Surtur and littlebiscuits guide to F.A.T.A.L

I'm ready! Let's get ready for female Leatherface. This is gonna get Holdeny.

Also, I made up a backstory for FATAL.

"Eons ago, in the lands beyond human comprehension, a race of things existed, the Auld
Beings. They were immensely powerful, capable of creating entire universes to rule over.
And then, from the loins of one if the members of Auld House H'all, was spawned the one.
Bryon H'all.
The legends say that the patriarchs of House H'all recoiled in horror at his sight. He was pathetically weak, his muscles nothing but flab and bones. His translucent, pasty skin was covered in a layer of grease, and his thick, oily black hair hung down to his shoulders. He spoke in a rasping, nasal voice, that was frequently interrupted by fits of gasping coughing. The House H'all banished him to their cellars, an embarrassment to the entire race.
In the cellar, he grew even more unhinged. On the occasions he managed to sneak out, he was rejected by every female he hit on. This caused him to retreat to his damp corner of the cellar, and fervently write while stroking his shriveled manhood.
And then, one day, he charged out of the cellar and proclaimed to all that his masterwork was done. All the Auld Beings gathered around, maintaining a safe distance between themselves and the miasma of body odor and encrusted seman surrounding H'all. And then Bryon showed them his masterwork, a universe consisting of nothing but his perverse fantasies and elaborate, arcane physical laws.
Horrified, the Auld Beings banished him from their realm, trapping him in his own universe.
And from that, the FATALverse was created. Byron's fetish for mathematics caused him to determine every action by every being through a series of complex laws, laws which mean that something as simple as sitting down on a wooden stool has a chance of the stool spontaneously breaking into pieces and flying up one's asshole. Annual deaths from seating related accidents stand at around 5%.
Because of Bryon's neglect of anything not related to his sexual perversions, the world of FATAL is a brutal, chaotic place where violence is the law of the land. Average people spend their brief lives in constant fear, praying for someone to accidentally cast the FATAL spell, a spell which kills all living beings on the planet. Regarded as the universe's reset button, this brings a temporary end to the horror and causes Bryon to take a break from jerking off to reseed life in the FATALverse.
To date, almost all of the 75 previous ages have been ended by the FATAL spell. One of the few exceptions was Age 15, which was also one of the few Ages to advance out of medieval stasis. Age 15 ended up with the globe dominated by several totalitarian regimes, each with enough nuclear weapons to annihilate the others. These superpowers remained in a state of constant conventional warfare to keep their populaces subservient. That is, until one of Bryon H'alls die rolls caused the vacuum tube based computer banks to spontatiously gain sentience and fling nukes at random places on the globe, which caused Ages 16-19 to be even worse than usual. One of the other major times something like that happened was Age 53, which had advanced to a relatively stable society on the level of 1600s Italy. Until an attempt at lighting a lamp created a massive sodomy Balrog which laid waste to all before it.
Now, it is Age 76. The world is in it's usual state of violence, ignorance, and darkness. Our heros tale has begun."
 
You can actually roll the dice to find out how you hack off genitalia.

What's next?
 
You can actually roll the dice to find out how you hack off genitalia.

What's next?
Rolling for anal circumference, learning the furtive dark arts of scatomancy, and other things.
 
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What would be interesting if someone hosted a Dnd campaign where the adventurers have to travel to a land that follows the rules of FATAL.
 
What would be interesting if someone hosted a Dnd campaign where the adventurers have to travel to a land that follows the rules of FATAL.
No. I refuse to solve quadratic equations in my elf games.
 
No. I refuse to solve quadratic equations in my elf games.

Actually, I meant that the party ends up in this country that has all of FATAL's screwed up views on society and odd magical spells. I didn't mean that the players have to convert their characters to FATAL's rules. I probably should have made that clearer in my previous post.
 
Actually, I meant that the party ends up in this country that has all of FATAL's screwed up views on society and odd magical spells. I didn't mean that the players have to convert their characters to FATAL's rules. I probably should have made that clearer in my previous post.
I am pretty sure my Pathfinder group would lynch me if I did that.
 
I'm bumping this because I just reread the Amazing combat log starting here, and I wish to share the pain with all of you.

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/surtur-and-littlebiscuits-guide-to-f-a-t-a-l.4433/page-11#post-307738

I regret nothing.
 
Someone should cast FATAL on this thread.
I would be the one cast it but the mathematics used would end up killing me or someone else instead of this thread.
 
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I wasn't good enough to gm FATAL. Even looking through the notes I prepared gives me PTSD twitches.

Is there anyone hard enough, man enough, to do what I failed and gm us a kiwi game of Fatal? @Surtur

Always.
 
I wasn't good enough to gm FATAL. Even looking through the notes I prepared gives me PTSD twitches.

Is there anyone hard enough, man enough, to do what I failed and gm us a kiwi game of Fatal? @Surtur

I shudder to think but.. maybe Roll-20 or Vassal has some modules for it that might make it easier? Calculation wise I mean, nothing can make the game itself any less horrid.
 
Even if someone could successfully GM FATAL, the game would grind to a halt due to the amount of math it takes to complete a task as simple as walking somehwere.
 
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If I were to play, I'm sure I'd die the moment I'd finish making my character, not just because I'd be new to this but because of all this stuff there is that seems rather... intimidating to make a character. Plus the fact you got things like anal circumference. Either way, my character would look like this, just to give an idea.

I know this is off-topic, but I'm curious. What game is that first picture from? Also, I would love to try FATAL, but I've nveer played a tabletop rpg before, and I should probably try something else for my first tabletop experience.
 
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