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* [[Epic Fail]]: The game as a whole. Early reviewers ''thought'' it was intentional parody, but Davis has made it very clear that it was a serious effort.
* [[Fail O'Suckyname]]: Just about every unique name in the game's setting. The land of "Boosboodle"? Monsters called "maki", "gruf" and "foklom", among others? Cities named "Biddles" and "Crumbudz"? And the only ocean on the campaignworld map is helpfully identified as the "Sea of the Salt Water Fish".
* [[Fantasy Character Classes]]: A bizarre mix of the familiar and weird is presented for the user to (sort of) choose from. There is no magic system, so there are no magic-using classes, but many of the options have strange abilities that apparently ''aren't'' magic but act just like it.
* [[Fantasy World Map]]: Page 86 is a crudely hand-drawn map covering an area that stretches from just below the game world's equator to just above its equivalent of the Tropic of CapricornCancer. Assuming the game world is the same size as Earth and spherical, that makes it approximately 1800 miles north-south, about 1625 miles wide at the equator and 1490 miles wide at the tropic. In this Australia-sized area there are two rivers (which if they're drawn to scale are on the order of 25twenty-five to 50fifty miles wide), one lake (or maybe inland sea), two tropical rainforests, a single mountain chain, and four cities which are all in a tropical savannah between the forests and rivers. At least some of the tropical savannah is explicitly labeled as extending out of the tropics and into the temperate zone. There are mysterious bean-shaped areas labeled "Outer Human Habitation Zone" and "Influence Zone", and we are helpfully informed that above the tropic at the top of the map is "North, Where Melvin is Standing Now." [[I Am Not Making This Up|No, really.]]
* [[Fictional Currency]]: Davis's ability to come up with ridiculous names somehow failed him here, as he resorted to calling the game's monetary unit the "Bank Note".
* [[Five Races]]: Averted. There are humans, and ''only'' humans, in the world of Fashan.