CLOSED: Any interest in a "Learning to Play Fate/Learning to GM Fate" mini-campaign?

Hello Everyone, Is there any interest in a "Learning to Play Fate/Learning to GM Fate" mini-campaign, for 2-3 sessions? It would involve Round Robin GMing , with each participant having their own PC and taking on the GM role at least once during each session. The System would be  Fate Accelerated Edition for simplicity. The Setting would be determined collaboratively ala something akin to  A Spark in Fate Core by Jason Pitre. Characters would be built as play progressed. High Concept and Trouble would be defined first, then other Aspects, Approaches and Stunts defined during play. Things to be learned over the course of the game as they come up in play: Fate Basics: Dice rolling 4dF ,  the Ladder ,  Aspects ,  The Four Actions (Create an Advantage, Overcome, Attack, Defend) ,  Fate Points and Refresh,  The Four Outcomes (fail/succeed with serious cost, tie/succeed with minor cost, succeed, succeed with style) ,  Stress Tracks ,  Shifts,  Consequences , and  Conceding For Players: Making a character ,  Aspects,  Approaches,  Stunts , and Kickers (from Kickers and Bangs) For GMs: Creating adversaries and NPCs ,  Using Compels,  "Say Yes or Roll the Dice" "Say Yes or Roll the Dice" ,  "Yes And" vs "Yes But" ,  GMing on the fly,  Sandbox vs. Quest playstyles,  Kickers and Bangs ,  and more. The Agenda for the first session (very rough) Brainstorm genre, setting, defining setting Aspects Brainstorm on character archetypes and Aspects Choosing which player wants to play what Create High Concept and Trouble for PCs Start the game in the initial situation  Round Robin GMs, with everyone taking a turn Let me know if you are interested. /Matt

I'd be interested, though my work schedule limits what days I'd be able to participate.

I'm interested as well, but Time Zones may be a problem. We are seperated by several hours if I recall correctly.

Yeah, sounds cool but I really only have like every other Friday to play.  Let me know your thoughts on scheduling.

Interested!  Friday nights work best for me!  Eastern time zone.  However, I'll be gone for 2 weeks on vacation from April 19 through the end of the month..?

I'd be interested, but my schedule is all over the place right now. I'd need to see what day it would be before I could commit to it. 

Yeah, I'm the same way, every other Friday taken. If the GM prepares something, they have the biggest say in what day/time it's going to be.  Beggars can't be choosers!

Well I'm available to try something THIS Friday if any of you want to chat then.

This Friday is my taken Friday.  Curses!  Foiled again!

Oh, well...my first available Friday after that is first Friday in May.

Hello Everyone, My schedule is usually Fridays and Wednesdays for gaming and I've got my Dresden Files Accelerated game on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month for at least 3-4 more sessions. I have a set 1st and 3rd Friday game and another one on alternating Wednesdays. So I may have to squeeze this game into the schedule post Dresden and before the Fate Star Wars game I am planning. I might be able to do a weekend game but those days are usually difficult for me. I'll check my schedule and see what I can do. /Matt

I'm quite interested, and I'm available any time other than Sunday afternoons, EST!

I would like to learn but sadly I don't have Fridays free. only every other mon and thurs. and every other weekend. 

I'm interested in the latter part of Matt's offering; that is, the "For GMs" section. My schedule is flexible, so let me know when you'd like to get together. Except for Wednesday evenings - that's when I run my "Tribes of the New Urth" campaign, which uses Fate Core. BTW, this campaign is fairly new (it will be having its second session, this coming Wednesday) and is open to new players of Fate. As a matter of fact, three of the four players in this campaign are totally new to Fate. As the GM, I've made myself available for one-on-one voice-chat sessions with these Fate newbies, to teach them the basics of the game system and to help them create their characters. Then, during the sessions, we sometimes break from the role-playing so that we can discuss the rules that apply to the situation at hand. Thankfully, I have one player who, like myself, is experienced with Fate, and he is a great help in this regard.

Hello Everyone, Thanks for the input. I hope to start something in May about this but work has complicated my schedule so that may make a difference. /Matt

I am intrested I have most nights after 8pm est except sat and tue 

Glad to here something like this will be started up! I admit though I think I have most of at least FAE understood I still have confusion over Challenges, Conflicts and Contests. Just, everything about them. Would glad to join this once it's up, though my timezone and impending study may be barriers «eh heh»

I'll gladly look into joining this. I'm available most days aside from Friday evenings (EST). Looking for a Noonish game during the week though. 

I'm ready to roll up a good character

This sounds like a great idea. Has the initial session happened yet? Though, to judge by the number of responses, there is room for more than one group to do this in parallel. Especially given the spread in time zones.

Hello Everyone, I'm still running the Dresden Files: Hollywoodland game for at least 2-3 more sessions. Due to illness, we skipped our last session, so this probably won't happen until sometime in June. /Matt

I would be happy to run some "training" sessions but with fate core not fate accelerated , the times would be 6pm on a sunday (BST) for 3 hours for say about 4 players Rob

Please do :)

ok for those interested pm me , i use skype for voice but no video , i can do this sunday , 7th of may , we will start with a blank sheet of paper and go from there so all you need to bring is an enquiring mind , i do need at least 3 others but not any more than 5. will send the link to the campaign in the return pm Rob

I'd also be interested and able to play tomorrow (May 7). That makes a GM and two players already so we just need one more person for a minimal group.

I might be interested.  What time zone?  6 pm eastern time?

no 6pm UK time which is now british summer time , i am in the UK

Very interested, i just don't know what my schedule will be since school is just about over and then i will be job hunting.

Rob said: I would be happy to run some "training" sessions but with fate core not fate accelerated , the times would be 6pm on a sunday (BST) for 3 hours for say about 4 players Rob Hello Rob, Excellent! I hope your game went well today. /Matt

yes we are doing a fate core and simulating runequest , still open for more players

I would love to join. I am currently only interested in getting to do the "Learn to Play" aspect as for me GMing comes after. 

I would love to join the session please. I would really wanna learn how to play the FATE system

i too, am of interest

At present my fate of runequest game is full , and with 7 players this is going to be entertaining , i cannot accept any more players sorry

I'd love to join in on this if it's still an option - I've actually run a few Fate Accelerated one-shots, but never having gotten to PLAY in one, I've been mostly going from reading the books and listening to podcasts. I'd love to actually see the player perspective first-hand with someone more system knowledgeable!

There is interest here if anything further comes of this.  Would be a huge help.

interest here if a new one ever comes up, and it's in kinda the right timezone.

Interest here if another comes up, maybe for today.

I am interested for future sessions.  I'm looking forward to learning the system.

I would also be interested in potential future sessions. Assuming there is room.

Hello Everyone, I have to finish my Dresden Files Accelerated game before I can facilitate this. One more session! /Matt

And I for one, are eagerly awaiting the writeup on that.

MattBx8 said: One more session! How could we possibly wrap up this whole mess of a "missing object" case in just one session? - I am very curious.

there has been a spot opened up in my fate of runequest game if anyone is interested , the game is played in uk time , sundays at 6pm and uses skype for voice

New to fate and would love to learn the system.  So I would definitely be Interested.  

Hi Chris perhaps you could pm me your character ideas , don't worry about the mechanics but it would help if you had a read of the fate core std , we use Skype for voice only and use the gloranthia world as the setting , you can play anything you like there are very few restrictions  Rob

I'm also interested to get some practice with the system I just got the manual a couple of days ago.

I'd like to learn as well, thats the whole point of coming here naturally but we've got a pretty large volume of people here. How exactly are we gonna do this? Through Roll20 or some other means? I had mentioned a Discord Server in my introduction, it can hold large volumes of people plus we can make dedicated channels for specific games & topics but thats all up to you guys. I'd also like to learn both CORE & Accelerated if we've got the time. I mean I don't really know what the difference is so this might as well be a good time to learn that no?

Hello Everyone, After starting this thread in April, I finally finished the Dresden Accelerated mini-campaign on Saturday ( you can read the write-ups for Sessions 1-6 in this forum) and now I can start planning running/playing this. I'm thinking having it on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of August and possibly into September (2nd and 4th Fridays as well), if there's interest in extending it 3 or 4 sessions. An an alternate option may be a Wednesday, like August 2nd. But that date is still tentative. My usual starting time is 6:30PM Pacific (GMT-7). Let me know if you are interested. /Matt

I'm still new to fate myself so a  pickup tutorial game would be good for me  I'm on EST and  sundays re usually best nights to play would prefr using discord also

I could always use a refresher. It's been a while since I've played FATE. The round robin GMing sounds fun. Count me in!