History FunWithAcronyms / TabletopGames

* In 1987, Creator/MiltonBradley put out a line of motorized action games called T.H.I.N.G.S. ('''T'''otally '''H'''ilarious '''I'''ncredibly '''N'''eat '''G'''ames of '''S'''kill). They used it in a motorized Girl Talk board game based off a Disney licensed product brand (hidden inside a crystal ball, voiced by Raven-Symone) a few years later.

* TSR's ''Marvel Super Heroes'' [=RPG=] from TheEighties used [[GamingStatTropes seven stats for characters]] - '''F'''ighting (ability), '''A'''gility, '''S'''trength, '''E'''ndurance, '''R'''eason, '''I'''ntuition, and '''P'''syche. Put 'em together, and what does that spell? '''[[FacialHorror FASERIP]]'''.

* ''Shadowrun'' has '''S.U.R.G.E.''', '''Su'''dden '''R'''ecessive '''G'''ene '''E'''mergence, an odd phenomena characterized by the sudden expression of recessive genes, often triggered by manastorms. This can result in anything from LittleBitBeastly, to PettingZooPeople, to BeastMan, to PlantPeople. The scientists still haven't figured out quite why animal traits are common.

* ''{{Exalted}}'' has a very powerful Necromancy spell, typically only used by antagonists, that functions as a OneWingedAngel transformation immediately upon what would ordinarily be their death. Its name? '''B'''irth '''O'''f '''S'''anity's '''S'''orrow.
* ''{{GURPS}} Illuminati'' included a sidebar on an organization that called itself "TRI", which stood for '''T'''hree '''R'''andom '''I'''nitials.

** {{GURPS}} itself is the '''G'''eneric '''U'''niversal '''R'''ole'''P'''laying '''S'''ystem.

** Subverted in ''GURPS IOU'', which stands for Illuminati University. People asking what the ''O'' stand for are told they're not cleared to know.

* In 1987, Creator/MiltonBradley put out a line of motorized action games called T.H.I.N.G.S. ('''T'''otally '''H'''ilarious '''I'''ncredibly '''N'''eat '''G'''ames of '''S'''kill). They used it in a Girl Talk board game based off a Disney licensed product brand.

* In 1987, Creator/MiltonBradley put out a line of motorized action games called T.H.I.N.G.S. ('''T'''otally '''H'''ilarious '''I'''ncredibly '''N'''eat '''G'''ames of '''S'''kill)

** In the main setting, there's a famous suit of PoweredArmor called the '''S'''trategic '''A'''rmored '''M'''ilitary '''A'''ssault '''S'''uit.

* {{Battletech}} has a couple fun acronyms, one that has been expicitly explained and one that is merely fun. '''M'''yomer '''A'''cceleration '''S'''ignal '''C'''ircuitry is a movement booster, while the NARC Missile Beacon has never been explained.

** Creator/{{FASA}} (the creator of ''Battletech'', among many other games) originally stood for the '''[[Film/DuckSoup F]]'''[[Film/DuckSoup reedonian]] '''A'''eronautics and '''S'''pace '''A'''dministration.

* In 1987, Milton Bradley put out a line of motorized action games called T.H.I.N.G.S. ('''T'''otally '''H'''ilarious '''I'''ncredibly '''N'''eat '''G'''ames of '''S'''kill)

** FASA (the creator of ''Battletech'', among many other games) originally stood for the [[Film/DuckSoup '''F'''reedonian '''A'''eronautics''' and '''S'''pace '''A'''dministration]].

** Then there are the '''A'''rtificial, '''R'''obot, '''C'''erebellum, '''H'''ousing, '''I'''ntellect, '''E'''xperiment number <x> MasterComputer[=s=] built by the Cyberworks Aerospace Network before the Great Cataclysm (and one built afterward).

* ''{{Rifts}}'' Chaos Earth has the '''N'''orthern '''E'''agle '''M'''ilitary '''A'''lliance

** It's also very, very common for Inner Sphere [[HumongousMecha [=BattleMech=]]] designs to have both a name and a more "technical" designation which is generally a combination of letters and numbers that more or less obviously refers directly back to the name. So you have the '''[=COM=]''' ''Commando'' series (nominally starting with the -1A model, though the first to see print was the -2D), the '''[=PXH=]''' ''Phoenix Hawk''s, the '''[=CPLT=]''' ''Catapult''s, the '''GRM-R-PR''' ''Grim Reaper''s... It's unclear which is cause and which effect or indeed whether the acronyms have any meaning other than ''as'' back-references even in universe. (The Clans, incidentally, seem to have shed the habit and simply refer to their units by name alone.)

* The JamesBond RPG couln't use the infamous S.P.E.C.T.R.E. for licensing reasons, so used a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute; '''T'''echnological '''A'''scension, '''R'''evenge, and '''O'''rganized '''T'''errorism, or T.A.R.O.T.

* In 1987, Milton Bradley put out a line of motorized action games called T.H.I.N.G.S. ('''T'''otally '''H'''ilarious '''I'''ncredible '''N'''eat '''G'''ames of '''S'''kill)

* '''F'''rom '''A'''nother '''T'''ime '''A'''nother '''L'''and. [[{{FATAL}} Also known as "Fantasy And Tales Of Adult Lechery"]].

** On a side note, this editor once was the {{Game Master}} of a {{GURPS}} Space game and once had the players encounter a race of space monkeys, which had cannons mounted on their ships that fired '''P'''rojectile-'''O'''rganized '''O'''perational '''P'''rotoplasm...

* There is an {{Earthdawn}} adventure titled '''T'''error '''I'''n '''T'''he '''S'''kies.

* The [=~So Bad It's Horrible~=] '''F'''rom '''A'''nother '''T'''ime '''A'''nother '''L'''and. [[{{FATAL}} Also known as "Fantasy And Tales Of Adult Lechery"]].