FATAL
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"So basically, FATAL is the date rape RPG."
-Darren MacLennan in his and Jason Sartin's infamous review
"Another faulty conclusion by Darren. Where is dating included?"
-Byron Hall, proving everyone right
"I don't know whether to give it to a scientist to examine or a priest to exorcise!"
-Nostalgia Critic (regarding the Garbage Pail Kids movie but it works here too)
Fantasy Adventure to Adult Lechery is, in theory, an RPG that lets neckbeards live out their rape fantasies. The gaming community has more or less unanimously come to the conclusion that FATAL (aka "The Date Rape RPG...without the dating") is simply the second worst RPG ever conceived. There is one documented occurrence of a game played. The rulebook (written by one Byron Hall and a few of his friends, who go by nicknames such as "Torturon", "Burnout", and "Satan") is as terribly mechanically written as it is obsessed with bizarre sexual perversions that make /d/ seem prudish by comparison. It is filled with enough pointless random charts and obtuse rules to deter even a veteran /d/M who has played Rolemaster for years. Quadratic equations are a requirement of most game mechanics. The Anal circumference table meme originates with FATAL.
The game was apparently revised and given a new name for the acronym. From Another Time, Another Land makes minor changes to the text (read: removes the magical armor that turns the wearer into an ethnic stereotype) but is still an abortion of gaming.
The FATAL Games website is now thankfully defunct. The current page is some kind of time portal to the 90's. However, some fine gentlemen at the Wayback Machine have archived it in all its neon-on-black-plastered-with-animated-gifs glory. Enter at your own risk.
See Also
- Black Tokyo, a game that, according to at least one anon is even worse. [[1]]
- GURPS Sex
- Racial Holy War, another game that is widely considered to be equally shitty. Yes, it's pretty much what the name makes it sound like.
- The Aristocrats, FATAL-style
- Tournament of Rapists
- VTNL, a Russian game which is a serious contender to being even worse than FATAL. It was designed for 14 years, by a complete autist who ignored everything RPG related during that time, to keep his original vision. It has rules for how to properly roll dice, and the GM is encouraged to punch the players in the face, if they fail to roll according to them.