History TabletopGame / Neuroshima

* CanadaEh: The portrayal of Canada in the fan-made expansion is a collection of every single possible stereotype imaginable. Somehow, UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} is not mentioned at all.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: the special ability of Salt Lake City characters.

** Mutants are directly taken from the ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' series, including a VisionaryVillain as their leader.

** Mutants are directly taken from [[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} the Fallout series]], including a VisionaryVillain as their leader.

%%* EnemyMine: The only way that anyone in the setting seems to create alliances and cooperation.%%Is what?

* EnemyMine: The ''only'' way how anyone in the setting seems to create alliances and cooperation.

* FanWork: After all future work with the system was cancelled, the small, but devoted fandom kept on creating new expansions, since the source book barely described most of the places on the map and the official expansion only focused on a literal handful of cities. This home-made content is not only regarded as much, ''much'' better than the official material, but is roughly ''twenty times'' bigger - the sole book describing The Appalachian Federation is 350 pages long, while in the original source book there is barely a single paragraph about it.

The game is set in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates in the [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture mid-21st century]], after a nuclear war started by a cybernetic revolt turned the continent into a barren wasteland. The military artificial intelligence responsible for the war, commonly referred to as Moloch, now has control over a net of old military facilities, automated factories, power plants and alike, covering the whole northern U.S., from Oregon to the Great Lakes. Advancing north from Latin America into the southern states is the Neojungle, a mass of semi-intelligent carnivorous vegetation that [[AlienKudzu grows faster than kudzu]]. Caught in the middle are the surviving humans, trapped between the deadly creatures and robots created by Moloch on one side, and wild animals mutated by nuclear radiation thriving in a hostile jungle on the other. But what is stressed in the book is that the worst enemy of humans is within them: hatred, indifference, and greed.

* NationalStereotypes: Polish stereotypes about Americans and life in America, dialled UpToEleven, are the basis of the setting. Certain elements are hard to take even for Poles. In case if you didn't figure it out: these aren't even the kind of stereotypes you'd expect, but an unknowledgeable second-hand take on them as imbibed through VHS-era movies.

* {{Irony}}: The game is almost unknown abroad, while it created the basis for the widely successful ''VideoGame/NeuroshimaHex''. In turn, Neuroshima Hex is barely known in Poland.

** The awkward rules are sometimes alleged to have stemmed from an odd case of CreatorsApathy: since the authors believed in ''role-playing'' over ''games'', they assumed that having good or bad rules doesn't matter as nobody would ever play by rules anyway - Ignacy Trzewiczek, the head designer, is an infamous [[{{Railroading}} railroader]] who openly advocated storytell approach with absolute GM power and zero "pesky dice that could ruin your (GM's) story". As such, he didn't need ''rules'', but had to have a ''game'' to sell.

* NobleSavage: About any Native American in the setting. The backstory is that no reservation was anywhere near a good target for Moloch's [=WMDs=], so their population suddenly spiked in relation to other survivors, and they all returned to the Old Ways. Why these Old Ways always happen to be a romantic vision of Plains Indians (with extra layer of Creator/KarlMay references) whether or not a given tribe has that heritage is less explainable.

* NationalStereotypes: Polish stereotypes about Americans and life in America, dialled UpToEleven, are the basis of the setting. Certain elements are hard to take even for Poles. (In case if you didn't figure it out: these aren't even the kind of stereotypes you'd expect, but an unknowledgeable second-hand take on them as imbibed through VHS-era movies.)

* EvilBrit: Out of all possible people, ''European nobility'', predominantly British, came to the States soon after the war with aircraft carriers and conquered what is now The Appalachian Federation. They imposed feudal rule and slavery, and cultivate SouthernGentleman archetypes. [[MST3KMantra Try not to think too hard about it]].

In its heyday, ''Neuroshima'' was one of the most popular, if not ''the'' most popular tabletop game in UsefulNotes/{{Poland}}, but the popularity quickly disappeared after support for the game ended, leaving it in a half-finished state. In spite of taking place in the United States, the game treats them [[{{Flanderization}} as a simple, almost fantasy backdrop]], with content that is ''very'' Polish in its nature.

* NobleSavage: About any Native American in the setting. The backstory is that no reservation was anywhere near a good target for Moloch's [=WMDs=], so their population suddenly spiked in relation to other survivors, and they all returned to the Old Ways. Why these Old Ways always happen to be a romantic vision of Plains Indians whether or not a given tribe has that heritage is less explainable.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfRules: Dear God, the game has just '''horrible''' mechanics design and is often cited as even worse than ''Crystals of Time''[[note]]An infamously bad game from the early 90s[[/note]]. It uses a convoluted [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3d20_system system of 3d20]], which can make most checks simply impossible to pass, no matter what. The outcome of the dice is extremely counter-intuitive, it requires a lot of extra calculations to be made in the background (and the GM better get an abacus to keep track of a single turn of combat), and the numbers are inflated for no apparent reason. If characters start to shoot each other in hard terrain at range longer than 20 meters (and guns have realistic range), it's easier to just make arbitrary decisions how the combat went rather than try to decipher it from the rules.

** The awkward rules are sometimes alleged to have stemmed from an odd case of CreatorsApathy: since the authors believed in ''role-playing'' over ''games'', they assumed that having good or bad rules doesn't matter as nobody would ever play by rules anyway.

* TheApunkalypse: Obviously, as the entire setting is based on late 80s post-apocalyptic B-movies.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Two flavours of it - "regular" mutated animals and all the nightmarish, half-plant hybrids coming out of the Neojungle.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: the special ability of Salt Lake City characters

* {{Cyborg}}: Cybernetic modifications are relatively widespread, but also treated with great mistrust - only Moloch has both the technology and infrastructure to mass-produce them.

** Texas itself resembles sets from Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman.

* ForeignCultureFetish: PlayedWith. The setting can be best described as how Poles imagined life in America in the early 90s, based on watching things like Series/WalkerTexasRanger, Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman, a bunch of classic westerns, revenge flicks from the late 70s and {{Buddy Cop Show}}s. It can be really hard to take the setting as anything else than just plain insane without knowing this context.

* HungryJungle: Neojungle is a literal example. It consumes everything on its wake, while being highly toxic (not poisonous - ''toxic'') to regular life forms. It is also perfectly capable of ignoring how dry northern Mexico is.
* {{Irony}}: The game is almost unknown abroad, while it created the basis for the widely successful VideoGame/NeuroshimaHex. In turn, Neuroshima Hex is barely known in Poland.

* NationalStereotypes: Polish stereotypes about Americans and life in America, dialled UpToEleven, are the basis of the setting. Certain elements are hard to take even for Poles.

* NewYorkCityCops: One of the most direct indications New York is doing just about fine. It's probably the last professional police force left.