprised by it.

If there are any spots, I'd be happy to play any setting--I've been looking to give FATE via PBP a try.

The page count alone is an encouraging difference.

So far I haven't chosen players, and won't be until EOD Friday 1/19.

Great--I love the Butcher series, so I'd be completely onboard with that as well, but I'm open to just about anything.

After some input and deliberation I've decided to run Dresden Files Fate Accelerated Edition. Everyone who's expressed interest is still being considered, and I'll choose players after End of Day Friday 1/19.

Do we need to own that particular book?

No, if you own Fate Core, Fate Accelerated or Fate Condensed I can walk you through the differences.

Also I'd like to run a public game.

I'm interested, but let's set the location somewhere away from Chicago

Easily done. I want to do some world building before we start play. We can decide where to set the game as a group.

As a side note, Fate Condensed is available from DriveThruRPG as a Pay What You Will purchase.

In fact, DFA is considerably more involved than Core! It's very cool, though, and *miles* better than the original DF Fate game.

@Harrigan are you throwing your name in?

I would love to play. I'm running low on games, and love me some Dresden and FATE/FAE

I'd also love to join this game if there's room. :D I've played a FAE game here on GP before and I've run a one-shot of it in RL. That's about as far as my FATE knowledge goes. I'd have to read up on the Dresden Files, though.

Huge Dresdenfan here! Loved the audiobooks (James Marsters 4 the win!), read the short stories, inhaled the comics... you get it.

I have the PDFs at home, but never haved played the system(s). Would be willing to do a little bit of learning. 🤩

All hail the Za-Lord!

PS.: Dips on the Summer Mantle. 😉

If another player is needed, I'd like to play as well. It has been a while, but I have read a few of the novels. I might need some pointers regarding the system, though :)

I haven't read any of the novels or know much about the world. With so much interest from people who know the lore, I'll step back from my interest.

DFA's a great conversion of the setting and good, crunchy implementation of FAE. Have fun running and playing it!

Nope. No time!

Have fun, though!

Wow okay, thanks to everyone who's expressed interest. There are enough players here for me to run two games if I chose. Unfortunately I do not have the time, otherwise I would.

I don't want to exclude anyone who's posted here, so we'll fall back on ye olde random number generator to help decide who gets an invite.

runekyndig
gnomius
Thunder_Lungz
pixelated_pixie_princess
Sardis
MinMin
The_Librarian
TheGenerator
soises
Adrasthea

1st invite will go to gnomius.

runekyndig
Thunder_Lungz
pixelated_pixie_princess
Sardis
MinMin
The_Librarian
TheGenerator
soises
Adrasthea

Next invite goes to The_Librarian.

runekyndig
Thunder_Lungz
pixelated_pixie_princess
Sardis
MinMin
TheGenerator
soises
Adrasthea

Batting third is Sardis.

runekyndig
Thunder_Lungz
pixelated_pixie_princess
MinMin
TheGenerator
soises
Adrasthea

Next on stage is runekyndig.

Thunder_Lungz
pixelated_pixie_princess
MinMin
TheGenerator
soises
Adrasthea

Here comes TheGenerator.

Thunder_Lungz
pixelated_pixie_princess
MinMin
soises
Adrasthea

And last but not least is pixelated_pixie_princess.

Thank to everyone who put their name in. Those of you who were not chosen will be considered first to replace lost players. I wish I had the time and energy to include everyone. Thank you for your understanding.

Hype! Huzzah. Now what to play?

GP dice love me again! Thanks!

No worries! Looking forward to playing with you in the future!

Have fun everyone! 👋😊