Harsher in Hindsight/Tabletop Games

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Unknown Armies has a published adventure titled "Fly to Heaven," in which an airplane is hijacked by a madman who plans to broadcast himself crashing the plane into the Sears Tower in order to ascend to the Invisible Clergy as the archetype of The Terrorist. Did we mention this was published in 1998?
  • One of the Shadowrun supplements from the 90s describes a volcanic eruption in Japan that triggers nuclear accidents at a cluster of fusion power plants, irradiating large areas of the island nation's densely-populated coastline. At the time, it read like WizKids backpedaling on the game-line's previous Japan Takes Over the World slant, but it's a lot darker of a Take That now...
  • The Vampire: The Requiem book "City of the Damned: New Orleans" has a moment that straddles the line between this and Funny Aneurysm Moment. A sidebar mentions that if you really want to shake up the political structure of New Orleans, then much of the city is below the water line... and given the Crapsack World nature, odds are those levees would go down with one strong hurricane, no doubt raining destruction on the city and wiping out many of the elder vampires. This book was published in 2004. Yeah.
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