FATAL

I have been thinking about the opening forward from the PDF, the one that says "Assume you are an adventure saving a princess". I think what Hall was trying to do was outline the alignments.

• Lawful Good: Rescue the Princess out of respect for Humanity.
• Neutral Good: Rescue the Princess to win her heart.
• Chaotic Good: Rescue the Princess for an reward.
• Lawful Evil: Exchange freedom for a... Harmonica Lesson
• Neutral Evil: Take advantage of her situation.
• Chaotic Evil: Kill her and eat her innards.

I apoligize if I am stating the obvious, but I just felt like pointing that out.

No neutral alignments? This guy hasn't the slightest bit of decency!

edited 30th Jul '10 2:23:32 AM by Zakdos

Not having something neutral is understandable; it's pretty hard to imagine something more acid and base than this.

Rescuing the princess for a reward is pretty neutral. And there's nothing particularly lawful about rescuing the princess for the good of humanity.  ^*

have a debauchery of 100

...

Ethicality is 1 (unethical), morality is 1 (immoral)

Byron Hall statistics save the day yet again.

edited 30th Jul '10 8:47:50 PM by Comonad

Now all we need is something to save the day from Byron Hall statistics.

...Wow. I just finished reading through this thread. The sad part is, it doesn't even surprise me that SOMEONE would make something so simultaneously repulsive and idiotic. No matter the depths of the depravity, someone will sink to it, and it looks like Byron Hall sunk pretty freaking low in making this.

On a side note, I truly feel sorry for those who read through the entire book. Your sacrifices will not be forgotten. Well, whatever you call subjecting yourself to all of that.

We did it for the sake of REALISMEME! and SCIENCE!

I have to wonder if this is even legal. I'm not being ironic here, I'm seriously wondering if this could get Byron Hall registered as a sex offender. Then I can die happily.

If just writing creepy shit was enough, something like a quarter of the population would be registered.

edited 11th Aug '10 9:33:23 PM by Hylarn

Yeah, let's not delve to these extremes here. Burn a book, burn all books.

Agreed, Medinoc, agreed.

"If just writing creepy shit was enough, something like a quarter of the population would be registered."

And about nine tenths of the internet. It would get pretty deserted around here...

I guess I overreacted, but still. Damn. Broken game mechanics, mind-breaking content. A winning combination.

• deep breath*

WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?????

Besides, you don't really want to spring this thing on an entire courtroom, do you? Even lawyers don't deserve that.

I wish I could believe that FATAL was the tabletop-game equivalent of a trollfic.  It would restore a sliver of my faith in humanity.

Then again, it'd imply that that's Hall's idea of a joke. Which really isn't much better.

Trolls don't spend their time making crappy tabletop games...most of them just kill stuff.

If Hall is a troll, he's truly a master of the art form. Just look at how long this thread is.

It actually seems plausible to me. Hanlon's Razor applies, of course, but I'm not so sure that FATAL can be adequately explained by stupidity.

edited 15th Aug '10 1:48:14 PM by Comonad

"This law relies on the assumption that ignorance in and of itself isn't malicious."

And considering some of the crap that Hall writes? I'd say that it's a combination of both, compounded with the mentality of a little boy who still thinks toilet humor is the height of wit.

Out of curiosity, does anyone have the ORIGINAL FATAL (you know, the one with mega-racist items)? Aside from a bit of sick curiosity (emphasis on "sick", since I have read the "sanitized" version and I regretted it immensely) I'm tempted to slip it to a pal of mine that thinks he can play ANY RPG. Let's see you play THIS, pal. (No, I'm not being evil... just vindictive. He busted up about five campaigns in the past with his "the best there is" attitude, you see)

I wouldn't inflict FATAL on my worst enemy's worst enemy.

Wouldn't that make him your best friend?

Mechanically, the 'clean' version is even worse. This more than makes up for the removal of a few items that are unlikely to appear in-game.

Well, that makes me even more curious about the original...

Wait, this was the sanitized version? What?

The second printing just removed a couple of the most horrifying items (The racists ones and maybe one or two others), changed the backronym, and increased the number of dice required for rolling for stats. Quite minor.