FATAL

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

FATAL: "From Another Time Another Land" (formerly known as "Fantasy Adventure To Adult Lechery") is a Tabletop Game Role Playing Game by Byron Hall, published by his company Fatal Games in 2004. It's since become a major example of Snark Bait, due in no small part to its content and rules, which feature:

  • Extremely complicated and math-intensive mechanics and charts governing character stats, in-game actions, gaining experience and leveling, and combat. These can lead to questionable, if not outright self-contradictory, results.
  • Many game mechanics relating to body parts and orifices which are better left un-elaborated.
  • Themes of rape-fantasy, racism, GLBT hatred and misogyny; lots of Toilet Humor; and generalized perversity. Even the cover art for the rulebook is NSFW. The original name is another blatant hint at its content.
  • Gratuitous spelling and grammar errors.

The game is best known because of a savage MST-styled review of the rulebook by Darren MacLennan and Jason Sartin on RPGnet. This led to a rebuttal by the creator and one of his contributors.

Not to be outdone, some brave Tropers began a liveblog on the forums. The results are here. (Text not safe for work or sanity)

If you're still curious, you can read more about it here. The game even has an official theme song.

Tropes used in FATAL include: