Fate: Condensed

Fate Condensed is a compact, stand-alone version of the Fate Core System, streamlined for clarity and ease of reference.

Fate Condensed gives you easy-to-digest rules in as few pages as possible, so you can quickly get to the table to play dice. It includes a few simple refinements to the Fate Core engine that have been refined over a decade of active play and development. Best of all, it's 100% compatible with any of our 90+ Fate products already released.

Fate veterans will appreciate the concise layout, minor refinements, and additions to Fate's rules (see below for details).

New with Fate? Fate Condensed can power any game, any scenario you can imagine. Let your creativity run wild! Fate's flexible rules make it easy for you.

You can adapt your favorite movie or TV series, or create an original world completely customized for your group. Players populate that world with proactive, skilled characters who lead dramatic lives. The game master challenges them with crises that involve both the world and their personal problems.

Fate Condensed gives you the flexibility and power to bring your vision to life!

What's New.

Inside Fate Condensed you will find:
- One-point stress boxes to help reduce player confusion. (Don't worry, you can still use Fate Core stress if you want!)
- Skills no longer determine turn order. Instead, the story determines who takes their turn first, and the active player chooses who takes their turn next.
- We've improved progression, removing important milestones and refining important milestones to compensate.
- Active resistance is no longer separate from the defend action.
- Fourteen pages of optional rules to make building your own custom variant of Fate easy. These options give you rules for countdowns, scale, extreme effects, methods to make your Big Bads bigger and meaner, and more.
- Openly Licensable.