Talk:Worst RPGs ever

Hey--Spawn of Fashan was a real game? I remember Lawrence Schick's hilarious review of it in Dragon magazine, and I thought the review was a joke.

John

LOL -- your critique is a bit hypocritical actually. AD&D and almost every other successful RPG is all about killing racial minorities -- just not ones identified with real life minorities who can talk back and sue out of game. Although if I am not mistaken AD&D was sent letters by the NAACP threating to sue based on their perception than Drow represented the real life black minority. Of course nothing ever happened because in most campaigns the evidence was too ridiculous thin to take to court.

Bottom line? Successful RPGs use racial war with fake races because every games needs easily identified enemies. Uniforms are not very flexible and limit the game to idealistic Prussian War rules (no spies, no civilians, nobody out of uniform and limited variety of uniforms). Fake races keep the legal issues from cropping up too early.

--Just Noting Reality

Has anybody else noticed that the link to the FATAL review is dead?

Rich

Here's a link to a mirror - http://web.archive.org/web/20080208091645/http://atrocities.primaryerror.net/fatal.html

Trent

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Question: How did deadEarth not even make the running?

--- Is there any way to view the first pubilished edition of FATAL? Not the "From another time", the "Fantasy adventure" one. I want to see just how much they changed.