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''FATAL'': "From Another Time Another Land" ([[Author's Saving Throw|formerly known as]] "Fantasy Adventure To Adult Lechery") is a tabletop roleplaying game by Byron Hall, published by his company Fatal Games in 2004, and has since become infamous as the worst tabletop game ever written. This reputation is founded on its incredibly-complicated and mathematically-intensive mechanics, terrible writing, and the massive level of [[Unfortunate Implications|misogyny, rape-fantasy, and racism]] included. (For instance, it may very well be the only RPG ever produced in which [[O-Ring Orifice|orifice sizes]] need to be calculated.)

 

 

If you really want to learn about the game, we strongly encourage that you do so through the aforementioned review, and '''''not''''' through original research.

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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: The name list for humans is composed of standard European names, and the name lists for other races are comprised of fantastic names... except for Kobolds, which use common Indonesian names.

* [[Amazonian Beauty]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]]. Females get penalties to their charisma stats as their strength increases, making [[Hot Amazon]] characters by definition less hot than they would be if they ''weren't'' Amazons.

* [[Viewers are Morons]]: The book contains ''paragraphs'' describing to the reader what things like salt and cheese are.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Even the extremely negative MacLennan/Sartin review acknowledged that there were some good ideas to be found in this morass and some of the math systems, while labyrinthine, do actually work well.

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