More options to Fudge on the Fly

Jul 19, 2020 #fudge #rpg #character #experience #skills #rules

Introduction

This is a short one, it's basically a small adjustment to Fudge on the Fly Option #2. It's all based on Fudge on the Fly by Rob Donoghue and I will assume that you are familiar with it.

I also use Option #1: Stats, and will extend Option 3 to them too.

Option #3: Experience Points

Like in Option #2, Option #3 allows you to open new slots in order to advance your character. Furthermore you cannot open a slot unless there are at least as many slots of the lower level.

The number of experience points it costs to open a slot is as follows:

If you want slower development rates you can require more slots be available in a lower level. This will then always force the skill to remain a pyramid instead of becoming a block.

Example

Baroness Diane Michelli

Ambitious, scheming noblewoman

Flaw: Arrogant

After the latest adventure she now has gained 4 Experience Points.

New Blurb

Ambitious Lady of the Court, renown for her parties.

Consider Flaw

Arrogant has done well for her, but she's made some delightful enemies, so she replaces it with "Enemies with the Viscount Breneal".

Rearrange Skills

While she's mostly happy with the current layout, She wants to make a few changes. Codes are proving more valuable than anticipated, so she wants to increase that, but has no open mediocre slots. Additionally, Gossip has proven very useful, so she wants to increase that too! Ideally, she'd like to move Gossip up to Great, but doesn't have enough Experience Points to open up a slot, nor can she move the skill up in one development period. She uses 4 Experience Points to open up a new Good slot, and moves her Gossip skill up 1 step to Good, leaving behind a free slot in Fair, just what she needs to improve her skill in Cryptography!

Now, her sheet reads:

Baroness Diane Michelli

Ambitious, scheming noblewoman, renown for her parties

Flaw: Enemies with the Viscount Breneal

Option #4: Stats and Experience Points

This is very simple, I use 4 Stats: Body, Mind, Senses, Spirit, but you can go with any 4. I allow 1 Stat swap per development cycle.

The Experience Point cost for opening Stat slots is 3x the EP for skills, just like when developing a character with the Fudge rules, Trading Traits (pg 17 in the Fudge 10th Anniversary Edition). Here is a table for convenience:

Option #5: Using Experience Points to add more swaps

During a Development Cycle a Character can also use Experience Points to add extra skill swaps (the usual limitations apply, it's not possible to increase a skill 2 levels, and also the skill must have been used).

Each extra swap cost the number of Experience Points equal to opening a new slot at the new level minus the Experience Points for the current level, minimum of 1. Here is a table for convenience:

Character Record Sheet

I have made 2 versions of the Character Record Sheet both as a PDF and as a Google Doc.

Fudge on the Fly Character Record Sheet, standard wound track

• PDF

• Google Docs

Fudge on the Fly Character Record Sheet, wound track from A new damage system for Fudge

• PDF

• Google Docs