Time for a FUDGE Hug

Every once in a while, ok often, I get the feeling that FUDGE just needs more love.

It just hasn't been the same since FATE (FUDGE Adventures in Tabletop Gaming- if you remember) took over the funny + and - dice.

Sure, sure, most say that FUDGE is just a framework, just a skeleton. Not really an RPG at all, but the template to make your own RPG. Fine, not a problem, but there is something that everyone is missing…

I LIKE to play with just a framework. I LIKE to not have to look anything up at all, and improvise as I go. I LIKE to collaborate with players and make a new way of playing right from scratch. Ok, ok, maybe different every time, but still. If it worked when I was a teenager in high school, sitting in the back of chemistry lab with an open frog in front of us, I think it can work today!

As you have no doubt calculated, yep, I am an ancient role-player. No longer can this hardened brain matter memorize dozens of AD&D tables, it is tired. FUDGE is like a comfortable blanket in the shape of a ladder, that this lazy brain can handle easily. I have gone so far as to play

Are FUDGE dice not like real life- nothing but pluses and minuses? In the end everything just settles down to 0 doesn't it? Not too good, not too bad, is all.

I miss that FUDGE blue, the easy no-math-dice-with-ladder style.

Speaking of ladders, everyone has their very own, and this one is mine. This is my *ladder*. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My *ladder* is my best friend. It is my *game*.

Where have I heard that before? 

* Note: I take the term descriptions as far as it can go with my game. No abilities, no skills, no gifts, just descriptions that make the character. And how do I fly- yep, with Fudge on the Fly too.

So if you miss the spontaneous, improvisational style of FUDGE, its framework style against crunchy itty-bitty rules that do nothing but feed the tabletop-lawyers (and the books are expensive), let me know in the comments or in the forum, wherever you find these words.

And remember the F in FUDGE stand for FREE**

** Well, free-FORM, but still, it's FREE!