History TabletopGame / Fatal

''FATAL: "From Another Time, Another Land"'' ([[AuthorsSavingThrow formerly known as]] ''"Fantasy Adventure To Adult Lechery"'') is a {{tabletop|Game}} RolePlayingGame published by Fatal Games in 2004. It quickly gained a hefty amount of infamy due to its content and rules, which feature:

** The Urination stat, if high enough, allows the player to project their urine stream for impossible lengths. A character with 20 Urination, for instance, can send their urine 16 feet.

* ConvenientlyCommonKink: The rules include Debauchery tables for both genders which determine the acts a character is willing to engage in based on a 1d100 roll. Whatever result is rolled, the character is game for all results less than that but refuses all results over that.

* BrawnHilda: {{Enforced|Trope}}. Female characters with [[BoobsOfSteel high strength stats]] suffer inversely scaling penalties to their charisma stats--the stronger a female character is, the uglier she is.

* AnimalSweetOnObject: This can happen [[GoodBadBugs accidentally]] as a consequence of the rules for magic. When a magical item is used to cast a spell, the item is considered the "caster" for game-mechanical purposes. Thus, a [[CriticalFailure miscast spell result]] can lead to your weapon and a creature or inanimate object thoroughly enjoying each other's company for a round or few.

* FauxSymbolism: While Christianity itself is absent from the game, there are many spells such as "{{Walk on Water}}", "waves be still", and "multiplication of loaves and fish".

* GameFavoredGender: This is part of the bucketloads of UnfortunateImplications present in the game. There is basically no reason to play as a woman (unless you do as the game suggests and [[HonestRollsCharacter roll for your gender]])--women have worse stats, cannot access several classes, are discriminated against socially, and multiple spells (including MindRape ones) are explicitly meant to work on women.

* ParodyRetcon: Inverted. The second revision of the rules cleaned up some of the "controversial humor" (such as removing some of the magical enchantments based on racist caricatures) and making some of the terminology less juvenile (the Maim Master being renamed the "Aedile" for example). The revision of the original acronym was part of this change. The conversion was imperfect, to say the least.

The game is best known because of a savage {{MST}}-styled [[http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14567.phtml review]] of the rulebook by Darren [=MacLennan=] and Jason Sartin on [=RPGnet=]. This led to a [[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/FATALReviewRebuttal rebuttal]] by the creator and one of his contributors. There is also a Wiki/TVTropes [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=7ixhxjqoe9swz1xv4bxgw5h0 liveblog]].

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: One of the traits an Anakim can have is Cannibalism. The authors apparently confused this with carnivorousness, since the description says eating any vegetables at all makes it sick. The authors later defended this with the argument that a being that was exclusively cannibalistic would also be a carnivore.

** A lot of spells and wounds from magical weapons have cumulative negative effects on their targets. For instance, a weapon with the suffix "of Festering" causes a festering wound that increases in size each time the victim messes with it and causes a 10% loss of life points.

* WeAllDieSomeday: One of the ingredients needed to cast a spell is for the caster to yell "Memento mori!"[[note]]Latin for "remember that you will die"[[/note]]