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So me and my friends from school have found a new RPG. it's actually an old RPG but we have found it recently. it's called F.A.T.A.L. We are planning to play it later this week. so i am wondering what everyone here thinks about it. if anyone has played it feel free to give a quick review.

I keep forgetting where I am. I read the title and thought of this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Rpg-7.jpg

Yes most Rocket Propelled Grenades are indeed fatal.

roll to hit

4+ invulnerable save?

R P G !!!

*dodges*

Here, use my +1 mace!

/Futurama

You actually have a paper copy of F.A.T.A.L.? I thought they were all burned and salted.

Is it the post-revision (From Another Time, Another Land) or the pre-revision (Fantasy Adventure To Adult Lechery) that still has all the racism and sexism intact?

Behold: http://atrocities.primaryerror.net/fatal.html

4+ invulnerable save?

Meh, anyone using an RPG-7 counts as BS2 as they are raging pieces of crap.

You actually have a paper copy of F.A.T.A.L.? I thought they were all burned and salted.

Is it the post-revision (From Another Time, Another Land) or the pre-revision (Fantasy Adventure To Adult Lechery) that still has all the racism and sexism intact?

Behold: http://atrocities.primaryerror.net/fatal.html

"the plan nine from outer space of roll playing games"?

the review, what i've waded through of it so far is somewhat longer on rhetoric then example, it really has me wondering what could possibly inspire bile of that degree of hyperbole. i've gotten to the part where one appearant example is so far given. the hyperbole is itself lolrflmyaopmp...

which keeps leading me on wondering what could possibly have inspired it beyond a desire to to write such a review itself. but the review at any rate, is perhapse something of a classic so far.

there was a mention of 900 pages (of the basic rule set?), is that litteral or just more hyperbole?

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"the plan nine from outer space of roll playing games"?
Are dice included?

*rolls dice*

Sorry can't resist.

the review, what i've waded through of it so far is somewhat longer on rhetoric then example, it really has me wondering what could possibly inspire bile of that degree of hyperbole. i've gotten to the part where one appearant example is so far given. the hyperbole is itself lolrflmyaopmp...

which keeps leading me on wondering what could possibly have inspired it beyond a desire to to write such a review itself. but the review at any rate, is perhapse something of a classic so far.
I got about 15-20% of the way through the review, and decided that enough was enough: Even though I have a fairly large collection of RPGs (Does anybody else here remember 'Fantasy Earth', for example, or 'Stormlord'?) this looks like one that I wouldn't bother picking up if i saw a copy lying around...
Not even if I was intoxicated at the time...

I got about 15-20% of the way through the review, and decided that enough was enough: Even though I have a fairly large collection of RPGs (Does anybody else here remember 'Fantasy Earth', for example, or 'Stormlord'?) this looks like one that I wouldn't bother picking up if i saw a copy lying around...
Not even if I was intoxicated at the time...

well, believe it or not, persistent idiot that i am, and several hours later, i actually waided my way through the rest of the review.

(and heavin or even hell, help us, there ARE examples, and they DO live down to the discriptions alright)

(there were a few grins along the way)

and i have one more silly question. does this thing being reviewed actually exist?

believe it or not, i knew someone once upon a time who could just maybe be a dead ringer for its author. he also, if i'm not mistaken, just might also, granted the names are, i think different, though i haven't verified this for sure yet, be the author of p.n.a.c.!

i kid you not.

(and i'm NOT saying that to be gratuitously slanderous or make political points, but from actual personal experience)

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F.A.T.A.L. not only exists, but the review does not exaggerate anything whatsoever. If anything, it understates stuff.

F.A.T.A.L. not only exists, but the review does not exaggerate anything whatsoever. If anything, it understates stuff.

Okay and I can't belive i'm about to let my inner nerd out here, but anyone ever play 'The End' or 'Golden Hero's'?

well, believe it or not, persistent idiot that i am, and several hours later, i actually waided my way through the rest of the review.

(and heavin or even hell, help us, there ARE examples, and they DO live down to the discriptions alright)

(there were a few grins along the way)

and i have one more silly question. does this thing being reviewed actually exist?

believe it or not, i knew someone once upon a time who could just maybe be a dead ringer for its author. he also, if i'm not mistaken, just might also, granted the names are, i think different, though i haven't verified this for sure yet, be the author of p.n.a.c.!

i kid you not.

(and i'm NOT saying that to be gratuitously slanderous or make political points, but from actual personal experience)

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It exists, alright; I happen to have the PDF. The author's name is Byron Hall, and there's a picture of him on the last page of the PDF.

I wouldn't encourage you to spend money on it, but if you see a copy laying in the street, you may want to pick it up. It's certainly good for a horrifying laugh.

i have the original version. the random sex attributes kind of make the game what it is. i have the PDF. i am looking formward to playing it. it looks like a lot of fun.

I keep forgetting where I am. I read the title and thought of this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Rpg-7.jpg

What makes you think that isn't what they're talking about?

i have the original version. the random sex attributes kind of make the game what it is. i have the PDF. i am looking formward to playing it. it looks like a lot of fun.

There is something wrong with you.

i have the original version. the random sex attributes kind of make the game what it is. i have the PDF. i am looking formward to playing it. it looks like a lot of fun.

>.>


<.<


can I get a copy of the PDF?

/Futurama

:fluffle:

(I get it... Gary Gygax)....

So, what can we do for all eternity? Hey, wanna play Dungeons and Dragons?

Never heard of it, RPG's lost value this gen for me.

well i think roll playing games were and still are a potentially great idea. where i parted company with about 98% of roll playing AND video games that have become popular is i'm way more interested in world building, infrastructure and convincinigly REALLY alien cultures, then i am in simulating armed conflict on any scale or tec level.

not that the ocassional casual slash and hack pickup can't be briefly amusing. for that i found tunnels and trolls pretty good. with its sensible paired down to a bear minimum rule system, and a modest but adiquite handful of magic spells like "oh go away", and the usual healing spells and potions.

but as i say, i'm really MUCH more interested in other aspects of existence, like running a country by trying to intellegently decide on random issues, like here, even when few if any rational options are offered, other then "dismiss" as long as it is.

steve jackson's origeonal illuminati was/is ok. i've played marrow project, and cthulu, and even an origeonal greyhawk campaign. and i like the flexibility of the g.u.r.p.s. d100 system.

one of the problems of course is not being all that social myself, in that i haven't really connected with roll playing groups. and then of course the discouragement of whenever i have, you know it's all been about the kind of crap gygax came up with in the first place.

there just isn't usually enough chance to gratifying explore imaginary geography. i'd much rather simulate what could be and how to make it so, or for it to come about anyway, then all this combat system horse-stuff.

i'd just as soon roll play with no combat system and no combat at all.

something i don't think gygax or any of them really invisioned or imagined anyone wanting.

tec leven doesn't HAVE to be any higher then just high enough to have SOME kind of infrastructure, and however high, for that to be something other driveby horse stabbing.

like television, my bitter disappointment is the total ignoring and indefference to what i see as creative potential and the implimentation of that.

and this buisiness of only the dm/gm/mods/admins being allowed to be creative, with creative playing being reguarded as godmoding. or rather perhapse my own difficulty sometimes to understand where the line between them is often drawn.

being able to do to others what others aren't able to do to you makes sense to forbid as godmoding, but as far as i can see, that's just about the only thing that does.

yes i ramble, but like i say, what intrests me, is world building and infrastructure. and the tecnologies of infrastructure and the engineering challanges of making and keeping them harmonious with nature.

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Okay and I can't belive i'm about to let my inner nerd out here, but anyone ever play 'The End' or 'Golden Hero's'?
'Golden Hero', yes, one adventure spread over a couple of sessions, back in 1995 or thereabouts: It certainly wasn't the worst system for the "Supers" genre around...
Does anybody else here remember 'Superhero 2044'?

One of my favorite adventures was running the story to "A Night in the Lonesome October" using AD&D Second edition and Ravenloft. None of the players had read the book, and it was a confusing mess until about halfway through, and everyone started figuring out what was going on.

The guessed who Jack was right away. :(

there is nothing particulary wrong with me. if i wanted to play a gaim without all these stats i would just play D&D. anyone who wants the link just let me know

Never heard of it, RPG's lost value this gen for me.

It's a pen and paper RPG, not a console one.

I keep forgetting where I am. I read the title and thought of this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Rpg-7.jpg

You're winner of 2 internets.

So me and my friends from school have found a new RPG. it's actually an old RPG but we have found it recently. it's called F.A.T.A.L. We are planning to play it later this week. so i am wondering what everyone here thinks about it. if anyone has played it feel free to give a quick review.

Play this: http://www.dyingearth.com/

Persuasion actually take multiple rolls! Possibly a dozen, or more!For an idea, read the quotes that appear in blue at the bottom of the page.

By Gilfig, that is a good game, based-off a great book series!

there is nothing particulary wrong with me. if i wanted to play a gaim without all these stats i would just play D&D. anyone who wants the link just let me know

Which is why there is something seriously wrong with you. Goddamned FATALites.