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== Subpages ==
* [[Chess/Awesome|Chess]]
* [[Dungeons & Dragons/Awesome|Dungeons & Dragons]]
* [[Magic: The Gathering/Awesome|Magic: The Gathering]]
* [[Nobilis/Awesome|Nobilis]]
* [[Traveller/Awesome|Traveller]]
== CCGs ==
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* Technically not a CCG, but; we're playing Steve Jackson Games' ''Munchkin.'' This one depends on the a house rule—we created separate Monster cards for each of our three boys in the house. The youngest one has a 1st level card named after him: Darth Philip. (Losing a fight against Darth Philip and "the other players mock you mercilessly for 15 seconds--you can't beat a five-year-old???") So, anyway, I'm playing with his big brother Paul, who opens a door and pulls the Darth Philip card. I (Dad) throw down the "...and Mom" enhancer card, making him a level 11. Paul then throws down the "Monster is Busy" card, which of course shows a picture of monsters playing a board game. Of course, in the next room, the real Philip was playing a game.
** With Mom.
* ATT Mod [[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]]' wife participated in one of the very first ''[[Illuminati: New World Order]]'' tournaments, circa 1995 or so; she dressed as a [[Femme Fatale]] with a slinky black dress, stiletto heels and sunglasses, and won her first couple rounds in part because the other (entirely male) players she faced were so thoroughly distracted and intimidated by her. While she didn't win the tournament, [[Steve Jackson Games|Steve Jackson]] himself gave her a special award for [[Meta Game|meta-gaming]].
=== CCGs Storyline ===
* ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]'', being an Asian heroic fantasy setting, with over ten years of a continuous storyline, is of course chock-full of them, with most factions within the game having gotten several. Among the characters that have gotten the most:
** Hida Kisada, [[Magnificent Bastard]] and [[
*** But the greatest of them was perhaps outside the storyline itself: when Kisada died, he became the subject of [https://web.archive.org/web/20100812192856/http://pages.sbcglobal.net/sarah-and-zen/l5r/k_wake.html an 80-person wake]. On top of his achievements within the story, when's the last time you saw a wake for a CCG character?
*** What can you say when the writer creates what was supposed to be his original death (by being skewered by one of the most powerful Imperial artifacts), and had a hard time not writing "Is that all you fucking got?!?"
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*** This troper can't remember the details exactly but there was this one time Moto Chagatai went into death's realm with a friend to rescue his grandfather's soul. On their way back, they were confronted by the ten Gods of Death and their minions. His reaction? "You take the ten thousand on the left, you take the ten thousand on the right. I'll take the gods."
*** Although to be fair this, more than almost anything else, is a serious [[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]]. Even more than Hida Kisada, Daigotsu's insane [[Xanatos Roulette|plots]] that somehow always work out or the entirety of any other plot device used, Moto Chagatai's [[Karma Houdini]] there, as well as the lack of real caring displayed by the Empire at large to his roaring rampage that resulted in the death of the entire Toturi family line (in usual AEG hamfisted manner) and the Emperor's wife, is quite ridiculous. Even if you're a Unicorn player!
* To be fair, [[Legend of the Five Rings|L5R]] is far from the only CCG with awesome characters. However, if all you have to go by are the art and snippets of flavor on the cards themselves (rather than being able to also draw upon extensive [[All There in the Manual|secondary sources]]), then deciding what is or isn't a proper CMOA isn't always easy. That said, I'm reasonably sure that [https://web.archive.org/web/20081003130454/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=143607 this little guy] is having one right there...
== [[Poker]] ==
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== Wargaming ==
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20150518052729/http://www.tacopshq.com/MBX/Brunei/mbxaar.html The Battle of Brunei], a 1998 MBX using the ''Harpoon'' and ''Tac Ops'' systems as a ruleset, a player on the US side received from the GM an intercepted weapons purchase order between Iran and Malaysia. He spotted the word "[[wikipedia:Kockums|Kockums]]" and did some internet research. Then he got a blurred pic of a submarine from the GM and figured out it was one of two sub types- much faster than the GM expected. The later US anti-submarine effort that resulted probably saved a couple of US ships.
** After reading the transcript of that ''epic'' campaign, this troper is more inclined to declare ''the whole game'' a meta-CMOA for all involved!
* This troper's Daemon Prince (the model used was a white-painted assemblage of Green Stuff that does a good job of looking like the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog) once shredded its way through twenty Space Marines, five Terminators, and a Dreadnaught without taking a single wound.
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