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** From 1st and 2nd ed: There are a lot of {{UsefulNotes/Transgender}} -related things that have aged badly. The Mystic Hermaphrodite (ugh, that name...) and many of its real-life examples. The Freak. The end of that adventure with Amelia Erhart's Compass. The built-in cisgenderism inherent in Pornomancy.

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** From 1st and 2nd ed: There are a lot of {{UsefulNotes/Transgender}} -related things that have aged badly. The Mystic Hermaphrodite (ugh, that name...) and many of its real-life examples. The Freak. The end of that adventure with Amelia Erhart's Compass. The built-in cisgenderism inherent in Pornomancy.
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** From 1st and 2nd ed: There are a lot of {{UsefulNotes/Transgender}} -related things that have aged badly. The Mystic Hermaphrodite (ugh, that name...) and many of its real-life examples. The Freak. The end of that adventure with Amelia Erhart's Compass.

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** From 1st and 2nd ed: There are a lot of {{UsefulNotes/Transgender}} -related things that have aged badly. The Mystic Hermaphrodite (ugh, that name...) and many of its real-life examples. The Freak. The end of that adventure with Amelia Erhart's Compass. The built-in cisgenderism inherent in Pornomancy.

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* HarsherInHindsight - Fly To Heaven from the sourcebook One Shots; a rip roaring adventure about plowing a passenger jet into the Sears Tower [[spoiler: in order to ascend to the archetype of The Terrorist]] played better in 1998. Hopefully, it is no longer considered "too soon". Lampshaded in the second edition, which was released after 9/11.

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Fly To Heaven from the sourcebook One Shots; a rip roaring adventure about plowing a passenger jet into the Sears Tower [[spoiler: in order to ascend to the archetype of The Terrorist]] played better in 1998. Hopefully, it is no longer considered "too soon". Lampshaded in the second edition, which was released after 9/11.9/11.
** From 1st and 2nd ed: There are a lot of {{UsefulNotes/Transgender}} -related things that have aged badly. The Mystic Hermaphrodite (ugh, that name...) and many of its real-life examples. The Freak. The end of that adventure with Amelia Erhart's Compass.
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* HarsherInHindsight - Fly To Heaven from the sourcebook One Shots; a rip roaring adventure about plowing a passenger jet into the Sears Tower [[spoiler: in order to ascend to the archetype of The Terrorist]] played better in 1998. Hopefully, it is no longer considered TooSoon. Lampshaded in the second edition, which was released after 9/11.

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* HarsherInHindsight - Fly To Heaven from the sourcebook One Shots; a rip roaring adventure about plowing a passenger jet into the Sears Tower [[spoiler: in order to ascend to the archetype of The Terrorist]] played better in 1998. Hopefully, it is no longer considered TooSoon."too soon". Lampshaded in the second edition, which was released after 9/11.
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* FriendlyFandoms: With ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'', as they share both themes and writers. John Tynes was the original mind behind the first Delta Green scenario Convergence and Greg Stolze would later write for the Standalone version of Delta Green; while thematically they share a hidden occult world, gritty and grim ambiance, destructive magic and the new SanityMeter of the 2016 standalone Delta Green can be seen as a straight-up adaptation from Unknown Armies.

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* FriendlyFandoms: With ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'', as they share both themes and writers. John Tynes was the original mind behind the first Delta Green scenario Convergence ''Convergence'' and Greg Stolze would later write for the Standalone standalone version of Delta Green; while thematically they share a hidden occult world, gritty and grim ambiance, destructive magic and the new SanityMeter of the 2016 standalone Delta Green can be seen as a straight-up adaptation from Unknown Armies.
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* FriendlyFandoms: With ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'', as they share both themes and writers. John Tynes was the original mind behind the first Delta Green scenario Convergence and Greg Stolze would later write for the Standalone version of Delta Green; while thematically they share a hidden occult world, gritty and grim ambiance, destructive magic and the new SanityMeter of the 2016 standalone Delta Green can be seen as a straight-up adaptation from Unknown Armies.
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* HarsherInHindsight - Fly To Heaven from the sourcebook One Shots; a rip roaring adventure about plowing a passenger jet into Sears Tower [[spoiler: in order to ascend to the archetype of The Terrorist]] played better in 1998. Hopefully it is no longer considered TooSoon. Lampshaded in the second edition, which was released after 9/11.

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* HarsherInHindsight - Fly To Heaven from the sourcebook One Shots; a rip roaring adventure about plowing a passenger jet into the Sears Tower [[spoiler: in order to ascend to the archetype of The Terrorist]] played better in 1998. Hopefully Hopefully, it is no longer considered TooSoon. Lampshaded in the second edition, which was released after 9/11.



* MemeticMutation: COSMIC BUM FIGHTS! (One of the possible adepts powers is fueled by alcohol and you can fight on a cosmic level.)

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* MemeticMutation: COSMIC BUM FIGHTS! (One (The powers of one of the possible adepts powers is are fueled by alcohol and you can fight on a cosmic level.)

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* CrowningMomentOfFunny - In the corebook's description for Videomancers:
-->Paddy Orleans has [[StealthPun fetishized]] a number of shows, and he needs a lot of significant charges to fuel his habit of calling fictional characters to life for half-hour increments. Usually he does this for purposes of [[RuleThirtyFour bizarre sexual gratification]], but at least one guy who pissed him off is now in an asylum, convinced that Mr. Clean and the Pillsbury Doughboy are going to jump him again the next time he sleeps.

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* CrowningMomentOfFunny - SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
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In the corebook's description for Videomancers:
-->Paddy --->Paddy Orleans has [[StealthPun fetishized]] a number of shows, and he needs a lot of significant charges to fuel his habit of calling fictional characters to life for half-hour increments. Usually he does this for purposes of [[RuleThirtyFour bizarre sexual gratification]], but at least one guy who pissed him off is now in an asylum, convinced that Mr. Clean and the Pillsbury Doughboy are going to jump him again the next time he sleeps.
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* BetterThanItSoundsTabletopGames: If David Cronenberg, Tim Powers, Christopher Nolan, Thomas Pynchon and the late Robert Anton Wilson met at a role-playing convention, that's what they would play.

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* BetterThanItSoundsTabletopGames: [[BetterThanItSounds/TabletopGames Better Than It Sounds]]: If David Cronenberg, Tim Powers, Christopher Nolan, Thomas Pynchon and the late Robert Anton Wilson met at a role-playing convention, that's what they would play.
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* BetterThanItSoundsTabletopGames: If David Cronenberg, Tim Powers, Christopher Nolan, Thomas Pynchon and the late Robert Anton Wilson met at a role-playing convention, that's what they would play.
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* MemeticBadass: in the game, MemeticBadass people can be channeled to mimic their badassery through ritual magic.

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* MemeticBadass: in In the game, MemeticBadass people can be channeled to mimic their badassery through ritual magic.



* NightmareFuel: The Freak is accompanied by the sound of rattling chains. [[spoiler: These chains are strung right through its torso. It ''pulls them out'' if it needs a charge on the go.]]

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* NightmareFuel: The Freak is accompanied by the sound of rattling chains. [[spoiler: These chains are strung right through its torso. It ''pulls them out'' if it needs a charge on the go.]]
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** One Bibliomancy spell transfers all the information about a person's life into a book; if there's too much info for the book to hold, the font size decreases until it fits. A Bibliomancer tried this on the Comte St. Germain, and the pages turned black. He was arrested whilst attempting to steal an electron microscope.
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* MemeticMutation: COSMIC BUM FIGHTS! (One of the possible adepts powers is fueled by alcohol and you can fight on a cosmic level.)
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* MemeticBadass: in the game, BruceLee has become such a Memetic Badass that you can channel his sheer badassery through ritual magic.

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* MemeticBadass: in the game, BruceLee has become such a Memetic Badass that you MemeticBadass people can channel his sheer be channeled to mimic their badassery through ritual magic.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny - The ''rulebook'' has one, of all things. In the description for Videomancers:

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* CrowningMomentOfFunny - The ''rulebook'' has one, of all things. In the corebook's description for Videomancers:

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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation -- Flat-out encouraged by the writers. Every faction and character is, to some extent, open to interpretation. The GM sections of the rulebook even gives you advice for running [=NPCs=] as [[WhiteAndGreyMorality High Road]], [[GreyAndGrayMorality Middle Road]], and [[BlackAndGrayMorality Low Road]] types.

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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation -- Flat-out encouraged by the writers. Every faction and character is, to some extent, open to interpretation. The GM sections of the rulebook even gives you advice for running [=NPCs=] as [[WhiteAndGreyMorality High Road]], [[GreyAndGrayMorality Middle Road]], and [[BlackAndGrayMorality Low Road]] types.types.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny - The ''rulebook'' has one, of all things. In the description for Videomancers:
-->Paddy Orleans has [[StealthPun fetishized]] a number of shows, and he needs a lot of significant charges to fuel his habit of calling fictional characters to life for half-hour increments. Usually he does this for purposes of [[RuleThirtyFour bizarre sexual gratification]], but at least one guy who pissed him off is now in an asylum, convinced that Mr. Clean and the Pillsbury Doughboy are going to jump him again the next time he sleeps.



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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The Freak is accompanied by the sound of rattling chains. [[spoiler: These chains are strung right through its torso. It ''pulls them out'' if it needs a charge on the go.]]
** As a horror game, there's nightmare fuel ''every other page.''




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* NightmareFuel: The Freak is accompanied by the sound of rattling chains. [[spoiler: These chains are strung right through its torso. It ''pulls them out'' if it needs a charge on the go.]]
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation -- Flat-out encouraged by the writers. Every faction and character is, to some extent, open to interpretation. The GM sections of the rulebook even gives you advice for running NPCs as [[WhiteAndGreyMorality High Road]], [[GreyAndGrayMorality Middle Road]], and [[BlackAndGrayMorality Low Road]] types.

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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation -- Flat-out encouraged by the writers. Every faction and character is, to some extent, open to interpretation. The GM sections of the rulebook even gives you advice for running NPCs [=NPCs=] as [[WhiteAndGreyMorality High Road]], [[GreyAndGrayMorality Middle Road]], and [[BlackAndGrayMorality Low Road]] types.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation -- Flat-out encouraged by the writers. Every faction and character is, to some extent, open to interpretation. The GM sections of the rulebook even gives you advice for running NPCs as [[WhiteAndGreyMorality High Road]], [[GreyAndGrayMorality Middle Road]], and [[BlackAndGrayMorality Low Road]] types.


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* MemeticBadass: in the game, BruceLee has become such a Memetic Badass that you can channel his sheer badassery through ritual magic.

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