Oh, right, I'd forgotten about that. It wasn't a changing of the races, but some racial modifiers were tweaked.
This game is really messed up. :p
Wouldn't that make him your best friend? This game is really messed up. :p I stand by my previous assessment of Byron Hall. I mean, really; just skimming the race section, even some of the tame stuff came off like the work of some vulgar little kid who's just learned a few new naughty words. (I think he could only have been more juvenile if he'd just typed "POOP! FARTS! YELLOW SNOW! BOOBIES! WEE-WEE! WANNA PLAY POKEMONZ?" over and over again. No, I'm just kidding on that last one. Maybe.)
Plus, he commits the classic fail in regards to how digitigrade legs work.
edited 18th Aug '10 2:29:56 AM by FarseerLolotea
Chaotic Greedy
Things Mr Welch Is No Longer Allowed To Do In An RPG #1694: Debauchery is not a stat.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Official Tesladyne Employee TM
Byron Hellspawn: (referring to Ars Magica and Warhammer Fantasy Role Play) And none of those games to my knowledge have scholarship and footnotes to sources. They expect you to believe their material for no good reason.
I think I might have found one of the Top Five Moments Where Byron Hall Misses The Point With All The Futile Diligence Of A Blind Machine-Gunner. (I'd put it on the main FATAL page, but I can't think of any good way to explain how mind-bogglingly stupid this "insight" is.)
You are dazzled by my array of very legal documents.
K.O. Captain
Two days...
Two days of reading this. I normally lurk threads, but I just had to ask everyone who subjected themselves to this after the originals died from their attempts...Why?
Just, why?
Firggin' why to everything that has to do with this game?
Choose quickly, else there be no choices left!
Official Tesladyne Employee TM
Man Called True, if you're reading this: Thanks for putting it better than I could.
You are dazzled by my array of very legal documents.
The Lunatic in Your Hall
@Dorku: When am I never not reading this? I think I understand the whole "There last night" business now.
(Mind refreshing me as to when I did that? Fifty-four pages is a lot to sift through.)
I haven't known true fear in a very, very long time.
Official Tesladyne Employee TM
I found a "see the whole damn list at once" button. Thanks to it, I can tell you that it was 23rd Aug '10 6:17:28 AM.
You are dazzled by my array of very legal documents.
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@A Lighter Me: Bile fascination, really. That, and curiosity.
edited 6th Sep '10 2:02:09 AM by JBridge
There's no space in the name.
So I just got the PDF, and as it's been said before, Bile Fascination has led me to really wanting to roll up a character. As long as J Bridge doesn't mind, of course.
According to the review I read, there were fanboys to FATAL.
I'm trying to imagine someone slavishly defending this game. It's not working.
edited 6th Sep '10 1:45:59 PM by DonZabu
"Wax on, wax off..." "But Mr. Miyagi, I don't see how this is helping me do Karate..." "Pubic hair is weakness, Daniel-san!"
Indeed
Well, I once read an account written by somebody who encountered an avid FATAL roleplaying group; it wasn't pretty.
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Planescape Hijack
Laughed out loud at the way that ended. I never realized it before, but FATAL is pretty much the unlicensed RPG of The Aristocrats.
Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count Dorku
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@Don Zabu: People have definitely tried earlier in the thread. (If you do, and you can understand the rules for assigning skills, you are a better man than I.)
You are dazzled by my array of very legal documents.
Okay, so I just read through this entire thread after reading the RP Gnet review, the "rebuttal" to the review, the trope page for this... thing... and the So Bad It's Horrible page.
And one thing struck me that no one else seems to have commented on.
Hall claims this is an RPG with "Courtly Love" in his rebuttal. Then infamously pulls his Completely Missing The Point of "Where is dating included?"
I just... how does that work? You moon over your wench from afar, then suddenly break into her home at night and rape her, then go back to mooning? Brain... hurt... pink goo... salty...
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Well, I suppose that courtly love isn't about dating per se, just bonking. It *is* a code based around not lying while pretending you're not sleeping with another man's wife, so...
You are dazzled by my array of very legal documents.
That makes... two things he's been right about? The courtship, and the title he gave to the dungeonmaster?
Out of how many?
... I say we take a physical copy of this abomination and make Hall eat his words. Literally.
With some thallium salts for flavor, and a few sprigs of hemlock on the side.
That's too easy an end; I suggest a plutonium-polonium cocktail.
Responsible adult
The way this thread keeps steadily attracting people, I imagine it must've been linked to from somewhere... but hwere?
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
Planescape Hijack
Last time I checked, a lot of people were reading it on the Order Of The Stick forum.
Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count Dorku
I just stumbled upon it by searcing for "FATAL" on our lovely little search function.
I really, REALLY wish I knew why I was that interested in finding out as much as I could about this trainwreck. I already knew too much.
Official Tesladyne Employee TM
Aaaaaand that would be Bile Fascination.
You are dazzled by my array of very legal documents.
Responsible adult
Ahhh. Well, if Order of the Stick linked us, yeah.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
As far as I could understand from previous posts, the author also changed a few of the player races from "the standard fantasy bunch" to some other ones, like, say, some ogres and trolls and so on...
edited 17th Aug '10 10:19:19 PM by alarkhar
Platypi hold the secret to happiness.