History BetterThanItSounds / TableTopGames

* [[spoiler: ''CosmicEncounter'']]: Aliens try to land space ships on the worlds of other aliens. They make weird stuff happen in order to accomplish this.

** [[spoiler:''JadeClaw'']]: ''CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon'' with actual tigers and dragons.
* ''[[spoiler:KillDoctorLucky]]'': Everyone is trying to kill a millionaire who is completely bound to his routine.

* [[spoiler:''KoboldsAteMyBaby'']]: You're a fearless but utterly incompetent little fanged ewok reject. Your tribe is throwing a party and demands you either bring the tasty human baby salad or be the tasty kobold salad. Babies explode randomly. So do you on occasion.

* [[spoiler:''LunchMoney'']]: You and your friends are little kids beating the snot out of each other in the playground for your lunch money. For some reason, knifing another child is acceptable and does less damage than a good kick. Oh, and the card art shows a scary little girl.

** [[spoiler: ''Sittuyin'']]: Finish assembling your forces and fight.

*** [[spoiler: ''{{Janggi}}'']]: The same except: there is no river, the homebodies and their guards have equal strength, and the living heavy artillery and the Rank-And-File guys move differently.

* [[spoiler:{{Paranoia}}]]: 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.

** Alternatively: [[spoiler: ''RealLife'']] The LARP version of ''TheSims''.

* [[spoiler: ''Adventures in Oz: Fantasy Roleplaying Beyond the Yellow Brick Road'']]: It's based off of a series of kids' books. Children, Cairn Terriers, and rag dolls are perfectly legitimate character choices.

* [[spoiler: ''Adventures in Oz: Fantasy Roleplaying Beyond the Yellow Brick Road'']]: It's based off of a series of kids' books. Children, Scottie dogs, and rag dolls are perfectly legitimate character choices.

* [[spoiler: ''Adventures in Oz: Fantasy Roleplaying Beyond the Yellow Brick Road'']]: It's based off of a kids' book. Children, Scottie dogs, and rag dolls are perfectly legitimate character choices.

*** Let's just distill this to the essence of "Technically accurate, but sounds terrible or horrific out-of-context" -- the only Tabletop RPG where you can get more powerful by having sex with little girls.

** [[spoiler: ''{{Sittuyin}}'']]: Finish assembling your forces and fight.

* [[spoiler:''[[DevilBunny Devil Bunny Needs a Ham]]]]'': Food-service workers climb a skyscraper while trying to avoid a KillerRabbit.

** And it's ''even'' better than it sounds? Awesome!
*** How about, "Seven people use a map of Europe to prove who has best mastered the EvilOverlordList. 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."

** Alternatively: [[spoiler:''{{Exalted}}'']]: Disgruntled employees imprison management, fail to recognize trend.

** [[spoiler:SF0]] An expansion to the above game which gives characters access to advanced skills in exchange for service to one of several shadowy government bureaucracies, all of which seem to be based in San Francisco.

* [[spoiler:SettlersOfCatan]]: Battle it out for who can control the most of a small island with a really weird, hexagon based, geography. Someone will more than likely get [[DoubleEntendre wood for sheep]] during the proceedings.

* ''[[spoiler: SpiritOfTheCentury]]'': Every player character is a Main/MarySue, and they all share the same birthday. This is an important plot point. The genre is rife with racist and sexist stereotypes, there isn't even a ''pretense'' of realism as we understand it, and the GM is encouraged to play up the bad side of every trait the players give their characters.

* [[spoiler:''Monopoly'']]: Inanimate objects get into the real-estate business in Atlantic City during the Great Depression.

** [[spoiler: [[GeniusTheTransgression Genius: The Transgression]] ]]: Crazy people work on very strange science projects. The whole game was made by one guy.

** Alternately: [[spoiler:DungeonsAndDragons]]: An armed gang breaks into various people's houses, slaughters the householders, and steals all their possessions. This is considered to be socially acceptable, even downright heroic, because of the race of the householders.

* [[Once Upon a Time]]: People co-write a story. They each have a different ending in mind.

** [[spoiler: [[GeistTheSinEaters Geist: The Sin-Eaters]]]]: You're Michael J. Fox in ''The Frighteners'', only you have {{Beetlejuice}} rattling around in the back of your head, [[{{Necromancer}} necromancy]] powers, and some folks in Tartarus who are ''very'' angry at you.

** Alternatively; Play mystical seekers who hope to overcome a life of tedious money-earning, porn-watching, and endless drinking by leaping into a secretive society where people work to earn money, watch porn, and drink endlessly. You can also choose to work at McDonalds.

* [[spoiler:''{{Scion}}'']]: The age-old enemies of the gods have woken up. In preparation for this, the gods have spent the last few millennia having many, many children with mortals. You play one of those children. With enough time and enough victories (and assuming you have the sourcebooks for it), you can ascend to godhood. Describe what you're doing well enough and you can do it better.

** Alternately: [[spoiler:DungeonsAndDragons]]: An armed gang breaks into various people's houses, slaughters the householders, and steals all their possessions. This is considered to be socially acceptable, even downright heroic, because of the race of the householders.

* [[spoiler: ''DarkHeresy'']]: In the GrimDark future, everyone [[CriticalFailure botches their dice rolls]] and makes another to select [[OhCrap one of over 9000 nasty ways for their character to die]]. And then [[ItGotWorse the Psyker decides to cast a spell...]]

* [[spoiler:''{{Toon}}'']]: You play loony characters who can defy basic logic and the laws of physics [[RuleOfFunny as long as it's funny.]]

** Alternately: [[spoiler:DungeonsAndDragons]]: A criminal gang breaks into various people's houses, slaughters the householders, and steals all their possessions. This is considered to be socially acceptable, even downright heroic, because of the race of the householders.