Fate Accelerated, also called the Fate Accelerated Edition or FAE, is a 2013 rulebook for the Fate Core role-playing game, and the interpretation of the Fate Core rules that appears in that rulebook.
The book was written and published as an unlocked stretch goal in the successful Fate Core Kickstarter.[1] Digital copies of the book have been available as pay what you want since its publication.
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The Fate Accelerated rulebook presents an alternative set of rules for Fate Core, with its dials tuned to provide a faster and more streamlined experience. While many of the changes are minor simplifications (such as giving player characters a single stress track instead of separate tracks for physical and mental stress), the most well-known departure is the use of approaches (careful, clevel, flashy, forceful, quick, and sneaky) instead of skills as the primary statistic. Fate Accelerated popularised the use of approaches as statistics in other role-playing games.
Like the Fate Core System rulebook, the game is designed for groups to create their own settings, but four example settings are used to illustrate the rules. These settings are represented by four example characters: Reth of the Andrali Resistance (from a fantasy setting with magic and martial arts), Voltaire (a cat person and skyship captain from a pirates setting), Abigail Zhao (a Hippogriff House student at a School of Sorcery), and Bethesda Flushing PhD (a scientist from a high-tech science fiction setting). Reth, Voltaire and Abigail Zhao are depicted on the front cover, and Bethesda Flushing on the back cover.
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- ↑ "Fate Core by Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2020-08-08.