Last time we saw how you do things but now we talk about your stats! Now in most games your stats determine what you do, but in the fate system, your stats determine how you do things! There are six stats, which are actually called approaches!

• Careful: You pay attention to detail and take your time making sure things go smoothly. You can carefully aim, carefully look for intruders, you get the idea.
  
• Clever: To be clever requires that you think things through, and think it fast. You can solve more complex problems and keep track of more information. You could cleverly find a weak point, fix machines, you get the idea.
  
• Flashy: Flashiness demands attention and is full of style and energy! Inspiring speeches, pointlessly complicated attacks, magical EXPLOSIONS!!!!
  
• Forceful: You use brute force. What did you expect a big explanation?
  
• Quick: Zip! Move fast, think fast, act fast! GO GO GO! Stampede? Ruuuuun! Bullet? Dooooooooooge! Bomb with 3 seconds left? DISAAAAAAAAARM!!!!!!!
  
• Sneaky: I'm not hiding anything. You attempt to lie, misdirect or be sneaky and deceitful. Maybe swindle people, feinting moves, ya know, stuff like that.
  

You give stat points to your approaches saying how good you are at doing things that way, though it has to be in a special way:

One must be a 3
Two must be a 2
Two must be 1
One must be 0

What do the numbers actually mean?

Here you go!:

When you do something, you roll the dice and then add the appropriate approach to the total and that's how you get your result! But which approach is used? That is up to you and can be any approach...that makes sense! To make it easier on the GM when you do something make sure you use a proper adverb and go ahead and put it in italics or bold it so he can see it quickly. Examples:

Link cleverly searched for any flaw in the Darknut's armor

Ganondorf forcefully broke the chains

Tingle sneakily tried to push the boulder away

....wait, did you see the issue with that last one? To push a boulder requires force right? So he used the wrong aspect! That means rather than getting a bonus towards moving it, he just made sure nobody noticed him trying to move it! Sorry Tingle, but looks like that boulder is staying put.

There's one more thing that can help you out, and they are called stunts! Stunts are special abilities and traits which let you gain a permanent advantage depending on what you do! But they come at a cost. Perhaps you remember me mentioning Refresh when it came to Fate Points right? Well, each stung you get reduces your refresh by 1! What does that mean? That you start each mission with less Fate Points than normal! That means since we are going to go with a refresh of 3, you can have a maximum of 3 stunts. Here is how to make a stunt and how they are used, its pretty simple.

To make a stunt follow this format replacing the italics with what you want:

Because -insert character name- say what about your character lets them use this stunt. Is it equipment? A talent? Something else? -insert character name- gets a +2 when he/she pick an approach here put what action is done: Attacks, Defends, Creates Advantage, Overcomes when here you have to put the circumstance that allows you to use the stunt!

Some examples are:

Because Link is Trained by a Legend, he gets a +2 when he flashily attacks when he is using a sword

Because he has a balloon, Tingle gets a +2 when he quickly tries to create advantage or overcome and obstacle if flying would be possible and helpful

Did you notice that Tingle got 2 actions he can do to get a bonus! Its because the circumstance is far more restrictive than Link's. Using a sword to fight is easy, but being in a situation where using his balloon would be both helpful and possible is harder to find! You can only combine Create advantage and Overcome in a stunt, the rest have to be alone and the situation has to be restrictive.

There's another type of stunt. I like to call this one the Seto Kaiba Stunt. Basically it allows you to screw the rules! It can only be done once per mission, but can lead to some neat situations. Here's the template:

Because -insert character name- here say what about them allows them to do this, what's special, what gear do they have, what makes them so awesome?, once per mission I can say what you do

some examples are:

Because Zelda is Loved by her People, once per mission she can get nearby civilians to help them with any task for no cost.

Because Skull Kid is Inhumanly Fast, one per mission he can show up anywhere he wants to if he could run there, no matter where he started

There are no limits on what you can do with stunts, except for one. The GM has to approve it. Thus I introduce to you all our GM! @Lief Katano; !

Homework for today is to put the numbers into your approaches and get any stunts you want approved by Lief!