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At this point I feel the rpg culture should be firmly separated again from the mainstream only to have the mainstream stand between itself and this kind of awfulness.
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I didn't even get into how the underlying system is abysmally bad even when you try to strip away all the gross shit. Like, stats are generated by rolling 10d100/10-1. Yes, you read that correctly. Then there are five derived attributes generated as an average of four base stats, so if something modifies a base stat you have to recalculate the derived stat, but then those derived stats also set things like your carry weight, so you have to recalculate that and... It's exhausting. Combat is atrocious. There are criticals, but they have no relation to each other, so you can cleave through someone's appendix and their belly button but leave everything in between untouched. Magic requires you to roll to see if you say the words correctly. The whole thing is an ungodly nightmare.
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>Magic requires you to roll to see if you say the words correctly. I hate this kind of realism for the sake of realismFATAL is, somehow, simultaneously a masterclass in realism for the sake of realism, and also the most unrealistic game ever made. There is a specific stat for how many words per minute you can speak, a stat for the longest word you know, and a stat for how far back your earliest memory is. But also, the system uses the concept of "humors" as something that actually has real-world effects, has the aforementioned critical system where you can crit individual organs but leave the surrounding organs unscathed, the ability to roll up a 4 year old with B-cups, and all kinds of other absolutely deranged nonsense that has no business whatsoever calling itself realistic. Oh, and if your character's intelligence is low enough, you get to roll to see if they have "R****d Strength". So that's great.
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FATAL is, somehow, simultaneously a masterclass in realism for the sake of realism, and also the most unrealistic game ever made. There is a specific stat for how many words per minute you can speak, a stat for the longest word you know, and a stat for how far back your earliest memory is. But also, the system uses the concept of "humors" as something that actually has real-world effects, has the aforementioned critical system where you can crit individual organs but leave the surrounding organs unscathed, the ability to roll up a 4 year old with B-cups, and all kinds of other absolutely deranged nonsense that has no business whatsoever calling itself realistic. Oh, and if your character's intelligence is low enough, you get to roll to see if they have "R****d Strength". So that's great.
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Zigmenthotep on YouTube covered F.A.T.A.L as part of their "Let's make us a character" series. It took *four* episodes, in a format that is usually one-and-done. However bad you've heard the game is, I assure you it's worse.The only game I've ever played with a more complicated character creation was the 5th edition of Hero System. There were a couple of steps that resemble calculus, but once you're done you know exactly how your character will fair in a lot of situations. If character creation was a little easier it would be my favorite superhero RPG.
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>Magic requires you to roll to see if you say the words correctly. I hate this kind of realism for the sake of realismThe one thing FATAL has going for it is how terrible it is. Any improvement would make it not so perfectly horrible, and thus not as good.
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Palladium was foundational to everything in RIFTS and it was clear the overlap was just supposed to be implied knowledge, especially from the later rulebooks.It was a bit need you had to pick and choose what to do with. Your cyber knight with AR and SDC hitpoints is dead the second a child brings out a Wilks laser pea shooter with a full eclip But in an SDC environment that same cyber knight is an absolute terror. The world building through Erin Tarn is what makes the books entertaining even when you don't even play it IMHO
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It was a bit need you had to pick and choose what to do with. Your cyber knight with AR and SDC hitpoints is dead the second a child brings out a Wilks laser pea shooter with a full eclip But in an SDC environment that same cyber knight is an absolute terror. The world building through Erin Tarn is what makes the books entertaining even when you don't even play it IMHOI would just casually read the rule books for fun. I had binders of Palladium NPCs with mapped towns and cities. No campaign ever got off the ground, but it did develop my love of worldbuilding.
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[There are people here who've probably never seen the greatest review of the worst RPG of all time.](https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14567.phtml) >There is no God, and the proof of this can be found in a .pdf file from Fatal Games.
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[There are people here who've probably never seen the greatest review of the worst RPG of all time.](https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14567.phtml) >There is no God, and the proof of this can be found in a .pdf file from Fatal Games.I had to force myself to keep reading this.
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I was tragically born without any common fucking decency (or maybe this is from being an unsupervised child on the early internet) but I’ve also heard the game is just horribly bad and unfun from a game design perspective.
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[There are people here who've probably never seen the greatest review of the worst RPG of all time.](https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14567.phtml) >There is no God, and the proof of this can be found in a .pdf file from Fatal Games.
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Just know that character creation is reminiscent of the oldest D&D types, where you'd roll randomly. It is possible (I read a review of the game, not the system itself, thank god) to have a negative circumference of the anus.5th dimensional bussy
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Honestly FATAL isnt even fun to read its just mad cringe. Like the most in depth look into the mind of an incel.Yeah, basically a complete listing of the kind of "jokes" edgy internet dweebs made and then checked to see the reaction before they decided if they meant it or not.
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Just know that character creation is reminiscent of the oldest D&D types, where you'd roll randomly. It is possible (I read a review of the game, not the system itself, thank god) to have a negative circumference of the anus.
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This post did not contain any content.I have a morbid fascination with it, and one of the things that keeps dragging me back to it is the very weird ways in which it is, surprisingly, *progressive*. FATAL makes a distinction between sex and gender (though throws it away), and also recognises asexuality as valid (despite not understanding it).
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