And now for a MST 3 K-style stinger:
Hall: Another faulty conclusion drawn by Darren. Where is dating included?
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!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!He wanted to spread his vision of the glorious future of roleplaying to the unsuspecting public?
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.In other words, Ted Baxter?
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."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!Medinoc: With a large side order of Know-Nothing Know-It-All.
->"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?
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.
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!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!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.
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
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 LulzblogI 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.@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.

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.