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** In the now-defunct official Games Workshop webboard, posting anything about the Squats would typicaly result in the thread being deleted, and the thread-starter banhammered.

*** Predictably, a segment of the fanbase has decided that Squats and Zoats were the bestest thing since sliced squig, and mourn their disappearance as further evidence of GW having lost their soul.

** Warhammer Fantasy also has the Firmir, a race of Cyclopean monsters that were essentially entirely excised from the fluff and had their army discontinued. Much of this might have to do with the questionable way they [[Rape as Drama|reproduce]]. Recently they've gotten little minor references in the rulebook, a summoned monster in Storm of Magic and a few Forge World models, but a new book is highly unlikely. Chaos Dwarves also seemed to be going that way, but they recently started get large amounts of reference in the fluff, mostly due to their proximity to the Ogre Kingdoms and their popularity with older players. Every time there's even a hint of something new coming, everyone will declare it's the Chaos Dwarves.

* Later editions of ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' did their damnedest to sweep everything from the ''Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand'' supplement under the carpet.

** The sexism of 1st Edition AD&D is likewise something which later editions' designers would very much like everyone to forget.

* ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'' has its share of old shames, specifically:

 

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