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* [[Boring but Practical/Tabletop Games|Tabletop Games]]
===* [[Boring but Practical/Web Comics|Web Comics]] ===
* Parodied in [http://xkcd.com/444/ this] ''[[Xkcd]]'' strip, when [[MacGyver]] [[Doesn't Like Guns|uses a gun]].
* In ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' when the cast [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=560 tried a tabletop wargame], [[Genius Ditz|Scarlet]] could do only [[The Loonie]] part, so Kat called her "sisters" to play with [[Mad Scientist]] [[Hive Mind]]. Two strips later it occured to Pip that Think Tank accumulates [[Mana]], so he attacked before they can cast uber-spell wiping out his whole army. {{spoiler|In the next strip, he lost. They simply disabled his leader, for ''just'' long enough to let their allies win the war.}}
* ''[[Clan of the Cats]]'': Just how dangerous can a portal sorcerer be? The correct answer: [http://clanofthecats.com/cotc/cotc-dracula-227/ Very].
* In ''[[Misfile]]'', Vashiel is an angel of punishment, [[Awesome but Impractical|so he gets a]] [[Big Fucking Sword]] [[Awesome but Impractical|that]] ''[[Awesome but Impractical|flames]]'' [[Awesome but Impractical|and can]] ''[[Awesome but Impractical|smite evildoers in a second]]''. His brother, Rumisiel, is a filer, so he gets a multi-filing tool, with a recorder, web access, and other things like that. Guess which one comes in handy?
* ''[[Vexxarr]]'' had the Bleen [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=090108 meet] the Humans on neutral ground... after failing a half-assed invasion of Earth and getting their fleet kicked out of Sol system by ships [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum|using hardware reverse-engineered from the first invasion]].
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'''Bleen commander''': With what? Even a ''cursory'' sensor sweep reveals that your ship, while huge, is stocked with ''primitive'' chemical and nuclear armaments!
(A single missile [[Roboteching|random-walks]] into the nearest Bleen ship. The target's pieces fly apart.)
'''Bleen commander''': ...albeit of ''exceedingly'' fine craftsmanship... }}
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