History TabletopGame / IlluminatiNewWorldOrder

* ArtificialIntelligence: Eliza fits the bill. No doubt ''The Network'' has shades of this.

* ComicBooks: An Organization of the same name; their fans are encompassed under ''S.M.O.F.'', ''Secret Masters of Fandom'').

* {{Cracker}}: The ''Hackers'' group and the ''Phone Phreaks'' apply. The Illuminati group '"The Network'' kind of encompasses the entire trope.
* CriticalFailure: A roll of 11 or 12 is always a failure, no matter what. While there aren't any CriticalHits, there are quite a few cards that manipulate die rolls to be the functional equivalent.

* GeorgeHWBush: This game almost a satirical (or not) love letter to the first George Bush (which makes sense, given the time frame it was released in). Pretty much any phrase that Bush is known for (''Kinder and Gentler,'' ''Read My Lips,'' ''A Thousand Points Of Light,'' etc.) are in the game. The actual ''George Bush'' card is pretty weak, with the at-the-time amusing ability of only being Conservative when their owner ''wants'' him to be.

* LongevityTreatment: There's a Resource called ''Immortality Serum.'' Also, the ''Talisman of Ahrimanes'' also seems to indicate this. Becoming a Vampire also makes you very, very difficult to kill.

* TheManBehindTheMan: The theme of the game drips with this theme, but some cards specifically call it out, like ''Secret Master'' and ''Corporate Masters.''

* MultipleReferencePun: The game has plenty of puns, but the worst offender (and borders on some genuine {{Squick}} is ''Harmonica Virgins.'' One when you say it fast (and thus makes sense, given what it does) and then when you look up what a Harmonica Virgin actually is.

* NeverLiveItDown: ''Teddy Kennedy'' is seen drinking and soaking wet, with a car slowly descending into the river behind him. This was over twenty years after Chappaquiddick.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Averted. Vampires are violent, horribly creatures who are difficult to kill without magic.
* ParodyReligion: The Church of the [=SubGenius=] expansion is full of these tropes. In the base set, the ''Church of Elvis'' and, to a less extent, the ''Reformed Church of Satan.''

* SinisterMinister: Maybe not necessarily sinister, but '"TV Preachers,'' ''Moral Minority,'' and ''Religious Reich'' are all made out to look more conspiratorial than helpful or kind.

Each player takes on the role of a secret conspiracy ("Illuminati") such as the Gnomes of Zurich, the Bermuda Triangle, or the Servants of Cthulhu. Your eventual goal is, of course, to control the world--what good conspiracy worth its weight *isn't* doing that? These Illuminati then control a number of Groups, representing organizations, places, and people that help you control the world. Pretty much any conspiracy theory that has ever been proposed is represented somehow in the game: examples include the Elders of Zion, the Rosicrucians, the Nuclear Power Companies, MI-5, Jimmy Hoffa, and Stonehenge. These groups control other groups, forming a sort of spiderweb-style layout in the playing area.

Part of the charm of the game involves both their alignments and their abilities. There are ten alignments, most of which oppose each other (Liberal vs. Conservative; Peaceful vs. Violent) and the interaction between them all adds a lot of variety. Every single card also has some special ability which adds both flavor and enhances gameplay (but also makes things...a bit complicated).

* TomeofEldritchLore: There's lots of Lovecraftian references, but you can directly control the ''Necronomicon.'' The thing is very temperamental.
* {{Tradesnark™}}: ''Regi$tered Trademark.'' You have to explicitly refer to the affected card BY NAME.

* WarforFunandProfit: The ''Military-Industrial Complex'' makes all Corporate cards in the game function as Government cards instead. ''The Pentagon'' lets its owner draw additional cards for every puppet it controls that is Corporate. Oddly, having both in play is counterproductive.

* AntiMagic: The Assassins card ''The Magic Goes Away'' makes all Magic groups, cards, and resources cease to work.

* {{Hypocrite}}: ''Kill For Peace!''

* SubliminalSeduction: Blatantly subliminal (if there is such a thing) with the ''Subliminals'' card; it's implied in a lot of the other Media-inspired cards as well.

* TheEighties: Generally inverted; the game was released in the early 90's, and most were geared towards more "generic" conspiracies (and an acknowledgement that the ColdWar was over). However, a lot of the Personalities became dated very quickly; both ''Ronald Reagan'' and ''Nancy Reagan'' are cards, as are ''Ollie North,'' ''Margaret Thatcher'' and ''Imelda Marcos.''

* AnOfferYouCan'tRefuse: A card says exactly that. And it ''is'' an offer you can't refuse. Unless the card get cancelled, of course.

* ThePurge: Lets you get rid of double agents. It's kind of expensive and rare to find useful, though.

* TheMenInBlack: A playable card. They make sure that when something is destroyed, it *stays* destroyed.

* BadassIsrael: Both the ''Israel'' card (depicting a soldier in the West bank getting pelted with rocks) and ''The Mossad'' fit this trope.

Resources (various items or gadgets, like the Hammer of Thor or Hitler's Brain) as well as one-shot Plot cards aid players.

* FlyingSaucer: One of the Resources is ''Flying Saucer.'' The {{SubGenius}} cards ''Church of Middle America'' and ''Saucer Landing Strip'' also feature them, and many of the other alien-inspired cards imply them.

* RevolvingDoorRevolution: There's a Dictatorship card (that makes a Nation Violent and more powerful) and also a Counter-Revolution card (that becomes more powerful if a Nation became a Dictatorship). The artwork on both is the same, except the Counter-Revolution is in the process of being overthrown.

* EvilLawyerJoke: There's a card named ''he First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All The Lawyers'' (yes, that's its full name) and its sole purpose is to destroy the Lawyers group.

* ComicBooks: An Organization of the same name; their fans are encompassed under ''S.M.O.F.'' (''Secret Masters of Fandom'').

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Implied with nearly every Corporate group in the game, but especially ''The Corporate Masters,'' ''Market Manipulation,'' and the ''Gnomes of Zurich'' in general.

* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: While the CIA card shows a darkened shadow kicking down a door, guns a-blazing to carry out an assassination, by contrast the ''MI-5'' card shows a proper British gentleman--bowler hat, mustache, and umbrella--peeping into a keyhole.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Appears in a few cards: ''Survivalists'', ''Militia,'' and the ''KKK'' (yes, you can play the Klan in this game. They're pretty useless.)

Illuminati: New World Order (INWO) is the Collectable Card Game version of the classic {{Illuminati}} game by Steve Jackson Games. While it's clearly a descendant of that original game and there's a lot of overlap with that game, the collectable nature (along with a change in most of the rules) make it a much different game.

* LethalJokeCharacter: Some cards are clearly in the game to be jokes, although they all have *some* sort of utility. For example, Regi$tered Trademark forces players to use a card's full name when referring to it (with a penalty of giving up a card if you fail to do so). Of special note: Al Amarja, the island from OverTheEdge, is in the game; this was in "retaliation" for the CCG version of that game including a card called the Bavarian Illuminati. (Both designers, of course, were in on it.)

* [[FlyingSaucer [=UFOs=]]]: The classical "gray alien" depiction of extra-terrestrials. They have the weakest Power but get two Illuminati tokens.

* LongevityTreatment: There's a Resource called ''Immortality Serum.'' Also, the Talisman of Ahrimanes also seems to indicate this. Becoming a Vampire also makes you very, very difficult to kill.

!! This CCG provides game examples of:

!! The Illuminati cards provide game examples of:

!! The cards themselves provides examples of:

* ConspiracyTheories: Duh. The whole point.

* PromotionalPowerlessPieceOfGarbage: Largely averted. There weren't a ton of promo cards, but those that did exist were reasonably useful. Also see NoExportForYou.

* GameBreaker: In the Assassins expansion, many cards weren't quite playtested well enough. After some embarrassment on the tournament level, many cards had to be completely rewritten.

* NoExportForYou: A few cases. Some foreign promo cards weren't available in the US (and some have to be specially ported in).

* {{Sequelitis}}: Kind of. Assassins was well-received and filled in some much-needed gaps, but quite a few cards had to be scrapped and redone. The [=SubGenius=] expansion was so different in tone and style it's easy to dismiss it as not really a sequel and more of a stand-alone. However, since it's tournament legal, it's technically still an expansion.

* FlyingSaucer: One of the Resources is ''Flying Saucer.'' The {{SubGenius}} cards ''Church of Middle America'' and ''Sacuer Landing Strip'' also feature them, and many of the other alien-inspired cards imply them.

* FlyingSaucer: One of the Resources is ''Flying Saucer.'' The {{SubGenius}} card ''Church of Middle America'' also features them, and many of the alien-inspired cards imply them.

* MurphysLaw: There is a card called ''Murphy's Law." It will mess up your day.

* WeatherDissonance: The disaster ''Rain of Frogs.'' Less obviously, ''The Oregon Crud'', ''Giant Kudzu,'' and ''Plague of Demons.'' All of these are direct Disasters you can play on places. Also: the ''Weather Satellite'' lets you control what happens in the sky.

* DepravedDentist: Yes, ''Dentists'' are a playable Organization, and, yes, they will maliciously pull out your teeth unnecessarily to prevent you from taking an action.

* {{Deprogram}}: The ''Deprogrammers'' are notable as being one of the few ways to break through the Discordian's precious immunity.
* {{Druid}}: Portrayed as eco-friendly.

* [[TheIlluminati Bavarian Illuminati]]: This card represents the real-life Bavarian Illuminati. Confusingly, *all* of the factions are called "Illuminati" even though this one actually has the word "Illuminati" in its title.
* The Gnomes of Zurich
* The Network
* The Servants of Cthulhu
* Shangri-La
* The Bermuda Triangle
* [=UFOs=]:

* TakeThat: Steve Jackson Games has a [[http://www.sjgames.com/SS/ notorious history with the Secret Service.]] As such, the ''Secret Service's'' special ability involves ''helping'' with assassination attempts as opposed to preventing them. This incident is also whyt the ''E.F.F'' is a (modestly) helpful playable Organization; they were founded, in part, due to this event.

Illuminati: New World Order (INWO) is the Collectable Card Game version of the classic {{Illuminati}} game by Steve Jackson Games. While it's clearly a descendant of that original game, the collectable nature (along with a change in nearly all of the rules) make it a much different game.

* {{C.I.A.}}: What conspiracy game would be complete without them? They are depicted as violent assassination squads.

* GameBreaker: In the Assassins expansion, many cards weren't quite playtested well enough. A deadly combo: Oil Spill (allowing you to reload cards with the Green attribute) let you draw more cards, which let you play more Oil Spills, which let you draw more cards...until all your Green groups were FULL of tokens. Cue victory. It was called the "Essen Deck" and required a lot of errata. (This tactic was introduced during a tournament, no less.)

* DisasterDominos: Both literal and figuratively. One card, ''Combined Disasters'', allows you to play two disasters at once. Figuratively, a lot of the fun in the game is to set up a serious of conditions, and then trigger it with an innocuous action that lets all the dominoes fall into place.

* ExpansionPack: Two. Assassins (a 125-card set) and the standalone [[ParodyReligion The Church of the SubGenius]]. Both were released soon after the CCG glut; Assassins held its own, but Sub Genius flopped and effectively ended the game line.

* NoExportForYou: A few cases. One was the promo card released in a French gaming magazine (Strange Bedfellows); Steve Jackson Games erroneously let this happen and had to work to get it released in the US. Likewise, CONspiracy was released only at a German convention (and is incredibly powerful for Weird decks). There was a German edition released that included many German-centered political organizations and personalities, all with unique abilities that US players would find very useful.

Illuminati: New World Order (INWO) is the Collectable Card Game version of the classic {{Illuminati}} game by Steve Jackson Games.

* GameBreaker: In the Assassins expansion, many cards weren't quite playtested well enough. A deadly combo: Oil Spill (allowing you to reload cards with the Green attribute) let you draw more cards, which let you play for Oil Spills, which let you draw more cards...until all your Green groups were FULL of tokens. Cue victory. It was called the "Essen Deck" and required a lot of errata. (This was played during a tournament, no less.)

!! This CCG provides examples of:

* BribingYourWayToVictory: Largely averted. Rare cards were often simply unique or funny, not necessarily the most powerful cards.
* ExpansionPack: Two. Assassins (a 125-card set) and the standalone [[ParodyReligion The Church of the SubGenius]]. Both were released soon after the CCG glut; Assassins held its own, but SubGenius flopped and effectively ended the game line.
* GameBreaker: In the Assassins expansion, many cards weren't quite playtested well enough. A deadly combo: Oil Spill (allowing you to reload cards with the Green attribute) let you draw more cards, which let you play for Oil Spills, which let you draw more cards...until all your Green groups were FULL of tokens. Cue victory. It was called the "Essen Deck" and required a lot of errata.

Two expansions were released: Assassins (adding three new types of cards) and {{Church of the SubGenius}} (based on the organization of the same name; it was marketed as a standalone, non-collectable expansion that could be used with the base game.)

Each player has an eventual goal. There is a Basic Goal that all players qualify for (normally, it's simply "control 12 groups); each Illuminati also has a specific public goal (the Gnomes of Zurich, for example, are attempting to control Corporate groups and Banks.) Finally, there are hidden goals players can put in their deck; they're a surprise, but you have to draw and hold them (and are vulnerable to being discarded).

Two expansions were released: Assassins (adding three new types of cards) and {{Church of the SubGenius}} (based on the organization of the same name; it was marketed as a standalone, non-collectable expansion that could be used with the base game.)

Illuminati: New World Order is the Collectable Card Game version of the classic {{Illuminati}} game by Steve Jackson Games.

Each player takes on the role of a secret conspiracy ("Illuminati") such as the UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle, or the Servants of Cthulhu.