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TWO HOUR FATEby jacob possin

BRINGING DFRPG INTO THE

ATOMIC ROBO ERAby heather beauregard

DECK OF FATE:VARIABLE

FATE POINTSby mark diaz truman

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VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 • MARCH 2015

EDITOR IN CHIEFMARK DIAZ TRUMAN

EDITORSJOHN ADAMUS 0 SALLY CHRISTENSEN

BRENDAN CONWAY 0 AMANDA VALENTINE

CONTRIBUTORSHEATHER BEAUREGARD 0 BRENDAN CONWAY

JACOB POSSIN 0 MARK DIAZ TRUMAN

ARTISTSOLIVIA BOYD 0 MARISSA KELLY

JUAN OCHOA 0 KAITLYNN PEAVLER

GRAPHIC DESIGNTHOMAS DEENY

PROOFREADERSHELLEY HARLAN

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CONTENTS4 ABOUT THE FATE CODEX–VOL. 2, ISSUE 1

Mark Diaz Truman welcomes you to the first issue of Volume 2 of The Fate Codex.

6 BRINGING DFRPG INTO THE ATOMIC ROBO ERAHeather Beauregard brings the Dresden Files RPG to Fate Core in this special conversion essay.

17 TWO HOUR FATEJacob Possin explains how to compress your Fate games into more manageable chunks of time.

27 DECK OF FATE: VARIANT FATE POINTSMark Diaz Truman showcases the Deck of Fate with a new system for multi-value fate points.

33 PRIMAL WORLDThis month’s Quick Start from Brendan Conway features a newly formed Chaos World, struggling to assert itself in the face of chaos and darkness.

53 CREDITS

56 PATREON AND THE FATE CODEX

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ABOUT THE FATE CODEX–VOL. 2, ISSUE 1by MARK DIAZ TRUMAN

In many ways, the first volume of The Fate Codex was a crazy exper-iment. Would people want to read short pieces about Fate systems, new settings, and game theory? Would we be able to find writers and developers who would provide innovative and interesting ideas on a mostly-monthly schedule? Would we be able to produce all this work at a level that would let it stand next to Fate Core System, Fate System Toolkit, and everything else Evil Hat puts out?

As we start Volume 2, I’m still blown away by the answers to those questions; even in my wildest dreams I didn’t think we would be able to put out over 350 pages of awesome Fate content last year. We’ve been able to work with over two dozen unique contributors, writing about every-thing from lesbian noir to professional wrestling to zombie relationship mechanics to bringing culture to Fate in interesting ways. Undoubtedly, The Fate Codex has been some of the best work we’ve done here at Magpie Games.

As I look over our plans for the rest of 2015, I’m excited to see The Fate Codex grow and mature. We’ve become a place where Fate devel-opers and writers—new and old—come to strut their stuff, and where new Fate ideas start to percolate up into the next generation of Fate designs. Right now we’re working with Randy at the Fate SRD to get our first wave of content up there for public access, and we plan on pushing the envelope even further in 2015 with new content.

That starts this month with Heather Beauregard’s piece updating the Dresden Files RPG to the Atomic Robo era, but it continues with new ideas for using the Deck of Fate, a new Quick Start from Brendan Conway that features crossover with our Dungeon World project, The Last Days of Anglekite, and Jacob Possin’s awesome tips on running short games of Fate. We hope you find the start of Volume 2 to be as interesting and useful as we find it.

Overall, the future of The Fate Codex is incredibly bright. I’m excited to serve as Editor in Chief for each and every issue, and I can’t wait to see what our contributors come up with next. Thank you for help-ing to make this work possible, and thank you for continuing to read, discuss, debate, and play with the contributions we publish.

Editor in ChiefMark Diaz Truman

Mark Diaz Truman welcomes you to the first issue of Volume 2 of The Fate Codex.

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BRINGING DFRPG INTO THE ATOMIC ROBO ERAby HEATHER BEAUREGARD

A lot has happened in the world of Fate over the three years since the Dresden Files Roleplaying Game (DFRPG) was first released. Bring-ing Fate Core and the four actions into DFRPG—along with some neces-sary changes to skills, the addition of boosts, and a few balance tweaks to spellcasting and shields—will breathe new life into an old campaign. For the truly adventurous, a full conversion to the Atomic Robo Fate system will give you brand new ways to use Thaumaturgy and redefine magic by tying it to your modes instead of your mental stress.

Much like a certain private-eye wizard, it’s high time Changes came to DFRPG.

In this essay, we’ll walk through all the steps needed to make the jour-ney into the Atomic Robo era of Fate. To get the most out of it you should have some familiarity with DFRPG; more detailed explanations of all the terminology can be found in DFRPG: Your Story. Page references read as follows: (YS - Your Story); (FC - Fate Core); (AR - Atomic Robo).

Fate Core: Translating the Four ActionsThe first step to any Core update of the Dresden Files RPG is to imple-ment the four actions. Nearly all skills in DFRPG can translate directly to their Core counterparts, with a few exceptions we’ll discuss later.

Heather Beauregard brings the Dresden Files RPG to Fate Core in this special conversion essay.

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