Hide a Stress Track?

[EightBitz]

In Fate Core, is there a way to include a stress track in a campaign, but conditionally hide it?

Dresden has a "Feeding Dependency" stunt for vampires, and it's associated with a "Hunger" stress track. Right now, I have it set so that if the dependency stunt is not present, the max points for the stress track is 0. So the stress track shows up for everyone, but has no boxes for non-vampires.

It's not elegant, but it at least offers a visual indication as to whether or not the stress track is relevant. Is there a more elegant way to do this?

 

[Hollis]

There's actually two simple ways to go about this. The first way is to create the stress track and have a stunt bootstrap it, the same way a campaign normally bootstraps a stress track.

The other way is to bootstrap it from the campaign like normal, but put something like this in the Condition for the bootstrap at a timing of Setup/1000

SimpleItem.Hunger

Then, you add the SimpleItem.Hunger tag to the stunt, and have it assign the SimpleItem.Hunger tag to the hero at a timing before the bootstrap conditional. Setup/5000 should work just fine. Just be sure that the script that sets up the stress track runs after the bootstrap conditional. It won't be live for the script to affect it until after the bootstrap is evaluated.

Let me know if you need any more help.

 

[EightBitz]

Oh, thanks. I thought I remembered trying something similar to your first suggestion before, and it didn't work without the item being checked in the campaign. Obviously, I was wrong.

Thanks for your help.