About this episode
This week, Sam talks with wendi yu about the Fate Point economy, a meta currency system from Fate by Fred Hicks and Rob Donoghue and published by Evil Hat. Some topics discussed include:
* Getting into storygames
* “Generic” RPGs
* When crunch kills the vibe
* The Hero’s Journey
* The (lack of) difference between rules and flavor
* Writing good aspects: it’s hard!
* wendi’s game here, there, be monsters!
You can find wendi on Twitter @wen_di_yu, and you can buy here, there, be monsters! digitally on itch or physically from SoulMuppet.
You can find Sam @sdunnewold on Bluesky, Twitter, dice.camp, and itch.io, and by subscribing to the Dice Exploder newsletter.
You can find Fate at Evil Hat.
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