Pieces of Fate: Drop Bears & Ursanauts (FATE) PDF

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Don't Bait the Drop Bears!

Unless you want to get mauled. Or have "escape claws" (which doesn't appear in this volume but it should). Yeah, you know some grizzlies with tanks and back fat mounted auto cannons could show up in a FATE Core game. Here's a few ideas.

Pieces of Fate tempts you with the glitter of the FATE Core system. Each slender eighth inside the virtual box holds the gleam of fiction. We implement and take ideas from inspiring images - as seen on the cover. Like many a pirate’s bounty, Take these for yourself, or make inspiration to apply your own tabletop skills for a different twist. Rite Publishing now presents the first of these to divvy up with your crew. Or just inflict upon them in a loving, cruel sort of way like they might be expecting.

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Dropping from the sky

5/5

This really got my attention, I just had to review it. It did not disappoint.

Within it has the stats for the 'Drop Bears' and how to place them into games. The bears seem impressive with swiping special abilities and on the defense, the ability to make opponents miss their first attack, so stunned are they by the might ursanauts, and some other tricks I won't ruin here.

The drop bears are designed to confound and annoy players, and there are a few jokes inside. It should also be noted that 'drop bears' normally refers to attack koalas in Australia that leap down from eucalyptus above. Here it has been re-appropriated to mean something far larger that also has laser and body armor tech.

This has in such a short space a lot of ideas for throwing/deploying them into fantasy, sci fi, pulp or horror games. Although for horror they are acknowledged to be more for comic relief.

5/5 So good. Great job Bill Collins.


An RPG Resource Review

5/5

Bizarre yet somehow weirdly plausible... what if bears were even bigger, fiercer and more intelligent than they are? Smart enough to organise a civilisation, use weapons, even attack those pesky humans. Maybe these are alien bears, or perhaps those grizzlies paid just too much attention to what hunters and rangers were getting up to.

So here are all the details, under the FATE ruleset, for you to run these intelligent bears - Ursanauts, perhaps, coming from far away in giant spaceships. Is it a hunting trip, to chase humans for sport? Or is it a scientific mission, to tag and study them? Or a miliary one, to take over some bear-friendly real estate?

Are you going to stop a drop bear and ask him his business? Or will you be too busy running away?

The stats and various stunts available for bears work well and are consistent with the postulated extension from what real bears can do. While the core idea is to introduce them into a contemporary game as alien invaders, several suggestions are made as to how to make use of them in other genres.

The only thing is, I've always been led to believe that drop bears hide up trees (from which, of course) they drop onto you. These ones are just too darn big to hide up trees! Otherwise, they have loads of potential for mayhem.



I wanted to thank Megan Robertson for taking the time to do a review of our product.

I also want to thank liz for getting this up.

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