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ZycroNeXuS
April 27th, 2022, 08:00
Hello,

I've been using Fate Core for my campaign, and I was playing around with the party sheet, trying to see if I could figure out how it works (and I did). But what I discovered when I tried to clean up my mess is that there appears to be no way to subtract coins from players under the Fate Core ruleset. The best that I can figure is that this is because the Fate Core character sheets do not have a currency section of any kind, and it doesn't get pushed under Notes or Gear or anything like that, so individual currency amounts do not actually seem to be exposed to the user anywhere in an editable fashion like they are in other rulesets. I'm aware that the number under Party Coins is information only, and is not supposed to be editable, so that's out. I also discovered that many people were saying that if you simply try to give the players negative currency, it subtracts from the party total. However, this appeared to do nothing in my case.

I did manage to lower the amounts, but only by shutting down the server, editing db.xml, and then restarting it, which as you can imagine, is not a particularly sustainable solution. Is there some way to lower the individual currency under Fate Core that I'm simply missing, or have I stumbled upon an oversight in the UI/ruleset? Either way, I would appreciate any assistance.

I don't have any extensions going, and I only have the Wood theme running (which does not seem to affect the character sheets in any way).

Thank you in advance.

Moon Wizard
April 27th, 2022, 16:01
Yeah, Fate is a very limited feature set ruleset created quite a while ago, probably during some of the first iterations of the core system layer (8+ years ago). It has mostly inherited updates to the core system; but by it's nature as a game system, it doesn't use a lot of them.

I did not create the ruleset, so not sure why the party sheet was even left in along with some of the other core elements that aren't being used.

However, I think I can squeeze in a currency section next to gear on the PC sheet to integrate that component. It would be included in the next large ruleset update.

Regards,
JPG

ZycroNeXuS
April 27th, 2022, 16:40
Oh, interesting. I had wondered why it didn't seem there was much documentation for the system, and I guess that explains it. I'd been getting by on looking at CoreRPG guides, and I suppose that would be because as you said, it's been inheriting a lot. I'm not really much of a programmer, but perhaps I could contribute to the Wiki, at least, which has nothing on the ruleset-specific pages for Fate.

How often do large ruleset updates come out, on average? I haven't been around long enough to gauge how often they're released, or what one even really looks like. It's not particularly urgent for me, but it would be nice to know how far off this might be.

Thank you for the assistance, and for adding the currency window in next update.

Moon Wizard
April 27th, 2022, 17:01
Large updates occur about every 3-6 months, depending on timing/development. They usually show up in the Laboratory forum for a few weeks or so before official release. I'm working on one now, so I'll probably start the next cycle within the next couple weeks or so.

Regards,
JPG