Equipment

Equipment can be modified using either the Crafts or Performance skills, depending on the nature of the enhancement. Each piece of Equipment listed below is assumed to be of Average(+1) quality, lower quality equipment can be purchased at -1 Cost but gain an aspect as determined by the GM. Higher quality equipment is available as well with costs dependent on if the addition is an aspect or skill bonus.

Equipment that is special or by itself plays a larger role within the story is built are built as Extras. This allows the equipment to have aspects, skills, stunts, and other story elements.

Every piece of equipment has an aspect that is the name of the equipment. So if you have a Great Sword listed as equipment, then its aspect is “Great Sword.” This aspect may be compelled or invoked as normal.

Armor can absorb a consequence instead of you when it is being worn properly. In addition the Armor Training stunt allows armor to “soak” stress as well.

A shield can also grant a defensive bonus through the use of the Shield Training stunt.

Using a weapon may grant its wielder a damage bonus to the amount of stress that they cause when using the attack action. In order to gain the damage bonus you must at least succeed on your attack to inflict Physical Stress upon the target.

Range is the number of zones that the weapon can reach when using the Shooting skill. The weapons are not broken out in a huge list of various weapons with little differences, instead they are categorized in broader strokes. Narration determines what weapon can be used with Shooting - Crossbow (yes), Great Sword (no).

Fate is a very broad strokes game that centers on narration with enough rules to control the “I shot you! No, I shot you first” problem. As such keeping track of all of the sundry stuff that a character might have on them is not within the scope of the game. Unless it is necessary for the story each character is assumed to have the various bits and bobs necessary to use their skills as the levels they have purchased them. A character with a Good(+3) Burglary skill is assumed to have lock picks good enough.

The list below is simply provided to give a general idea of the difficulty in acquiring something that the character make not necessarily have during that scene, session, story. If the narration has the characters just barely reaching the next town before collapsing of near starvation - it is not expected that any horses are with them.

For many of the larger items, just because you can acquire one does not mean that it presents itself well for the story - in that case it simply cannot be acquired. In addition to acquiring the equipment the GM is free to assign the occasional obstacle that must be overcome by compelling the aspect of your special equipment.

The cost of services depends on the quality of the person who is giving the service. To gain a service generally requires that the player overcome an obstacle equal to the level of the service that they wish. This obstacle can be increased by the GM depending on the circumstances. If someone is trying to find a Great(+4) thief in a Heavily Policed city then the GM could invoke the aspect making the difficult to contact the thief a Fantastic(+6) effort.