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Aib Ld dijo:
A game almost fell apart because the group were doing a mystery session and some player thought we were heading to someone getting raped. The group haven't gotten all the clues, they're like 30% complete. All it took was one line of "He took advantage of her" when what they gathered so far should be obvious that isn't leading to rape, it is about a few guys taking control of a corporation from the inside.. Now the big problem is the player is sure it is rape despite 3 hours in the mystery, and wants to quit and start a different mission. Kept telling him its not the answer, but he is stubborn. Could tell him the answer behind the scenes since hes one of the best players i have yet, but didn't want him to metagame.
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Take a page from the JP Morgan suit.

He took advantage of her to take control of the corporation because she raped him.
 
Ghostse dijo:
tl;dr: FATAL had a lot more work put into it to be a viable system. And from what I've heard from people who played it, it was a viable system if you can tolerate a more autistic d1000 GURPS. But that wasn't the focus of the designer; the maximum anal circumference tables were what they cared about and everything else is window dressing.
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We actually had two threads here where we played F.A.T.A.L. It's actually pretty difficult to play because the game mechanics are insanely complicated. Iirc I got fucked to death by a horse.
 
I haven't posted about this table in a while. The Obojima guy flaked three scheduled sessions in a row. The other players seemed to enjoy themselves, but the group's true DM still hadn't returned or responded to private messages or texts in weeks, and the one-shot was almost over, so I suggested that we all discuss a campaign in a scifi setting at the start of our next meeting. The true DM posted an hour later, and, without bothering with the tedious details, seemed to do everything she could to confuse players about what we're going to do when we meet again. Things are still so murky that I'm still getting DMs from the Obojima guy saying that he'll be able to make it, actually he won't, actually he can but he'll have to leave early.

The other players all said that they were down for whatever, which is what they said when I had proposed the scifi game, and the game before that, and when the DM suggested that we meet anyway while she was gone instead of taking a sabbatical. No one cares. They just show up wait for the DM to tell them what to do. The only way I can make sure that they know what's happening is if I run the game the way you would run a game for ten year olds. I was happy to finally get something out of them at first, but this is a group of people ranging in age from their late 20s to mid 50s.

To top it off, today I sat alone at my kitchen table and ran a sample encounter by myself. Some mutants were guarding a small building, and two pregen PCs stealthily took the guards out and did a bit of looting. Very simple encounter, but this is normally where a DM will drop in some plot hooks and distribute food and water to malnourished PCs. That encounter was more fun than any gaming I've done in months, it's not even close. So why am I bothering with this table of people who don't care what we're doing and don't have the mental capacity to remember a campaign that's more than a few sessions long? Where even the supposed showrunner flakes? Now I know that bad gaming really is worse than no gaming.

Anyway, thank you for this therapy session.
 
Aib Ld dijo:
A game almost fell apart because the group were doing a mystery session and some player thought we were heading to someone getting raped. The group haven't gotten all the clues, they're like 30% complete. All it took was one line of "He took advantage of her" when what they gathered so far should be obvious that isn't leading to rape, it is about a few guys taking control of a corporation from the inside.. Now the big problem is the player is sure it is rape despite 3 hours in the mystery, and wants to quit and start a different mission. Kept telling him its not the answer, but he is stubborn. Could tell him the answer behind the scenes since hes one of the best players i have yet, but didn't want him to metagame.
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"Hey, [player], would you like to play the Rape Game?"

"No. What the fuck?"

"That's the spirit!"
 
AnOminous dijo:
We actually had two threads here where we played F.A.T.A.L. It's actually pretty difficult to play because the game mechanics are insanely complicated. Iirc I got fucked to death by a horse.
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I skimmed the F.A.T.A.L. book once because the memes about butthole circumference and other funny stuff like that. What I found was the largest pit of autism I have ever seen in my life. Just charts upon charts with special retarded rules on top of all of it. Complete madness.
 
Idk the lore behind F.A.T.A.L. but the need to calculate percentages by hand for ttrpg, absolutely laughable chance to become mage and overall comedic structure (bait-and-switch from race descriptions to anus size charts), - all look like dude's been having a big laugh when designing it. Like how can you take it seriously when the game suddenly redpills you on medieval rape stats in the middle of the "law" section.

Also "ceremonial magic" is 100% real-life juju cast to attract wealth or cure aching feet.
 
ColonelCadaver dijo:
Idk the lore behind F.A.T.A.L. but the need to calculate percentages by hand for ttrpg, absolutely laughable chance to become mage and overall comedic structure (bait-and-switch from race descriptions to anus size charts), - all look like dude's been having a big laugh when designing it. Like how can you take it seriously when the game suddenly redpills you on medieval rape stats in the middle of the "law" section.

Also "ceremonial magic" is 100% real-life juju cast to attract wealth or cure aching feet.
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The whole thing runs that whole edge of "Is it serious or not?" in a pretty digustingly brilliant way. It's a fascinating read, but if I ever actually proposed playing it, my wife would gently guide me to the woods and euthanize me with a spear.
 
My fav roll in FATAL has to be "roll a d100, then roll another d100 and you succeed if you roll under the first roll"... which is literally a coin flip, 50% chance, 50/50. It has to be some kind of an inside joke because I refuse to believe a PhD mathematician lecturing at an uni came up with this.

Second best is... the fact you have something like a 40% chance to roll your Maximum Age below your Average Age.
 
Session 1 was a shitshow and campaign is kill.

They/them pronouns no-showed, and spent the session trying to suicide bait on Discord.
3.5 vet who I finally convinced to play noped out of the campaign, but was clearly done with the session 50 minutes in.

I don't know if I fucked up or the players. "You are junior deputies, betrayed by the corrupt sheriff and left for dead, you go on a quest for revenge and stop the sheriffs plan. If trying to kill you is not enough motivation for revenge, you can include a family heirloom or family member for the sheriff to steal or kidnap."
Players were flummoxed when the game was more Death Wish/John Wick than Law and Order. 50 minutes into the session, I stopped the game and spelled this out, and offered to stop the game early and either re-write it as a police campaign, or allow them to re-work their characters. Both said no, and to proceed. But 3.5 vet was clearly not into it and treating the whole thing as a farce.

I could go on, but easily one of the worst sessions I've ever run.
 
Layton Mysteries dijo:
Apparently this game is based on a whole genre of writing troons made called "mechsploitation"
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Don't forget Extreme Meatpunks Forever, which is both a proper kusoge and terrible PbtA troonslop made by a gore fetishist. There's an old thread that goes more into detail.
AnOminous dijo:
I believe he died. I think getting fucked to death by a horse pretty much involves dying.
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Mister Hands agrees.
MazonLabs Recruitment Rep dijo:
The whole thing runs that whole edge of "Is it serious or not?" in a pretty digustingly brilliant way.
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Funny enough, I first heard about it through the RPGnet review and thought it was going to be a nonstop offensive gawking show. Turns out it was mostly just rules 'tism and even back in the early aughts the site was full of histrionic safe edgy queers who spent a great deal of time freaking out at high school level humor that took up ~1% of the total page real estate. Then again, I remember reading that Byron Hall got busted for possessing child porn around 2020, so who knows what was going on with those guys.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman dijo:
No game is better than shit game.
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My point is that you usually don't know what you're gonna get until they show up. In this case @Judge Dredd didn't find one good player for this table, which may have been a blessing in disguise since that means he could just kill the campaign with no regrets.
 
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