Fudge is a generic role-playing game system for use in freeform role-playing games.

Rather than being a rigidly pre-defined set of rules like d20 System or GURPS, Fudge offers a customizable toolkit for building the users ' own specialized role-playing game system.

The OGL license has allowed the FATE role-playing game to use Fudge as its underlying mechanic.

At the time Fudge was conceived, it was stylish to give role-playing games acronyms for names ( for instance, GURPS and TWERPS ) and originally the usenet design project referred to the game as SLUG, for " Simple Laid-back Universal Game ".

Seraphim Guard publishes HeartQuest, the first commercially published Fudge-based role-playing game, in addition to other Fudge games, and support for other gaming systems as well.

It was designed with the rules of the Fudge universal role-playing system in mind but added modifications necessary to get rid of the need for a gamemaster, distributing the responsibility for the game and story equally among all players and undoing the equivalence between player and character.

Full Throttle retains a stable fanbase that keeps developing the setting and the story on their own, for example, through modules for a popular role-playing game system Fudge.

* Fudge ( role-playing game system )

However the FUDGE Legal Notice ( more commonly known as simply " the Fudge license ") was never intended to cover any work other than its eponymous role-playing game.

Despite Fudge and other games, the open gaming movement did not gain widespread recognition within the role-playing game industry until 2000, when Wizards of the Coast ( WotC ) re-published the 3rd Edition of their popular Dungeons & Dragons role-playing system as the System Reference Document under the Open Game License.

Steffan O ' Sullivan, who wrote GURPS Bunnies & Burrows notes, " The game has also been published as a GURPS supplement, but I usually play it in Fudge these days-the simpler rules seem to work better for this genre in particular.

There have been three Grey Ghost Press editions, the most current being the Fudge 10th Anniversary Edition, which includes several suggested rules systems for common RPG elements and an example basic fantasy " build " of the game.

The game has been referred to officially as just Fudge ever since, though fans often still refer to it in the old manner as FUDGE.

In fact, the main Fudge documents encourage players to " Just Fudge It "; that is, to focus on the story being created rather than on the game rules.

* The Postal 2: Fudge Pack is released, a 5 in 1 pack of Postal games: Postal ; Postal²: Share the Pain ; Postal²: Apocalypse Weekend ; Eternal Damnation ( a fan-made game ); and Week in Paradise ( a fan-made mod ), November 2006

It was later included in both the Postal Fudge Pack and Postal X: 10th Anniversary compilations alongside Share the Pain and several fan produced mods, including A Week in Paradise which allows content from Apocalypse Weekend to appear in the original game as well as allowing the expansions levels to be played as part of the original five day campaign.

Created for the Fudge Pack compilation, A Week in Paradise is a slightly modified version of the main game, with several new maps added ( including a college ), additional weaponry ( including nuclear weapons ), and different outfits, hats and props for non-player characters.

James Fudge of GameSpy said of the game that " Everything about Phantasy Star was uncommon, fun, and strange.

Grey Ghost Press, with the endorsement of Steffan O ' Sullivan, publishes an expanded form of the Fudge system.

Editor Scott Haring stated that " Fudge is an extremely flexible, rules-light system.

Malik, Fudge, and Phipps have a discussion on race, knowledge, and " the system ".

The project that would lead to Fudge was first proposed by Steffan O ' Sullivan on 17 November 1992 on the rec. games. design newsgroup, and over the following months that online community would contribute to the directed project.

Although Simon initially considered calling this character Hot Fudge, the cherry on top seemed like an exposed skull as its head and he decided that the Red Skull was a more appropriate moniker.

A " chocolate lovers " assortment was also made that included Chocolate Cappuccino, Chocolate Caramel, Chocolate Coconut, Chocolate Fudge Brownie and Chocolate Vanilla.

During their period of greatest celebrity, the band's influence on aspiring R & B-flavored white acts was without equal, especially in the northeastern U. S. Notable bands that incorporated ( sometimes to the point of parody ) the Rascals ' full-on stage demeanor and energy as well as the intense, hyper-dramatic vocalizing, drumstick-spinning gyrations and heavy bottom-end rhythm also achieved some prominence: the Vagrants ( featuring Leslie West, later of Mountain ), the Rich Kids, and the epitome of over-the-top funky psychedelia, the Vanilla Fudge, all owed their styles to the Rascals ' synthesis of show-biz and soul.

The Minister for Magic ( Cornelius Fudge ) deluded himself into believing that Voldemort could not have come back and that it was all a lie cooked up by Dumbledore, whom Fudge believed had designs on his political office.

A recording of the Pigeons was released in Germany in 1973 under the title of ' While the World was Eating Vanilla Fudge '.

In the spring of 2011, Vanilla Fudge embarked on what was announced as their farewell tour.

Bonham initially used Premier drums, but in the late 1960s was introduced to Ludwig drums by Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge.

This double bass drum set-up was once used live during a tour with Vanilla Fudge.

John Bonham did play double bass drums while the band was touring with the band Vanilla Fudge.

I was a big Vanilla Fudge fan, with their Hammond organ and searing guitar on top, and we had David's high vibrato vocals anyway so that's how we decided to shape it ", Box recalled.

Due to spoilage, the loose candy was replaced in 1944 with a chocolate disk ( e. g. Brach's Fudge disk ) or a cookie sandwich ( e. g., Jim Dandee ) and the number of biscuits was reduced to 4.

Lord also stated that he was heavily influenced by the organ-based progressive rock played by Vanilla Fudge after seeing that band perform in Great Britain in 1967.

Inside the Hogsmeade tavern, Harry overhears Cornelius Fudge discussing Sirius Black's responsibility for Harry's parents ' deaths, as well as for the death of another Hogwarts student, Peter Pettigrew, who was blown to bits, leaving only a finger.

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Minister Fudge takes a long while to respond to the attacks on Hogwarts ( however it could be argued that Fudge was willing to give Albus Dumbledore a fair chance to deal with the crisis within his ( Dumbledore's ) own power ).

* Cornelius Fudge ( 1990 – 1996 ) – failed to act against Lord Voldemort, who was growing in power in the mid-1990s, as he believed him gone ; when unmistakable evidence was made public that Voldemort was, once again, active and powerful, Fudge was sacked.

In 2010 Dave Willis created Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge, a new television pilot for Adult Swim.

( Peter speculates in the next chapter that he believes his parents ' inability to control Fudge created a poor impression on Warren's client, although he admits nobody ever said as much.

The rules of Fudge are highly customizable and can be adjusted for the level of simplicity or complexity desired by the Game Master and Players.

* Mystery ( Vanilla Fudge album ), a 1984 release by Vanilla Fudge

All of Cleveland Heights is in the 11th congressional district, a seat currently held by Marcia Fudge, elected in a special election following the death of Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones.

Vanilla Fudge, the debut album by Vanilla Fudge, also contains a cover of " Strawberry Fields Forever " titled " ELDS "; the album in fact spelt out an acrostic of the song as an homage, with preceding tracks titled " STRA ", " WBER " and " RYFI.

The Order is forced to operate in secrecy, outside of the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Magic, which is headed by the dense and corrupt Cornelius Fudge, who refuses to believe that Lord Voldemort has returned.

Professor Umbridge and Harry soon clash, as she, like Fudge, refuses to believe that Voldemort has returned and punishes Harry when he points out Voldemort's return by forcing him to write lines with a special quill that carves " I must not tell lies " into the back of his hand.

Originally calling themselves The Pigeons, they changed the name to Vanilla Fudge in 1966, after the replacement of Brennan by Appice.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge is the second studio album by the grunge band Mudhoney.

The Knight Bus drops Harry off at Diagon Alley, where he is greeted by Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic.

Fudge is removed from office for incompetence and replaced by Rufus Scrimgeour.

His second violation, blowing up his Aunt Marge, is forgiven by Fudge because the Minister fears that Sirius Black is after Harry and feels that his safety after running away from the Dursleys takes precedence.

* Fudge, character in the Fudge series of books by Judy Blume

* Cornelius Fudge, Minister for Magic in the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling

* Fudge ( chocolate bar ), a brand of chocolate bar made by Cadbury

* Fudge 44, 2006 feature film by Graham Jones

The species is known colloquially by birders as " Fudge Duck ".