FUDGE <-> Black Gate Conversion Notes
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Some of the basic descriptors require more explanation. In FUDGE, a character's general health and hardiness is measured by her Damage Capacity. In Legacy, this is measured by a character's Health Points -- those ten little boxes on the character sheet. Note that FUDGE allows a much greater range in Damage Capacity than Legacy allows in Health Points. In Legacy, human beings basically all have ten Health Points: the human body can take a certain amount of damage before it dies, no matter how well-trained the character may be. However, rare Legacy characters may have the Negative Accent "Frail" (nine Health points) or the Positive Accent "Robust" (eleven Health Points). A FUDGE character with Poor Damage Capacity (or worse) would be considered "Frail" (9 HP) in Legacy, while a FUDGE character with Great Damage Capacity (or better) would be "Robust" (11 HP) in Legacy. A FUDGE character with Mediocre to Good Damage Capacity would be typical by Legacy standards (10 HP).
It's more difficult to equate specific Attributes/Statistics between the two games, because FUDGE doesn't have any set character descriptors. Generally, the following Statistics are equivalent:
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* The Madness Statistic is introduced in Warlock: Black Spiral, the sequel to Legacy: War of Ages. Most non-Warlocks have a Madness Rank of zero.
Skills and Abilities between the two games are roughly equivalent. Converting a FUDGE character to Legacy requires only that a character's Skills be converted to whatever Legacy Ability is most appropriate. Since FUDGE has no set skill list, no changes need to be made when converting skills from Legacy to FUDGE.
The "Rank" of Legacy Statistics and Abilities are roughly equal to the numerical "Level" of FUDGE Attributes and Skills.
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Source material for Legacy and FUDGE can converted fairly easily back and forth. A matter that may pose some difficulty (no pun intended) is the conversion of FUDGE's "Difficulty Level" to Legacy's "Task Modifier" (and vice versa).
Generally speaking, the Legacy Task Modifier is twice the numerical equivalent of the FUDGE Difficulty Level. Conversely, the FUDGE Difficulty Level of a given Task is half the Legacy Task Modifier. In both cases, difficult Tasks have negative modifiers while easier Tasks have positive modifiers. Whether a halved Task Modifier is rounded up or down is matter for GM interpretation, depending on the Task at hand.
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You can find more information on Legacy at Black Gate Publishing's WWW site, http://www.blackgate.net. You can find more information on FUDGE at Grey Ghost Games' WWW site, http://users.aol.com/ghostgames.
Any questions or suggestions may be directed to Brandon Blackmoor care of Black Gate Publishing at bblackmoor@blackgate.net. If the question is heavily FUDGE-related, you may be better off asking Steffan O'Sullivan at sos@oz.plymouth.edu or Ann Dupuis at ghostgames@aol.com.
Legacy: War of Ages and Warlock: Black Spiral are trademarks of Black Gate Publishing. Legacy is available through game and hobby stores, while Warlock will available some time early in 1998. If you can't find them locally, they are also available by direct mail from Black Gate Publishing, P.O. Box 1134, Portsmouth, VA 23705-1134.
FUDGE is a role-playing game written by Steffan O'Sullivan, with extensive input from the Usenet community of rec.games.design. The basic rules of FUDGE are available on the internet via anonymous ftp at oz.plymouth.edu, and in book form or on disk from Grey Ghost Press, Inc., P.O. Box 838, Randolph, MA 02368. Original FUDGE materials Copyright © 1991-1995 Steffan O'Sullivan, All Rights Reserved.
Black Gate Publishing disavows any responsibilty if these conversion notes drive you to commit heinous acts of rule-laywering. Use at your own risk.