Anyone here played a FATE game?
If yes, what kind of game it was? What servants were in it? What about the mages?
If not what do you want to do in one?
Our GM is planning a game and we need servants suggestions so we could pick one at random. I currently have one of each class except Assassin and Rider.
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>Fate game
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Oh, it's the OTHER Fate
Yeah, the anime setting where you bang King Arthur
I have run Fate games. They always end up dying part way through though once some of the PCs are eliminated.
I thought of using Christman as assassin, since he killed nearly a thousand people, but he was never associated with witchcraft or never “made” deals with devils. Never used a weapon more than any other too. So it’s hard to make a Noble Phantasm.
GM suggested we all play both masters and servants
Also proposed a 4v4, or a 4v4v4v4 just to be sure we could play longer
You mean the VN?
You mean Grand Order? For now we’re planning a HGW, but as usual things go sideways and conventional rules are thrown out the window
Never heard of it
Could use H. H. Holmes with as Assassin with a mix of Caster into it.
His NP could be trapping people into a replica of his house. Though in Fate world its 100 times more deadly than in real life
>GM suggested we all play both masters and servants
We did that, you built two characters.
>Also proposed a 4v4, or a 4v4v4v4 just to be sure we could play longer
PvP games are really hard to run for the exact point I made. PCs get eliminated then simply stop being in the game.
We won’t be in PvP at first. Though I admit I don’t know what will follow when we eliminate another team.
The problem with FATE is that the playerbase never played the fricking game
Like what the plan to save humanity was supposed to be before the whole team A got rolled by foreign god or just a holy grail war?
I will unironically suggest the crazy schizo system, Rifts. There’s a SW Rifts version too.
Yeah, I played one. It was a PvP game, of course. Teams consisted of one master and two servants. I think we were using some homebrewed version of Scion, but I never got to see the rules. We distributed stats based on class but there was also some freeforminess to our exact powers.
I played a rule 63'd Musashi as Saber. I can't remember what the others were. Our master was a happy-go-lucky sort who just wanted to make friends. I think his player might have been the only person to have actually played the VN, too. We had a couple bumbling, comedic interactions with other teams... and then there was some kind of magical nuke and a big fight... and then the game fizzled out. Oh, and our master got his head vaporized once, but the other servant, a Caster, put it back together.
As for other Servant suggestions, I almost played Galahad as a Saber. I don't know if he already exists in the franchise now.
FATE GM, if you see this, hello!
I think he technically does as Mash (girl in OP pic)
She’s a Demi-Servant, a human inhabited by Galahad and has the unique Shielder class. She’s from the mobile game.
Lu Bu (Rider), Joab (Assassin)
I’m planning Grail War goodness for /qst/, I put some character preview snippets in the current Writing General thread. It’s set in 2017 in an Apocrypha timeline, with a bigwig family from London setting up a Grail War in northern Italy as a sort of battle royale opportunity for people to show off. An agreement that the Masters won’t use deadly force on each other is in place, and the family in charge sacrificed wish-granting capability for summoning capacity (the knockoff Grails in Apocrypha worlds can’t summon a full set of Servants) and programmed it to summon Servants that would be willing simply to fight others or to loyally serve a Master.
the frick is going on in that picture?
It’s a joke based on the fact that one of Kriemhild’s (on the left) attack animations in FGO looks like the Eye of Sauron. The other characters are Siegfried holding the ring, Hagen, and Fafnir.
Oh, I get it now.
I thought TM might've started doing crossovers with LotR lol.
Saber Aragorn and Caster Gandalf would obviously rule, though.
I thought about caster Gandalf. Though I wasn’t sure about his power level if it scales adequately to Fate or not, considering he was incarnated in a weak form
I think Lu Bu already exists in Extra and FGO as Berserker. How is he different as rider?
Also Joab sounds good, though it seems he hasn’t done the killings himself but through soldiers.
Why would servants agree to be summoned? Except for sightseeing the current time and dicks measuring contests?
>Why would servants agree to be summoned? Except for sightseeing the current time and dicks measuring contests?
Yes. Cu Chullain in Stay Night had no particular wish of his own he wanted granted other than to fight other heroes to the death. Besides which, Lost Einherjar is basically a Grail War as a live-streamed e-sport so I’m not really innovating that much here.
Fair point
>Lu Bu
Berserker version communicates in grunts and howls, and Red Hare (his horse) appears as a rider who thinks he's Lu Bu. The real deal in his proper class has an actual personality, speaks, and has Red Hare as a Noble Phantasm.
>Joab
Ok, he can have his soldiers with him / "summon" them at will (or with restrictions).