Fudgerylog

Diseases can be dealt with in Fudge in much the same way as poisons (q.v.). That is, by describing it in character and in terms of its real world effects rather than worrying about which attributes and skills are lowered by how many levels or what its proper notation should be on a wound track. [...]

Skill difficulty in Fudge is normally presented in one of two ways: as a single difficulty for all skills, or as a difficulty that varies from skill to skill. (Here I am speaking of the difficulty, and hence the cost, of learning skills, not the difficulty levels associated with using skills.) Another possibility is a [...]

I have reached the conclusion that having multiple default skill levels is not desirable in my Fudge games. I had formerly believed that the standard default skill level of Poor (and skill difficulty of Average) was fine for free-form games and creating characters on the fly (with certain exceptions), but I now think it’s best [...]

A typical cliffhanger has at least one close combat scene per episode, and unless the hero is endowed with supernormal powers that enable him to dispatch his foes with alacrity, the fight will probably be lengthy and have an even chance of ending in triumph or defeat. A single blow will rarely put an enemy [...]