History TakeThat / TabletopGames

* ''TabletopGame/ViolenceTheRoleplayingGameOfEgregiousAndRepulsiveBloodshed'' is a [[BlackComedy darkly humorous]] satire of hack-n-slash [=RPGs=]. When the rulebook isn't covering actual game mechanics, then the author is either taking [[TakeThatAudience potshots at the players]] or at tabletop [=RPGs=] and video games.

* There is some suspicion circulating that the [[http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Arbiter ''Arbiter'']] Battlemech from ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', released as part of a technical readout in 2010, is a jab at ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. It features several stereotypical Warhammer details, particularly those of the iconic {{Space Marine}}s, including ShouldersOfDoom, a gauntlet-shaped hand resembling a PowerFist, SpikesOfVillainy, [[{{BFG}} a huge gun]] [[ArmCannon in place of its lower right arm]], and a vaguely GothicPunk appearance. It also happens to be a weak, slow, fragile, poorly armed lightweight Industrialmech (that is, a work-grade robot) that is to a proper Battlemech what a forklift is to a tank, explicitly designed InUniverse to look more showy and threatening than it actually was, and bought precisely for its looks rather than its substance. Described as cheap, bottom of the barrel, and only good in large numbers, it's hard to not see some broad swipes taken at 40K.

-->''Reading [[TomeOfEldritchLore the Necronomicon]] is not in itself a problem. Much like, say, a Jonathan Franzen novel, it is confusing, nonsensical, but ultimately harmless. The trouble comes from — again, much like a Franzen novel — taking it seriously.''

** Among 40K's many planets with such names as Armageddon, Murder, Fenris, and Baal, one stands out as being differently horrible.

** Also within the INWO universe, there is a card for Al Amarja, the setting for rival CCG OnTheEdge. This was in "retaliation" for On The Edge including a Bavarian Illuminati card. Both designers were, of course, in on it.

** A whole chapter of a Vampire sourcebook was a giant TakeThat to the infamous ''[[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade DirtySecretsOfTheBlackHand]]''.

** A whole chapter of a Vampire sourcebook was a giant TakeThat to the infamous ''DirtySecretsOfTheBlackHand''.

--> [[SelfDeprecation Birmingham]] is also known as the Black Planet, as it receives almost no visible light from its system's sun. As a result, the planet receives few visitors, and its inhabitants have become linguistically and culturally isolated. Its technology is primitive compared to the rest of the Imperium, as the musket is still in use among the natives.

** In both versions, the entire Ork race are a TakeThat at football hooligans even though fans [[TooFunnyToBeEvil tend to think of Orks as really funny]] but its kind of obvious its a take that when you realize they are to bricks what dumb as a brick is to normal people.

* After the Secret Service raid on their premises was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._United_States_Secret_Service deemed to have been unlawful,]] Steve Jackson Games printed a card for their ''Illuminati: New World Order'' CCG depicting a Secret Service agent wearing the insignia of [[FunWithAcronyms the Nazi SS.]] A justification for the raid given was that the book whose manuscript they seized, ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} {{Cyberpunk}}'', was a handbook on computer crime, especially hacking. The result? They made ''Hacker'' shortly afterward, a board/card game focusing on computer hacking.

* There is some suspicion circulating that the [[http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Arbiter ''Arbiter'']] Battlemech from ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', released as part of a technical readout in 2010, is a jab at ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. It features several stereotypical Warhammer details, particularly those of the iconic {{Space Marine}}s, including ShouldersOfDoom, a gauntlet-shaped hand resembling a PowerFist, SpikesOfVillainy, [[{{BFG}} a huge gun]] [[ArmCannon in place of its lower right arm]], and a vaguely GothicPunk appearance. It also happens to be a weak, slow, fragile, poorly armed lightweight Industrialmech (that is, a work-grade robot) that is to a proper Battlemech what a forklift is to a tank, explicitly designed InUniverse to look more showy and threatening than it actually was, and bought precisely for its looks rather than its substance. Described as cheap, bottom of the barrel, and only good in large numbers, it's hard to not see some broad swipes taken at 40K.

* ''TabletobGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'':

** The Brujah clanbook features a "Fake Rapper" archetype, depicted as a white poser who claims to be from the streets but has no streetwise or combat abilities. It's obviously mocking Music/VanillaIce, whose record label infamously tried to pass off as a former gang member in a phony autobiography. The archetype is contrasted on the next page by a "Real Rapper" who looks more like Music/DrDre and has the stats you'd expect from a life on the streets.

* ''TabletobGame/TheOldWorldOfDarkness'':

* From a supplement to White Wolf's ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'': "This same century also sees the birth of many of the modern 'gypsy' stereotypes, which... lead to the fanciful romanticization of 'True Romany' as singing, dancing, scarf-wearing vagabonds. This stereotyping is perpetuated throughout the 20th century through works of popular fiction, cheap horror movies, 'medieval' or 'Renaissance' re-enactment societies, and badly researched role-playing game supplements." The same company had earlier released ''World of Darkness: Gypsies'', a supplement playing on exactly those stereotypes.

* After the Secret Service raid on their premises was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._United_States_Secret_Service deemed to have been unlawful,]] Steve Jackson Games printed a card for their ''Illuminati: New World Order'' CCG depicting a Secret Service agent wearing the insignia of [[FunWithAcronyms the Nazi SS.]]
** A justification for the raid given was that the book whose manuscript they seized, ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} {{Cyberpunk}}'', was a handbook on computer crime, especially hacking. The result? They made ''Hacker'' shortly afterward, a board/card game focusing on computer hacking.

--> Birmingham is also known as the Black Planet, as it receives almost no visible light from its system's sun. As a result, the planet receives few visitors, and its inhabitants have become linguistically and culturally isolated. Its technology is primitive compared to the rest of the Imperium, as the musket is still in use among the natives.

* In both ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}s'', the entire Ork race are a TakeThat at football hooligans even though fans [[TooFunnyToBeEvil tend to think of Orks as really funny]] but its kind of obvious its a take that when you realize they are to bricks what dumb as a brick is to normal people.