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."

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

—Troper Game Chainsaw, same

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

"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."

—J Bridge...at first.

"Fantasy Adventure to Adult Lechery is, in theory, a 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") is simply the worst RPG ever conceived. No one has ever played a game of FATAL. The rulebook is terribly written. It is filled with pointless random charts and obtuse rules. 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 but is still an abortion of gaming.

The FATAL Games website is now thankfully defunct. The current page is some kind of flash portal."
—1d4chan

[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."

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

—"Review of FATAL" by Jason Sartin and Darren Mac Lennan. from [1]

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