Spirit of the Century and other FATE-based games

The FATE-system by Evil Hat has been my go-to rules system for all the campaigns I've GM'd, because it is such a versatile system and easy to adapt to almost any genre. It also helps that there is very little counting involved, as there are only four Fudge/FATE dice, each with a plus, minus or blank on them. For me this is good, because I'm very slow at counting in my head and I like to make my games seem cinematic. It is a very simple and straight-forward system, but also malleable and the books encourage people to go crazy with the rules and just do anything they can think of.

Using the rulebook for pulp-adventure game Spirit of the Century I've GM'd a few long-running campaigns, as well as some one-shot adventures, in the following genres:

-Steampunk spy adventure

-1970's superhero adventure

-1980's superhero adventure

-Sword & Sorcery

-Space Opera

-Paranormal Investigation

Anybody else tried this system and gone crazy with it?

Edited by Mara999 on Nov 15th 2020 at 9:41:40 PM

I've run a few things in it, although not so many as I'd like; a couple of campaigns ended up fizzling out. The one that went best was probably Star Wars.

I also once put together rules for using it for Transformers.

That makes a lot of sense, as the player character are by default at a superhuman level compared to all regular people.