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[Kadzar]

Well Fiasco is probably the worst roleplaying experience I ever had... >_< in terms of a system.

It will be pretty hard to top it. Maybe they will invent a game where you have to whip the player you like the least.

Every single time it went to my turn it was nothing but non-stop criticism on every single thing I did. I just wanted to skip turns after a while and even just veto out of even being included in other character roleplays.

They didn't even let me skip, because they didn't see the rules on skipping turns.

Doesn't help that even if I did like it my turns were 1/10th shorter then everyone elses turns... So I'd sit through three hours until it got to me, then do my 10 minute turn and then wait another 3 hours. A sort of bitter sweet thing because on the one hand it will be three hours before my turn was back, and on the other hand I was sitting through endless amounts of non-involved roleplaying. Which wasn't aided by the fact that my character was delegated FAR to superfluous before the game even started.

I haven't played Fiasco myself, but this sounds more like a problem with the people you were playing with than inherent flaws in the system. Though I haven't read the rules myself, so maybe there is something in there about how you have to unfairly criticize other players and take a long time on your turn just stroking your own ego. Though I really didn't get that impression from the TableTop episode they did of it.

[Neonivek]

Really? My 10 minute turns of endlessness?

You sure seem to assume a lot about what happened in the game without actually being there. Did I set fire to their houses too?

[Culise]

Really? My 10 minute turns of endlessness?

You sure seem to assume a lot about what happened in the game without actually being there. Did I set fire to their houses too?

I'm pretty sure that's a generic "you," not a specific "you."  The whole "spend a long time...just stroking your own ego" kinda belies the notion that your 10-minute turns could qualify, especially if the other players took up three hours by contrast, and the whole "unfair criticism" thing merely lines up with your own stated complaints about them.  Unless you're saying that the rules really did specifically said "Neon is a jerk." (I kid, I kid)

[Kadzar]

Obviously I think you, Neonivek, were playing the game wrong.

But anyways, my point is that sometimes who you play a game with can unfairly color your opinion of that game, especially when they play it wrong. Like the two occasions my D&D group tried out FATE games and basically tried to play it like it was D&D. There was too much focus on combat, and the GM still had the D&D mindset that everything we face should be straight up beatable in combat, rather than sometimes being something you need to run from or that you might get beaten by, since in that game being defeated doesn't necessarily mean death or TPK. FATE might still be a shit game, but I'm not so sure I can really make that judgment call from the experience I had.

[Neonivek]

Yeah but blaming the game itself is a lot less offensive then blaming the players

It was a horrible combination for me because in order for me to have fun I'd need to stop caring. But if I stop caring I lose interest.

Since ultimately the best option would be for me to bow to what everyone else wanted my turns to be.

[Tack]

Spoiler: Behold. I have fixed Warhammer 40k (click to show/hide)

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... Maybe not.

[Rolan7]

Abominable Intelligences, purge them!

[Kot]

By the Emperor, YES!

[Tack]

^{oh noe}

[Toaster]

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I'd love to see you roll up to a SRS BZNS store/tourney with your gear decked out like that, just to see how much rage you can cause.

[Kot]

Those trigger flashbacks to War Thunder and horrible, horrible KV-2s with googly eyes.
Good flashbacks. Also, put tiny googly eyes on your infantry.

[Toaster]

A quick Google search turned up this beauty.

[scriver]

That's almost as beautiful as the googly eyes.

[Bauglir]

Reminds me of something similar.

[Jimmy]

Latest stupid Wizard strategy idea in Pathfinder:

1. Prepare a bunch of pieces of paper in advance with Explosive Runes
2. In combat, summon a low level minion with Summon Monster
3. Give the minion the paper
4. Tell them to go over to the bad guy and read what it says