Balancing Mechanics and Narrative in Role-Playing Games

Transcript

This week, Sam talks with wendi yu about the Fate Point economy, a meta currency system from Fate by Fred Hicks and Rob Donoghue and published by Evil Hat. Some topics discussed include:

* Getting into storygames

* “Generic” RPGs

* When crunch kills the vibe

* The Hero’s Journey

* The (lack of) difference between rules and flavor

* Writing good aspects: it’s hard!

* wendi’s game here, there, be monsters!

You can find wendi on Twitter @wen_di_yu, and you can buy here, there, be monsters! digitally on itch or physically from SoulMuppet.

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You can find Fate at Evil Hat.

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