I haven't. Talk about your experiences here. I'm curious.
I dont think even the game's creator ever played it!
10 pages worth of Character Sheets, with 20 Attributes, 200+ skills (delousing, urinating!?!), detailed anatomical stats, and 989 pages of pure asinine! That game was an abortion... a 400-pound baby abortion!
Although, I did like it's biblical view with half-angels. I never liked the half-celestial types in D&D, because they are way too wholesome. Being true to biblical canon, the Anakim are both beings of divine origins, and total rotten bastards. With my Politics of Hell champagne, I use the Anakim as a degenerate half-angelic race, who act like Devils.
Otherwise, I have not used much of the game rules, notes & charts, do to it's over-flood of information, and most of it is just wank!
The game also clams to be vary realistic with it's treatment to the medieval age (if by "realistic", you mean gang **** was their national pass time), but so did an older RPG oddly call Fantasy Wargaming - which I found to be more useful reference book. The truth of the matter, is that I dont give a dame about medieval accuracy. It was such an overrated time, anyway!
I read that piece of sexist, inaccurate, immature (seriously.. the amount of defecation in the rules.... yes in the rules), nonsensical, **** trainer, festering and pussing garbage. I couldn't imagine anyone actually reading the entire thing (I read somewhere around 500 pages of it) let alone playing it. Hell I have a hard time imagining anyone creating it.
The author of F.A.T.A.L is seriously messed up in the head.
I tried making a character....once...
I've never played, but I totally would. For the goof, ya know? Kinda like if I had a chance to bang Susan Boyle. I'd do it just cuz it would be something to talk about. Story FTW.
Huh. Interesting. I took a glance at the rules once, and had to floss my brain. I was just wondering if anybody had actually tried to play the thing. I even found a character generator, which is what they recommended was the best way to make a character. Yep. Let the computer do it, because it was so time-consuming to do it by hand.
Regarding realism, yeah. I'll leave that to... whomever wants it. I certainly don't. Historical accuracy is right up there with things that I want never to touch my fantasy games too closely.
Ok D&D, on the doll show us where the Historical Accuracy touched you.
From what I've seen of it, I do not think it is the work of one individual nor do i think it was done with even the tiniest degree of seriousness. Rather, I believe it a the work of a group consciosuly attempting to make the worst, most stereotypical, most offensive, most unplayable system possible as a joke.
Jayne, what happened to Jayne? Just time for a change?
EDIT: NM, saw the clarification in the siggy.
On topic: I also don't beleive - from the little I know (thanks for the review, Micha) - that it was not done serisously as a game. But I'd still totally play it. Once. For the experience.
From what I've seen of it, I do not think it is the work of one individual nor do i think it was done with even the tiniest degree of seriousness. Rather, I believe it a the work of a group consciosuly attempting to make the worst, most stereotypical, most offensive, most unplayable system possible as a joke.
From what my knowledge extends of the game it sounds like they succeeded. Go them, who ever the hell they are! Which also reminds me of an rpg my friend can't remember the name of where they said to reference certain charts that actually weren't in the book. And until i learned about F.A.T.A.L. I thought that was the worst rpg ever.
I never really hand any issue with all the ****, misogyny, and racism in the game - such things are quite normal in my own D&D campaign. Its more the overly complex rules, and the highly narrow focus on every & all things lecherous is that I have issue with. Otherwise, I did like how they illustrated all the races in the nude. If I could freely alter my 3e PHB, I would have them nude, or at least have the women topless.
At a count of 989 pages, I checked out Lulu.com to see if they could print such a bulky book (for sh!ts & giggles), and its much to thick for any of their options (I think it was up to 500 pages, per book, or something). It would likely have to be printed in parts.
I also had an early version of the game (plus sheets and a setting) on my old Scribd account (before it was deleted for piracy - thank you Bastards of the Coast!). I could not load the final copy because of some nonsense about it being a "protected fire".
By the way, I made this years ago:
Why do the racial illustrations need to be nude? Why have the women topless?
How else is he going to get to see boobies?
That's what teh interwebz is for - not a game manual. Oh, you could also try dating, too.
EDIT: Or a nudey bar. Or a hooker. Plenty of options unrelated to D&D.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpdCJKPHzh8
Someone had to do it.
The internet is for porn.
Ok D&D, on the doll show us where the Historical Accuracy touched you.
Piggy made a child molestation joke, and I giggled. Who is the worse person?