Mohs Scale of Violence Hardness applied to Tabletop Games. This applies to card artwork and supplementary material (e.g. guidebooks).
(Work In Progress)
open/close all folders
Level 0
- Digimon (Hyper Colosseum) note Artwork is mostly consisted of stock Digimon images or CGI-generated images
Level 1
Level 2
- Squadron Strike note Spacecraft can be blown up with crews inside, and crews can die in boarding actions, but nothing is shown.
Level 3
Level 4
- Duel Masters (After Audience Shift during late Shobu era to the present day)note Lighter and Softer kicks in and the creature designs in-general arrange from being "cool" to "funny". Not even new Darkness creatures from the WIN era look as terrifying as their Magic-era counterparts.
Level 5
Level 6
- Yu-Gi-Oh! note Averages on this level. Most of the monsters are stock anime fantasy monsters, but there are some with rather grotesque body horror, such as Necroface's grisly appearance, Dragon Zombie missing some of its flesh and the Amorphage archetype being deformed, with Amorphage Lysis being the worst example. Although the uncensored artworks can skew even higher, with the worst example being Corroding Shark having visible organs, ranking at a borderline 9.
Level 7
Level 8
- Duel Masters (Magic: the Gathering era) note Gorish, realistic-looking fantasy creatures in card artwork (especially in Darkness Civilization creatures) largely due to influence from Magic. Later sets tone this down gradually to cater to a new audience.
Level 9
- Magic: The Gathering note All sorts of horrific and nightmarish imagery and stories, especially concerning Phyrexians, the Eldrazi and Lorwyn/Shadowmoor. Horrific incidents such as Emrakul's descent onto Innistrad, the near annihilation of Amonkhet by Nicol Bolas and the mass compleation of planes by New Phyrexia put it straight up into this level.
Level 10
- Call of Cthulhunote Horrific and often downright realistic atrocities committed by cultists, Eldritch Abominations and mundane humans alike. There are horrible Nazi experimenters, cultists who kidnap, torture and sometimes even breed people with eldritch spawns, and Serial Rapists are not uncommon. And that's not even getting into the Eldritch Abominations who turn entire worlds into horrific Death Worlds if they are ever let loose, with the objective often being preventing them from coming out rather than killing them.
- F.A.T.A.L.note Horrific body horror and gorn in the most surreal way possible. You can literally rape other players to death or have a zero or negative anal circumference. It's also very politically incorrect to the point of being downright unacceptable even for the The '90s.
- Phoenix Command note A rare instance of a tabletop game reaching a 10 purely through gameplay mechanics, with enormously complicated tables allowing players to work out the effects of gunfire on every individual organ of their target. It ends up as more of a pen and pencil ballistics simulator than an RPG in practice.
- Warhammer note Every horrific act imaginable. Although not to the same degree of brutality and horror as 40K, it's still brutal enough for this level.
- Warhammer 40,000 note All sorts of horrific and bloody murders, destruction, gore and existential terrors up for grabs. Frequent mass genocides against "xenos" (aliens) by the Imperium are the least of your worries. The Dark Eldar regularly inflict torture and horrors on their captives beyond mortal imagination, with one case where a person is dissected with their internal organs hanging out and forbidden to die by life support. Nurgle and his plague-bearing company frequently have their entrails dangling out of their pus-ridden, rotten and decaying bodies and spreads their plagues across the galaxy, causing all sorts of body horror amongst the hapless victims they lay their hands on. Tzeentch and Slaanesh gift their followers with horrible mutations. A character named Fabius Bile has a coat made of flayed human skin, crushes millions of prisoners into drugs and inflicts unspeakable mutative horrors on countless planets. These are only several examples and miscellaneous forms of Body Horror, torture and rape are commonplace (and are often just as horrible). Because of the sheer amount of depravity going on, there are only 16 out of 50+ notable villains who can call themselves a Complete Monster, most of them being Chaos Marines/Daemons who murder and torture trillions across the universe and the rest are consisted of a few Imperium leaders, Dark Eldar and C'Tan who kill trillions, torture multiple planets and wipe out civilizations. It's all played seriously for all its horror, and it's so bleak that it rightfully coins the term "Grimdark".
