History HarsherInHindsight / TabletopGames

* The ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' book "City of the Damned: New Orleans" has a sidebar that mentions if you ''really'' want to shake up the political structure of New Orleans, then much of the city is below the water line. Given the CrapsackWorld nature, odds are those levees would go down with one strong hurricane, no doubt raining destruction on the city and wiping out many of the elder vampires. The book was published in 2005, three months before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

* An in-universe example with ''TabletopGame/BattleTech''. Most sourcebooks set between 3052 and 3067 paint the Word of Blake as "pseudo-religious fanatics but otherwise no worse than the rest", and the WoB is regarded as a legitimate, if somewhat odd, business partner and mercenary employer. Then in late 3067... apparently 'fanatic' was not nearly a strong enough word for the Blakists, especially when their holy vision was interfered with in a big way. Cue the Word of Blake Jihad: massed terror attacks with nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, indiscriminate genocide of civilians, mind-controlling people to be surgically implanted suicide bombers, and some of the worst fighting since the Second Succession War in the Inner Sphere. It got to the point that ''everyone else'' banded together to wipe them out due to the Blakists' genocidal tendencies, culminating in the destruction of Circinus to ensure the death of the Word's infamous leader, the Master [[spoiler:Thomas Marik.]]

* The ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' book "City of the Damned: New Orleans" has a sidebar that mentions if you ''really'' want to shake up the political structure of New Orleans, then much of the city is below the water line. Given the CrapsackWorld nature, odds are those levees would go down with one strong hurricane, no doubt raining destruction on the city and wiping out many of the elder vampires. This book was published in 2004. Yeah.

* The ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' book "City of the Damned: New Orleans" has a moment that straddles the line between this and FunnyAneurysmMoment. A sidebar mentions that if you ''really'' want to shake up the political structure of New Orleans, then much of the city is below the water line... and given the CrapsackWorld nature, odds are those levees would go down with one strong hurricane, no doubt raining destruction on the city and wiping out many of the elder vampires. This book was published in 2004. Yeah.

* The TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} supplement ''Super Scum'' featured a supervillain who'd turned to crime after being drummed out of college football for being a metahuman. He has the quirk "Idolizes O.J. Simpson". In the 1980s, of course, that could only be interpreted as a reference to Simpson's ''athletic'' career...

* Several of the supplements for ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' paint the Word of Blake as "pseudo-religious fanatics but otherwise no worse than the rest." One of them even asks what's the harm of working for them. Well...apparently 'fanatic' was not nearly a strong enough word for the Blakists, especially when their holy vision was interrupted in a big way. Cue Word of Blake Jihad, massed terror attacks with nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, indiscriminate genocide of civilians, mind-controlling people to be surgically implanted suicide bombers, and some of the worst fighting since the First Succession War in the Inner Sphere. It got to the point that ''everyone else'' banded together to wipe them out due to the Blakists' genocidal tendencies, culminating in the destruction of Circinnus to ensure the death of the Word's infamous leader, the Master [[spoiler:Thomas Marik.]]
** Elsewhere in the Chronicles of Darkness, the creepy, abusive subtext some people picked up in ''TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial'' got a ''lot'' more uncomfortable when credible allegations surfaced that head writer Matt [=McFarland=] had a history of abuse and sexual misconduct, leading to [[http://theonyxpath.com/about-matt-mcfarland/ Onyx Path stopping working with him in 2017 and formally cutting all ties in 2019]].

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* ''Unknown Armies'' has a published adventure titled "Fly to Heaven," in which an airplane is hijacked by a madman who plans to broadcast himself crashing the plane into the Sears Tower in order to [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascend to the Invisible Clergy]] as the archetype of The Terrorist. Did we mention this was published in 1998, just three years before September 11th?
* One of the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' supplements from the 90s describes a volcanic eruption in Japan that triggers nuclear accidents at a cluster of fusion power plants, irradiating large areas of the island nation's densely-populated coastline. At the time, it read like [=WizKids=] backpedaling on the game-line's previous JapanTakesOverTheWorld slant, but it's a lot darker of a TakeThat now...
* The ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' book "City of the Damned: New Orleans" has a moment that straddles the line between this and FunnyAneurysmMoment. A sidebar mentions that if you ''really'' want to shake up the political structure of New Orleans, then much of the city is below the water line... and given the CrapsackWorld nature, odds are those levees would go down with one strong hurricane, no doubt raining destruction on the city and wiping out many of the elder vampires. This book was published in 2004. Yeah.

* The TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} supplement ''Super Scum'' featured a supervillain who'd turned to crime after being drummed out of college football for being a metahuman. He has the quirk "Idolizes O.J. Simpson". In the 1980s, of course, that could only be interpreted as a reference to Simpson's ''athletic'' career...

* Several of the supplements for ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' paint the Word of Blake as "pseudo-religious fanatics but otherwise no worse than the rest." One of them even asks what's the harm of working for them. Well...apparently 'fanatic' was not nearly a strong enough word for the Blakists, especially when their holy vision was interrupted in a big way. Cue Word of Blake Jihad, massed terror attacks with nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, indiscriminate genocide of civilians, mind-controlling people to be surgically implanted suicide bombers, and some of the worst fighting since the First Succession War in the Inner Sphere. It got to the point that ''everyone else'' banded together to wipe them out due to the Blakists' genocidal tendencies, culminating in the destruction of Circinnus to ensure the death of the Word's infamous leader, the Master [[spoiler:Thomas Marik.]]

* One of the built-in Aesops of TabletopGame/{{Pandemic}} is that cooperation amongst people is necessary for humanity to survive a pandemic. Fast-forward to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it's precisely a lack of cooperation (both within countries and between countries) that helps to drive up real-world death tolls.

* One of the built-in Aesops of TabletopGame/{{Pandemic}} is that cooperation amongst people is necessary in order for humanity to survive a pandemic. Fast-forward to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it's precisely a lack of cooperation (both within countries and between countries) that helps to drive up real-world death tolls.

* One of the built-in Aesops of the TabletopGame/{{Pandemic}} is that cooperation amongst people is necessary in order for humanity to survive a pandemic. Fast-forward to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it's precisely a lack of cooperation (both within countries and between countries) that helps to drive up real-world death tolls.

* Several of the supplements for ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' paint the Word of Blake as "pseudo-religious fanatics but otherwise no worse than the rest." One of them even asks what's the harm of working for them. Well...apparently 'fanatic' was not nearly a strong enough word for the Blakists, especially when their holy vision was interrupted in a big way. Cue Word of Blake Jihad, massed terror attacks with nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, indiscriminate genocide of civilians, mind-controlling people to be surgically implanted suicide bombers, and some of the worst fighting since the First Succession War in the Inner Sphere. It got to the point that ''everyone else'' banded together to wipe them out due to the Blakists' genocidal tendencies.

* ''Unknown Armies'' has a published adventure titled "Fly to Heaven," in which an airplane is hijacked by a madman who plans to broadcast himself crashing the plane into the Sears Tower in order to [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascend to the Invisible Clergy]] as the archetype of The Terrorist. Did we mention this was published in 1998, just four years before September 11th?

* ''Unknown Armies'' has a published adventure titled "Fly to Heaven," in which an airplane is hijacked by a madman who plans to broadcast himself crashing the plane into the Sears Tower in order to [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascend to the Invisible Clergy]] as the archetype of The Terrorist. Did we mention this was published in 1998?

* The ''VampireTheRequiem'' book "City of the Damned: New Orleans" has a moment that straddles the line between this and FunnyAneurysmMoment. A sidebar mentions that if you ''really'' want to shake up the political structure of New Orleans, then much of the city is below the water line... and given the CrapsackWorld nature, odds are those levees would go down with one strong hurricane, no doubt raining destruction on the city and wiping out many of the elder vampires. This book was published in 2004. Yeah.

* Several of the supplements for ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' paint the Word of Blake as "pseudo-religious fanatics but otherwise no worse than the rest." One of them even asks what's the harm of working for them? Well...apparently 'fanatic' was not nearly a strong enough word for the Blakists, especially when their holy vision was interrupted in a big way. Cue Word of Blake Jihad, massed terror attacks with nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, indiscriminate genocide of civilians, mind-controlling people to be surgically implanted suicide bombers, and some of the worst fighting since the First Succession War in the Inner Sphere. It got to the point that ''everyone else'' banded together to wipe them out due to the Blakists' genocidal tendencies.

* In 1972, British Petroleum released a board game titled ''Offshore Oil Strike''. Set in Western Europe, four players explore for oil, build platforms and construct pipelines. The first player to earn $120 million wins. Players must deal with hazard cards, one of which reads "Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1 million."

* The TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} supplement ''Super Scum'' featured a supervillain who'd turned to crime after being drummed out of college football for being a metahuman. He has the quirk "Idolizes O.J. Simpson". In the 1980s, of course, that could only be interpreted as a reference to Simpson's ''athletic'' career...

* The GURPS supplement ''Super Scum'' featured a supervillain who'd turned to crime after being drummed out of college football for being a metahuman. He has the quirk "Idolizes O.J. Simpson". In the 1980s, of course, that could only be interpreted as a reference to Simpson's ''athletic'' career...

** Then there's one card for Princess Diana, which mentions she's immune to attacks from an enemies "Peaceful" and "Liberal" aligned groups... but not from ''"Media."''

** Then there's one card for Princess Diana, which mentions she's immune to attacks from an enemies "Peaceful" and "Liberal" aligned groups... but not from ''media.''

* Two cards from "Illuminati: New World Order" are very creepy after the 9/11 attacks. The Pentagon shows a mushroom cloud coming from the eponymous building. Terrorist Nuke shows a two-tower building that looks like the World Trade Center with an explosion near where the first plane hit.

* The ''VampireTheRequiem'' book "City of the Damned: New Orleans" has a moment that straddles the line between this and FunnyAneurysmMoment. A sidebar mentions that if you ''really'' want to shake up the political structure of New Orleans, then much of the city is below the water line... and given the CrapsackWorld nature, odds are those levees would go down with one strong hurricane, no doubt raining destruction on the city and wiping out many of the elder vampires. This book was published in 2004. Yeah.

* ''Unknown Armies'' has a published adventure titled "Fly to Heaven," in which an airplane is hijacked by a madman who plans to broadcast himself crashing the plane into the Sears Tower in order to [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascend to the Invisible Clergy]] as the archetype of The Terrorist. Did we mention this was published in 1998?
* One of the ''{{Shadowrun}}'' supplements from the 90s describes a volcanic eruption in Japan that triggers nuclear accidents at a cluster of fusion power plants, irradiating large areas of the island nation's densely-populated coastline. At the time, it read like [=WizKids=] backpedaling on the game-line's previous JapanTakesOverTheWorld slant, but it's a lot darker of a TakeThat now...

* One of the ''{{Shadowrun}}'' supplements from the 90s describes a volcanic eruption in Japan that triggers nuclear accidents at a cluster of fusion power plants, irradiating large areas of the island nation's densely-populated coastline. At the time, it read like [=WizKids=] backpedaling on the game-line's previous JapanTakesOverTheWorld slant, but it's a lot darker of a TakeThat now...

* One of the ''{{Shadowrun}}'' supplements from the 90s describes a volcanic eruption in Japan that triggers nuclear accidents at a cluster of fusion power plants, irradiating large areas of the island nation's densely-populated coastline. At the time, it read like [=WizKids=] backpeddling on the game-line's previous JapanTakesOverTheWorld slant, but it's a lot darker of a TakeThat now...