{"id":6549,"date":"2004-08-19T08:40:16","date_gmt":"2004-08-19T15:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/08\/19\/fate-accolades.html"},"modified":"2004-08-19T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2004-08-19T15:40:16","slug":"fate_accolades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/19\/fate_accolades.html","title":{"rendered":"FATE Accolades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpg-awards.com\/awards\/winners.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">2003 Indie RPG Awards<\/a> have been announced, and FATE is a serious winner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Third place over-all as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpg-awards.com\/awards\/gameoty.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Indie RPG of the Year<\/a>.\n<li>First place for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpg-awards.com\/awards\/bestfreegame.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Free Game of the Year<\/a>.\n<li>First place for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpg-awards.com\/awards\/bestsupport.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Best Support<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpg-awards.com\/awards\/andys.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Andy&#8217;s Choice Award<\/a><\/ul>\n<p>(The other big winner was <em>Life with Master,<\/em> which I know Doyce has been itching to run; this may push that over the edge.)<\/p>\n<p>As I was reading the Best Support reviews, I kept running across references on FATE to a &#8220;resource wiki&#8221; and &#8220;Nice website, a yahoo group with discussions and supporting files, online tools like a character developer and even a wiki,&#8221; and this little bit at the award line:<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Support-wise, the FATE guys are insane! They have the LiveJournal and the Yahoo! group, yeah, but it&#8217;s the WIKI that completely blew me away. There&#8217;s so much content. You can literally dig for hours through rules clarifications, setting material for *multiple* campaigns, links, and actual play reports.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m going, &#8220;Hey, did they set up an official wiki for FATE?  Cool, I need to check that out.&#8221;  And I maneuvered over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faterpg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">main FATE page<\/a>, and, hey, look, in the menu on the sidebar, under Resources there&#8217;s a &#8220;Fate Wiki&#8221; menu item, and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; uh &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/FATE\/FATE\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.  I.e., the wiki I put together for my own campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Gulp.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea I&#8217;d made such an official contribution to the FATE community (or even to its award).  And, if so, I&#8217;m rather gratified, a bit blown away, and more than a bit daunted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Cause now I <em>really <\/em>need to start making some updates to it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>UPDATE<\/u>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/fatetherpg\/3353.html\" target=\"_blank\">Official announcement here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><u>UPDATE<\/u>:  Okay, I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/games.groups.yahoo.com\/group\/FateRPG\/message\/2354\" target=\"_blank\">officially<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/games.groups.yahoo.com\/group\/FateRPG\/message\/2358\" target=\"_blank\">embarrassed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2003 Indie RPG Awards have been announced, and FATE is a serious winner: Third place over-all as Indie RPG of the Year. 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