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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''Kevin Siembieda'', creator of ''[[Rifts]]'', has a ''deep and abiding'' love for ''unnecessary'' amounts of ''italics'' in any [[Sourcebook]] that he ''writes''.
* Most of the old '''Traveller''' RPG material insists on putting the name of the game system in bold. While it looks okay in small doses, it can look a little awful when you have to list all of the '''Traveller''' systems, like '''Classic Traveller''', '''[[Mega Traveller]]MegaTraveller''', '''Traveller: The New Era'''...
** Similarly '''''[[GURPS]]''''' (that's right: bold, italic ''and'' all caps). It frequently ends up looking silly given that the system has an enormous volume of [[splat]]books and the writers load them with references to one another.
 
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100308043611/http://www.theonion.com/content/columnists/view/harvey Jackie Harvey], fake columnist for ''[[The Onion]]'', parodies this trope as it applies to gossip rags.
* As the EM part of PBEM stands for "e-mail", the action in the campaigns in the [[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]] was always produced in text. This trope thus occurred on a more-than-regular basis.
* [http://www.foolquest.com/atheism.htm foolquest]. '''Bold''', ''italic'', <u>underline</u>, <fontspan colorstyle="color:red;">coloured</fontspan> <fontspan colorstyle="color:blue;">text</fontspan>, [[pothole|hyperlinks]], highlightings, text boxes, <big>giant words</big>.
 
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