History CowboyBebopAtHisComputer / TableTopGames

** The second mistake - the one repeated on the first page - shows the black Queen on a light square (it's hard to tell if the white Queen is on a dark square on the cover, but the first page image does so). Both Queens start on their own coloured square.\\

** The first mistake is a board set up with Queen's Rook on a dark coloured square. That piece always start on a light coloured square.

** Virtually anything surrounding the [[YouCanPanicNow moral panic]] over ''Dungeons & Dragons'' that swept through certain religious demographics in the 70s and 80s was entirely dependent on blatant misreporting and exaggeration by MoralGuardians. Even a cursory examination of the rulebooks would show that the game is not, and never has been, related to HollywoodSatanism or the occult. That did not stop a lot of families from forbidding their children from playing the game and discarding any gaming materials, or writing many sternly worded letters to the editor about the "evils" of D&D.

** The [[WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons animated adaptation]] really ''did'' have a character called "Dungeon Master". Of course, the series was only loosely based on the tabletop game and it's not as well known, so it's mostly irrelevant. Depending on how charitable you are, the series might itself be considered an example of the trope.

** 99 times out of 100, this won't be their only {{egregious}} mistake, either.

* An epic fail shared by pretty much all the major UK tabloids (at a minimum, the Daily Mail, The Sun, [[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/09/13/computer-mad-mum-starved-kids-115875-22557397/ Mirror]], [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7997601/Woman-obsessed-with-computer-game-left-children-to-eat-cold-baked-beans.html Telegraph]] and [[http://www.metro.co.uk/news/840709-mother-obsessed-with-computer-game-ignored-children-and-let-two-dogs-starve-to-death Metro]] all ran the story) about a mother of three neglecting her children and pets because she was obsessed with playing the board game Small World online. Leaving aside the obvious sensationalism (like kids eating cold baked beans with their fingers because the house apparently had tin openers but no spoons, and a thirteen-year-old doing nothing about the situation even when the dogs starved to death and were left to rot on the floor) the biggest issue is that ''there was no online version of Small World in existence'' at the time[[note]]The only digital version available back then was an iOS app that only supported local multiplayer. A second version with online play has since been released for multiple platforms[[/note]]. The articles contain accurate images and descriptions of the board game (except for a random shot of VideoGame/WarhammerOnline) and links to the parent company, but they have ''literally nothing'' to do with the case. It looks likely that the game involved is actually smallworlds.com, a completely unrelated SecondLife type of game, a journalist messed up the Google search somewhere, and the mistake propagated from there.

* An epic fail shared by pretty much all the major UK tabloids (at a minimum, the Daily Mail, The Sun, [[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/09/13/computer-mad-mum-starved-kids-115875-22557397/ Mirror]], [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7997601/Woman-obsessed-with-computer-game-left-children-to-eat-cold-baked-beans.html Telegraph]] and [[http://www.metro.co.uk/news/840709-mother-obsessed-with-computer-game-ignored-children-and-let-two-dogs-starve-to-death Metro]] all ran the story) about a mother of three neglecting her children and pets because she was obsessed with playing the board game Small World online. Leaving aside the obvious sensationalism (like kids eating cold baked beans with their fingers because the house apparently had tin openers but no spoons, and a thirteen-year-old doing nothing about the situation even when the dogs starved to death and were left to rot on the floor) the biggest issue is that ''there was no online version of Small World in existence'' at the time[[note]]The only digital version available back then was an iOS app that only supported local multiplayer. A second version with online play has since been released for multiple platforms[[/note]]. The articles contain accurate images and descriptions of the board game (except for a random shot of WarhammerOnline) and links to the parent company, but they have ''literally nothing'' to do with the case. It looks likely that the game involved is actually smallworlds.com, a completely unrelated SecondLife type of game, a journalist messed up the Google search somewhere, and the mistake propagated from there.

* While in Spain, role-playing games never were targeted by MoralGuardians as in US, things changed in TheNineties [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimen_del_rol when a man was killed while waiting the bus by two students]] (warning: link in Spanish). Once the Police registered the houses of the murderers, agents found among other things a lot of RPG manuals and it was said than both played those games. That was all what was needed by ignorant, dishonest, or simply sensationalism, journalists to consider that kind of games as little less than evil incarnated even if the murderers almost never played role-playing games and in fact hated them[[note]]The "role-playing game" said to be played by one of them was just a mess invented by him with nothing of a real RPG[[/note]], up to movies where games where treated as such. The effects of that sensationalism last to this day, even if the sentence left clear role-playing games had nothing to see with the crime and the Ministry of Education and Science released articles about the many benefits of RPGs.

* One French magazine had an article about ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. In it, they showed a picture with the caption of "Ultra-Marines [sic] disembarking from a Rhino." However, the Ultra-Marines [sic] are bright yellow (which would make them Imperial Fists) and the "Rhino" is a Land Raider. In perhaps the worst screw-up in the article, the Orks are referred to as "Tau". For the uninitiated- Orks are huge, green, and muscular, preferring close combat. The Tau are slender, bluish-grey, and hate close combat. Bonus points because the Tau and Orks are, in-universe, mortal enemies (at least from the Tau Perspective. Orks don't really give a damn who's on the receiving end of a choppa).

** It's always funny when a gaming publication gets something wrong about gaming, [[http://www.push-start.co.uk/all/articles/news/latest-gaming-news/announcements/sega-and-creative-assembly-nab-the-warhammer-license/ as in this article]] which used an image from ''40k'' in an article about [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} the other]] ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' (namely that [[VideoGame/TotalWar Creative Assembly]] has gotten the license to make a ''WFB'' RTS).

* An epic fail shared by pretty much all the major UK tabloids (at a minimum, the Daily Mail, The Sun, [[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/09/13/computer-mad-mum-starved-kids-115875-22557397/ Mirror]], [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7997601/Woman-obsessed-with-computer-game-left-children-to-eat-cold-baked-beans.html Telegraph]] and [[http://www.metro.co.uk/news/840709-mother-obsessed-with-computer-game-ignored-children-and-let-two-dogs-starve-to-death Metro]] all ran the story) about a mother of three neglecting her children and pets because she was obsessed with playing the board game Small World online. Leaving aside the obvious sensationalism (like kids eating cold baked beans with their fingers because the house apparently had tin openers but no spoons, and a thirteen-year-old doing nothing about the situation even when the dogs starved to death and were left to rot on the floor) the biggest issue is that ''there is no online version of Small World in existence''. The closest thing is the iPad version, which you can only play locally, like the real board game. The articles contain accurate images and descriptions of the board game (except for a random shot of WarhammerOnline) and links to the parent company, but they have ''literally nothing'' to do with the case. It looks likely that the game involved is actually smallworlds.com, a completely unrelated SecondLife type of game, a journalist messed up the Google search somewhere, and the mistake propagated from there.