The 10 Reasons We Will Never Review F.A.T.A.L.

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**BrookM**

From Something Awful's "WTF, DND?!" segment comes this little trainwreck:

We have avoided the subject of F.A.T.A.L. (FATAL from here on out) since this column began. Every day someone emails one of us requesting we use it for WTF, D&D!? and ever week we refuse. FATAL is a peerless, gargantuan, self-published, self-distributed beast written by obsessive savant Byron Hall. The rules, touted as "the most difficult" of any game available, cover every imaginable detail except how to have fun playing the game. Minor details. FATAL is infamous because it is a sadomasochistic violence and rape simulation. We're here today to explain why we will never review FATAL.

Read it here and prepare to never be happy again: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/fatal-worst-rpg.php?page=1

**Fateweaver**

Wow, that's just messed up gak.

Hours and hours to create a character and a chart for determining a babies ability to have anal sex....I mean really?

**sebster**

Wow, blast from the past. I was over at rpg.net when they first discovered the game, and when Jason Sartin and Darren McLennan produced their famous review, and then when the loon who wrote it gave his rebuttal. Good times, good times.

Here's the original FATAL review; http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14567.phtml, and I'll point out it's got some extremely bad language. In fact, it's basically just a couple of really funny guys abusing a weirdo for writing a weird book, and they do it with really crude, foul mouthed humour.

Here's the rebuttal, where the weirdo that wrote FATAL sets about a point by point defence of his game; http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/FATALReviewRebuttal. It includes perhaps my all time favourite internet moment;

Darren MacLennan (in his original review) "So, basically, FATAL is the date rape RPG."
Respone from Byron Hall, author of FATAL "Another faulty conclusion drawn by Darren. Where is dating included?"

**Orkeosaurus**

FATAL wrote:1-50 Jar of Jacking Off: Whenever a male opens this jar, they must pass a Drive sub-ability check at TH 80 or be compelled to force their fuckstick into the jar. Once inside, the jar will inexplicably grip it firmly and jerk it to completion, even against the will of the opener. Upon completion, the cummer must roll percentile dice. If the results are 01-10, then the jar becomes pregnant. If the jar is pregnant, it will not allow itself to be opened, but will care for the fetus within, which will be heard screaming by others within 1d100 feet day and night. After 9 months of fetal torture, the child will be born and the jar will break.

If the jar is broken during its pregnancy, then the dying and twitching fetus will explode after 1d6 rounds of twitching. The explosion will cause 1d4 Life Points of sonic damage to all within 1d4 miles. Baby parts are inexplicably everywhere.

When born, the baby will be Unethical Immoral, will serve the father loyally, will obsessively collect jars, and seem to be male but have no penis, but oversized testicles, which can never ejaculate. Therefore, this child will be forever frustrated. Any child of a jar will insist that others call them “Chucky.”

**ShivanAngel**

It's Authors(if you can call them that) and games like this that further perpetuate the stereotype that people that play RPG's or anything considered nerdy in general are sex crazed fiends who will stick it in the first orifice that will accept them because they are that desperate to get laid.

The book of erotic fantasies for D&D was also similar, but not nearly as perverted and twisted.

So on behalf of RPG's everywhere, the get a big F-U

**Orlanth**

Fateweaver wrote:Wow, that's just messed up gak.

Hours and hours to create a character and a chart for determining a babies ability to have anal sex....I mean really?

There is no such thing as comic paedophilia, whether in a thread, in a link, in a book review, spoof book review, book or anything else.

**Mannahnin**

Anything can be laughed at. Whether it should be is a personal decision, and often influenced by context.

**Golden Eyed Scout**

**Sanctjud**

It was immaculate......or so she says...

**ShumaGorath**

I love the WTFDND articles. This one is great.

**metallifan**

I'm laughing so hard at Hall's pathetic attempts to defend himself from the RPG.net review. Pure gold.