Linked video is part 1 of 4, and as long as it is, it’s the shortest of them.
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
I had heard vaguely about how this was a bad system before, but never before realised just quite how bad it was, and in what ways.
Warning: references to sexual assault, sexism, and racism
I kinda want to get together with my gaming group to make characters in FATAL and take the piss on the poor author
It’s not fun.
Like, legitimately. It sounds fun, but then you sit down and do it, and realize there is little, if anything, redeemable even as a joke. By the time you’re done, everyone will hate themselves.
And that’s without playing an actual game. I think we made it 3 sessions before we figured out it just wasn’t a fun game to play, even with tongue firmly punching out of our cheeks the entire time.
Hi, I did that with some close friends as a joke before. It starts out as a joke, but it will quickly become hellishly painful to continue. I think we stopped somewhere at distributing skill points, where the game just throws 6 pages of skills at you (not joking) and goes “just distribute these points”. Having a giant block of alphabetically sorted skills, most being absolute garbage and some only sounding ‘kinda’ useful, was my breaking point
Thank you for the kind warning, stranger. I will heed your words.
Part of me agrees, but another part of me says…there are far too many rules in this about sex…including illicit forms thereof…for me to want to play this with anyone I know IRL.
And also no part of me wants to spend the multiple hours this would probably take to roll up a character. I Googled looking for digital character generators, and they supposedly used to exist, but the official FATAL website no longer exists.