Let's Make A FATAL Character: Part 1: Abilities, Race, and Gender
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Beginning the horrible journey of making a character for the most notorious TTRPG around, Fron Another Time, Another Land, more commonly known as FATAL.Tips ...

Linked video is part 1 of 4, and as long as it is, it’s the shortest of them.

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

I had heard vaguely about how this was a bad system before, but never before realised just quite how bad it was, and in what ways.

Warning: references to sexual assault, sexism, and racism

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    I dunno about “higher level” maths, but there is one bit where you’re asked to solve a simple year 8–level algebra equation (which is still a much higher level than any other RPG I’ve ever played asks you to do). It’s also in one of the more explicitly NSFW parts of the system.

    Specifically, you have to solve for y: (BT – 80)2 = –4y + 120, where BT is a number arrived at in an earlier step, using (CM / CV/A ) × 100. I will not be defining what CM and CV/A are in this forum in order to keep the comments SFW.

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      Hah. I was mostly just joking as it included higher maths in the same sentence as the highly sexually explicit content. But that’s interesting that they decided to implement such a convoluted way of getting to stats instead of just simplifying it with a table.

    • brenticus@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      Is that the damage formula based on, uh, circumference?

      Haven’t actually read the book, thankfully, but I recall hearing that was a thing.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOP
        3·
        6 months ago

        Yes to circumference, but no to damage. Ripping is a possibility the book discusses, but this formula is for quite the opposite.