Let's Make A FATAL Character: Part 1: Abilities, Race, and Gender
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Beginning the horrible journey of making a character for the most notorious TTRPG around, Fron Another Time, Another Land, more commonly known as FATAL.Tips ...

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

  • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I kinda want to get together with my gaming group to make characters in FATAL and take the piss on the poor author

    • MissGutsy@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      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

    • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      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.