Ideas in fate

First, apologies for the break in publishing. I have been on strong painkillers for the last few weeks, and if I am honest all the drafts I had written in this time have been gibberish. I think I am better now, so I am hoping this one is not. Okay, this is a big topic, and this is not going to be my definitional take on it. I have this sneaking suspicion that I might return to the topic of fight scenes again in the future, because if we are honest a reasonable proportion of what happens at most rpg tables will include fight scenes. I hope I have weasel worded enough to not get people suggesting I think all rpgs and certainly not all fate games are fight simulators. Okay, so, to begin. One of the objections one of my various gaming groups had to fate when I suggested it for the first time was that fight scenes in fate were boring. As they said it (it was wisdom they had got from the internet) I was baffled. See, I am probably a little odd in that I came to fate via spirit of the cen...

So, if I am going to be writing a game which is *punk (I think thaumopunk, but am willing to be convinced I have the wrong name), the bad guys of the piece need to be in some way The Man. To be able to enjoy the cyberpunk's lineage, then my characters should be outcasts and fringers who are rebelling against authority and tradition. As such the PCs in my game come from the Rebellion (title is to be changed when I come up with a better name). The Rebellion is a group of different rebels, outcasts and dissidents which has core together only because of the threat of the Peerage. As the Peerage plan their assault on heaven, and to become gods and exarchs themselves, the rebellion fights back. So, who has formed the rebellion? I am currently thinking of having several groups who are an uneasy alliance, who the pcs can call upon and that the pcs come form: The Enchanters: The enchanters are the apprentices and heirs to the first of the aetheric engineers. After she disc...