Have a Gay Old Time/Tabletop Games
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Examples of Have a Gay Old Time in Tabletop Games happen with frequency in grandfathered intra-system game terminology, especially now that several systems are more than three decades old.
- The card game Illuminati uses Straight to mean normal, everyday, ordinary, i.e. the opposite of Weird.[1] In the contemporary era, we speak of mainstream and fringe subcultures. In the CCG version, Illuminati: New World Order, this is kept, but the rulebook and a couple of cards crack a few jokes at it.
- The term Ego was less strongly associated with an overdeveloped sense of self when it became a stat in Champions. The numerical characteristic (or CHA) has more to do with willpower than either pride or the Freudian combined conscience of the id and superego.
- The classic board game Cape Horn is absolutely full of this. As Mike Mozart pointed out, it's a game where you play as a crew of seamen collecting windcocks to sail around Cape Horn [2] and get to San Francisco. Prepare for a lot of Heh Heh, You Said "X" if you try to play it with someone particularly immature.