Someone did the unspeakable - they played FATAL

[kyoryu]

Not safe for work. Not safe for sanity. Not safe for life (you may well die laughing).

http://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments...out_the_fatal/

(okay, it's just text, so work non-safety may be exaggerated).

[supermonkeyjoe]

It is NSFW but only because I got partway through and had to stop for risk of bursting out laughing! I really want to roll up some characters in FATAL now just to see what it comes up with.

[kugelblitz]

Good LORD this was hilarious.

[Ravens_cry]

I remember reading someone going through character creation on TV tropes, and that was hilarious enough.
As a side note, when I was initially typing this, I misspelled hilarious, and the suggestion given by Firefox spell check was . . . lecherous.
Take from that what you will.

[Axier]

I feel like my mind will be forever scared by the female kobold...

I love kobolds, but normally I could deal with kobold related death... And then this happens...

[TheOOB]

I can't even read more than a dozen pages of FATAL at a time without retching(sometimes it's the terrible mechanics, sometimes it's the utter detachment from reality, oftentimes it's the misogyny, sometimes it's all three.) Actually playing it never entered the question for me.

[Rhynn]

Yeah, I find even Hârnmaster's character creation mechanics to be so complicated as to be scared of even suggesting it for play to my group; FATAL is obviously inspired in large part by either Hârnmaster or Chivalry & Sorcery (an early D&D spinoff which obviously inspired Hârnmaster), only it's so, so much worse. So much...

[TheOOB]

Yeah, I find even Hârnmaster's character creation mechanics to be so complicated as to be scared of even suggesting it for play to my group; FATAL is obviously inspired in large part by either Hârnmaster or Chivalry & Sorcery (an early D&D spinoff which obviously inspired Hârnmaster), only it's so, so much worse. So much...

Complicated character creation is the least of your worries with FATAL.

Detailed and random character systems have(of course), been done better, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is random and covers lots of topics, but those characters can be made in less than half an hour.

[Vknight]

After losing most of my sanity and humanity by serving Yig. I've come to accept F.A.T.A.L
as both horrible but enlightening as to when something is bad enough it can unite those of a group no matter there differences.
A group of D&D players that fight over editions will sit down and stop if told they must play F.A.T.A.L if they can't come to a solution

[Rhynn]

Complicated character creation is the least of your worries with FATAL.

Oh, I have had multiple editions of the rulebook, and even tried to make a character once. (I just couldn't slog through it.) Even absent all the really offensive and stupid stuff, the rules and math are ridiculously bad (roll 4d100/2 -X where X > 2, but the end result must be higher than 1!), in addition to being completely wrong from a design point of view.

And I actually enjoy Hârnmaster character creation...

The similarities really are striking if you look at the rules, and F.A.T.A.L.'s pedigree either from HM or C&C is obvious. For instance, in HM you randomly roll your race, you randomly roll a birthday - although this determines a horoscopic sign that affects skills - and skill base values are determined as the average of three ability scores, then multiplied. (And a lot of elements in HM chargen are from C&C.)

A group of D&D players that fight over editions will sit down and stop if told they must play F.A.T.A.L if they can't come to a solution

"If you kids don't stop fighting back there, I will drive this car into that bridge support at 100 mph!"

[kyoryu]

Personally, I liked the comment further down in the thread where someone talked about a player whose character was forced to rape an orc by the rules.

[Lord Torath]

Personally, I liked the comment further down in the thread where someone talked about a player whose character was forced to rape an orc by the rules.

Part of my mind wants to know the story behind that, but the other part knows I'm much better off not knowing. I don't want to need to go soak my brain in acid. (Yes, I did, in fact, quote or paraphrase Roy twice).

[Rhynn]

Part of my mind wants to know the story behind that, but the other part knows I'm much better off not knowing. I don't want to need to go soak my brain in acid. (Yes, I did, in fact, quote or paraphrase Roy twice).

It's a possible random result in the (AD&D-inspired) wrestling table. You succeed at a wrestling attack, you roll the result, and... oops...

It isn't an option, either, it's what happens.

[kyoryu]

It's a possible random result in the (AD&D-inspired) wrestling table. You succeed at a wrestling attack, you roll the result, and... oops...

It isn't an option, either, it's what happens.

But hey, you can roll a will check the next round to stop... which can, of course fail....

[Dogbert]

My... God....

[Doorhandle]

But hey, you can roll a will check the next round to stop... which can, of course fail....

Everything you need to know about FATAL riiiiight there.

[Vknight]

Not true there is plenty more horrid things to learn
The type of things that will make you scream in fear, rage, and then curl up into a ball and cry

Now if you want to keep your sanity then yes it makes perfect sense to follow the other advice and look no further