Are you all really agonizing about not liking a game? Like, here’s a thought, it’s okay to not like a really good game, you don’t have to beat yourself or anyone else up about it. There are methods of artistic evaluation by which Picasso is a shitty painter.

The only order-of-operations thing I really stick to in Fate (Core) is that the GM generates his total first (including the roll, invokes, etc.) and then the player does their thing. I don’t get a lot of reaching for shitty invokes because I’ve made it clear fictionally what’s happening before the player even rolls the dice.