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* VindicatedByHistory: In a way. While for most of the 90s it held the dubious honor of "Worst RPG Ever" in the eyes of most gamers, the overall view on ''Synnibarr'' has mellowed out a lot. It has since been deemed the ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'' of TabletopRPG, and is widely viewed as being SoBadItsGood; many of the things it once attracted vitriol for, such as the setting and monsters, are now fondly looked upon as charming or humorous (deliberately or not). Helping matters a lot was the release of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, which is considered by the overpowering majority of tabletop gamers to be vastly inferior in every way, and not enjoyably so.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The setting and tone can only be described as a bad acid trip.

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* VindicatedByHistory: In a way. While for most of the 90s it held the dubious honor of "Worst RPG Ever" in the eyes of most gamers, the overall view on ''Synnibarr'' has mellowed out a lot. It has since been deemed the ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'' of TabletopRPG, and is widely viewed as being SoBadItsGood; many of the things it once attracted vitriol for, such as the setting and monsters, are now fondly looked upon as charming or humorous (deliberately or not). Helping matters a lot was the release of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, which is considered by the overpowering majority of tabletop gamers to be vastly inferior in every way, and not enjoyably so.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The setting and tone can only be described as a bad acid trip.
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* NarmCharm: While ''World of Synnibarr'' was never the darling of game reviewers (or usenet haters), there are today many who would place the game firmly under this trope.

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* NarmCharm: While ''World of Synnibarr'' was never the darling of game reviewers (or usenet haters), there are today many who would place the game firmly under this trope. As discussed below, it's zany and surreal and over the top where other "bad" games are just boring and/or offensive.



* VindicatedByHistory: In a way. While for most of the 90s it held the dubious honor of "Worst RPG Ever" in the eyes of most gamers, the overall view on ''Synnibarr'' has mellowed out a lot. It has since been deemed the ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'' of TabletopRPG, and is widely viewed as being SoBadItsGood; many of the things it once attracted vitriol for, such as the setting and monsters, are now fondly looked upon as unintentionally hilarious. Helping matters a lot was the release of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, which is considered by the overpowering majority of tabletop gamers to be vastly inferior in every way, and not enjoyably so.

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* VindicatedByHistory: In a way. While for most of the 90s it held the dubious honor of "Worst RPG Ever" in the eyes of most gamers, the overall view on ''Synnibarr'' has mellowed out a lot. It has since been deemed the ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'' of TabletopRPG, and is widely viewed as being SoBadItsGood; many of the things it once attracted vitriol for, such as the setting and monsters, are now fondly looked upon as unintentionally hilarious.charming or humorous (deliberately or not). Helping matters a lot was the release of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, which is considered by the overpowering majority of tabletop gamers to be vastly inferior in every way, and not enjoyably so.
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* NarmCharm: While ''World of Synnibarr'' was never the darling of game reviewers (or usenet haters), there are today many who would place the game firmly under this trope.
* QuicksandBox: The character creation rules (which offer no less than ''four'' different ways of generated a character) confounded one [=RPGnet=] reviewer - who then gave up on trying to review the rest of the game!
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A ''lot'' of background events are brought up once or twice, given no detail, and never mentioned again.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A ''lot'' of background events are brought up once or twice, given no little detail, and never mentioned again.again. While this may be par for the course in many other intricately-detailed RPG settings, Synnibarr's many oddities often make it feel like this trope is on parade.
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* SoBadItsGood: The crowning example in TabletopRPG. The incredibly surreal setting (every time Synnibarr comes up in discussion, someone just has to mention the flying grizzly bears with laser beam eyes) combined with hilariously complex and pointless rules (which go as far as providing an equation for how hard one can exhale, and making you calculate square roots when you’re knocked back by an attack) makes this game incredibly hilarious to both read and play. Even in their infamous review of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, both Sartin and [=MacLennan=] admitted that this game is pretty fun in its own deranged way, and the former said that he even got more enjoyment out of this game than any of the actually good [=RPGs=] he had.

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* SoBadItsGood: The crowning example in TabletopRPG. The incredibly surreal setting (every time Synnibarr comes up in discussion, someone just has to mention the flying grizzly bears with laser beam eyes) combined with hilariously complex and pointless rules (which go as far as providing an equation for how hard one can exhale, and making you calculate square roots when you’re knocked back by an attack) makes this game incredibly hilarious to both read and play. Even in their infamous review of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, both Sartin and [=MacLennan=] admitted that this game is pretty fun in its own deranged way, and the former said that he even got more enjoyment out of this game than any many of the actually good [=RPGs=] he had.
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* VindicatedByHistory: In a way. While for most of the 90s it held the dubious honor of "Worst RPG Ever" in the eyes of most gamers, the overall view on ''Synnibarr'' has mellowed out a lot. It has since been deemed the ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'' of TabletopRPG, and is widely viewed as being SoBadItsGood; many of the things it once attracted vitriol for, such as the setting and monsters, are now fondly looked upon as unintentionally hilarious. Helping matters a lot was the release of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, which is considered by the overpowering majority of tabletop gamers to be vastly inferior in every way, and not enjoyably so.
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* SoBadItsGood: The crowning example in TabletopRPG. The incredibly surreal setting (every time Synnibarr comes up in discussion, someone just has to mention the flying grizzly bears with laser beam eyes) combined with hilariously complex and pointless rules (which go as far as providing an equation for how hard one can exhale, and making you calculate square roots when you’re knocked back by an attack) makes this game incredibly hilarious to both read and play. Even in their infamous review of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, both Sartin and [=MacLennan=] admitted that this game is pretty fun in its own deranged way, and the former said that he even got more enjoyment out of this game more than any of the actually good [=RPGs=] he had.

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* SoBadItsGood: The crowning example in TabletopRPG. The incredibly surreal setting (every time Synnibarr comes up in discussion, someone just has to mention the flying grizzly bears with laser beam eyes) combined with hilariously complex and pointless rules (which go as far as providing an equation for how hard one can exhale, and making you calculate square roots when you’re knocked back by an attack) makes this game incredibly hilarious to both read and play. Even in their infamous review of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, both Sartin and [=MacLennan=] admitted that this game is pretty fun in its own deranged way, and the former said that he even got more enjoyment out of this game more than any of the actually good [=RPGs=] he had.
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* SoBadItsGood: The crowning example in TabletopRPG. The incredibly surreal setting (every time Synnibarr comes up in discussion, someone just has to mention the flying grizzly bears with laser beam eyes) combined with hilariously complex and pointless rules (which go as far as providing an equation for how hard one can exhale) makes this game incredibly hilarious to both read and play. Even in their infamous review of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, both Sartin and [=MacLennan=] admitted that this game is pretty fun in its own deranged way, and the former said that he even got more enjoyment out of this game more than any of the actually good [=RPGs=] he had.

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* SoBadItsGood: The crowning example in TabletopRPG. The incredibly surreal setting (every time Synnibarr comes up in discussion, someone just has to mention the flying grizzly bears with laser beam eyes) combined with hilariously complex and pointless rules (which go as far as providing an equation for how hard one can exhale) exhale, and making you calculate square roots when you’re knocked back by an attack) makes this game incredibly hilarious to both read and play. Even in their infamous review of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, both Sartin and [=MacLennan=] admitted that this game is pretty fun in its own deranged way, and the former said that he even got more enjoyment out of this game more than any of the actually good [=RPGs=] he had.
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* SoBadItsGood: The crowning example in TabletopRPG. The incredibly surreal setting (every time Synnibarr comes up in discussion, someone just has to mention the flying grizzly bears with laser beam eyes) combined with hilariously complex and pointless rules (which go as far as providing an equation for how hard one can exhale) makes this game incredibly hilarious to both read and play. Even in their infamous review of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, both Sartin and [=MacLennan=] admitted that this game is pretty fun in its own deranged way, and the former said that he even got more enjoyment out of this game more than any of the actually good [=RPGs=] he had.

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* SoBadItsGood: The crowning example in TabletopRPG. The incredibly surreal setting (every time Synnibarr comes up in discussion, someone just has to mention the flying grizzly bears with laser beam eyes) combined with hilariously complex and pointless rules (which go as far as providing an equation for how hard one can exhale) makes this game incredibly hilarious to both read and play. Even in their infamous review of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, both Sartin and [=MacLennan=] admitted that this game is pretty fun in its own deranged way, and the former said that he even got more enjoyment out of this game more than any of the actually good [=RPGs=] he had.had.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The setting and tone can only be described as a bad acid trip.
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* SoBadItsGood: The crowning example in TabletopRPG. The incredibly surreal setting (every time Synnibarr comes up in discussion, someone just has to mention the flying grizzly bears with laser beam eyes) combined with hilariously complex and pointless rules (which go as far as providing an equation for how hard one can exhale) makes this game incredibly hilarious to both read and play. Even in their infamous review of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, both Sartin and `=MacLennan=] admitted that this game is pretty fun in its own deranged way, and the former said that he even got more enjoyment out of this game more than any of the actually good [=RPGs=] he had.

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* SoBadItsGood: The crowning example in TabletopRPG. The incredibly surreal setting (every time Synnibarr comes up in discussion, someone just has to mention the flying grizzly bears with laser beam eyes) combined with hilariously complex and pointless rules (which go as far as providing an equation for how hard one can exhale) makes this game incredibly hilarious to both read and play. Even in their infamous review of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, both Sartin and `=MacLennan=] [=MacLennan=] admitted that this game is pretty fun in its own deranged way, and the former said that he even got more enjoyment out of this game more than any of the actually good [=RPGs=] he had.
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* SoBadItsGood: The crowning example in TabletopRPG. The incredibly surreal setting (every time Synnibarr comes up in discussion, someone just has to mention the flying grizzly bears with laser beam eyes) combined with hilariously complex and pointless rules (which go as far as providing an equation for how hard one can exhale) makes this game incredibly hilarious to both read and play. Even in their infamous review of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, both Sartin and MacLennan admitted that this game is pretty fun in its own deranged way, and the former said that he even got more enjoyment out of this game more than any of the actually good [=RPGs=] he had.

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* SoBadItsGood: The crowning example in TabletopRPG. The incredibly surreal setting (every time Synnibarr comes up in discussion, someone just has to mention the flying grizzly bears with laser beam eyes) combined with hilariously complex and pointless rules (which go as far as providing an equation for how hard one can exhale) makes this game incredibly hilarious to both read and play. Even in their infamous review of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, both Sartin and MacLennan `=MacLennan=] admitted that this game is pretty fun in its own deranged way, and the former said that he even got more enjoyment out of this game more than any of the actually good [=RPGs=] he had.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A ''lot'' of background events are brought up once or twice, given no detail, and never mentioned again.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A ''lot'' of background events are brought up once or twice, given no detail, and never mentioned again.again.
* SoBadItsGood: The crowning example in TabletopRPG. The incredibly surreal setting (every time Synnibarr comes up in discussion, someone just has to mention the flying grizzly bears with laser beam eyes) combined with hilariously complex and pointless rules (which go as far as providing an equation for how hard one can exhale) makes this game incredibly hilarious to both read and play. Even in their infamous review of TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, both Sartin and MacLennan admitted that this game is pretty fun in its own deranged way, and the former said that he even got more enjoyment out of this game more than any of the actually good [=RPGs=] he had.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A ''lot'' of background events are brought up once or twice, given no detail, and never mentioned again.

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