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'''Spending Willpower to Make Rolls Succeed'''
'''Scale'''


You can spend your Willpower Points on a 1-to-5 basis to improve most skill rolls (but not SAN rolls or damage rolls, or POW tests, or to change normally successful rolls into crits etc.): 1 WP = up to 5%. This represents making that extra effort of will to achieve a success. But in doing so, you're running down your Willpower Points, which can be dangerous. Also, you have to take the full 1-to-5 conversion - no fractions. If your roll has failed by 6%, you have to spend 2 WP for the full 10%.
Larger and more powerful entities (Space Marines, vehicles, etc.) get the benefit of Scale when compared to smaller ones.  


Remember that you can also spend Willpower to project SAN loss onto Bonds, or to repress insanity. This is different to the above use - and a reminder how important it is to hang on to your WP. Fumbles can cost you WP; resisting interrogation definitely does. WP are needed to fuel hypergeometrical rituals and objects, and are sometimes targeted by offensive rituals. They're also very important for survival in hostile environments - like the Antarctic.
When applying scale to two opposing forces or individuals, compare the sides’ levels and determine who is higher, and by how many levels. They get one of the following benefits on any rolled action against their lesser:
* +1 per level of difference to their action before the roll
* +2 per level of difference to the result after the roll, if the roll succeeds
* 1 additional free invoke per level of difference to the results of a successful Create Advantage action.


Remember that you suffer an emotional breakdown when your WP hit 2 or below, and total collapse when you hit 0 WP. You regain 1d6 WP after a full, proper night's sleep. Exhaustion and sleeplessness cut into that.
For cases where a small size is an advantage - Stealth, etc. - the Scale difference works in reverse.




Revision as of 20:40, 7 August 2025

Campaign Overview

This is the campaign Wiki for a Fate Condensed / Warhammer 40,000 adventure, which may grow into a campaign if it has enough traction. The system will be Fate Condensed, with added details of equipment etc. drawn from the Obsidian Portal hack of Fate Core: https://fate40k.obsidianportal.com/, and the Corruption mechanic borrowed from Fate of Cthulhu.

The initial premise is a team of low-level Inquisition assets/Acolytes/agents investigating subversion in the Askellon Sector.

Helpful Resources

Characters

The player-characters engaged by Professor Webb to undertake or support research in the White Sea.

Player Character HP WP SAN BP Resources Weapons
Potted Plant Aleksei Graham 11 17 85 68 3: 3/0/0, [][][] .32 Colt Model 1903 Pocket
Eplov Julian A. Locke 12 15 60 45 8: 6/2/0, [][] .32 Colt Model 1903 Pocket, Colt M1911
bikewrench William McRae 12 15 75 60 10: 6/4/0, [][] Mauser Hunting Rifle, H&H Double Rifle

Important Information and Materials

This is the general page for details of events, vehicles, equipment, information and resources relevant to the campaign.

Weapons table - ranged weapons: https://fate40k.obsidianportal.com/wikis/range-weapons

Weapons table - melee weapons: https://fate40k.obsidianportal.com/wikis/melee-weapons

Important People and Organizations

House Rules and Quirks

Scale

Larger and more powerful entities (Space Marines, vehicles, etc.) get the benefit of Scale when compared to smaller ones.

When applying scale to two opposing forces or individuals, compare the sides’ levels and determine who is higher, and by how many levels. They get one of the following benefits on any rolled action against their lesser:

  • +1 per level of difference to their action before the roll
  • +2 per level of difference to the result after the roll, if the roll succeeds
  • 1 additional free invoke per level of difference to the results of a successful Create Advantage action.

For cases where a small size is an advantage - Stealth, etc. - the Scale difference works in reverse.


Parrying with Melee Weapons

The rules are a little unclear on this point, so to clarify: You can parry a Melee Weapons attack against you if you have the skill (e.g., not surprised), are able to use it, and have a weapon of your own. If your parry roll succeeds and beats your attacker's roll, you successfully parry the attack and take no weapon damage. If your parry roll succeeds but is below your attacker's roll, your weapon takes 1 point of damage. (Light weapons have 5 points, medium weapons 10 points, heavy weapons 20 points.)

If you're attacked by multiple assailants, you can opt to split your Melee Weapons skill between them and roll each parry separately, but your percentage chance per parry is divided by the total number of attackers. If you're splitting your skill, you have to declare this before the first attack, and you can't change the chances if one attacker fails and your parry succeeds.

You can't parry Huge attackers, only Dodge them. You can't nimbly parry a charging rhino's horn with your little switchblade...

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