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Kinkajou I'm Only Sleeping Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Hiding
I'm Only Sleeping
#676: Nov 19th 2009 at 11:46:38 PM

Obviously Medinoc and 1d4chan were being sarcastic.

INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.
Ajardoor Since: Jan, 2001
#677: Nov 20th 2009 at 11:06:22 AM

And now for a MST 3 K-style stinger:

Darren: So, basically, FATAL is the date-rape RPG.

Hall: Another faulty conclusion drawn by Darren. Where is dating included?

Stormtroper from Little Venice Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: I-It's not like I like you, or anything!
#678: Nov 20th 2009 at 8:07:43 PM

I just read this whole thread, and I gotta ask.

I can see somebody making this game and not bothering to complete it, but how does someone release it and not realize that everybody'll hate him for it and he's wasting his (distributer's?) money? I mean, Manos The Hands Of Fate was made because of a bet, Sonichu's author is autistic plus other things, and Uwe Boll actually makes money off his crap, so what's the justification for this.

edited 20th Nov '09 8:09:13 PM by Stormtroper

And that's how I ended up in the wardrobe. It Just Bugs Me!
h_v Since: Jan, 2001
#679: Nov 20th 2009 at 10:09:58 PM

Serious women issues, and a fetish for tables?

Stormtroper from Little Venice Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: I-It's not like I like you, or anything!
#680: Nov 20th 2009 at 10:35:21 PM

No, I mean, that's a given, but what made the author even think publishing this would be a good idea?

And that's how I ended up in the wardrobe. It Just Bugs Me!
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#681: Nov 20th 2009 at 10:35:57 PM

He wanted to spread his vision of the glorious future of roleplaying to the unsuspecting public?

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CountDorku Behold my legal acumen! from the depths of insanity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Behold my legal acumen!
#683: Nov 21st 2009 at 12:08:06 AM

The Abyronation: "A game that Jason considers sane, I consider simple. I need it to be more complicated to keep my interest."

Zyxzy called it "illusory superiority"; I prefer "a heady cocktail of stupidity and manic egotism".

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#684: Nov 21st 2009 at 2:51:23 AM

In other words, Ted Baxter?

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Eldrake Since: Oct, 2009
#685: Nov 21st 2009 at 5:05:30 PM

...

...

...

I think this thread drove me to sheer insanity. I am now a empty shell of a man. My sanity had gone alongside my soul, and I am now completely batshit insane.

...also, you guys owe me a new pair of eyes.

Stormtroper from Little Venice Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: I-It's not like I like you, or anything!
#686: Nov 21st 2009 at 5:36:01 PM

Oh well, I was hoping to hear a funny story at the publisher's offices but that's just depressing.

And that's how I ended up in the wardrobe. It Just Bugs Me!
CountDorku Behold my legal acumen! from the depths of insanity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Behold my legal acumen!
#687: Nov 22nd 2009 at 1:20:59 AM

Medinoc: With a large side order of Know-Nothing Know-It-All.

gorgardard clockwork romance device from post-apoc candyland Since: Jan, 2001
clockwork romance device
#688: Nov 25th 2009 at 1:38:25 PM

->"AD&D 2e, when considering all rulebooks, far exceeded 900 pages. I mention this game because of its popularity. AD&D 2e, however, seemed to offer numerous books to financially take advantage of consumers, otherwise known as a good business strategy. I refuse to do so, and believe gamers would rather have it all together without redundancy." —>-Byron Hall

Yes, except your PDF is FREE. So it's actually BETTER to divide them up. Oh, wait, you were hoping someone would eventually PAY for you game?

SenseiLeRoof Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
#689: Nov 26th 2009 at 12:41:02 AM

I have now read through this whole thing in one night. It's 2:40 am and if there was any question of my sanity, I can rest assured there's not a fragment left.

I don't know if I should love or hate you all. Just sayin'.

Wraith_Magus Bibliophiliac Since: Jun, 2009
Bibliophiliac
#690: Nov 26th 2009 at 2:48:40 AM

It's always nice to know my commentary is... appreciated(?)

Well, I thought this would be finished in my place, since I said I was getting a little worn out (you have to write these thigns in teams, so that no one person has to read the whole book, because there's no way your SAN score can last that long... plus, it's a real problem getting enough human skin to write on all on your own...), but that doesn't appear to be happening...

I guess I can try to get back into this, although it may not be soon, depending on how much time I have to spend in RP or class or whatever I do when I'm not punishing myself to finish something I started on a whim.

Stormtroper from Little Venice Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: I-It's not like I like you, or anything!
#691: Nov 26th 2009 at 1:50:02 PM

Take your time, don't do a thankless job  *

if you don't want to, plus it won't be as well-done if you have to force yourself to.

edited 30th Nov '09 6:42:21 AM by Stormtroper

And that's how I ended up in the wardrobe. It Just Bugs Me!
JBridge null from Alameda, CA Since: Jan, 2001
null
#692: Nov 27th 2009 at 1:37:37 AM

Sometime today (Keep in mind that it's 1:36 AM where I am) I'll go over that spell list with my friend. I revived my portion of the Doom RL LP yesterday, and I'll revive my portion of another one today!

There's no space in the name.
Iron_wofle OH SNAP! from the Orgon Cloud Since: Nov, 2009
OH SNAP!
#693: Nov 29th 2009 at 3:34:18 PM

Even after reading all this, even after reading about FATAL, even after looking (very briefly) at the book itself, I still have this strange urge to create a character. Terminal stupidity, I guess.

What do you mean, it's a one-shot attack?
Stormtroper from Little Venice Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: I-It's not like I like you, or anything!
#694: Nov 29th 2009 at 8:08:49 PM

If there was a video game version of this, I totally would.

And that's how I ended up in the wardrobe. It Just Bugs Me!
Wraith_Magus Bibliophiliac Since: Jun, 2009
Bibliophiliac
#695: Nov 30th 2009 at 12:57:41 AM

Well, just keep in mind that it's by-and-large impossible to have an actual party in a game like this, especially in the "retail" version. After all, races, alignments, and personalities are all randomly selected, and many of the playing races are clearly incompatible, if not just outright non-conducive to adventuring (not that adventuring matters, since odds are you will wind up being a barber, grinding those beards until level up).

I mean, if one of you is an elf, in the retail rules, you're basically like a dryad, you can't go too far from your tree, so that's that... If you're an ogre or kobold or something, you are inhernetly hostile to humans, to the point where some of those ogres prefer human children as their favorite food.

I mean, plan an adventure with a human, an elf-dryad, and a human-eating ogre where they are all barbers, scribes, and stablegirls which also serve as whores that doesn't have the "party" either split up immediately, or kill each other.

Samaliel Code Monkey Since: Nov, 2009
#696: Nov 30th 2009 at 3:37:27 AM

I find it rather amusing that, in his rebuttal, Byron Hall argued that FATAL let you play whatever you like, when it is actually all friggin' random. I'd rather play a vampire in the Masquerade (where there can be just about as many different Vampires as there are different people in the world) than obey the dice - which never lie, in FATAL - and be forced to play an anthropophagous stable-ogre who double as a whore

edited 30th Nov '09 3:38:06 AM by Samaliel

Sonica Rune Knight from Australia Since: May, 2009
Rune Knight
#697: Dec 1st 2009 at 6:07:44 PM

Read this thread in chunks throughout three days, if only because of taking breaks, food, other more worthy things to do (like playing games that's superior to FATAL) and preventing my family from thinking I'm even more insane.

All I can say is, if it's complete WTF-tery, I laugh even when I should cry 'WHY' or gives Visible Silence.

And yet...

Lux-Pain Lulzblog
noxchaos Deadpan Snarker from Snarkland Since: Dec, 2009
Deadpan Snarker
#698: Dec 3rd 2009 at 1:43:27 PM

I just finished reading this thread. It took three days. I know that when you stare into the abyss, the abyss is supposed to stare into you, but there are no eyes down in that darkness, it's just darkness, forever and ever, and oh god I think I just lost my soul.

Wraith, you are a better man than I.

Sarcasm is wasted on the young.
EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
#699: Dec 3rd 2009 at 1:44:38 PM

How much is there left in the source books?

Crowbar Since: Jan, 2001
#700: Dec 9th 2009 at 5:38:12 AM

@Samaliel

Yeah, I found that comment about Vampire: The Masquerade laughable too. I tell you, you'd have a lot more choice and freedom in your average Masquerade chronicle than you would as a prostitute-murdering ogre barber who doubles as a whore in FATAL.


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