As other see me

[womzilla]

kent_allard_jr has posted a link to an amazing review of an almost unbelievably bad role-playing game. I'm used to my kith and kin in the tribe of role-playing game enthusiasts being, well, less than perfectly evolved supermen, but the game reviewed here is like taking every stereotype ever attributed to, pathology ever manifest by, or social miscue ever committed by any RPG geek ever in human history, sticking them in blender, and starting the blender with your hand still tangled in the blade.

It's the role-playing game that the Eltingville Comic-Book, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Role-Playing Club would play if they completely lost all touch with reality and human decency.

This game alternately saddens and enrages me, and dear god I hope no one ever sees this game and thinks that it's typical of RPGs or the people who play them. But I'm sure that someone will.

Comments

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

With gazillions of RPGs out there, I suppose it was only a matter of time before one was designed by a sociopath.

I doubt it get much attention outside the RPG community, though. (There have been lots of deliberately sacrilegious RPG products, but as far as I know, the only ones that raised alarm bells were Vampire and D&D.)

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

I don't think this was designed by a sociopath. I think it was designed by an evil moron who thinks it's cute to be "outrageous".

Hybrid (http://philippe.tromeur.free.fr/hybrid.htm)--now, that was designed by an insane person, or by someone doing an amazing simulation. (From the quickie review (http://slumbering.lungfish.com/index.php?p=hybrid.1044507248) by Lore Sjoberg:

Looking for a roleplaying game with several different ways of calculating the size of a giant monster? That uses logarithms to determine a man's chances of scoring with a woman?

That's insane.

But this one, no, it's just a hyperactive teenager who wants to shock people. Piss on him! (I have a 95% chance of a Flood resulting in a 16'-long stream of urine with perfect accuracy if I drink 256 ounces of anything beforehand!)

Hybrid

[avram]

Oh my god:

DISCLAIMER : WARNING: RULE # 196 is X-rated in that to calculate L, use X = [(C2/10)^2], which is for mature audience only @ or above age of 20, but most 90% of this rpg is for all ages, though maybe NOT RULE # 193 which is NOT meant to be read by kids, and RULE # 187 EXPLAINS homosexuality mathematically, using modifier G @ 11.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

I agree that the Hybrid designer is crazier than an under-medicated loon. But read some of the comments to the FATAL review; a guy who spoke to the designer said he was very articulate and deadly serious (and it scared the crap out him).

I'll be sure to stay away the next time you drink 32 pounds of anything! :-)