I’ll take any opportunity I can to link the legendary RPG.net review of FATAL.
I’ve never read FATAL, but I’ve read plenty about it. And I’m glad it exists, because it makes every other RPG better just by virtue of not being FATAL.
Creator got done in on rape charges.
F.A.T.A.L. is known for its graphic violent and sexual content, as well as the complexity of the underlying game system, involving higher-level mathematics
Higher level math? Absolutely disgusting.
I dunno about “higher level” maths, but there is one bit where you’re asked to solve a simple year 8–level algebra equation (which is still a much higher level than any other RPG I’ve ever played asks you to do). It’s also in one of the more explicitly NSFW parts of the system.
Specifically, you have to solve for y: (BT – 80)2 = –4y + 120, where BT is a number arrived at in an earlier step, using (CM / CV/A ) × 100. I will not be defining what CM and CV/A are in this forum in order to keep the comments SFW.
I kinda want to get together with my gaming group to make characters in FATAL and take the piss on the poor author
It’s not fun.
Like, legitimately. It sounds fun, but then you sit down and do it, and realize there is little, if anything, redeemable even as a joke. By the time you’re done, everyone will hate themselves.
And that’s without playing an actual game. I think we made it 3 sessions before we figured out it just wasn’t a fun game to play, even with tongue firmly punching out of our cheeks the entire time.
Hi, I did that with some close friends as a joke before. It starts out as a joke, but it will quickly become hellishly painful to continue. I think we stopped somewhere at distributing skill points, where the game just throws 6 pages of skills at you (not joking) and goes “just distribute these points”. Having a giant block of alphabetically sorted skills, most being absolute garbage and some only sounding ‘kinda’ useful, was my breaking point
Thank you for the kind warning, stranger. I will heed your words.
