History SmallReferencePools / TableTopGames

* Speaking of which, ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' is the only TabletopRPG that exists, and all [=RPGs=] involve rolling a twenty-side dice to kill monsters in a dungeon and steal all their loot, when you aren't doing a [[HollywoodSatanism satanic ritual]]. You also have to try to "win" the game against the KillerDM.

* Playing cards are only used for magic tricks, testing psychics, and depending on the era, usually about three and a half [[CardGames games]]: poker, blackjack, bridge or its predecessor whist.

* Blackjack. It's a very thrilling game where you can lose your bet incredibly quickly. If characters go to a casino, and they don't play roulette or throw dice, they will probably end up playing twenty-one.

** TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}.
*** Also, Monopoly games last ''forever'', mostly because almost literally '''no one''' ever plays by the official rules, which tend to wrap up games in an hour to an hour and a half tops. Most of the common "house rules" for Monopoly dump extra money into player hands, making it that much harder to bankrupt the other players. Which is the ''whole point of the game''.

** A SurpriseCheckmate is the only way to end a game of chess between two extremely intelligent opponents
*** It's another 50-50, half the time it's a surprise checkmate, the other half it's an "inevitable" checkmate so many moves out that they might as well not even start the game.

** The positioning of the king and queen. The queen is always positioned on her colour square; white queen on white (d1), black queen on black (d8). As with the orientation issue - the board is angled so the corner square to each player's right is white - now that you have been informed on how it goes, ''you will never, ever stop noticing it''.

* It's a story about military science fiction, so it's most certainly based on ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''.

** TabletopGame/{{Clue}} which Americans will always refer to as such, never by its original name Cluedo; it is still known as this outside of America).

* In fiction, no-one has heard of any game boardgame hobbyists take seriously, not even the mega-hit like ''TabletopGame/SettlersOfCatan'' or the European ''TabletopGame/{{Carcassonne}}''. Nerds and geeks will often play ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.

** The positioning of the king and queen. The queen is always positioned on her colour square; white queen on white(d1), black queen on black(d8). As with the orientation issue - the board is angled so the corner square to each player's right is white - now that you have been informed on how it goes ''you will never, ever stop noticing it''.

** In slightly older works and/or those set in TheWildWest, Five-Card Draw holds this position.

** It's often implied that four aces (and an optional king) is the best possible hand, when a straight/royal flush is better in reality (though either one will realistically win any game it appears in). In a smaller but still noticeable break from reality, it's sometimes suggested that it matters what the fifth card in such a hand is, which it never does (assuming you're playing with only one deck, and no wild cards or only one or two jokers as wild cards).
* Blackjack. It's a very thrilling game where you can lose your bet incredibly quickly. If characters go to a casino, and they don't play a roulette or throw dice, they will probably end up playing twenty-one.

* Pinochle and/or Gin Rummy in older works.
* Whist. If characters play cards in works from Regency Era like in Creator/JaneAusten's novels, in 90% of cases it's whist. Hornblower from ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' novels was fond of this game too, and used it to increase his income when sailors were starving on half pay.

** A Death card is mostly given the wrong interpretation! The Death card does not signify doom and destruction, the card which could be seen to do that is probably the Tower. The Tower is beginning to be referenced more (''Literature/HarryPotter'', ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'', Sepulchre) but not as an omen of ruin, just as a place where stuff happens. (The Tower can be interpreted as just general "sudden and drastic change", but this is usually a dark upheaval.)

* In fiction, no-one has heard of any game boardgame hobbyists take seriously, not even the mega-hit like ''TabletopGame/SettlersOfCatan'' or the European ''{{Carcassonne}}''. Nerds and geeks will often play ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.