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rpg @ttrpg.network Zagorath @aussie.zone 3mo ago

A look at & review of what has been called the worst RPG of all time

Linked video is part 1 of 4, and as long as it is, it's the shortest of them.

I had heard vaguely about how this was a bad system before, but never before realised just quite how bad it was, and in what ways.

Warning: references to sexual assault, sexism, and racism

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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.
- Part of me agrees, but another part of me says...there are far too many rules in this about sex...including illicit forms thereof...for me to want to play this with anyone I know IRL.
  
  And also no part of me wants to spend the multiple hours this would probably take to roll up a character. I Googled looking for digital character generators, and they supposedly used to exist, but the official FATAL website no longer exists.

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