FATAL/Quotes

"I've read this entire thread, the rulebook, and the counter-review all in one sitting, and this is what I have to say. FATAL isn't a game. It's a pornographic maths textbook made by a 10-year old."

—Troper Hygraffo, from the TV Tropes Liveblog of FATAL

"I... I have no more words. I have come to the conclusion that FATAL is the closest thing we will ever get to t he unabridged Necronomicon."

—Troper Game Chainsaw, same Liveblog

Nornagest: Solving quadratic equations governing orifice diameter is only math in the sense that throwing apples at somebody is physics.

—Guess where?

"FATAL doesn't seem to be as sexualized as the initial review claims. They just found the naughty bits and put them in the limelight. The real problem of the game is the realism. The designers tried to make the most realistic game possible, and they succeeded."

—Troper J Bridge...at first.

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 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.

—1d4chan

(DO NOT EXPOSE GAME TO FACE. ~~FIRE IS BETTER ALTERNATIVE.~~ BURNING IT IS A GRAVE HERESY TO FIRE. FIRE ON FACE IS BETTER ALTERNATIVE TO GAME.)

—1d4chan, on the 1st edition of FATAL

[Jason] Sartin: I'll cut in here to say that while being a brain-dead rapist is an important part of the FATAL experience, there are two further aspects that make it the visible-from-space pile of festering associty that it is.
1) Juvenile ideas that even the Sen Zar guys would've been too embarrassed to touch. You know, like magical fumbles that cause clones to spawn from your cock, or make you shit constantly, or make you start anal-fisting your target while trying to bite your ear, or make you recite stupid lines that were probably ripped off from metal songs every time you cast a spell. Or magical ingredients like vaginal yeast or the "cunt-pipe" of an elderly virgin.

Burnout: I would like to jump in here and say that maybe the reason for the embarrassment is that they aren't mature enough to handle such issues.

—Byron Hall and Burnout's rebuttal of the MacLennan/Sartin review.

[Jason] Sartin: So, basically, FATAL is the date rape RPG.

Byron Hall: Another faulty conclusion drawn by Darren. Where is dating included?

—Byron Hall and Burnout's rebuttal of the MacLennan/Sartin review.

"It's not that [in FATAL] women are considered less than men - it's that they are not considered at all. It doesn't seem to occur to the author that women have a viewpoint, that they might have opinions on the world around them."

—an RPG.NET poster

"Burning this game would be an insult to fire."

—"Review of FATAL" by Jason Sartin and Darren Mac Lennan

Do you really want to go back to the FATAL page? Do you?