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** How about, "Seven people use a map of Europe to prove who has best mastered the [[Evil Overlord List]]. The winner gets to take over the world."
*** Better still, "You invite six friends over for a board game, and by the end of the evening, have six more people who now hate you."
* {{spoiler|''Dixit''}}: Make your friends guess which piece of abstract art you think best fits a word or phrase you made up off the top of your head, but [[Do Well,
* {{spoiler|[[Dogs in The Vineyard]]}}: [[Badass Preacher|Mormon Paladins]] punish the sinners and save the virtuous in an alternate old west.
* {{spoiler|[[Don't Rest Your Head]]}}: Mind bogglingly frightening adventures in a world that takes all the [[Nightmare Fuel]] of [[The Phantom Tollbooth]] and kicks it up a notch [[Nightmare Fuel|(Bam!)]] Needle headed dogs will sew your shadow to the floor.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Exalted]]''}}: You start out as a demigod, and get better. The better you describe what you're doing, the more dice you can add to what you're doing. If you spend a certain amount of energy, you'll start to glow, and spend even more you'll start to look like a reject from a fighting anime.
** Alternatively: Disgruntled employees of a [[Celestial Bureaucracy|bureaucracy]] imprison the management, fail to recognize a trend.
** Alternatively also: Most RPGs Jump the shark. This RPG waterskis (using [[BFS|giant swords]] as skis) across a sea of molten lava, pulled by an [[Cool Airship|Airship]] the size of an [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier|aircraft carrier]] using a towcable made of Magical silver, and then leaps off a ramp and does a Method 1080 Pop Shove-It over a Lava [[Shark Pool|Pit of evil robot super sharks]] with [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] made from a [[Elemental Crafting|metal sourced from the SOULS OF DEAD GODS.]]
*** Actually, that sounds pretty awesome.
**** That does, yeah, but the previous is also true, which is why it may be the [[Ur Example]] from [[Tabletop Games]] of [[Love It or Hate It]].
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* {{spoiler|''[[In Nomine (Tabletop Game)|In Nomine]]''}}: Angels and Demons are real, and basically muck about in modern day promoting the agenda of a more powerful patron being. To be fair to everyone, God is there but never seen, and nobody really knows what Lucifer is up to. Oh, but using your Celestial Powers openly is bad, since not only are humans not supposed to know (except when they are) and Celestials doing things tends to attract other Celestials, which can be very bad. To top it off, a lot of angels are dicks.
* {{spoiler|''[[Ironclaw]]''}}: ''Dungeons and Dragons'' {{smallcaps|[[Recycled in Space|with Funny Animals]]}}. Set in Renaissance England.
** {{spoiler|''Jade Claw''}}: ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' with actual tigers and dragons.
* ''{{spoiler|Kill Doctor Lucky}}'': Everyone is trying to kill a millionaire who is completely bound to his routine.
** ''{{spoiler|Save Doctor Lucky}}'': Everyone is trying to ''save'' a millionaire who is completely bound to his routine.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Monopoly]]''}}: Inanimate objects get into the real-estate business in Atlantic City during the Great Depression.
** Or: Real estate tycoons decide which properties they ought to purchase based on random walks through Atlantic City, and unseen forces move them across town for no good reason. Eventually, most of the tycoons would rather serve lengthy prison sentences than wander around Atlantic City, since the hotels in town charge astronomical rates and none of the tycoons have an apartment. And a train ticket can cost as much as the entire railroad company.
* {{spoiler|''[[Monsterpocalypse]]''}}: [[Humongous Mecha|Giant robots]] backed by the U.N., [[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulhu]] [[Captain Ersatz|look-alikes]], [[Attack of the Fifty Foot Whatever|fifty-foot]] cyborg [[Ninja|ninjas]], [[Kaiju|giant aliens]] [[Horde of Alien Locusts|who see Earth as an all-you-can-eat buffet]], [[Animal Wrongs Group|ecoterrorist-backed]] mutant [[
** {{spoiler|''I Chomp NY''}}: The guys from above get new monsters, and start trying to protect or blow up [[No Communities Were Harmed|look-alikes of national monuments]].
** {{spoiler|''All Your Base''}}: The guys from above put up their own buildings and try to blow the other guy's building up. They also get even more new monsters, except these ones [[Biological Mashup|fit]] [[Combining Mecha|together]].
** {{spoiler|''Monsterpocalypse Now''}}: The guys from above are joined by reclusive [[Samurai]] powered by [[Elemental Powers|the classical elements]], slave-taking [[Beneath the Earth|mole-men]], [[Evil Knockoff|robot duplicates]] of some of the other monsters, [[Big Creepy Crawlies|really big bugs]], [[Gaias Vengeance|pollution-hating]] [[
** {{spoiler|''[[Voltron]]''}}: A mistranslation of an old anime series that's more popular than the original gets added using the same rules.
* {{spoiler|''[[Munchkin (Tabletop Game)|Munchkin]]''}}: To win this card game, you have to do everything you're not supposed to do in a fantasy role-playing game.
** {{spoiler|''Star Munchkin''}}: As above, but [[Recycled in Space|in space]].
** {{spoiler|''Munchkin Fu''}}: As above, but with [[Everybody Was Kung
** {{spoiler|''Munchkin Bites!''}}: As above, but in a pastiche of ''[[The World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)|The World of Darkness]]''.
** {{spoiler|''Super Munchkin''}}: As above, but with [[Superhero|super heroes]].
** {{spoiler|''Munchkin Impossible''}}: As above, but with [[Spy Drama|secret agents]].
** {{spoiler|''Munchkin Cthulhu''}}: As above, but with [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|the Cthulhu Mythos]].
** {{spoiler|''The Good, The Bad, and the Munchkin''}}: As above, but in [[The Wild West]].
** {{spoiler|''Munchkin Booty''}}: As above, but with [[Pirate|pirates]].
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** A mad supercomputer rules a post-apocalyptic underground city with an iron fist, executing people for the slightest infringement of its ever-changing rules, and sending hapless teams of Troubleshooters on missions made all but impossible due to bureaucratic bungling, equipment failure and/or team infighting. Secret societies and unhinged super-powered mutants are everywhere. Oh, and this is all played for laughs.
** Alternately: That information is above your clearance level, Citizen.
* {{spoiler|[[Pathfinder]]}}: [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Darker and Edgier]]: the RPG.
* {{spoiler|Power Grid}}: Be the first to dominate the electric power market, one city at a time.
* {{spoiler|Puerto Rico}}: Build an island colony using cardboard and little wooden disks.
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* {{spoiler|''[[The World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)|The World of Darkness]]''}}: A world that looks like our own, but there's secret monster societies hidden in ''every'' shadow. Vampires angst about being vampires and play politics, werewolves are either ecoterrorists or spiritual border patrol guards depending on the version, and mages fight against reality. And it's entirely debatable whether the humans who fight the monsters are any better than the creatures they hunt.
** {{spoiler|''[[Promethean: The Created (Tabletop Game)|Promethean: The Created]]''}} You are an undead [[Walking Wasteland]] animated by living fire. Vicious monsters born from your kind's reproductive cycle gone wrong want to eat your flesh. If you stick around humans too long, they begin to build up to [[Torches and Pitchforks]]. Your goal is to [[To Become Human|lose your superpowers]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Changeling: The Lost (Tabletop Game)|Changeling: The Lost]]''}} You're a refugee from slavery in [[Another Dimension]]. When you get back, you find that you may have [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|aged strangely]] when trapped over there, and the otherworldly entities who kidnapped you have created an identical duplicate of you, who [[Evil Twin|may or may not be evil.]] You join a power group who either wants to hide from, destroy or ignore the beings and often travel between the dimensions, not knowing that the eventual ending of your life is that you will (assuming you don't die or go mad first) evolve to ''become'' one of your race of tormentors. Not science fiction.
** {{spoiler|''[[Mage: The Ascension (Tabletop Game)|Mage: The Ascension]]''}}: Scientists oppress new-agers with cyborgs and plasma cannons.
** {{spoiler|''[[Werewolf: The Forsaken (Tabletop Game)|Werewolf: The Forsaken]]''}}: The job of border guards is complicated by Nazi-equivalents.
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