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This felt very much like the session zero-point-one of a game I whose name I chose to slightly mispronounce as “F.A.T.E.L.” in an email I wrote to a friend afterwards. Maybe one day I'll bring myself to translate it.
It's interesting to see it. Despite all the jokes, I've never seen somebody actually go through Char Gen and what the output would be like. It's like a nutty Harnmaster or something.You asked for this, you've only got yourself to blame
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Equipment: Leather Armor, short sword, backpack, wineskin,dagger, crossbow w/20 bolts Spells: 1st Level Read Magic,Charm Person,Find Familiar,Enlarge,Detect Magic,Hold Portal,Write, Protection from Evil, Spider Climb,Tenser's Disc,Shield Familiar Screech Owl 3hp Night Vision, Superior Hearing |
Remove the sexual stuff and it looks like a typical 80-90's character.You asked for this, you've only got yourself to blame.
Name: Molobar Beriska
Gender: Male
Race: Bugbear
Age: 29
Height: 7"1
Weight: 369 lbs
Class: Gladiator
PHYSIQUE: 109 Skill Mod: +3
Physical Fitness: 101 Mod 0, Sprint: 70
Strength: 150 Mod: +15, Damage: +75%, Clean & Jerk: 138 lbs, Bench Press: 230 lbs, Dead lift: 368 lbs
Bodily Attractiveness: 86 Mod: -15, Intoxication/Vomit -18%, Allergies: None, Illness Immunity 81%
Health: 119 Mod +6,
CHARISMA: 112 Skill Mod: +4
Facial: 81 Skill Mod: -21%, Description: Ill-Shapen
Vocal: 106 Mod: +2%, Description: Normal
Kinetic: 123 Mod: +7%, Description: Becoming
Rhetorical: 113 Mod +4%, Average Speech Rate: 160 words per minute
DEXTERITY: 88 Skill Mod: -12
Hand-Eye Coordination: 67 Mod -35%, Physical Movement Precision: 3/8 inch
Agility: 102 Skill Mod: 0, Armour: 0, Brawling attacks per round: 2, Seconds to stand: 3
Reaction Speed: 51 Mod -60%, Deep Sleep Recovery: 5
Enunciation: 93 Mod -9%, Maximum Speech Rate: 170 wpm, Time to cast a spell: +30%
INTELLIGENCE: 98 Skill Mod -3
Language: 97 Skill Mod -3%, Max Languages Learned: 2, Vocab Limit: Conversion
Math: 151 Skill Mod +15, Highest Possible Math: Geometry
Analytic: 35 Skill Mod -75%
Spatial: 82 Skill Mod -18%, Unfamiliar Object Assembly: 17 pieces
WISDOM: 89
Drive: 77 Mod -24%, Hours Relaxing: 20
Intuition: 117 Skill Mod +5%
Common Sense: 98 Mod -3%
Reflection: 54 Skill Mod -60%, Earliest Memory: from one year ago
Life Points: 32
Skills: Brawling +5, Wrestling +8, Dismemberment +10, Impaling +10, Mangling +10, Ambidexterity, Armour (Light, Medium), Physical Comedy +5, Hurl +5, Intimidation +5, Math Fundamental +5, Parry +5, Javelin, Weighted Net, Trident, Broadsword, Dagger
Languages: Kobold
Most Attractive Feature: Fur
Most Repulsive Feature: Face
Fur Colour: Auburn
Fur Length: Inch Long
Fur Thickness and Type: Thick, Kinky and Oily
Eye Colour: Brown
Vision: Fair Farsightedness, 10 ft
Facial Feature: Mole on Throat, Presumed Characteristic: Intestinal Problems
Areola: Three Inches, Light Hue
Nipple Length: Half an Inch
Tongue Size: 5 Inches (Tip may touch chin)
Anal Circumference: 8 Inches
Manhood Length: 9.61 inches
Manhood Circumference: 5.25 inches
Piety Points: 49 Worships Intermittently but may attend regularly
Ethicality: Neutral
Morality: Immoral
Temperament: Dominant: Choleric Secondary: Melancholic
Born: 29th September 5071
Birth Status: Legitimate
Social Class: Peasant, Starting Funds: 2 SP, Education: Illiterate
Birthplace: Hamlet
Siblings: 2 Brothers & 6 Sisters
Birth Rank: 8th Born
Marital Status: Unhappily Married
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Debauchery: 7 Give Fingering
Family Occupation: Farmer
Background: Who knows? He only has a memory going back a year.
It actually reminds me of Zweihander with its obsession for randomly determining everything.Remove the sexual stuff and it looks like a typical 80-90's character.
Character Name:
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Player Character Record Sheet
Half-Elf
Race
Mage/Thief
Class
Chaotic/Neutral
Alignment
46
Age
5ft. 6in.
Height
123 lbs.
Weight
STR: 9
Hit
Adj.Nrm Dmg
Adj.None Wt
Adj.Nrm Open
Doors1-2 Bend
Bars1% INT: 15
Add.
Lang.+4 Know
Spell65% Min
Spells7 Max
Spells11 WIS: 16
Mind
Save+2 Spell
Fail0% Bonus
Spells2-1, 2-2 DEX: 10
Surprise
Adj.0 Missile
Adj.0 Defense
Adj.0 CON: 9
H.P.
Adj.0 System
Shock65% Ressurect
Survival70% CHR: 15
Max #
Hench7 Loyalty
Base+15% Reaction
Adj.+15%
SAVING THROWSCause Mod Vs. Base Paralyze/
Poison 13 Petrify
Poly 12 Rod, Staff
or Wand 11 Breath
Weapon 15Wis score +2 Spells 12
Hit Points 4/7
Armor
ClassSurprised AC:
Shieldless AC:
Rear AC: 8
Movement 120' Base RateHvy(x3/4): 90' Run(x10): 1200' Day 20mi. Special Load(x1/2): 60' Nrm(x5): 600' HiHz(x2/3): 80' Max(x1/4): 30' Crl(x1/2): 60' Swim: 60'
Special Abilities - Race Vision: 60' Infravision Notice secret door 1 in 6, find secret door 2 in 6, find concealed door 3 in 6. 30% resist sleep & charm spells.
Special Abilities - Class Spell use. Thief: PP 30%, OL 25%, F/RT 20%, MS 15%, HIS 10%, HN 10%, CW 85%, RL -. Backstab at +4 to hit, x2 damage. Restricted to leather armor, most small weapons.
Equipment:
Leather Armor, short sword, backpack, wineskin,dagger, crossbow w/20 bolts
Spells:
1st Level
Read Magic,Charm Person,Find Familiar,Enlarge,Detect Magic,Hold Portal,Write, Protection from Evil, Spider Climb,Tenser's Disc,Shield
Familiar
Screech Owl 3hp Night Vision, Superior Hearing
You asked for this, you've only got yourself to blame.
Name: Molobar Beriska
Gender: Male
Race: Bugbear
Age: 29
Height: 7"1
Weight: 369 lbs
Class: Gladiator
PHYSIQUE: 109 Skill Mod: +3
Physical Fitness: 101 Mod 0, Sprint: 70
Strength: 150 Mod: +15, Damage: +75%, Clean & Jerk: 138 lbs, Bench Press: 230 lbs, Dead lift: 368 lbs
Bodily Attractiveness: 86 Mod: -15, Intoxication/Vomit -18%, Allergies: None, Illness Immunity 81%
Health: 119 Mod +6,
CHARISMA: 112 Skill Mod: +4
Facial: 81 Skill Mod: -21%, Description: Ill-Shapen
Vocal: 106 Mod: +2%, Description: Normal
Kinetic: 123 Mod: +7%, Description: Becoming
Rhetorical: 113 Mod +4%, Average Speech Rate: 160 words per minute
DEXTERITY: 88 Skill Mod: -12
Hand-Eye Coordination: 67 Mod -35%, Physical Movement Precision: 3/8 inch
Agility: 102 Skill Mod: 0, Armour: 0, Brawling attacks per round: 2, Seconds to stand: 3
Reaction Speed: 51 Mod -60%, Deep Sleep Recovery: 5
Enunciation: 93 Mod -9%, Maximum Speech Rate: 170 wpm, Time to cast a spell: +30%
INTELLIGENCE: 98 Skill Mod -3
Language: 97 Skill Mod -3%, Max Languages Learned: 2, Vocab Limit: Conversion
Math: 151 Skill Mod +15, Highest Possible Math: Geometry
Analytic: 35 Skill Mod -75%
Spatial: 82 Skill Mod -18%, Unfamiliar Object Assembly: 17 pieces
WISDOM: 89
Drive: 77 Mod -24%, Hours Relaxing: 20
Intuition: 117 Skill Mod +5%
Common Sense: 98 Mod -3%
Reflection: 54 Skill Mod -60%, Earliest Memory: from one year ago
Life Points: 32
Skills: Brawling +5, Wrestling +8, Dismemberment +10, Impaling +10, Mangling +10, Ambidexterity, Armour (Light, Medium), Physical Comedy +5, Hurl +5, Intimidation +5, Math Fundamental +5, Parry +5, Javelin, Weighted Net, Trident, Broadsword, Dagger
Languages: Kobold
Most Attractive Feature: Fur
Most Repulsive Feature: Face
Fur Colour: Auburn
Fur Length: Inch Long
Fur Thickness and Type: Thick, Kinky and Oily
Eye Colour: Brown
Vision: Fair Farsightedness, 10 ft
Facial Feature: Mole on Throat, Presumed Characteristic: Intestinal Problems
Areola: Three Inches, Light Hue
Nipple Length: Half an Inch
Tongue Size: 5 Inches (Tip may touch chin)
Anal Circumference: 8 Inches
Manhood Length: 9.61 inches
Manhood Circumference: 5.25 inches
Piety Points: 49 Worships Intermittently but may attend regularly
Ethicality: Neutral
Morality: Immoral
Temperament: Dominant: Choleric Secondary: Melancholic
Born: 29th September 5071
Birth Status: Legitimate
Social Class: Peasant, Starting Funds: 2 SP, Education: Illiterate
Birthplace: Hamlet
Siblings: 2 Brothers & 6 Sisters
Birth Rank: 8th Born
Marital Status: Unhappily Married
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Debauchery: 7 Give Fingering
Family Occupation: Farmer
Background: Who knows? He only has a memory going back a year.
Even if you put the sex stuff aside, it's genuinely unplayable. Do give just one example, the bugbears are hated by all other races apart from Kobolds who just dislike them. You can see the issue in an adventuring party.This is fucking insane and definitely not in a good way. These people clearly have issues. (And as with most authors of “realistic” rulesets, a poor notion of what they’re modeling.)
I used the dragonsfoot online generator for most of it since it's lookups and what not. I just copy and pasted the results here.W
What formatting sorcery is this???
(Yay for half-elf thieves/rogues)
I used the dragonsfoot online generator for most of it since it's lookups and what not. I just copy and pasted the results here.
Manhood Length: 9.61 inches
It's an early example of the "new old school" design subset who don't understand that randomness is the road, not the destination.
This is fucking insane and definitely not in a good way. These people clearly have issues. (And as with most authors of “realistic” rulesets, a poor notion of what they’re modeling.)
Even if you put the sex stuff aside, it's genuinely unplayable. Do give just one example, the bugbears are hated by all other races apart from Kobolds who just dislike them. You can see the issue in an adventuring party.
I doubt size is related to procreation as much as it is either related to direct measurement tests or as it relates to damage. I suspect it is the Phoenix Command of sex related RPGs.Does the author explain why a manhood needs to be defined to a hundredth of an inch? Call me a pessimist, but if procreation was precision engineering, I'd say humanity wouldn't have made it out of the treetops.
Also, asking as a bloody foreigner: Does the word “manhood” sound juvenile to a native speaker, given the circumstances?
Hey, that would pretty much sum up “F.A.T.E.L.”, if it existed outside the head of its creator.
I've come across that word quite a few times reading Fringeworthy, by the way.
Has FATAL a “standard” or “author intended” mode of play?
I've come across that word quite a few times reading Fringeworthy, by the way.
Diana: Warrior Princess
Fritz Walter Ulbricht
Status: 25 (Guest Star)
Success: 5+
Armour: -
Hit Points: 5
Bonus Points: 0/15
Attributes:
Athlete [5]
Charisma [4]
Luck [4]
Martial Arts [7]
Speed: [5]
Quote: “Nobody has the intention to build a wall.”
Back Story: Formerly a conglomerate of merry little princedoms where happy beer-swilling peasants thought and wrote poetry and danced the Beat-Hoven, Germanland is now divided into two equally oppressive superpowers: The Reich, led by Reich Chancellor Helmet Coal (inventor of the iconic spiked coalscuttle helmet), is constantly seeking forcible Reunification with the Black Forest occupied by Julius Caesar's Holy Roman Empire. Overlooking the four austere Hartz mountains at the center of the brooding woods looms the dark fortress of Neubeerstein. Here Kaiser Franz-Josef, Caesar's scheming satrap, holds court. To fend off the Reich, he has hung up an impregnable Iron Curtain that runs the length of the Eurozone.
Born to charcoal burner Horst and swan-maiden Annette, Fritz Walter Ulbricht enjoys a carefree youth in the Black Forest. But one day he returns from his vocational school to find his home ransacked and his parents gone, abducted by Reich Chancellor Coal. Devastated, young Fritz attempts suicide but is rescued by Colonel Dietrich of Bearne, a warrior monk who takes Fritz into his monastery on the top of the Brocken mountain where he becomes a master of the martial art of kicking balls and bricklaying (“it's never wrong to learn a trade, my boy”). On his deathbed, Dietrich bequeathes to him the Miracel Bearnaise (see below).
Previously on Diana: Warrior Princess: Helmet Coal's daughter Angie Mielke has stolen the sacred Euro-Vision, a crystal that, held framed by thumbs and indexes at the navel, enables the user to scry the flow of currency anywhere in the Eurozone. Diana is determined to recover it before Angie turns it against her own countrymen. Fritz helps Diana and her friends escape from Franz-Josef's Oktoberfest dungeons and they slip around the Iron Curtain via the Red Sea, which completely surrounds Angie's smog-shrouded island of Berlin.
Possessions: The Miracel Bearnaise, a mystic jar of indestructible glass which holds a never-ending supply of viscuous pale fluid. Pour a line of it, and a ten-foot concrete wall springs up. Kick it against a wall, and a ten-foot section of it will come down. 1 use of either form every 12 hours.
Weapons: None, he only uses his feet.
Notes: Fritz is very reluctant to use the powers of the Miracel Bearnaise. In fact, he has to be pestered into doing so every time, allowing him to utter his catchphrase before circumstances force him to use it anyway.
I doubt size is related to procreation as much as it is either related to direct measurement tests or as it relates to damage. I suspect it is the Phoenix Command of sex related RPGs.
I was actually intrigued by your Fringeworthy character sheet, BTW. Looks crazy too, but the good kind of crazy.
Fritz Walter was the captain of the West German football team that won the 1954 world cup, restoring… I don't know, I won't call it national pride (though the right-wingers probably did) but rather a bit of self-esteem.I know just enough German history to chuckle at this. Can't place the "Fritz" in his name, or divine who Dietrich of Bearne is supposed to be.
So much bewildering TMI from that "fatel" character.
I think you hit the nail on the head. It's a pretty juvenile game from what I've heard.This — rather nauseatingly — suggests that Black Leaf's bugbear can be “reasonably” expected to arrive at situations where the players would need to compare his “manhood” to a vagina (or in whatever term FATAL's author thinks of lady parts) and a hundredth of an inch would make a difference. Or maybe the typical FATAL player is just like “hey, I have a 9.6 inch schwanz” — “hur, hur, mine is 9.61, you loooooser!”
Come to think of it, if the guys were still in business, I'd pay for a one-on-one session of FATAL between Bevis and Butthead. If I had the money.
Does the author explain why a manhood needs to be defined to a hundredth of an inch? Call me a pessimist, but if procreation was precision engineering, I'd say humanity wouldn't have made it out of the treetops.
Also, asking as a bloody foreigner: Does the word “manhood” sound juvenile to a native speaker, given the circumstances?
Has FATAL a “standard” or “author intended” mode of play?
I think you hit the nail on the head. It's a pretty juvenile game from what I've heard.
I suspect the game was intentionally written to shock and offend.
Attributes | Combat Abilities | Careers |
Strength: 0 | Brawl: -1 | 1: Merchant 0 |
Agility: 2 | Melee: 0 | 2: Slave 1 |
Mind: 2 | Ranged: 2 | 3: Scribe 2 |
Appeal: 0 | Defence: 3 | 4: Magician 1 |
Languages | Boons | Flaws |
(Lemurian) | Attractive | City Dweller |
(Literacy) | Disease Immunity | |
Beshari | Power of the Void | |
Ygddari | ||
Weapon: Damage | Armour Type: Protection | |
Hero Points: 3 | Dagger: d3 | Light Armour: 2 (tough leather jerkin) |
Arcane Power: 13 | Dagger (thrown): d3 | |
Advance Points: 0 | Bow: d6 | |
Lifeblood: 10 |
View attachment 25500
Tri Tac, 1992.
“There is no best of three rolls or picking the ‘best’ of 6 dice.”Fringeworthy, p. 007. Yes, page double-oh-seven, I'm not kidding.
Just for my records this was day #9 - AD&D 1st edition
Character Name:
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Player Character Record Sheet
Half-Elf
Race
Mage/Thief
Class
Chaotic/Neutral
Alignment
46
Age
5ft. 6in.
Height
123 lbs.
Weight
STR: 9
Hit
Adj.Nrm Dmg
Adj.None Wt
Adj.Nrm Open
Doors1-2 Bend
Bars1% INT: 15
Add.
Lang.+4 Know
Spell65% Min
Spells7 Max
Spells11 WIS: 16
Mind
Save+2 Spell
Fail0% Bonus
Spells2-1, 2-2 DEX: 10
Surprise
Adj.0 Missile
Adj.0 Defense
Adj.0 CON: 9
H.P.
Adj.0 System
Shock65% Ressurect
Survival70% CHR: 15
Max #
Hench7 Loyalty
Base+15% Reaction
Adj.+15%
SAVING THROWSCause Mod Vs. Base Paralyze/
Poison 13 Petrify
Poly 12 Rod, Staff
or Wand 11 Breath
Weapon 15Wis score +2 Spells 12
Hit Points 4/7
Armor
ClassSurprised AC:
Shieldless AC:
Rear AC: 8
Movement 120' Base RateHvy(x3/4): 90' Run(x10): 1200' Day 20mi. Special Load(x1/2): 60' Nrm(x5): 600' HiHz(x2/3): 80' Max(x1/4): 30' Crl(x1/2): 60' Swim: 60'
Special Abilities - Race Vision: 60' Infravision Notice secret door 1 in 6, find secret door 2 in 6, find concealed door 3 in 6. 30% resist sleep & charm spells.
Special Abilities - Class Spell use. Thief: PP 30%, OL 25%, F/RT 20%, MS 15%, HIS 10%, HN 10%, CW 85%, RL -. Backstab at +4 to hit, x2 damage. Restricted to leather armor, most small weapons.
Equipment:
Leather Armor, short sword, backpack, wineskin,dagger, crossbow w/20 bolts
Spells:
1st Level
Read Magic,Charm Person,Find Familiar,Enlarge,Detect Magic,Hold Portal,Write, Protection from Evil, Spider Climb,Tenser's Disc,Shield
Familiar
Screech Owl 3hp Night Vision, Superior Hearing