Stealth Pun/Tabletop Games

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Examples of Stealth Puns in Tabletop Games include:

Board Games

  • Probably unintentional, one would note that the bishop in a game of Chess moves diagonally, or to use another word crosswise.

Tabletop RPG

  • Game author Robert M. Schroeck has admitted to burying jokes into all of his books for GURPS, starting with the parent group to the titular Superhero organization in 1990's GURPS International Super Teams: The United Nations Committee on Law Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.).

war Games

  • In Warhammer 40,000, the Chaos god of anger, rage, and bloodlust has demonic servants called Flesh Hounds. Or, in other words, Khorne dogs.

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