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Fate Combat Simulator 2.0 feature complete.

https://stash.krischel.org:444/projects/PUB/repos/fate-rpg/browse/readme.md

Unlike the deck of fate perl script (https://krischel.org/deck-of-fate.cgi), or the omegazone gm hooks perl script (https://krischel.org/omegazone.cgi), this one requires you to setup your local perl environment to run it.

Long story short, you can define different types of players, with different skills, stress, consequences, and strategies, put them into teams, and have the teams battle it out in simulations.  The simulator reports out how often each team wins, and the average number of exchanges before the fight is over.

I find this kind of simulation exercise incredibly useful for figuring out what kind of opposition levels I want to run for my campaign (do I want a long slog that the players will almost certainly win, or a quick decision that could go either way?), but it can also help test different play strategies (do I create an advantage this turn, or take an attack?).

Enjoy, and please leave me feedback if you find a bug, or have a feature request!

Hey +Fred Hicks , wanted to check if it was okay to share a perl script that let you get a result from the "Deck Of Fate", including the flavor text on each "Dice" card, and the text from the arcana and core cards.

I figure for sure we can't build a web page that shows the full card images as results (maybe low-res okay?), but maybe it's okay to have a text only, yet fully electronic, "Deck Of Fate"?

I've been building electronic tools for running my own games, but didn't want to go public with the code if there's any stepping on toes :)

Okay, so working on a fate core combat simulator, and ran into something odd as I started coding logic for doing overcome actions against boosts.

In what I'll term the Overcome Boost Minor Cost Paradox, it turns out that if we use a minor cost of a boost against our player in case of ties on overcome rolls, we can get a better roll with a worse outcome than a poorer roll.

Example:

Player attempts an overcome action with skill 2 against the boost with a GM defined target number of 2.

Roll: 0
Skill: 2
Target: 2

TIE – succeed in removing the boost, but minor cost is another boost

Roll: 1
Skill: 2
Target: 2
Invoke Boost: 2

FAIL – failed in removing the boost, but boost was used up to cause the failure

Roll: 2
Skill: 2
Target: 2
Invoke Boost: 2

TIE – succeed in removing the boost, but minor cost is another boost

Paradox: a roll of 2 is better than a roll of 1, but has a worse outcome for the player.

Molon labe.