Why Fate?

This post has been a long time coming... but it's going to have to wait just a little while longer. First, I want to briefly re-look at why I'm not using Call of Cthulhu or Trail of Cthulhu to...

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Lessons in Fear – From the ALIEN RPG

One question that pops up from time to time is how to actually instill fear into horror games. There’s plenty of techniques for setting the atmosphere – especially for games like Call of Cthulhu (CoC) – but I recently...

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A Light Dawns: An Epiphany about Fate Core’s Character Advancement

Work continues on my efforts to create an adaptation of Fate Core to place investigative cosmic horror. One area of the rules that I remain a little unsure about is also one of the first pieces of Fate Core...

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