I suppose one answer is that I wanted to preserve the element of a dungeon crawl. "Instead of mapping the entire temple, and narrating movement from room-to-room, why didn't you just create some Aspects for the temple?" There's 180 pages of setting background to push through first! But nevertheless I am pretty intrigued by the setting and am looking forward to digging into the mechanics of Strange FATE in another week or so. There are a few places where a sentence seemed to belong earlier in the paragraph. So far, I am finding the background text by Benjamin Baugh to be pretty evocative - sometimes quite subtly so - and as well as a little odd at certain points. There are also Gifts, which stand-in for Stunts in this implementation of FATE. The Strange FATE system which powers The Kerberos Club ( Strange FATE SRD here) is on the complex end of the FATE spectrum, with a skill set tailored for Victorian age weird heroes, and skills organized into three distinct power tiers that differentiate the powers of heroes from those of mere mortals. Imagine several dozen singularities unleashed at once, and you have a sense of the haute weird at the end of the Victorian age. By the late Victorian era, the Kerberos Club is completely out in the open - rather like a high weird Victorian JLA - and has frequent clashes will all manner of technological and occult threats. Early in the Victorian era, the level of weirdness in the world is modest, and the Club is secret. I am slowly making my way through the narrative background on the Kerberos Club, which is a society or private club for 19th Century Victorian heroes who have been touched by. So this year I know I will get in some great games, and my own offering at the Con will be running The Kerberos Club. Horror games such as Call of Cthulhu are a hallmark of JonCon, and I can honestly say that the only truly scary Call of Cthulhu game I have ever played was in a JonCon CoC tournament. JonCon is a private gaming convention that emerged from a core of friends who have played for many years in each others' gaming groups. This April, I am going to be running the FATE Edition of The Kerberos Club at JonCon '13 in the Twin Cities.