* In ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', the vulgar lingo of the streets required a number of less offensive stand-ins for common curses. Most commonly, you would "kick hoop" because that "fragger" fed you a line of "bulldrek". This has mainly been discarded in Fourth Edition in favor of more traditional forms of swearing.
** Interestingly, "drek" is Yiddish for "shit".
*** [[LiteralMetaphor Literally...]]
** ''Shadowrun'' also borrows "slitch" from ''{{Literature/Friday}}''.
* If you get enough TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons nerds together they will begin taking the names of fictional deities in vain. "By Vecna's dental filling!", "Pelor preserve us!", and "Moradin!" shouted at dice which stubbornly insist on rolling 1's.
** Most D&D players consider 'Lolth!' (The name of an evil spider goddess) and related exclamations the worst/most serious of this variety. Players also swear 'By the Beard of Gygax!' and more recently 'By the Ghost of Gygax' or 'Great Gygax's Ghost!' (Garry Gygax was co-creator of D&D and one of the founders of the entire hobby).
** [[http://badgods.com/mm-ceratosaurus.html By the semen-soaked eyehole of Grumushh!]]
* Not the game itself, but the fandom: a large population of those ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' fans who hang out on 4chan have adopted "purge" as a euphemism for sex, taken from the "[=HS40K=]" fanfic.
* Among one of the many, many bizarre qualities of ''TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}'' is its insistence on using the term "manhood" instead of "penis". [[BrainBleach This comes up more than you would hope for an RPG manual.]]
* ''{{TabletopGame/Deadlands}}'' has an in-universe example: The [[TheMenInBlack Texas Rangers]] employ a number of beings with supernatural abilities, all of whom are listed in the TO&E as "musicians". The Rangers needed a place to stick a large number of decidedly un-military people and decided "the regimental band" was as good a cover as any. Also, it provides a useful cover, a message asking for "a small concert" at a certain time and place is likely to pass by any spies rather unnoticed.
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': In large swathes of Bretonnia, mercenaries are referred to as "shepherds". Bretonnia's FantasticCasteSystem severely restricts the mobility of non-nobles, but shepherds are by tradition given far more leeway, and no-one will complain (much) is a shepherd appears in the strangest of places. Most bands keep a sheep as a TeamPet to complete the legal fig leaf.