F.A.T.A.L TT-RPG Review: Roll Circumference

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  • @RyanTheMan000
    @RyanTheMan000 5 років тому +1918

    What is possibly the most horrifying thing to hear.
    *Roll circumference*

    • @gazzmaz8830
      @gazzmaz8830 5 років тому +73

      Dnd jail
      Roll circumference gain

    • @Wojjjie
      @Wojjjie 5 років тому +59

      @@gazzmaz8830
      DM-ok you go to jail for a month
      Player- Can we skip the time i spend in jail
      Dm- Sure... Just roll d 20
      Player - hmm.... Ok... Its 2
      Dm - hehe... Roll d 10 and add number to circumference

    • @lightrylian6912
      @lightrylian6912 5 років тому +69

      Bard: I want to seduce the dragon.
      DM: Okay roll for it.
      Bard: Nat 20
      DM looks at sheet, ADULT MALE BLACK DRAGON...
      DM: okay.. Roll for circumference

    • @Wojjjie
      @Wojjjie 5 років тому +42

      @@lightrylian6912 Now THATS the Way to introduce that rule
      To stop bards from spreading

    • @adenowirus
      @adenowirus 5 років тому +23

      I once read a Polish collection of stories from RPG sessions. In one of them a goblin merchant NPS was trying to sell a bunch of junk to one of the PCs. The PC response to every offer was "Shove it up your ass". Eventually the DM decided to roll for "amount of space up the NPC's ass".
      "Goblins get +2, merchants +3, that's +5 in total"

  • @Ghost_of_Avalon
    @Ghost_of_Avalon 5 років тому +694

    The best thing you can hope for in a game of FATAL is for someone to accidentally (Or better yet intentionally) cast the spell that literally deletes the setting.

    • @NEEDbacon
      @NEEDbacon 11 місяців тому +42

      Which by the way is called FATAL

    • @soweli_Lukonsi
      @soweli_Lukonsi 2 місяці тому +3

      The fact that this isn't even a deliberate act, just an accidental consequence of spell casting is both hilarious and remarkably terrible. You'll spend several hours in character creation, enter an encounter, have a terrible role and whoops, there's the universe. Sucks bruh. Need to restart at character creation.

  • @spartanhawk7637
    @spartanhawk7637 4 роки тому +468

    From what I can tell, basically, it's a no holds barred RPG where "I roll to seduce the dragon" suddenly gets a HORRIFYING new meaning.

    • @Ryu1ify
      @Ryu1ify Рік тому +62

      One of the magic items makes you sexually irresistible to all dragons within 100' of you, so rolling isn't even necessary

    • @NEEDbacon
      @NEEDbacon 11 місяців тому +19

      Roll to suduce the dragon? Congrats, youre the bottom/

    • @coryzilligen790
      @coryzilligen790 7 місяців тому +12

      _Seduce_ the dragon? As the author infamously commented in response to a review, "Where is dating included?"

    • @meshuggahshirt
      @meshuggahshirt 4 місяці тому +6

      If you're playing FATAL "seduction" is not what you're rolling to do to that poor dragon

    • @pabloni1117
      @pabloni1117 4 місяці тому

      it's actually very holds barred 😭

  • @TheAdarkerglow
    @TheAdarkerglow 5 років тому +972

    Heard of but never played this one.
    "Do you want to play the rape game, guys?" "EW NO!" "Good, already in the right mood! Let's get started!"

    • @agargoyle12345
      @agargoyle12345 5 років тому +21

      I've never played it either, or actually got my hands on a copy, but apparently my old story guide had and he swore, if we fucked with him, he was going to start incorporating it (into Ars Magica). So, any time we'd get slappy or game-breakingly out of character, it was 'do you want to roll for anal circumference?'

    • @lachlanmckinnie1406
      @lachlanmckinnie1406 5 років тому +49

      Pretty sure there's no dating in FATAL...

    • @marcar9marcar972
      @marcar9marcar972 8 місяців тому +3

      XD

    • @ukkisragee9983
      @ukkisragee9983 6 місяців тому +13

      ​@@lachlanmckinnie1406it's not called the "consentual sex game", is it?

  • @Nukestarmaster
    @Nukestarmaster 5 років тому +814

    You didn't even touch the abomination of how stats work in this game.

    • @pohatunuva3771
      @pohatunuva3771 5 років тому +130

      /tg/'s tried and failed to get it to work for years.

    • @jmanwild87
      @jmanwild87 5 років тому +123

      @@BenMarcWilliams by the end of character creation the DM will be able to be buried under the amount of dice

    • @lordinquisitorsec7532
      @lordinquisitorsec7532 5 років тому +20

      @@jaroslavfoldes1213 That's a thing?! Why am I not surprised?

    • @Ghorda9
      @Ghorda9 5 років тому +11

      d100s do exist, there just not very good

    • @lordinquisitorsec7532
      @lordinquisitorsec7532 5 років тому +30

      @@Ghorda9 It was the Retard strength I was surprised by. I've used d100s before for luck rolls in Pathfinder.

  • @44444444443333333222
    @44444444443333333222 5 років тому +737

    Never once had I been so happy to hear the words, "Sorry, but you died as a fetus." As I was during character gen.

    • @benedictrogers1478
      @benedictrogers1478 4 роки тому +67

      I never came across the rules where you die in character creation (this isn't traveller), but there's versions where you can roll negative ages...

    • @WitchFisterVeo1911
      @WitchFisterVeo1911 3 роки тому +9

      @@benedictrogers1478 so an eldritch entity?

    • @benedictrogers1478
      @benedictrogers1478 3 роки тому +28

      @@WitchFisterVeo1911 no, that's when you're creating a deadEarth character and come out of it with negative height.

    • @domesticcat1725
      @domesticcat1725 Рік тому +7

      ​@@WitchFisterVeo1911I'm imagining more like a merlin kind of situation. Or a prophesied warrior

  • @SashaFYI
    @SashaFYI 5 років тому +470

    I have played this once with a party of 6 people, yet no one dared to pick Anakim as their character. My first and biggest mistake was to pick a female human.
    I died to a troll woman who tried to fist me with her foot.

    • @SashaFYI
      @SashaFYI 5 років тому +182

      @Smugglerscomedy Yes, "tried". DM rolled to determine the troll's foot size and it came out ridiculously high. My defeated character's ass couldn't take it and was ripped apart. The troll woman got bored and left my character to die from blood loss and sepsis.

    • @youcantbeatk7006
      @youcantbeatk7006 4 роки тому +57

      Bruh

    • @scottydu81
      @scottydu81 3 роки тому +2

      Well what was your circumference? You could have taken it

    • @grizzlymelon8376
      @grizzlymelon8376 3 роки тому +33

      @@SashaFYI Jesus.....

    • @andrewrawlings5220
      @andrewrawlings5220 2 роки тому +36

      There are only two things you get to choose about your character. You chose ... poorly.

  • @unregisteredassaultbutterk1185
    @unregisteredassaultbutterk1185 5 років тому +689

    This has to be a shitpost, but there's no way any human, sanity disregarded, would put this much effort into a shitpost. 977 pages of copyrighted shitpost.

    • @joshuacherry9113
      @joshuacherry9113 5 років тому +231

      I remember reading a review of this game back in the day, which contained the best description of it I have ever found: "Burning this book would be an insult to fire."

    • @bongosmcdongos4190
      @bongosmcdongos4190 5 років тому +17

      No it's real my dude.

    • @Ghorda9
      @Ghorda9 5 років тому +42

      @@bongosmcdongos4190 shitpost doesn't mean it's not real, just that no sane person would have wasted there time making this sort of joke.

    • @bongosmcdongos4190
      @bongosmcdongos4190 5 років тому +25

      @@Ghorda9 ok fine mr pedantic. The people who made fatal were 100% serious about it. Better?

    • @agargoyle12345
      @agargoyle12345 5 років тому +48

      The fact that nobody can locate or find out anything about the author lends credence to the idea that it was a joke. I personally suspect it might have been more like a group effort. You know, a slap-happy probably drunk gaming group starts making this shit up, it becomes an in-joke, decides to write it up, and then decides they have to make it huge to help convince people it's for-real.
      I've never seen it firsthand, but I've heard the game mechanics are basically nonsensical, so a lot of it's size is likely padding.

  • @revilostraight7236
    @revilostraight7236 5 років тому +1849

    You didnt mention the most enjoyable feature in this game, which is the fact that you can die in character gen

  • @kieranmclaughlin264
    @kieranmclaughlin264 5 років тому +790

    This just sounds like crusader kings with extra steps

    • @Tragedous
      @Tragedous 5 років тому +72

      Kieran Mclaughlin pretty much except it all happens to one person instead of an entire family

    • @l0lLorenzol0l
      @l0lLorenzol0l 5 років тому +80

      Crusader Kings but I downloaded every single LoversLab mod for it at the same time

    • @cuirassier4296
      @cuirassier4296 5 років тому +13

      Tentacled dreams is one hell of a drug

    • @underthethunder
      @underthethunder 4 роки тому +30

      The difference is Crusader Kings is actually fun

    • @peppermillers8361
      @peppermillers8361 3 роки тому +5

      Trust me...it's not.

  • @Vexillifer
    @Vexillifer 5 років тому +225

    Internet historian sounds like he caught a cold in this video.

  • @bazookajoe-u2w
    @bazookajoe-u2w 5 років тому +273

    F.A.T.A.L. in the original edition stood for Fantasy Adventure To Adult Lechery. That title was more appropriate.

  • @fynngodhusen950
    @fynngodhusen950 5 років тому +205

    Magic is fun (mostly because its extremly broken).
    - If I understood combat right, you can cast Seal Orifice three times per round (A round takes 3 seconds in-game, a level 1 spell takes 1 second to cast). Seal both nostrils and the mouth and your target pretty much suffocates.
    - Invisibility has two spells. The second turns yourself and all your equipment invisible. The first turns only your body invisible, but last indefinitely. That's right, you stay invisible as long as you want (unless something dispels your magic) as a second level spell.
    - There are spells that improve your stats. I won't go into detail about stats, but if you could live forever then theoretically you can get all stats to 300 (which is the cap).
    - You can live forever. Just cast Reverse Magic followed by Bestow Decade. Reverse Magic creates a sphere that invertes the effect of every spell cast in it. Bestow Decade biologically ages the target by a decade (meaning it kills you if you exceed your races life expectancy).
    - Magic is cast by spending Magic Points wich are based on the spells level. So evetually you run out and have to rest. Luckily we have Bestow Magic which increases you Magic Point total, basically allowing you cast an infinite amount of spells.
    - Every spell in the game has a set of components. These include ingredients (like herbs), gestures or even incantations needed for the spell to work. If you attempt to cast a spell with insufficient components, like misspronouncing an incantation (Yes, there is a chapter dedicated to correctly pronouncing a spell), the GM can rule a Spell Failure.
    - Should a Spell fail, you have to determine a random spell effect. For that you roll a d1000 and d10 to see which of the 2000 possible effects accures. Among these effects is every spell in the game. So there is a 1/2000 chance you actually cast the spell you failed. Or you get the FATAL spell which erases all life in the universe and ends the campaign.
    - I said every spell has special ingredients necessary for its casting. For a fast amount of the spells you actually have you roll for them (there is a lot of rolling in this game). You might have to sacrifice a virgin to a dragon on an altar to cause your breasts to grow a cup size (I wish I was making this up).
    And mind you, all of the above can be caused by a level 5 caster class (Out of 20).

  • @cosmicoandromeda7195
    @cosmicoandromeda7195 5 років тому +569

    Who is this guy and why does he sound like Ssethz's lost son.

    • @hmmmooops
      @hmmmooops 5 років тому +45

      He actually sounds like the guy who makes the true facts videos

    • @android19willpwn
      @android19willpwn 5 років тому +66

      I was about to say the same thing. The editing style and speech cadence are really similar. Given how recently he started making videos I'd say some inspiration is clearly evident.

    • @intergalactichumanempire9759
      @intergalactichumanempire9759 5 років тому +51

      Ssethz had many children with many anime waifus. They went on to become UA-camrs and African warlords themselves.

    • @CuteLittleLily
      @CuteLittleLily 4 роки тому +10

      hey hey

    • @drefk1973
      @drefk1973 3 роки тому +4

      More like ObsidianAnt

  • @thereallocke8065
    @thereallocke8065 5 років тому +116

    I remember hearing about this game when I was a freshman. Our groups main dungeon master told us jokes about it but swore he wouldn't run it unless somebody brought him a physical copy.... he knew non of us would do that

  • @Humble_Merchant
    @Humble_Merchant 5 років тому +387

    13 minutes isn't long enough.

    • @seb24789
      @seb24789 5 років тому +37

      For FATAL? It's about 13 minutes too much.

    • @kurskfirebrand4494
      @kurskfirebrand4494 5 років тому +9

      Sebastian Abele about 12 minutes and 55 seconds too long

    • @dalriada7554
      @dalriada7554 12 днів тому

      It depends on what you rolled on the video length table.

  • @jerrywhoomst1116
    @jerrywhoomst1116 4 роки тому +22

    So this is the contents of the book of vile darkness.

  • @Halogeek-zq7yr
    @Halogeek-zq7yr 5 років тому +242

    Been working on my own RPG system, and i gotta say, this has installed a ton more confidence into me. At least i cant do as bad as this uncomfortably funny... Thing

    • @-kenik9629
      @-kenik9629 5 років тому +22

      Yeah, I heard an RPG-horrorstory involving this game, and while I unfortunately visualized it, I visialized it as a shitty cardboard set porno.
      (NSFW below)
      This thing also inspired me to make an anime themed porno ttrpg where all the the people are actually made of slime, making them impact resistant and being able to stretch ridiculously without injury. Essentially this without the gore, or the feces, or struggle snuggle. Also with a very different kind of setting, and Humans only technically being in it.
      Said ttrpg is not well built, or even done with draft one yet, but hey I might finish some day. No worries if you want to use these ideas, I don't even need credit.

    • @patriongodoffinancialgainf6301
      @patriongodoffinancialgainf6301 5 років тому +12

      @@-kenik9629 I normally am embarrassed for liking hentai as some of it the type to draw the same crowd FATAL was going for here.
      But honestly, stuff like what you talk about is what I want from it! Where else do you get goo monsters playing with their shapes to have fun sex?

    • @invaderHUNK
      @invaderHUNK 5 років тому +3

      Halogeek 1337 ah, ye olde homebrew. I did that a year ago. Never did a tabletop game. Millions dead. Earth was ruined. Hillary Clinton was cucked. An amazing game. Anyway, best of luck to you on your system.

    • @thebohemian814
      @thebohemian814 3 роки тому +1

      and you will never be as bad as Racial Holy war. Which was made by Neo nazis

    • @kiva_kaze
      @kiva_kaze 6 місяців тому +3

      ​@-kenik9629 you'll bring a new meaning to "get slimed" 💀

  • @mandaloretheangry9043
    @mandaloretheangry9043 4 роки тому +16

    after reading the bugbears i'm going to need a cold shower to help get the image out of my mind, thanks Afreemanornot for that.

  • @sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149
    @sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 5 років тому +98

    *"Age, Infant"*
    What the fuuuuuu...???

  • @culturalliberator9425
    @culturalliberator9425 5 років тому +92

    So what are we playing today DnD?
    *DM slaps Fatal on the table*
    OH what's this looks cool...
    *Open to random page*
    OH MY FU.CKING GOD!

  • @danmorgan3685
    @danmorgan3685 5 років тому +56

    Rules for "snugglestruggles" are under the combat rules for grappling. Make of that what you will.

  • @draconicfeline6177
    @draconicfeline6177 5 років тому +62

    "All the way down" - The screaming never ends

  • @jberrethful
    @jberrethful 5 років тому +99

    This game actually was made by some D&D DMs who were tired of Bard player’s shit and just made an entire game about having sex.

    • @thesmilinggun-knight9646
      @thesmilinggun-knight9646 4 роки тому +7

      But why though

    • @bernardomarkuskampffdemelo4323
      @bernardomarkuskampffdemelo4323 6 місяців тому +2

      To be honest, the idea of a sex-based RPG has been appealing to me for a really long time

    • @masterofhermeticknowledge6225
      @masterofhermeticknowledge6225 Місяць тому

      @@bernardomarkuskampffdemelo4323 Screw you, i`ve seen enough people like you and you somehow manage to make bad ideas worse. You know about ss13? Search it. It was made to be as bad as possible for normies. There was mysoginia, perversions, brutality, grooming and opression all the way of it`s history, but when stupid normies decided, that gedonistic counterculture - is a best way to live a life, it got even worse. I can`t cope how bad it all become after zoomers and alpha-gen started getting into it

  • @gideonengel7863
    @gideonengel7863 5 років тому +93

    I've never even seen this person before, but I couldnt stop laughing when I was threateningly told to "Roll Circumference" while being dragged into a dark room.
    Imma subscribe real quick

  • @firespawn01
    @firespawn01 5 років тому +48

    I read this book with one of my buddies in voicechat in our discord server last year. It was the best and worst of times, with much "What the fucK!?" and "Why is this a thing?".
    You didn't even mention the Cursed Jar of Masturbation or the Cursed Stone Dildo of Impregnation.
    Fuck, I wish my mind did not hold this information.

  • @obsidironpumicia4074
    @obsidironpumicia4074 5 років тому +92

    3:15 I paused at various intervals and found "hymen resistance"
    ...Aight cool

    • @hey_imriver
      @hey_imriver 5 років тому +38

      "Each player of a female character may, at their
      option, determine the Hymen Resistance of the character by rolling 5d20. A 100 means she was
      born without a hymen. Every time a male inserts
      his Manhood into a female with an intact hymen,
      he must roll 1d100 to see if it breaks, and it may
      only break once. He must divide Manhood Circumference by Vaginal Circumference Potential and
      multiply the quotient by 100. Apply this modifier
      to the roll. If the result exceeds her Hymen Resistance, then it was broken. If it breaks, then blood
      seeps from her vagina."
      I mean... I don't even know if that's a joke or not at this point...

    • @obsidironpumicia4074
      @obsidironpumicia4074 5 років тому +12

      @@hey_imriver It is not and how dare you even _imply_ that it isn't 100% serious

  • @karganor
    @karganor 5 років тому +163

    Obviously the writer of fatal transformed back into a fairy and found a werewolf child wandering in the woods

    • @jonassmith7707
      @jonassmith7707 5 років тому +7

      Oh shit, the Were UWUlf?

    • @brianmead7556
      @brianmead7556 5 років тому +4

      I need links to that sauce again.

    • @karganor
      @karganor 5 років тому +2

      @@brianmead7556 ua-cam.com/video/gwj7Uq_4OKA/v-deo.html

    • @valivali8104
      @valivali8104 2 роки тому +11

      I have feeling that this isn’t smart... but I'm curious... What is this reference to?

    • @adamvossen5374
      @adamvossen5374 Рік тому

      @@valivali8104 Well, seeing as you commented three months ago, you may have already seen it, but in case you haven't:
      ua-cam.com/video/gwj7Uq_4OKA/v-deo.html
      Have fun with this one.

  • @pissedoffturtle7333
    @pissedoffturtle7333 5 років тому +97

    10/10 for memes
    Minus several million for human decency.

  • @hansverhaegen8406
    @hansverhaegen8406 2 місяці тому +3

    "To say that F.a.t.a.l. should be burned is an insult to fire."

  • @StarHardy
    @StarHardy 5 років тому +534

    making FATAL second edition, who wants join me

    • @bravojr
      @bravojr 5 років тому +52

      NO thanks I would rather play warhammer40k Slaanesh mode.

    • @asgrahim9164
      @asgrahim9164 5 років тому +36

      I'm in. Let's ruin the world a bit more!

    • @stevemanart
      @stevemanart 5 років тому +62

      Technically this is the 2nd ed. There was an earlier release with less art and the acronym was Fantasy Adventure To Adult Lechery

    • @alfrazalam101
      @alfrazalam101 5 років тому +16

      Do not stare into the dark abyss sir, such depths should not be plumbed for their dark knowledge

    • @Halogeek-zq7yr
      @Halogeek-zq7yr 5 років тому +16

      Im calling the FBI

  • @KitKatHexe
    @KitKatHexe 5 років тому +342

    **Eye twitch**
    But why though? Why would anyone make this? It's like Slaanesh and Nurgle had a baby, and then gave it to khorne to beat as a child, and it had a Tzeentch as a therapist. This system is just VILE.

    • @tempestfennac9687
      @tempestfennac9687 5 років тому +27

      I recommend looking up a particularly infamous review from RPG.net as well as Byron Hall and Burnout's rebuttal. Apparently most of the content was intended to be historically accurate (even though it has Elves and functional magic). However, the author decided to mix a load of elements from Ancient Rome into the mix (such as the criminal justice system) and included a lot of things (such as armour which turns the wearer into racist stereotypes and a spell called Force Fart) for the sake of having "controversial humour". Pretty much everything about your character apart from their sex is handled with dice rolls too.

    • @dot620
      @dot620 5 років тому +44

      @@tempestfennac9687 yeah and the historical accuracy is so obviously a thinly veiled excuse when the largest proportion of spells are only effective for the express purpose of the rape of women by men. Going by folklore, the spells should serve the european view of a practicer of the occult (a woman, probably unmarried and knowledgable of herbal medicine and midwifery, either too old to have kids, or viewed as sexually promiscuous) but no, it's all love potions that only work on women. for all his realism, and his hundreds of pages of weird magic items (mostly similarly creepy) he missed that he factors breast size into the calculation for sexuality so only women with small breasts stand a chance of being bi or gay (a human woman with cup size equal to or greater than C is literally 100% likely to be heterosexual). Also the description of what the lowest possible speech score sounds like is 'gay' which obvs means an effeminate accent i guess, but do ineloquent women also sound like gay men? that doesn't sound realistic. Also, 'retard strength' is realistic enough for him, but actually creating a world than anyone but a rapey incel on a power fantasy would want to like in would shatter realism. He quotes eugenics books as sources.

    • @cyryl3827
      @cyryl3827 5 років тому +29

      @@dot620 I mean... from what I see, this has everything a total creep of a weeb/nerd would want in a game. Unnecessary german, medieval europe fantasy, overexplained sex (mostly non-consensual, often done by hideous, dumb brutes), causal racism veiled by the thinnest amount of realism to give an excuse to shitpost people who disagree, etc, etc.
      Like... most of that stuff is either what you find creeps liking, or what you find adult (as in the writer is an adult, not adult fiction) fiction writers make fun of as their teenage idiocy.

    • @maximgun3833
      @maximgun3833 5 років тому +19

      @@tempestfennac9687 So basically you're saying that the shitlord that made this was also an edgelord supreme?

    • @tempestfennac9687
      @tempestfennac9687 5 років тому +19

      @@maximgun3833 I could say that, but "Edgelord supreme" incinuates he's actually good at being one and I'm not willing to give him credit for that. :P

  • @civ-fanboy2137
    @civ-fanboy2137 3 роки тому +17

    The author claims, that the whole setting is european, but the names of the Anakim are all out of myths from the near east...

    • @Ryu1ify
      @Ryu1ify Рік тому +3

      Seriously, why not just make them cambion? Like Merlin, the guy who was actually from Celtic myth instead of literally the Torah that Byron specifically stated he would exclude from the game world's real life inspirations?

  • @ZenoDovahkiin
    @ZenoDovahkiin 5 років тому +147

    >child-eater translated to German for no reason to make them sound scarier
    Yep, sounds like an American thing.
    Was holding out hope before seeing that copyrtight notice, a small part of me was afraid my country had produced this.

    • @ameier5570
      @ameier5570 5 років тому +49

      Well the "Kinderfresser" is an actuall Germanic Mythological creature, its was kind of the Boogie man, there to frighten children in to behaving. (The version here seems to be excactly opposide). Doesnt make the RPG any less repulsive thought.

    • @Birbucifer
      @Birbucifer 5 років тому +21

      Don't worry, Germany remains a moral paragon historically.

    • @youcantbeatk7006
      @youcantbeatk7006 4 роки тому +2

      Germany has done nothing wrong.

    • @Ryu1ify
      @Ryu1ify Рік тому +7

      ​@@ameier5570It's much worse than just encouraging children to misbehave. The kinderfresser's appetite and powers are specifically geared toward _virginal_ children...

  • @THEFRISKIESTDINGO
    @THEFRISKIESTDINGO 3 місяці тому +6

    Everyone remembers anal circumference potential.
    No one remembers vaginal depth potential.
    Shame.

  • @UniGya
    @UniGya 8 місяців тому +64

    The worst part of this game, aside from the racism, sexism, constant references to SA, etc., is that the system is simultaneously too detailed and not detailed enough, basically all the detail is in the wrong spots. Character creation takes 8 hours and 400+ rolls, but combat is like 3 pages long. There's very detailed rules about pregnancy and juggling for some reason but most of the jobs are incredibly menial that only have 1 associated skill when they should have several (for example fisherman only has fishing as a class skill as opposed to fishing, sailing, swimming, barter, etc.). There's graphic rules for urinating and what happens when you try to put something too large into a hole but over half the races have like 4 job options. In all ways but literally it's unplayable

    • @Vinzaf
      @Vinzaf 2 місяці тому

      It's because the game wasn't really made for combat. It was a sex pest's fetish put to paper.

  • @LecherousLizard
    @LecherousLizard 5 років тому +17

    Anal circumference is the meme FATAL is known for, but let's be honest here.
    Despite what you heard of FATAL sex-related stuff is only a small fraction of the rulebook. There are so many details and descriptions that just a list of all weapons takes 3 pages and at least two dozen following the list are descriptions of each and every single weapon. This is why this book has almost 1000 pages. It lists and describes EVERYTHING, from physical features, through abilities, drugs, government types, professions to settlement types.
    One of the first lines in the rulebook is "The most difficult, detailed, realistic and historically/mythically accurate role-playing game available."
    The author wasn't joking.

  • @DCPTF2
    @DCPTF2 3 роки тому +7

    this reminds me of an entire other review on F.A.T.A.L, the video's as far as i can find are gone now but it was quite funny, the person did the whole review a good 5 or so parts all to make an "The Aristocrats" joke at the end, shame the videos are gone now and as far as i can tell the channel too

  • @NovakTheForgeMan
    @NovakTheForgeMan 5 років тому +27

    This whole video is a roller coaster from start to finish

  • @captainrumia2607
    @captainrumia2607 5 років тому +169

    I find FATAL to be very interesting in just how bad it is. In my opinion, there is a place for edgy games, but even in that regard, FATAL is a complete failure:
    -Randomized player background and professions, which make it unlikely the players will even be able to afford weapons.
    -Ridiculously long player creation, with rolling to randomize minute details about their character which kind of takes away the edgy fun (45 minute+ of rolling and averaging rolls is probably not something edgelords would like, especially when it makes their edgelord oc might be completely underwhelming in particular attributes)
    -Battles tend to be over quickly, and players can be easily killed.
    -Penalties to female characters' stats, discouraging players from trying to make edgelady PCs.
    -Waaaay too much edgy stuff. Possibly because it's nearly 1,000 pages of material.
    -And there's probably a lot of failures I don't even know about, since I've probably only read at most 1% of those pages.
    End result is that the Not Important edgelord-type might have to sit down for most of an hour and end up with a wimpy edgelord PC that knits baby clothes for a living.
    I also feel that there's a place for low-fantasy medieval simulation but FATAL fails in that way too, and not just because of how edgy it is.

    • @captainrumia2607
      @captainrumia2607 5 років тому +18

      @@TA-by9wv I didn't specifically choose those as the worst aspects, but merely ones that I remember that kind of ruin the potential for fun. I have no doubt there's far worse aspects in the nearly 1,000 pages of text.

    • @viracocha6093
      @viracocha6093 5 років тому +11

      @Eddie Donovan sure for women with less physical stats, but it must be made up for some other way to discourage people from playing as a female altogether

    • @captainrumia2607
      @captainrumia2607 5 років тому +4

      @@viracocha6093 Great name.

    • @BeruleAdierant
      @BeruleAdierant 5 років тому +13

      I think one of the worst aspect a side of the luckfest that the game boiled down to, its the fact that the game wasn`t edgy enough.

    • @maximeteppe7627
      @maximeteppe7627 5 років тому +6

      @@TA-by9wv why would you want to simulate anything accurately if the goal is to be edgy?

  • @happyguy457
    @happyguy457 5 років тому +45

    0:54 *Vive check*
    0:55 You failed the check so hard his hands got swapped

  • @GradeAMolvanian
    @GradeAMolvanian 5 років тому +15

    You know, I ask my players the same three questions at the start of my games.

  • @SgtCookie111
    @SgtCookie111 5 років тому +80

    9:40 Look, for all of FATAL's flaws, that is the most TTRPG method of killing someone I have *ever* heard.

  • @namkha209
    @namkha209 5 років тому +60

    Sseth, you made another persona, didn't you? Wasn't Mandalore enough?
    jk aside, you're getting a sub from that style of yours alone, my fellow man of culture

    • @JohnathanJWells
      @JohnathanJWells 5 років тому +3

      I'm surprised I haven't seen more comments like this

    • @laffuntilucry
      @laffuntilucry 3 роки тому +1

      What I would give to see Sseth review RPGs :P

  • @612shep
    @612shep 5 років тому +49

    I've skimmed the fatal rulebook a few times over the years for laughs, and the one thing I always remember is the spell 'Have her cadaver', which was a great pun. The spell does what you assume it does in a game like this.

    • @MrMortull
      @MrMortull 5 років тому +11

      I do not wish to know that.

  • @stevemanart
    @stevemanart 5 років тому +41

    I have run two separate "lets build a character" threads about FATAL on /tg/.

    • @braith117
      @braith117 5 років тому +16

      I've seen a few of those. No one ever makes it all the way through.

    • @seb24789
      @seb24789 5 років тому +17

      We tried, but everyone gave up in frustration after 10 minutes.

  • @incipimitusiterum4261
    @incipimitusiterum4261 5 років тому +16

    EVERYTHING up to the circumference seemed like a gag... Now I'm scared

  • @PosiAttiGuy
    @PosiAttiGuy 5 років тому +2

    I broke my mouse by smashing the sub button too hard after I've already came twice from the pure rasp of your voice.

  • @Omnifelix
    @Omnifelix 5 років тому +157

    Oh no. I know this game from /tg/. you fool what have you unleashed

  • @userequaltoNull
    @userequaltoNull 3 роки тому +4

    This is positively depraved. I genuinely have no words to describe this.

  • @benb3316
    @benb3316 5 років тому +21

    Ah - you chickened out just after "Orifice Circumference"...
    Like how about all the spells. All the casting requirements...
    All the magical items, like the odd and unique magic armors...
    The Jar of .... well it puts "Chucky" into that world.
    And if lucky will get to the F.A.T.A.L. spell...

  • @mostlyjoe
    @mostlyjoe 5 років тому +25

    I was on rpg.net when they first tore into this 'masterpiece'. You are missing out by not reading some of the horror that is the magic spells in this game.

    • @Senthain
      @Senthain 5 років тому

      Can't believe he didn't even mention the jar of jacking off, the most bizarre, pointless, and abnormally *specific* item I've ever seen.

  • @hankhill1964
    @hankhill1964 5 років тому +63

    Byron Hall was snapped up by slanesh.

  • @oscarwind4266
    @oscarwind4266 2 роки тому +45

    The Dwarf thing actually sounds kinda legit about historical beliefs about dwarfs. Surprisingly

    • @valivali8104
      @valivali8104 2 роки тому +2

      Though in those stories dwarves were elves aka about human-sized fairies who lived underground and/or crafted masterful, usually magical, items.

    • @Sethan777
      @Sethan777 Рік тому

      @@valivali8104 Elves in German Mythologie are Alfs and Dwarfs are Twergs!
      They are not the same ;-)

  • @andreasmuller4172
    @andreasmuller4172 5 років тому +58

    The guy who made this should be thrown in solitary confinement, we don't want the other inmates to get uncomfortable.

    • @youcantbeatk7006
      @youcantbeatk7006 4 роки тому

      We should feed him to the Booty Warrior.

    • @Gobbostopper
      @Gobbostopper 2 роки тому +8

      I only found out this was real today, and can only pray - im not even religious - this was made as a joke that got far, far out of hand

  • @ericb3157
    @ericb3157 Місяць тому +1

    8:03 reminds me of the "Myth Adventures" books by Robert Lynn Asprin, where female Trolls behaved like... "Trollops"!
    also, i just remembered an old story i read where they were doing BDSM roleplay, and their "safeword" was "Gor Sucks"!

  • @medhathobo
    @medhathobo 5 років тому +44

    I always thought it would be fun to play FATAL as a sort of "be the only pure thing in the universe" game. Basically, be as much of a paladin as you can be in FATAL. Pick a god from DnD as a failstate, where if you would fail your god in DnD, you outright lose in FATAL, with whatever fun flavor text matches up the situation nicely. Alternatively, do a run where you try to redeem the world. You fail if you stoop too low.

    • @tempestfennac9687
      @tempestfennac9687 5 років тому +12

      @Lance Clemings Why not just cast the FATAL spell being as that would destroy the whole world? :P

    • @Ex0t1cButt_ers
      @Ex0t1cButt_ers 29 днів тому

      @@tempestfennac9687 pretty sure that one is a randomized result of miscast. It is luck basex

  • @wesleythomas7125
    @wesleythomas7125 2 роки тому +2

    He sounds like Jereremy Irons' brother, and I am here for it...

  • @dboot8886
    @dboot8886 5 років тому +14

    Snuggle struggle
    Forever sleep
    Intense hugging
    ... what a time to be alive.
    Edit: "Roll for circumference" needs to be a meme. Now.

  • @hateraccoon5686
    @hateraccoon5686 5 років тому +9

    Roll an equation to see if you stab someone in their ovaries. I read this entire book once and oh boy.

  • @teslobo
    @teslobo 5 років тому +8

    I'm in an RPG design discord where designers and publishers get together and make new games. Whenever someone new asks for the best examples of what not to do, we point them to 2 examples:
    A) D&D
    B) FATAL

    • @Nukestarmaster
      @Nukestarmaster 5 років тому +1

      What parts about D&D do you point to as not to do?

    • @teslobo
      @teslobo 5 років тому +5

      Nukestarmaster It mainly gets pointed to because D&D is the popular one and it tends to create a lot of assumptions in new creators that great contemporary games have shed, so it's always good to get people to return to the game and scrutinise it. It isn't the worst game by any means, but there's a lot to be learned from flaws like flat probabilities from the D20 and race bonuses creating de facto best classes for a given race.
      It's alright, but in an alternate universe where D&D didn't exist, it would not become popular were it created and released in 2019.

    • @Nukestarmaster
      @Nukestarmaster 5 років тому

      @@teslobo Yeah, I can easily see that. I have a lot of gripes with D&D, particularly 5e since everybody is playing that nowadays.

  • @HappyRussian
    @HappyRussian 5 років тому +17

    0:11
    general kenobi! you are a bold one!

  • @magustobias8827
    @magustobias8827 5 років тому

    Found this video randomly on my recommended feed; by the first sentence of your voice, I was sold for the video. Before 5 minutes of the video, I was subscribed, and shall begin to binge your content to mt black heart's delight.

  • @jaroslavfoldes1213
    @jaroslavfoldes1213 5 років тому +7

    I honestly never thought I would see anyone talking about this unmentionable work of Slaanesh...

  • @padawan95001
    @padawan95001 5 років тому +3

    Love it when the description lists “The French National Anthem” as one of the songs in the video, you know it’s gonna be good lol

  • @marky6456
    @marky6456 3 роки тому +2

    That intro made me spit out my water in public lmao.

  • @TheEldritchGod
    @TheEldritchGod 8 місяців тому +3

    I heard it was bad, but this is off the charts.
    30 inches? HOW.

  • @thethirdsicily4802
    @thethirdsicily4802 5 років тому +6

    now I wanna hear this guy play an actual game with some of his friends, just to see the shit that happens

  • @marcdavis8607
    @marcdavis8607 5 років тому +10

    THIS... THIS IS VILE!
    im gonna use this to mess with people

  • @seb24789
    @seb24789 5 років тому +26

    Wait. This absolute madman actually read the entire book? And didn't commit seppuku? I thought such a feat was beyond a mortal man.

    • @DGneoseeker1
      @DGneoseeker1 5 років тому +2

      Perhaps he would enjoy Mai-chan's daily life next.

  • @bobboringname9021
    @bobboringname9021 5 років тому +6

    oh your suffering i can taste it from here it fills me with such joy i feel like that thing from hell raiser. talk about bug bears

  • @ownphantomandtoy
    @ownphantomandtoy 5 років тому +6

    3:08 Even the Medic is confused

  • @Sketchette6669
    @Sketchette6669 4 роки тому +2

    Why the fuck do I keep coming back to this video?

  • @chihuahuaman917
    @chihuahuaman917 5 років тому +44

    I have actually read the F.A.T.A.L. corebook and I theorized that it is actually an edgy satire on the DnD Satanic Scare during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

    • @ZevolveZ
      @ZevolveZ 5 років тому +5

      Hahaha ha.... no.

    • @chihuahuaman917
      @chihuahuaman917 5 років тому +7

      @@ZevolveZ It's just a theory that I thought of and we will probably never know because the company doesn't exist anymore and the creator's internet footprint is nonesxistant at this point. The game is also so complex that it is nearly impossible to play.

    • @chihuahuaman917
      @chihuahuaman917 5 років тому

      @@neoqwerty Wait there is a second edition of FATAL? I didn't know that and I thought this was all some dark edgy joke not a legit game.

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty 5 років тому +6

      @@chihuahuaman917 I'm old enough that I read all the stuff back when I was a tiny internet baby before things started vanishing and it was glorious but yeah. It was serious and the creator got legit offended and managed to get banned from RPGClassics AND Giant In The Playground by flying into skreeee-ing rages whenever someone told him FATAL sucks on his many many attempts to plug and sell his game and telling a head mod from GitP to eff off for scolding him. You might actually be able to pick up Byron Hall's GitP trail, now that I think of it...?
      The first edition has "Fantasy Adventure To Adult Lechery", the second has "From Another Time, Another Land" as its subtitle. There's minor differences in content and the second edition was proofread and tried to repair originally broken mechanics. Some brave soul on I think Angelfire or Geocities actually made a full list of differences but that site's gone and I can't remember what the site was called to check the Wayback Machine for it.

    • @Ryu1ify
      @Ryu1ify Рік тому

      ​@@chihuahuaman917The second edition is the one in this video. The "first edition" is the unfinished beta they made first, which featured magic armor that turned your character into racial and ethnic stereotypes

  • @DwylerA
    @DwylerA 5 років тому +5

    I just spent like, 3 hours going through the PDF laughing my ass off

  • @semagicus693
    @semagicus693 5 років тому +4

    Just so you know, originally F.A.T.A.L. stood for "Fantasy adventure to adult lechery".

    • @theculturedjinni
      @theculturedjinni 5 років тому

      Chaos worshipper I hope you are really proud over yourself witnessing what happens when you worship slaanesh but to be honest if Byron Hall was close to me I would not minde going "Blood for the Blood GOD!!!"" on hiss ass

  • @Zmanwarrior
    @Zmanwarrior 4 роки тому +3

    Since when was Stephan Weyte a youtuber? Seriously your voice is fantastically foreboding.

  • @AlienWithABox
    @AlienWithABox 5 років тому +1

    F.A.T.A.L.: *unintelligible bullshit names*
    Freeman: *swede powers activate*

  • @SchazmenRassir
    @SchazmenRassir 4 роки тому +1

    ...now I'm honestly just morbidly curious.
    Also, your voice is absolutely epic.

  • @RakaniReads
    @RakaniReads 4 роки тому +3

    7:07
    I love how smooth he pronounces "Kinder-Fresser" which is just the english word for "Children-Eater".
    Btw I wonder why this thing has a German name for no reason. Anyway, greetings from Germany and stay safe.

  • @Alex-pm9vy
    @Alex-pm9vy 5 років тому +15

    Seth/10 editing

  • @redeye3869
    @redeye3869 5 років тому +5

    I would like to see a part 2 to this.

  • @ryokiritani4187
    @ryokiritani4187 5 років тому +2

    That intro was godlike

  • @TheAfroMenace
    @TheAfroMenace 5 років тому +3

    Finally, the algorithm is doing its goddamn job.

  • @kieranmclaughlin264
    @kieranmclaughlin264 5 років тому +29

    >Afreemanornot covering FATAL?
    Z A P P E R S

  • @bravefire4103
    @bravefire4103 5 років тому

    Okey, this has good charisma and effort in edition. I can smell a great future for this channel.

  • @krelekari
    @krelekari 5 років тому +3

    Please make more vids on fatal
    Let the people know about the spells and random magical effects chart! Tell them about the spell fatal and how you can randomly cast that from the chart!

  • @THExRISER
    @THExRISER 4 роки тому +3

    0:55 I was honestly hoping for the hand reaching towards the screen thing.

  • @Demonskunk
    @Demonskunk 2 роки тому +17

    I'm sad that you didn't even mention that it's possible to accidentally struggle snuggle someone, and if you hit someone in their abdomen, you have to roll to see how many poo chunks fly out.

  • @ZorotheGallade
    @ZorotheGallade 2 роки тому +2

    Hey, there's some rpg in this degeneracy.

  • @Cynder44
    @Cynder44 5 років тому +1

    You really sold me on this game, thanks dude.

  • @moonscarub
    @moonscarub Рік тому +3

    Did they ever make a book for this or is this somthing i need to print out myself

  • @horsefeathers6649
    @horsefeathers6649 5 років тому +2

    Ah my favorite Wonderous Item; the Equine Semen Jug.

  • @mattsand5610
    @mattsand5610 5 років тому +1

    * slaps the front cover* so where can ya boy play a round?

  • @spacechimp9823
    @spacechimp9823 5 років тому +1

    I've got that fart ability in real life.
    What a fucked up rpg setting to sit down and invent though

  • @LoboPal
    @LoboPal 5 років тому +37

    Dragon Age Origins was a treasure, how dare you?

  • @FuriousGorge
    @FuriousGorge 5 років тому +1

    From
    Another
    Tand
    Another
    Lime

  • @Diegoaub
    @Diegoaub 5 років тому +2

    Roll 1d4 to determine the effectiveness of *seal orifice*

  • @vampirevomit2414
    @vampirevomit2414 5 років тому +10

    Well that is horrifying.
    But I guess I have something new to recommend at game night

    • @braith117
      @braith117 5 років тому +3

      Kingdom Death seems sensible and conservative in comparison.

  • @SaltyFarzi
    @SaltyFarzi 4 роки тому +1

    The best part of the game is the meme, particularly if you play any kind of strategy game:
    "ROLL FOR ANAL CIRCUMFRENCE!"
    Though, everytime I or someone else say it, my Nihilisim slowly but surely goes up each time.