FATAL: A Campaign Journal

[Tengu_temp]

So then FATAL is better suited towards campaigns where the party is a roving gang of petty criminals?

If they're also obsessed with bad math.

[Sliver]

Doesn't beat the Neverending Dungeon's record, where one managed to create a stillborn by accident. Can that happen in FATAL or that Traveller?

[Winterwind]

Doesn't beat the Neverending Dungeon's record, where one managed to create a stillborn by accident. Can that happen in FATAL or that Traveller?

Well, in FATAL, you can at least belong to a race where the children are frequently stillborn and then suddenly come to life after several years...

(I've read the famous MacLennan/Sartin review.)

[Tavar]

Doesn't beat the Neverending Dungeon's record, where one managed to create a stillborn by accident. Can that happen in FATAL or that Traveller?

Really? How did this happen?

[happyturtle]

Not in Traveller. You can die during character generation, but you'll at least be an adult.

The books contain an alternate method where if you fail a survival roll, you'll simply be medically discharged from your career, and begin your adventuring days at that point.

[Daimbert]

Regarding the earlier question for roleplaying systems with random character generation, Call of Cthulhu (the Chaosium version) has a pretty random character generation system, too. The player still decides who and what the character ultimately is, but s/he is encouraged to let the (utterly random) attribute rolls serve as inspiration there.
Oh, and the MechWarrior RPG has the player choose a carreer, but then make rolls for what happened in the character's life up till that point, which can impact who the character ends up as rather severely.

Thanks for all the suggestions -- which I may note down later -- but right now I'm pretty sold on MAID ... especially since I think it might be soloable (and I mean really soloable, meaning that it's just one person playing).

I'll get this out of the FATAL thread, though ...

[Jolly Steve]

I doubt anyone has ever played FATAL, including Byron Hall, if playing the game is defined as doing so without ignoring or changing major parts of the rules.

[Jolly Steve]

Cheesemaker. De-louser. Papermaker. Dicemaker. Vintner. Wench. He says he’s sick of rolling and wants to be a fighter, but then learns his low physical attributes prevent him from being anything more taxing than a Bookbinder.

So basically it's Warhammer Fantasy as written by autistic sex offenders?

[SolkaTruesilver]

So.. is the Campaign officially over? Are we ever going to get another post by the sadistic GM?

[Bayar]

I wouldn't consider any existing game a spiritual successor to FATAL for the simple reason that most games are fun. The spiritual successor to FATAL would involve a hundred-sided body part die and a hammer. The only rule is that you smack yourself in the body part that the die indicates. And it would still be more fun than FATAL.

That said, I want to see someone talk about a different bad game at some point. There's a whole wide world of crap and nobody wants to look at it. Who's up for a game of SenZar, a game that is only kept in print due to masochism and bile fascination?

Because SenZar is actually playable, and if it wasn't for 3rd edition coming out at around the same time (and the questionable decision to overhype the publicity by the SenZar authors) it might have been more used today.

And the only reason that FATAL comes up way more often on the interwebs is because it is found for free on the interwebs, as opposed to SenZar or The World of Synnibarr.

But if you want to read stupid stuff and waste your time, search for the TIMECUBE!!! RPG, Empire of Satanis, deadEarth, Wraeththu, Hybrid...I can go on.

Doesn't beat the Neverending Dungeon's record, where one managed to create a stillborn by accident. Can that happen in FATAL or that Traveller?

Did anyone in the Neverending Dungeon give birth to a clone from their genitals or conjure up Bugbears that "desire anal sex like there's no tomorrow" ?

So.. is the Campaign officially over? Are we ever going to get another post by the sadistic GM?

Want me to DM a game of FATAL ?

[Yuki Akuma]

Want me to DM a game of FATAL ?

Yes.

Do it. Do it nao.

[Grumman]

I find it amusing that you can fail to notice a minotaur "taking advantage" of you. Actually, no, that's just depressing.

"Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Joe McTaur, the rightful ruler of the island of Crete, and I require your assistance. I am being imprisoned against my will by the usurper-king, Theseus, who has stolen my kingdom and my vast treasury...."

[SolkaTruesilver]

Want me to DM a game of FATAL ?

Nah. I just wanted to know how the last games ended up.

[Oracle_Hunter]

I am extremely impressed by this thread:

(1) It describes a game of FATAL that not only got through character creation, but actually went on for two more sessions. Amazing!

(2) Dust has been able to describe a game of FATAL without triggering a Lock.

I cannot wait for more of this journal

[Dogmantra]

Yes.

Do it. Do it nao.

I would play this. Let's do a FATAL PbP.
For science!

[Volthawk]

I would play this. Let's do a FATAL PbP.
For science!

Agreed. Just to see how horrible it actually is. And for science!

[Tengu_temp]

And you wish FATAL was even 1% as cool as this image.

[Volthawk]

And you wish FATAL was even 1% as cool as this image.

Yes. Yes I do.

[Mystic Muse]

I would play this. Let's do a FATAL PbP.
For science!

Do it on another site. Doing it on here is just asking for trouble.

[senrath]

You can't do it here. Huge parts of the game are against the rules of this forum.

[Mystic Muse]

You can't do it here. Huge parts of the game are against the rules of this forum.

Which is why threads about it are generally locked. However, I notice a distinct lack of lockage on this one.

[Oracle_Hunter]

Which is why threads about it are generally locked. However, I notice a distinct lack of lockage on this one.

Because we're being super-careful.

I think that the character creation alone would be enough to get a FATAL pbp game locked here

[Yuki Akuma]

There's nothing overtly sexual or violent in the character creation. It's purely anatomical.

Badly anatomical.

[Dogmantra]

You can't do it here. Huge parts of the game are against the rules of this forum.

... Yeah.

I started reading the rulebook to see just how bad it was. I can't unsee it...

[Tengu_temp]

Link the recruitment thread when you start it on Mythweavers, Plothook or somewhere else. I'm sure a lot of people want to give it a try.

[Swordguy]

Link the recruitment thread when you start it on Mythweavers, Plothook or somewhere else. I'm sure a lot of people want to give it a try.

Jesus Christ, people.

Don't do it.

[Mystic Muse]

I agree with Swordguy here.

[Thelas]

I would agree with you two, but this might be a hilarious trainwreck to read.
So I'm going to refrain from commenting -- oh wait I just commented.

[Yuki Akuma]

Jesus Christ, people.

Don't do it.

Bile fascination, my friend.

I just spent three hours rolling up a character. It was fun, in a weird sort of way, although I did say "Jesus Christ why?!" a lot.

I got a middle-aged homosexual human gladiator, by the way.

[Yukitsu]

There's nothing overtly sexual or violent in the character creation. It's purely anatomical.

Badly anatomical.

You're telling me. My DM had us roll up that crap to tag to our standard D&D game for lols, and my 5-9, 120 pound elf paladin wound up with a 10.5 inch, 3 inch diameter extra leg between his legs. We joked that he had a "unique" way of redeeming female villains when he didn't pass out. Fracking variance of that damned system needs to be dropped down a whole wack load.