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Monthly Archives: February 2007

Glossary; Attributes

Two new pages have been added:

Glossary of Fudge and General Role-Playing Terms
Attributes (The Basic List)

Actually, the Attributes page has been on the site in a slightly different form since 2004 in an ASCII format.

General Site Updates

I completed some of my renovation plans for Fudgery.net today. Specifically, I:

Hyperlinked the categories on the Links page so they can be accessed directly from the Site Map.
Updated the Skills page with cross-reference hyperlinks and new skills.
Renamed the Etc. page Omnium-Gatherum.

Notes on Difficulty Level Conversions

The primary purpose of Difficulty Level Conversions is to allow for the rapid translation of scenarios written for other game systems into Fudge. This way, one can pick up an old scenario or a buy a new one and simply substitute the Fudge Difficulty Levels for those listed. If one uses the Trait Conversions to [...]

Difficulty Level Conversions

I have added a page of Difficulty Level Conversions to Optimum Fudge. At present, it only converts three systems to and from Fudge, but more will be added.

Notes on Skills

Skills are a major component in defining many role-playing games. They usually tell the player not only about the limitations of his character, but about the limitations of his entire species. If a game doesn’t have an existing skill for Multidimensional Bungee-Jumping, generally you can’t attempt it. Games like Fudge, however, have the benefit of [...]

Notes on Trait Conversions

The charts in Optimum Trait Conversions for Fudge are meant to provide a quick guideline for translating traits to and from Fudge. It is a very simple matter, but there are several issues worth keeping in mind.
If you are translating the traits of another game into Fudge terms and the other game has fewer trait [...]

Trait Conversions Updated

As the title declares, the Trait Conversions page has been updated. I have added PDQ, the game engine of a number of very high quality role-playing games written by Chad Underkoffler and published by Atomic Sock Monkey Press; Risus: The Anything RPG, a work of brilliance and madness by S. John Ross and published by [...]

Strength Scale

The following Optimum Fudge pages have been added or modified:

Strength Scale Chart (added)
Mass Scale Chart (modified)

Thoughts on Scale

A recurring complaint about Fudge over the years, in the Fudge Mailing List and in various discussions, is the confusion caused by the rules for Scale in Chapter 2. What is the purpose of Scale rules? Simply, it is to illustrate that certain things are relative to one’s size. A gladius in the hands of [...]

Mass Scale and Speed Scale

The following Optimum Fudge pages have been added to Fudgery.net:

Mass Scale Chart
Speed Scale Chart