Eat your heart out, Fellow Gamers....

[tonse]

Played Synnibar just once. Not exactly the kind of experience I like to be reminded of.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

FATAL's a free download, so I don't think it really counts.

I'd agree. Plus the tables melt your eyes. It isn't delightfully bad like Synnibar, it just sucks.

 

[FCWesel]

Eat your heart out, Fellow Gamers....

I think I would rather eat my own heart then own that game...especially if I had to pay for it.

 

[Von Ether]

They ran that at a Chicago Gameday once. Once...

Bah! You can easily see the picture has be doctored!! Everyone is smiling and no one has clawed their eyes out yet.

Then again , the fellow on the right looks like he has a "I am grinning before I go postal" vibe.

 

[Darrin Drader]

A while back I acquired a copy and was going to proudly diplay it on my gaming shelf as a monument to bad RPGs. But then I started reading it, and it just made me feel dirty, and not in a good way, so I left it behind when last I moved. I'm pretty convinced that Raven McCracken was sent to Earth by the elder gods.

 

[Gez]

There's a nearly mint condition copy of that wretched piece of gaming history thats been staring at me from a shelf at one of the local used bookstores in my area, and so far I've done my best to avoid even accidentally touching it.

I've seen a couple on the "Dork Sorcery" shelf at A'Kin's shop.

 

[Ghostwind]

Well, it's very clear that TB failed his Will save...

 

[Mercule]

I'm sure there are gamers who would have gladly given you their copy if they had only known of your desire to own one of the "worst games ever created"...

Sign me up for anyone making that offer. I've heard so much about this train-wreck of a game, but never actually seen it. I'm not entirely sure I believe it exists. Well, that, and I'm just curious about it in the same way one looks for stray body parts when passing a bad accident.

 

[Treebore]

Don't know what is so wrong with this game. Works a lot better than RIFTS. I couldn't get RIFTS to hold together past 12th level. I had 8 players stick with the Synnibar Game for 2 years and going to 48th level.

So either none of you actually ran this game enough to learn it, or you are seriously mathematically challenged and are afraid of moving decimal points up to 4 places (for armor). Or maybe you got fingure cramps from writing out that numerical damage? We used solar powered claculators.

Synnibar is far more balanced than any other power game I ever ran into. Especially RIFTS. So from someone who spent 100's of hours actually playing/DMing this game, it doesn't suck, and it certainly isn't broken. Heck, my houserules for it took up less than a printed page. No other game can claim that, not even D20 D&D.

So if you want a power game (I often called Synnibar a powergamers wet dream!) Synnibar is probably the best you can find. Assuming you can handle the math. I highly recommend calculators with solar cells. This would also be a system that could easily handle DragonBall Z and even GT. This system is designed to be able to play gods.

So if there is a powergamer in you, find this game. Also understand math enough to realize that each 1/10 of armor means you move the decimal one place to the left. So 100,000 points of damage against someone wearing 3/10 of armor means you only did 100 points of damage. Not that hard.

 

[Tetsubo]

Don't know what is so wrong with this game. Works a lot better than RIFTS. I couldn't get RIFTS to hold together past 12th level. I had 8 players stick with the Synnibar Game for 2 years and going to 48th level.

So either none of you actually ran this game enough to learn it, or you are seriously mathematically challenged and are afraid of moving decimal points up to 4 places (for armor). Or maybe you got fingure cramps from writing out that numerical damage? We used solar powered claculators.

Synnibar is far more balanced than any other power game I ever ran into. Especially RIFTS. So from someone who spent 100's of hours actually playing/DMing this game, it doesn't suck, and it certainly isn't broken. Heck, my houserules for it took up less than a printed page. No other game can claim that, not even D20 D&D.

So if you want a power game (I often called Synnibar a powergamers wet dream!) Synnibar is probably the best you can find. Assuming you can handle the math. I highly recommend calculators with solar cells. This would also be a system that could easily handle DragonBall Z and even GT. This system is designed to be able to play gods.

So if there is a powergamer in you, find this game. Also understand math enough to realize that each 1/10 of armor means you move the decimal one place to the left. So 100,000 points of damage against someone wearing 3/10 of armor means you only did 100 points of damage. Not that hard.

I'll admit that I've never actually played the game. One read through and I found it too laughable. But I do have a question for you (as you have played the game...):

Why? Not why did you play it. But why does it exist? Do you need a game that does 100,000 points of damage from an attack? Can't you just have one that does 100 or 10 with a rules system scaled to that level? Is the game aimed at players that need their egos massaged by such inflated and ludicrious numbers? If a game REQUIRES a calculator I think it has a major design flaw.

But then again, just the ego of the author was enough to place this game at the pinnacle of the Bad RPG category.