If there are people running around with 50+ or 100+ fate, I don't think we have a choice other than to say "your fate is reduced to the cap immediately".

I'm talking those who may be say 15-20.

John

I would propose that you don't (completely) screw anyone out of Fate they've 'earned'. Don't force people to lose Fate due to the cap, just increase the cost to spend it.

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Fate Pool >= 100, cost 5 fate points to get the usual effect of 1
99 >= FP >= 75, 4 to 1
74 >= FP >= 50, 3 to 1
49 >= FP >= 25, 2 to 1
FP <= 24, 1 to 1

While in excess of the cap, no Fate may be earned.
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You still bleed the excess Fate Points, you just don't amputate it.

Honestly, for homeplay you can ultimately do what you want. But for Con Play, you are going to have to be under the Point Cap. How you get there is, ultimately, up to you.

*ACK* My eyes are bleeding... A thing cannot be "over balanced"; it is either balanced or not. It can be 'over powered', however...

Really?! Last time I ran that, as GM, I was cheating - badly - and my players still managed to beat the everliving piss out of that encounter...

Likewise, with the exception of the big boss fight in one of the early mods (trying to avoid spoilers but it's the one with the cold molten lava) my players have cake walked every fight. That includes me trying to be sneaky with them and adding extra combatants/ increases to bad guys HP and skills. Still got to run the final BI though of the crusade.

And that's with them having a max fate of their fate score (usually 4-5 now). Fate doesn't feel important if it's spent on trivial actions and when one of them pops a point you know they are taking the situation seriously.

HA try again, overbalanced, has a similar meaning to unbalanced

If you want to see what fate die will turn into when/if we do a 2nd edition of the Arcanis Role Playing Game (also what we will be doing with flaws) pick up a copy of Rotted Capes and read Plot Die.

Just saying

Carry on

1) Has anyone else played games with fate/action/etc points? In games where they do not reset every adventure, where you keep track of them like coin, they become a false resource. Some players will horde them, some adventures won't require their use, some people will use them immediately after receiving them. Once you add in the fact that this is a living/shared campaign where there are many gms with different players every table the numbers aren't going to match up.

2) Since there is a cap of how many on points you can spend each adventure and a cap on BIs, not sure it matters how many anyone has.

3) Will BIs be toned down now? I feel like the last 2 BIs were built with spending 20+ fate points in mind and I'm wondering if they'll be toned down for survival sake? I loved when we came up on Uxcy and the cap was removed. It was cinematic and felt good and was all around awesome. But when the cap was removed during a random scene at Origins I felt like the fights had been ramped up to the point where the extra fate point use was required, like we were in some kind fate point Cold War.

That being said I am supportive of a Fate Point cap. Keeps things nice and simple.