Fudgerylog

In a comment on Simulating Incompetence, 1d30 raised the issue of taking more time to accomplish a task in order to achieve results above one’s skill level. Naturally, one can just fudge it (especially in Fudge), but here are some additional ways to handle it. Dual Skill Levels In Simulating Incompetence, I described how a [...]

Several years after posting Offensive Damage Factors Considered, I have decided to rethink the approach. I always thought the idea of starting weapon damage at +0 to be counterintuitive, and Fudge should never be counterintuitive. Therefore, I have moved the starting weapon damage (for small weapons) to +1. This allows +0 to be the exclusive [...]

Some time ago, I posted an article, The Very Idea: Variations on the Trait Ladder, about the lack of adjectives above Superb and below Terrible on the Fudge trait ladder, in which I offered a simple suggestion that was only half in jest. I suggested adding one “Very” to Superb or Terrible for every level [...]

There is, if I recall correctly, only one rule in Fudge that addresses the benefits of pole arms, and then only indirectly. From Section 4.31, Melee Modifiers: Compare combatants’ weapon sizes and shields (see Section 4.54, Sample Wound Factors List). If one fighter’s weapon + shield value is +2 (or more) greater than the other [...]

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 [...]