{"id":734,"date":"2013-10-02T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T21:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/?p=734"},"modified":"2013-10-02T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T21:53:09","slug":"interview-with-mike-olson-strange-fate-and-atomic-robo-rpg-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/2013\/10\/interview\/interview-with-mike-olson-strange-fate-and-atomic-robo-rpg-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Mike Olson &#8211; Strange FATE and Atomic Robo RPG designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robo-Cover-600px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"735\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/2013\/10\/interview\/interview-with-mike-olson-strange-fate-and-atomic-robo-rpg-designer\/attachment\/robo-cover-600px\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robo-Cover-600px.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,930\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The &amp;#8220;Action Science&amp;#8221; Aspect is quite versatile.\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robo-Cover-600px.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-735\" title=\"The &quot;Action Science&quot; Aspect is quite versatile.\" alt=\"The &quot;Action Science&quot; Aspect is quite versatile.\" src=\"http:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robo-Cover-600px-193x300.jpg\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robo-Cover-600px-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robo-Cover-600px.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a>At Gencon this year, I sat down and talked to <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritoftheblank.blogspot.com\/\">Mike Olson,<\/a> one of the leading FATE designers currently working in the industry. He created the Strange FATE system used by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcdream.com\/zencart\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=42\">Kerberos Club<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseraiders.com\/\">Base Raiders <\/a>and his latest project, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilhat.com\/home\/atomic-robo\/\">Atomic Robo RPG<\/a>, will hopefully be completed soon. We talked about the state of the FATE system and game design.<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Interview with Mike Olson &amp;#8211; Strange FATE and Atomic Robo RPG designer\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2013-10-02T16:53:09-05:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT33M56S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"At Gencon this year, I sat down and talked to Mike Olson, one of the leading FATE designers currently working in the industry. 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