You can download the free PDF version at //www.fudgerpg.com

Although the hardcover 10th Anniversary Edition version comes with tons and tons of optional rules and examples that aren't present in the somewhat bare-bones PDF. See my RPG.Net review for more details on the (highly-recommended) print option.

Quote from: joewolzWhere can I find fudge?  What's it like exactly?  I have a pack of the dice, which I needed for The Shadow of Yesterday...so I guess if the game is available for free I'd like a copy.

Yamo answered the first question.

I sort of answered the second question in the games you know nothing about thread:

http://www.therpgsite.com/forums/showpost.php?p=23148&postcount=23

I like FUDGE a lot more than I like actual fudge, which is too sweet for my palate.  (My wife thinks I am crazy for this opinion, among others.)  I've done very little with it, but I hope to do more.  It strikes me as a good con game in the right hands: you can use straightfoward mechanics, character sheets are a snap for even newbies ('I am Terrible at dancing but Good a drag racing.'), and everyone gets to roll those neat-o dice!

I used to be BIG into Fudge.  Check out this review I did a couple years back for the Expanded Edition (this version used to be downloadable from www.fudgerpg.com, but now I can't find it, just the 10 year old... well... old version)
http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_3576.html

After a while, I just wasn't as into it anymore. Basically no one was doing anything spectacular with it, and when I looked down into it it was simply just another way to do exactly what GURPS and FUZION and d20 do, just with
different dice (and lighter).

Then Fudge FATE came out, which was entirely awesome. You can read/download it from here:
http://www.faterpg.com/

There's nothing bizarre or mystical about it, it simply takes Fudge, smooths out a LOT of the problems I had with it, and made it more unique. It essentially stirred in a layer of Over The Edge/RISUS into Fudge, and not only that but the free document was really easy to grasp, really well laid out, etc.

Recently the FATE guys released the new version of the FATE system into a game made to run Pulp adventures. Here's a review:
http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12464.phtml

-Andy

One of the things I like about fudge is the elegance of the dice mechanic - it gives you a distribution with a mean of 0 and reasonable variability around it.  One of the outcomes of this is that abilities and challenges are on the same scale.  Without fudge dice, you can accomplish the same thing by having Dx - Dx (or 2Dx - 2Dx).

But I stick with numbers for levels instead of the categories.

Quote from: NicephorusOne of the things I like about fudge is the elegance of the dice mechanic - it gives you a distribution with a mean of 0 and reasonable variability around it.  One of the outcomes of this is that abilities and challenges are on the same scale.  Without fudge dice, you can accomplish the same thing by having Dx - Dx (or 2Dx - 2Dx).

But I stick with numbers for levels instead of the categories.

yes, that is basically what d4-d4 system published by Better Mouse Trap games is.

I'm currently working on my own version of fudge, so we will see what I can come up with.

I like FUDGE, my wife hates it...I play D&D... 'nuff said

Quote from: FickleGMI like FUDGE, my wife hates it...I play D&D... 'nuff said

you are just lucky you have a wife that like gaming.

My soon to be wife doesn't game, unless you call pictionary and taboo gaming.

I dig it becuase it's like LEGOs, but I'm wondering why Ann Dupuis never answers those e-mails he asked me to send her.

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!I dig it becuase it's like LEGOs, but I'm wondering why Ann Dupuis never answers those e-mails he asked me to send her.

It's bad enough that you attach nude pictures of yourself to them... The fact that you're posing with a cardboard standup of a Bud Lite swimsuit model you stole from the Piggly Wiggly makes it worse. But the fact that you've printed out a picture of Ann's face and taped it onto the model was the last straw.

Man, Palehorse, usually I've got a real good sense of humor about these thngs.  But if you're gonna post lies like this one, it ain't cool.  

Village Pantry.  Not Piggly Wiggly.  Get the facts, then open your yapper.

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Man, Palehorse, usually I've got a real good sense of humor about these thngs.  But if you're gonna post lies like this one, it ain't cool.  

Village Pantry.  Not Piggly Wiggly.  Get the facts, then open your yapper.

You know, I knew that... but you have to admit, any sentence is funnier if you can somehow work "Piggly Wiggly" into it.