The incredible austerity of D&D in 1980

okay, what was that mega obsessive role player that's heavily rapey? There were pdfs floating around for awhile of the 800 page player manual with gazillions of charts and stuff.

Rapey? I don't remember a rapey one.

oh god it was called FATAL

steve jackson games was involved in legal trouble, not for any satany business, but with the US secret service for a cyberpunk supplement. the feds thought it was teaching ppl how to hack irl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._United_States_Secret_Service

http://www.geeknative.com/1320/f-a-t-a-l/

i had never seed the cover of this, eugh

I've never heard of FATAL. After my gaming time I guess.

I think the last one I bought was Kult, or some White Wolf thing (I really liked their sci-fi superhero line - Adventure!, Aberrant and Aeon: Trinity, and bought them even though I wasn't gaming anymore).

Car Wars was THE SHIT. would totally play that right now.

IS there a way to play CAR WARS online? We have enough for a game.

Car Wars was amazingly awesome and I would play this very instant! Remember the Uncle Albert's Auto Stop and Gunnery Shop catalogs? Loved flipping through those during boring classes.

so damn good.

there appears to be some kind of multimplayer online car wars type came called dark wind (???), but i dunno anything about it. not a simulation of the original.

Apparently there is a Car Wars module for VASSAL.

LOL, FATAL, right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osIuKf_RxRQ
^must watch

bear in mind that you need to jump around on that video, don't watch it straight through.

just every time you think it's getting too pedantic, jump around. it's a grand experience

here's how it plays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zjOtXfXtEs
"why do they even have this? everyone's most attractive feature is their chest"

oh man, the discussion of vaginal circumference, this poor guy feels compelled to make the obvious commentary and it's clear that he's so sad with himself for doing it

omg this guy arguing the logistics of halfling penis circumference

'If successful for a female character, the skin between the vagina and the anus rips and the two orifices effectively become one'
"No... that's not how that works..."

guh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLlbVW-VA0
^the theme song

fatal is the best role-playing game that i have seen
fantasy adventure to adult lechery
fatal is the only game that lets you be obscene
fantasy adventure to adult lechery

vid is a bit nsfw-y

Review: F.A.T.A.L. Tabletop RPG Part 14 - Finale: Random Magical Effects P2

ok look who really has the problem here

real talk

oh, everyone involved is insane; myself included

I'm GMing our group's first session of The Burning Wheel tomorrow night!

(not related by any stretch of the vagina imagination to FATAL, just seemed like the right thread.

Btw discussion of FATAL and some other terrifying games (and some good ones) exists on SA. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3421366

Can I just say

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_laifdyu5Gw1qzpam5o1_500.jpg

what the eff is up with her shoes

I appreciate attractive redheads used to sell genre products to me, but honestly, let's have some quality control.

Man, I've wasted almost an entire workday typing random RGB terms into Scribd ('Dragonlance' 'Palladium' 'Car Wars' 'dungeons dragons' 'gurps' 'white dwarf' etc etc) and reading nostalgically through PDF scans of old manuals and adventures

RGB should be RPG

cork heeled wedges that went out of style in the early 70s

http://htmlimg4.scribdassets.com/74oasjknswx8r30/images/1-18c46d7106.jpg

i have that book, it kinda sucks

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/project-eternity-live-stream

The guys at Obsidian Entertainment are drinking and live-streaming their d&d session to advertise their kickstarter

surprised obsidian studios needs a kickstarter to get a game made!

also find it hard to believe anyone would watch some random people play d&d over the internet, can't imagine a less boring thing to do

er more boring

maybe there was a sense in the industry that there wasn't an audience for an infinity engine rpg? this is kinda the perfect thing for kickstarter to be doing actually - projects w/ high chance of success that for whatever reason couldn't get funded in the traditional, industry way.

also all dnd games sound the same no matter who is playing them. everyone has that hesitancy in their voice like "ok i'm going to bow to the princess and then cast magic missile i feel really self-conscious as an adult playing dungeons and dragons"

one guy who talks with a "voice" and is really into it

Apparently they wanted to do an Infinity Engine-type isometric epic like the games of yore and no publisher would fund it, and they figured that both Double Fine and the Wasteland 2 guys did it, so fuggit.

here's their kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity

last night of it, and they're less than $120K away from their max stretch goal at $3.5M

and the ILG thread: ILG Kickstarter Gaming HQ

i popped in and they all kinda had that look i get around 1950 in a not-spectacular civ4 game, like come on jason click next turrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn i'm bored but i can't walk away

i play civ4 w a person named jason

http://www.dndclassics.com/

so many clicks to download that one free pdf

The incredible inaccessibility of PDF in 2012