Accidental Innuendo / Tabletop Games

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Accidental Innuendos in Tabletop Games.

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• The Penetrator BattleMech is 75 tons of walking Accidental Innuendo.
• Dungeons & Dragons:
  • The Rod of Lordly Might. That's just overselling yourself.
  • A Rod of Viscid Globs can only shoot three times a day.
  • There's also the Rod of Wonder (works at will) and the Rod of Extend (Spell) and Rod of Enlarge (Spell), which also work three times per day.
• The Player's Guide to Eberron. An image of an Aerenal elf featured a skeleton-effect Breast Plate that looked very much like the elf was being groped by a skeleton.
• Anys Syn from Exalted is named after real-world author Anais Nin; her name is not intended to be a joke about sex or headache medicine.
• Fantasy Flight Games' urban-fantasy RPG Fireborn features characters who are reincarnated dragons; their special abilities are powered by "karma." Karma's corrupted opposite is "taint." Cue gamer snickering.
  • Even worse, in the official introductory adventure The Fire Within, the concept is introduced with the following verbatim dialogue:
    "Why did you attack us?"
    We smelled the taint of the Opener of Ways upon you. ...
    "What do you mean, 'taint'?"
    Do you know the thing you call upon when in most dire need? That has many names. Fate, fortune, karma? The opposite of that, it has but one name. Taint. ... The Opener of Ways loves taint.
    "What are the effects of taint?"
    ... As for us (he gestures to himself and his fellow fairies), it warps us, changes us. ... For you, I do not know.
• Rogue Trader's supplement Into the Storm contains new character options, one sub-option being named "Secret Taint", the description going downhill from there: "You have long been careful to hide the worst of yourself and your family from outsiders. Their greatest atrocities are tales of horror, yet the truth of them is far worse. (...)"
• Iron Kingdoms:
  • One female warcaster, Ashlynn D'Elyse, has a spell that makes entire groups of enemies less likely to hit in melee, less capable of self-defense and completely unable to operate firearms for a time. The spell's name? Distraction.
  • Skarre, a Cryx caster that is of the all-female Satyxis race, has an ability called Great Rack, which can knock people down. She has horns, you perv.
• Rifts features a Humongous Mecha called the Hunter Mobile Gun. To help counter enemy infantry, it carries what Northern Gun sales reps insist is a belly gun... mounted right between the robot's legs.
• Some Magic: The Gathering cards look unintentionally sexual:
  • Witch-Maw Nephilim's appearance is rather phallic, its flavor text mentions it "making way for its passage", and its abilities (which allow it to grow until it can bypass some of the opponent's defenses) could also have a somewhat suggestive interpretation.
  • Clergy en-Vec. Whatever that second person is doing to him down there, he sure looks happy about it, that's for sure.^note Read the flavor text. Now look at the card art. Now intentionally misread the flavor text.
  • Both Siege Wurm and its successor Armada Wurm are more than a little phallic-shaped, and their 'helmets' certainly don't help matters.
  • Daily Regimen. Why is only his right arm that ripped? The flavor text also states "what self-indulgence tears down, discipline builds up again".
• Settlers of Catan: "Do you have wood for sheep?" It's a request to trade, obviously. Expect jokes like this a lot. (See The Big Bang Theory's use of this gag in the Live Action TV page.) Of course, the official names for these resources are "lumber" and "wool", but there's a reason people call them wood and sheep.
• In Wingspan, the "Anatomist" bonus card ("Birds with body parts in their names") draws attention to some unfortunate bird names like Azure Tit and American Woodcock. While the official ruling is that these don't count towards the card, it's a Popular Game Variant to say, "screw that, they count".
• Character sheets in Vampire: The Requiem could be this to Polish players, since the word for "virtue" (cnota) can also mean "virginity" in Poland. Cue first-time players asking whether they should put "yes/no" in that part of the sheet.
• The title of this board game, Nut So Fast. It's meant to be a pun of "not so fast", but...
• One Ambipom Pokémon card shows it lying down and winking suggestively, and its first attack is named Furry Chance.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!:
  • The English version abbreviated the name of the Different Dimension Warrior Lady to D.D. Warrior Lady to fit in the card's header. The card art doesn't depict her as particularly busty.
  • Drillago has a drillbit sticking out right where his penis would be.
  • The flavor text for the Nekogal #1 refers to her as a "pussyfairy". Evidently, Konami got annoyed enough at people going "Haha, pussy fairy!" that it was amended to "pussycat-fairy" on the official database
  • Lord of D. might just be one of the most frequently joked-about cards in the game for the name alone. In a similar vein is Lady of D. which really just sounds like a porn star name. It's still not clear why Konami didn't just write out the word "Dragons" fully.

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