NerdShamer
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They'll collectively start shrieking about Project 2025 for the next 4 years
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FATAL review was a coal in the canary mine as the queen bee mod MacLennan focused on "misogyny" that was the least of the game's problems and confined to maybe 10 pages out of 900.
Loose Goose
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That's a good point. FATAL was a convenient foil for RPGNet people the same way Fred Phelphs was a convenient foil for 2000s atheist bros. And much like Phelphs, we only know of it for this one reason. FATAL was made big by RPGNet.
NerdShamer
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FATAL or review?
Review was deliberately done "tubgirl style", but focused on woman-hating to a degree you can't help but feel they're being serious. There's a thousand absurdly dumb nitpicks you can make about the game like 50% to roll Maximum Age lower than your Curren Age, or a king being able to afford a siege machine after saving every penny for 30 years, or plate mail costing more whole than in parts, or that authors had much more of an obsession about cannibalism and drinking blood than raping women. There are 2 magical items who are pretty much identical in function, which is drinking blood/eating human flesh and apparently nothing else.
According to a co-author (Torturon IIRC, who did some amateur wrestling shows "Pain and Pleasure") Byron Hall was 100% serious and FATAL was his Fantasy Heartbreaker.
Review was deliberately done "tubgirl style", but focused on woman-hating to a degree you can't help but feel they're being serious. There's a thousand absurdly dumb nitpicks you can make about the game like 50% to roll Maximum Age lower than your Curren Age, or a king being able to afford a siege machine after saving every penny for 30 years, or plate mail costing more whole than in parts, or that authors had much more of an obsession about cannibalism and drinking blood than raping women. There are 2 magical items who are pretty much identical in function, which is drinking blood/eating human flesh and apparently nothing else.
According to a co-author (Torturon IIRC, who did some amateur wrestling shows "Pain and Pleasure") Byron Hall was 100% serious and FATAL was his Fantasy Heartbreaker.
NerdShamer
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I was talking about the game, itself. Everything about it is so autistic that it's impossible to take it seriously
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"What's your anal circumference?"
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They were 100% serious. Torturon even tried to buy the copyright of FATAL from Byron but was denied. Byron allegedly was let down by the negative reception and resigned to renovating Indie cars.
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Isn't there a spell failure mechanic where if you hit some critical failure you literally destroy the entire world?
I know Call of Cthulhu effectively has that since I can't imagine what Call Azathoth (a titanic nuclear chaos) would do other than effectively obliterate the world. I had this happen because I had a sanity loss mechanic where you could go catatonic or schizo or paranoid and were then effectively an NPC, or go on a homicidal rampage, commit suicide, or a number of other things including casting a spell, which if you went insane specifically by learning that spell would be that spell, or random if it was some external cause.
Someone actually did destroy the world in one CoC campaign that way. The situation was absolutely hopeless though and the world would have been destroyed anyway.
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Yup. One of the possible spellcasting failures causes you to accidentally cast the spell Fatal (yes, really), which kills everyone on the planet.
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The rare ban I agree with.
Dude had 4 posts and 3 of them were "but what if my-I mean my friend's vampire really wants to suck a dick?"
Old Gods of Appalachia remains heap big trouble for paleskins.
Speaking of...
Try reading just the original post and see how long it takes you to spot the infraction.
Dude had 4 posts and 3 of them were "but what if my-I mean my friend's vampire really wants to suck a dick?"
Old Gods of Appalachia remains heap big trouble for paleskins.
Speaking of...
Try reading just the original post and see how long it takes you to spot the infraction.
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I spotted it at once, but that's only because I know how utterly insane RPG net mods are these days.
Personally I'd have banned him for using "reigned" instead of "reined."
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I could care less if someone doesn't tow the line when it comes to idioms.
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Honestly, the fact that they're getting their jimmies this rustled over Old Gods makes me feel even better about having backed both of the Kickstarters for it.
Wallace
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From a thread about Dragon Age: Veilgaurd, where of course everyone is excited to be consuming product.
Meanwhile, the mods complain about the emotional labor of their jobs.
There's no need to have discussions if the Correct opinions are settled.
Meanwhile, the mods complain about the emotional labor of their jobs.
There's no need to have discussions if the Correct opinions are settled.
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Can't speak to the game mechanics but I like any 'dug too deep' horror setting. Old God's premise reminds me of the Blue Mountains area in the old Secret World MMO.
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I guess that explains why it's so entertaining to look into the weirdos who run RPG dot Net.
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The setting is neat and they really do nail the Lovecraftian "dug too deep" aspect. Rules are fine. I've never played a Cypher System game before this one, but I like how it's weighted toward a narrative-heavy campaign because that's the kind of game I prefer. It does have a whiff of current-day politics in that it's got one of those consent checklist things, but that's pretty easy to ignore if you know your players.
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You've mispronounced "amazing" as "old"
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I do love the sheer balls these fucks have to claim that they are the normal ones and the people frustrated about trannies shoving their fetish into things are the ones pushing politics. It doesn't matter if they made a big point about adding pronouns and zipper tits to “body types A and B,” you can't object because you theoretically don't have to make your character have them, never mind that there are still probably NPCs with this shit shoved in your face anyway.