History Redundancy / TabletopGames

* ''Tabletopgame/YuGiOh'':

* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' Illuminati University actually has several Department of Redundancy Departments.

** Another way to make card names sound cool but also comprehensible is to write them with Japanese words, but also annotating them with English equivalents. For example, the Japanese name of "Blue-Eyes" is spelled with the Japanese words for "blue-eyed", but pronounced with the English words "Blue-Eyes" as per the pronunciation guide.

** Another way to make card names sound cool but also comprehensible is to write them with Japanese words, but also annotating them with English equivalents. For example, the Japanese of "Blue-Eyes" is spelled with the Japanese words for "blue-eyed", but pronounced with the English words "Blue-Eyes".

* From ''Tabletopgame/YuGiOh'' the card [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Red-Eyes_Fusion Red-Eyes Fusion]], which special summons a monster and lists that it can only be used once per turn; despite the fact the card itself prevents any further special summons that turn hence making the limitation redundant.

* The ever-troperiffic ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
** [[MeaningfulName Ferrus Manus]]--whose name means "Iron Hands"--Primarch of the Space Marine chapter the Iron Hands, ''who actually has iron hands''.
** The chant of the chaos marines "Blood for the Blood God" and "Skulls for the Skull throne".
** Special character Canis Wolfborn is a SpaceWolf, a Wolf Guard in Harald Deathwolf's Great Company, Lord of the Wolfkin, was literally RaisedByWolves, wears a wolf tail amulet and a wolftooth pendant, and rides a Fenrisian Thunderwolf into battle. This and similar examples led to a minor meme where random nouns and names are replaced with WOLF WOLF WOLF.
** The Chapter-creation rules in [[TabletopGame/{{Deathwatch}} Deathwatch]] allows for the name-generation table to spew out some pretty tautological Chapter names, like the Guardian Guard, War Warriors, Bloody Blood, and... Death Death.
** Due to trademark issues, the Imperial Guard were renamed the Astra Militarum...which is faux latin for "Space Army". Their Stormtrooper units became "Militarum Tempestus" (no points for guessing what this is suppose to mean).
** In ''TabletopGame/DarkHeresy'', there is an ascended psychic power called Malleus Hammerhand, or, in other words, Hammer Hammerhand.
** Khârn is arabic for "betrayer". Similar to Malleus above, his name and title translate fully as Betrayer the Betrayer.

* The producers of simsense recordings in the world of ''TabletopGames/{{Shadowrun}}'' sometimes have to whip up portions of those recordings from scratch rather than live-record it, usually because sensations associated with spellcasting or astral phenomena can't be captured by sim-tech. Industry jargon refers to such computer-generated patches of experience as ''pseudosim''.

* The ''LowLife'' card game ''Dementalism'' is described on the back of the box as, "An ingenious game of ingenious ingeniousness."

** b[[MeaningfulName Ferrus Manus]]--whose name means "Iron Hands"--Primarch of the Space Marine chapter the Iron Hands, ''who actually has iron hands''.

* Naturally, Alpha Complex in ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' actually ''has'' a Department of Redundancy Department.
** And many other variations on the theme. "Oh, this is the Complex Supply Bureau. You want the Bureau of Complex Supply."
* An actual RPG session incident, when the GM wanted to make a particular detail very clear to the player: A female soldier with a rifle, pointed at you. She's wearing a green-camo uniform, complete with a rifle, which is pointed at you. The rifle appears to be a high-caliber automatic, and is pointed at you. The soldier is guarding this position, and is pointing her rifle at you. From a cursory study, she appears to be hostile -- evidenced by the fact that she has a rifle pointed at you. She commands, in an aggressive tone, "Put your hands up! I have a rifle pointed at you!" Also, she has a rifle pointed at you.
** It doesn't always work though. In one recorded instance, a ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' party crawling through an oil pipeline was subtly warned four times about all the oil in the oil pipeline, but that didn't stop them from lighting their blowtorch. (One character survived the explosion but was knocked out and drowned in the harbor outside.)
* The ever-troperiffic ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' brings us [[MeaningfulName Ferrus Manus]]--whose name means "Iron Hands"--Primarch of the Space Marine chapter the Iron Hands, ''who actually has iron hands''.

* The ever-troperiffic ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' brings us [[MeaningfulName Ferrus Manus]]--whose name means "Iron Hands"--Primarch of the Space Marine chapter the Iron Hands, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin who actually has iron hands]]''.

** The Chapter-creation rules in [[TabletopGame/{{Deathwatch}} Deathwatch]] allows for the name-generation table to spew out some pretty tautological Chapter names, like the Guardian Guard, War Warriors, Bloody Blood, and, of course Death Death.

** The Chapter-creation rules in [[TabletopGame/{{Deathwatch}} Deathwatch]] allows for the name-generation table to spew out some pretty tautological Chapter names, like the Guardian Guard.

** The Chapter-creation rules in [[TabletopGame/Deathwatch Deathwatch]] allows for some pretty tautological Chapter names, like the Guardian Guard.

** It doesn't always work though. In one recorded instance, a ''TabletopGame/Shadowrun'' party crawling through an oil pipeline was subtly warned four times about all the oil in the oil pipeline, but that didn't stop them from lighting their blowtorch. (One character survived the explosion but was knocked out and drowned in the harbor outside.)