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Dust and his party have sacrificed their sanity so that we don't have to play FATAL, and now you people are planning to play FATAL? What's wrong with you people?!
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Mewtarthio, you have scared my brain into hiding, a trembling, broken shadow of a thing, cowering somewhere in the soothing darkness and singing nursery rhymes in the hope of obscuring the Lovecraftian facts you so boldly brought into daylight.
I can't speak for the rest of you guys, but while this is a fun read, the novelty of how bad FATAL is wore off on me years ago. I don't think anything short of payment could convince me to roll up a character.
After some of the games I played, a 3 hour character creation process is nothing. Polish RPG scene is very weird.
It's not the length that dissuades me - I spend a minimum of that making a new character in the current systems I play, just as an artifact of being thoughtful. It's just... like... I don't have enough enjoyment out of tacky kitsch to make that fun rather than painful.
“Not a promise, not an oath, or a malediction or a curse,” I said, sounding calm, probably inaudible in the midst of the screaming. “Inevitable. Wasn’t that how she put it? I told them. Warned them.”
-Taylor Hebert. Yes, I'm a proud Skittle.
Frankly, 3 hours is a rather average time investment for a character of mine, at elast if you also factor in putting the major parts of the background and personality down, given a decently involved system, of course.
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It's not that the mechanics of character creation are long or offensive - the system is just borked.
You can end up with negative stats; you can roll later stats that affect previously rolled stats that, in turn, affect other subsequently rolled stats; you can spend hours reconciling modifiers on a given stat only to realize it has no in-game impact at all! Worse, it's all random - it's not like you're trying to hash out your character's backstory or motivations for adventuring; you are literally spending those three hours rolling dice and paging through tables.
Aging effects on stats is presented after you're likely to have already worked everything out, so you have to go back and recalculate your derived values.
Bitter? Me?
However I do find it oddly fun. Maybe I'm just a masochist.
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On second thought, **** that. Got better things to do than playing Maim Master (FATAL's DM, before they changed it to be more historically accurate, if the Roman empire was in medieval times).
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you would make an awesome propagandist for Kobolds.
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Dreamer Pony is by Akrim.elf.
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Baiyan, God of Joy, by GryffonDurime, while the C.U.T.E Scardycat and Dreamer are by Tomb Raven.
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So that a person can play a delouser. Like, the actuall class occupation. Oh, and remember, it is female only. And you get 5 AP for every person you delouse. That is only 200 people for level 2. Do that and pick another career like Bandit (although it says that female bandits are uncommon...better not delve deeper into Hall's mysoginy, not on this forum anyway) and get 1 AP for every silver piece or equivalent stolen and AP equal to half damage inflicted while ambushing things.
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Originally Posted by JGoldenberg
you would make an awesome propagandist for Kobolds.
Dust and his party have sacrificed their sanity so that we don't have to play FATAL, and now you people are planning to play FATAL? What's wrong with you people?!
Speaking as someone willing to play FATAL: A Lot.
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Somebody that pisses off a Warlock is going to go down fast. But with a Warlock, death will be a mercy because the Warlock is a secondary controller, and en route to killing you he'll first cripple you, then blind you, then set you on fire, then steal your girlfriend.
"There is no overkill, there is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.'" - Howard Tayler
So that a person can play a delouser. Like, the actuall class occupation. Oh, and remember, it is female only. And you get 5 AP for every person you delouse. That is only 200 people for level 2. Do that and pick another career like Bandit (although it says that female bandits are uncommon...better not delve deeper into Hall's mysoginy, not on this forum anyway) and get 1 AP for every silver piece or equivalent stolen and AP equal to half damage inflicted while ambushing things.
You know, from what I hear the character generation is completely random yes? Then isn't there probably some character generator out there? (I'll be darned if I am the first to look tough, who knows what might happen)
It COULD be fun to see what sorts of things can roll out of such an infernal device, without the need to actually read FATAL itself.
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You know, from what I hear the character generation is completely random yes? Then isn't there probably some character generator out there? (I'll be darned if I am the first to look tough, who knows what might happen)
It COULD be fun to see what sorts of things can roll out of such an infernal device, without the need to actually read FATAL itself.
---------------------------F.A.T.A.L. Character------------------------------------
Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Fatal Games. All Rights Reserved.
------------------------General Character Information------------------------------
Character Name: Pak Gender: M Race: Kobold
Player Name: Occupation: Age Category: Middle Age
Homeland: Level: Religion:
Height: 52 Weight: 81 Siblings: 4 Social Class: Slave
Age: 22 Max Age: 80 Eyes: Brown Skin Color: Silvery White
Marital Status: Single Birth Rank: 3rd
Birth Status: Bastard Hair Color: Auburn w/ some gray Hair Type: Thick, wavy
Hair Length: 15 Vision: Perfect natural vision
Facial Feature: Big nostrils
Perceived as a waster of money, generous
Birthplace: Village Birthday:9/8/5078
Most Attactive Feature: Hair Most Repulsive Feature: Buttocks
Appearance:
Notes:
------------------------------------Rare Features-----------------------------------
Handedness: Right-handed
Foot Size: 11
Head Cicumference: 21.67
Annoyingly, it doesn't randomly generate occupation or skill points for you.
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Unskilled writers use "said" and "asked".
Amateur writers use "whispered", "shouted" and "questioned"
Skilled writers use "demonstrated", "ejaculated", "murmured", "explained", "queried" and "demanded"
Masterful writers use "said" and "asked".
Dreamer Pony is by Akrim.elf.
Spoiler
Baiyan, God of Joy, by GryffonDurime, while the C.U.T.E Scardycat and Dreamer are by Tomb Raven.
Last edited by Yuki Akuma : 05-27-2010 at 11:59 AM.
So he's a generous but immoral Kobold with luscious locks of hair?
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Frankly, a Wizard can suck even more than a Fighter could ever dream of sucking. A Fighter can stab himself to death, but only a Wizard could Plane Shift to some horrible far realm to be tortured for an eternity of insanity.
------------------------------------Rare Features-----------------------------------
Handedness: Right-handed
Foot Size: 10
Head Cicumference: 23.4064
You don't need to know anything about her womanhood.
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