A 1000 page rulebook... Guess I'm not sleeping tonight and reading this shit.
Asside from the whole "rape" fetish the book has, another huge problem with this thing is how fucking huge it is. Weighing in at 981 pages this is the biggest core book I have ever seen, and its not a complete game. You still need a copy of the Neveria book in order to play, since it has the remaining usful information as well as a Beastiary. I decided to go through some of my books and see how many pages it takes to get the same amount of info. The FATAL book is the same as a Players Gude and a GM Handbook, so I will combine total pages where needed.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1st Edition): Players Handbook 127 Pages, Dungeon Masters Guide 239 Pages, combined 366 pages
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (2nd Edition): Players Handbook 255 Pages, Dungeon Masters Guide 190 Pages, combined 445 pages
Dungeons & Dragons (3rd Edition): Players Handbook 304 Pages, Dungeon Masters Guide 224 Pages, combined 528 pages
Dungeons & Dragons (3.5 Edition): Players Handbook 317 pages, Dungeon Masters Guide 320 Pages, combined 637 pages
Dungeons & Dragons (4th Edition): Players Handbook 317 pages, Dungeon Masters Guide 224 pages, combined 541 pages
Dungeons & Dragons (5th Edition): Players Handbook 320 pages, Dungeon Masters Guide 320 pages, combined 640 pages.
A few notes here, one 5th edition is not released yet so I used the number I found on Amazon, so this may be subject to change. So far, 5th edition is the largest but only just beating out 3.5. That being said it is still 381 pages shorter than FATAL and I am willing to bet there are a lot of pretty pictures in 5th Edition taking up real estate. Plus, the PHB has everything you need to know how to play, so you only need one book unless you plan to GM.
Pathfinder Core Rulebook: 576 pages.
Pathfinder is based of of D&D 3.5 but they managed to shave off a lot of pages. Still, it has everything you need to play save for monsters, just like FATAL but with 405 less pages.
Call of Cthulhu (2nd Edition): Approx 160 pages
Call of Cthulhu (3rd Edition): 192 pages
Call of Cthulhu (5th Edition): 240 pages
Call of Cthulhu (6th Edition): 320 Pages
Trail of Cthulhu: 248 pages
One thing about CoC is that they are COMPLETE games, all you need to play aside from dice, pencils and paper is the core book. Everything else is supplemental.
Star Wars d6 (1st Edition): 140 pages
Star Wars d6 (2nd Editon): 176 pages
Star Wars d6 (Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition): 288 pages
Star Wars d20 (Revised Edition): 384 Pages
Star Wars d20 Saga Edition: 288 pages
Star Wars: Edge of the Empire: 448 pages
Star Wars: Age of Rebellion: 464 pages
After D&D/CoC, Star Wars is probably my favorite game to play and I have probably played Star Wars d20 more than any other game I own. Again, these are all COMPLETE games and not one of them includes rape.
Really, all of these games not only are better made, but use less paper as well, and some of these are very image heavy, whereas FATAL is all fucking tables.