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* CanadaEh: [[spoiler: The ''Damnation Army'' adventure has the players traveling to Canada, where acting on any Canadian stereotypes will get their vehicle searched at customs]]
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* PastLifeMemories: A power players would have was to recall the abilities of someone famous they'd been in a past life, which would give them basically an infallible superpower for the ten minutes this lasted at a time (Einstein's mathematical genius, for instance, Bruce Lee's martial arts skills, or the Three Stooges' ability to take no damage from all the comedic whoopings they went through). If a player's character dies, that character becomes a past life whose abilities they can access with their next character.
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* PastLifeMemories: A power players would have was to recall the abilities of someone famous they'd been in a past life, which would give them basically an infallible superpower for the ten minutes this lasted at a time (Einstein's mathematical genius, for instance, Bruce Lee's martial arts skills, or the Three Stooges' ability to take no lasting damage from all the comedic whoopings they went through). If a player's character dies, that character becomes a past life whose abilities they can access with their next character.
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* PastLifeMemories: A power players would have was to recall the abilities of someone famous they'd been in a past life, which would give them basically an infallible superpower for the ten minutes this lasted at a time (Einstein's mathematical genius, for instance, Bruce Lee's martial arts skills, or the Three Stooges' ability to take no damage from all the comedic whoopings they went through). If a player's character dies, that character becomes a past life whose abilities they can access with their next character.
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* StockNessMonster: One thing the players can be called on to investigate are the antics of underwater saurians.
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A little-known TabletopRPG from the early 1993, ''Pandemonium!'' took us outside our nice comfortable world...
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* TheMothman: Another famous cryptid written up to appear in the game.
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* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: These famous cryptids are given stats for use as story fodder, of course.
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* InnocentAliens: The Venusians are on humanity's side, fighting to protect them from the schemes of the Martians. Also, they worship Music/CharlieParker.
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* InnocentAliens: The Venusians are on humanity's side, fighting to protect them from the schemes of the Martians. Also, they worship Music/CharlieParker.Music/CharlieParker and Elvis.
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* DeathIsCheap: Since the game's going for humor, if a player dies their character undergoes reincarnation and the abilities they had as their old character become abilities they can access as their new character by recalling the past life.
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* DeathIsCheap: Since the game's going for humor, if a player dies dies, their character undergoes reincarnation and the abilities they had as their old character become abilities they can access as their new character by recalling the past life.
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* [[AllMythsAreTrue All Tabloid Stories Are True]]
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* [[AllMythsAreTrue All Tabloid Stories Are True]]True]]: It's just that most people will handwave them away; people have to have had some kind of psychic experience that opens their mind.
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* ArgentinaIsNaziland: Close enough, but the game has "Brazilian Nazis" who hid out in South America as a potential source of trouble for the players' investigators.
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* WorldOfWeirdness: The game takes place in a world where all the weirdness you read about in tabloids like ''The Weekly World News'' (like reincarnation, Fortean phenomena, psychic powers, and aliens) are true.
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Sadly the game found little support from the gaming public and was shuttered after the release of the rulebook and a single booklet containing premade adventures. Not to be confused with the 1982 Movie of the same name, nor [[VideoGame/{{Pandemonium}} the PlayStation 1 series of games of the same title]], or the ''Books of Pandemonium''. Or, you know, ''[[Literature/ParadiseLost that]]'' [[{{Hell}} place...]]
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Sadly the game found little support from the gaming public and was shuttered after the release of the rulebook and a single booklet containing premade adventures. Not to be confused with the 1982 Movie of the same name, nor [[VideoGame/{{Pandemonium}} [[VideoGame/Pandemonium1996 the PlayStation 1 series of games of the same title]], or the ''Books of Pandemonium''. Or, you know, ''[[Literature/ParadiseLost that]]'' [[{{Hell}} place...]]
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A little-known TabletopRPG from the early 1993, ''Pandemonium!'' took us outside our nice comfortable world...
All those things you read about supermarket tabloids? Backwoods lake monsters, alien abductions, Elvis sightings, '''they're all true'''. The players control Paranormal Investigators, or rather reporters for one such rag, The Weekly Weird News, after attaining Enlightenment. Besides simply being able to accept all the bizarre events [[{{Muggles}} most people]] write off as hooey, becoming Enlightened allows people access to unusual abilities like walking through walls and clairvoyance, as well as being able to call up the abilities of who they were in past lives. With these abilities the players are sent to investigate everything from bigfoot sightings to secret conspiracies.
Sadly the game found little support from the gaming public and was shuttered after the release of the rulebook and a single booklet containing premade adventures. Not to be confused with the 1982 Movie of the same name, nor [[VideoGame/{{Pandemonium}} the PlayStation 1 series of games of the same title]], or the ''Books of Pandemonium''. Or, you know, ''[[Literature/ParadiseLost that]]'' [[{{Hell}} place...]]
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!!This tabletop RPG provides examples of:
* [[AllMythsAreTrue All Tabloid Stories Are True]]
* BackupTwin: An offered explanation for a quick and simple bout of reincarnation.
* BlobMonster: Arcturans are, in their natural states, massive globs of protoplasm. They prefer to take human form and run various bizarre money-making scams, but if cornered will resume their natural forms and attempt to suffocate or digest their opponents.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Players can temporarily lose their Enlightenment, and with it goes all their special abilities.
* CanadaEh: [[spoiler: The ''Damnation Army'' adventure has the players traveling to Canada, where acting on any Canadian stereotypes will get their vehicle searched at customs]]
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Collectors are a specific type of NPC, and "Collecting" (the ability to recognize, assess the value of, and locate the collector's specific obsession) is a possible special ability. Collectors are, for the most part, harmless, and may be willing to help the players if provided new items for their collection.
* DeathIsCheap: Since the game's going for humor, if a player dies their character undergoes reincarnation and the abilities they had as their old character become abilities they can access as their new character by recalling the past life.
* DaEditor: The GM is called the Editor, and the in-game editors have borderline superhuman stats to show they aren't to be messed with.
* ElvisLives: The pack-in adventure has the players investigating why there haven't been any Elvis sightings for an entire month.
* FakingTheDead: A character can, by spending ExperiencePoints and a significant amount of money, invoke this trope when their character would die.
* TheIlluminati: While secret conspiracies are all over the place, the Illuminati, (or the ''Bavarian'' Illuminati as the game insists on calling it) is the big daddy of them all.
* InnocentAliens: The Venusians are on humanity's side, fighting to protect them from the schemes of the Martians. Also, they worship Music/CharlieParker.
* TheMasquerade: Although it's achieved by most people having a particular state of mind which prevents them from believing in paranormal phenomena, which can be alleviated through alien technology or psychic occurrences. If a player loses their Englightenment, they stop believing in all the weird stuff.
* TheMenInBlack: And they are not your friends. Even Paranormal Investigators like the players don't know much about them, except they show up to suppress evidence of particularly dangerous paranormal events, and have abilities that make them more or less unstoppable. Their entry in the rulebook points out how experienced P.I.'s know to quickly get out of their way.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: One of the available powers.
* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: Naturally, many an adventure can be woven around having the players investigate the activities of one cryptid or another. There's even a power in the game, Cryptozoology, that allows a player to identify evidence of one.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Everyone has a past life and can try to summon it up to make use of its special abilities (such as making rousing speeches as Abraham Lincoln or advanced mathematics as Albert Einstein). If a character dies, they're reincarnated and can do this with the abilities of the character they'd previously had. Villains have past lives too, but ones like Hitler, Ted Bundy and Richard Nixon.
* SerialKiller: Deranged Serial Killers are a common feature of Tabloid World.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: If a character dies, the player's next character can use them as a past life, gaining access to their abilities... ''unless'' the character was killed ''specifically to be used as a past life'', in which case they die permanently.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Every character has a phobia of something. A few of the pregenerated characters are scared spitless of ''role-playing games''.
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A little-known TabletopRPG from the early 1993, ''Pandemonium!'' took us outside our nice comfortable world...
All those things you read about supermarket tabloids? Backwoods lake monsters, alien abductions, Elvis sightings, '''they're all true'''. The players control Paranormal Investigators, or rather reporters for one such rag, The Weekly Weird News, after attaining Enlightenment. Besides simply being able to accept all the bizarre events [[{{Muggles}} most people]] write off as hooey, becoming Enlightened allows people access to unusual abilities like walking through walls and clairvoyance, as well as being able to call up the abilities of who they were in past lives. With these abilities the players are sent to investigate everything from bigfoot sightings to secret conspiracies.
Sadly the game found little support from the gaming public and was shuttered after the release of the rulebook and a single booklet containing premade adventures. Not to be confused with the 1982 Movie of the same name, nor [[VideoGame/{{Pandemonium}} the PlayStation 1 series of games of the same title]], or the ''Books of Pandemonium''. Or, you know, ''[[Literature/ParadiseLost that]]'' [[{{Hell}} place...]]
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!!This tabletop RPG provides examples of:
* [[AllMythsAreTrue All Tabloid Stories Are True]]
* BackupTwin: An offered explanation for a quick and simple bout of reincarnation.
* BlobMonster: Arcturans are, in their natural states, massive globs of protoplasm. They prefer to take human form and run various bizarre money-making scams, but if cornered will resume their natural forms and attempt to suffocate or digest their opponents.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Players can temporarily lose their Enlightenment, and with it goes all their special abilities.
* CanadaEh: [[spoiler: The ''Damnation Army'' adventure has the players traveling to Canada, where acting on any Canadian stereotypes will get their vehicle searched at customs]]
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Collectors are a specific type of NPC, and "Collecting" (the ability to recognize, assess the value of, and locate the collector's specific obsession) is a possible special ability. Collectors are, for the most part, harmless, and may be willing to help the players if provided new items for their collection.
* DeathIsCheap: Since the game's going for humor, if a player dies their character undergoes reincarnation and the abilities they had as their old character become abilities they can access as their new character by recalling the past life.
* DaEditor: The GM is called the Editor, and the in-game editors have borderline superhuman stats to show they aren't to be messed with.
* ElvisLives: The pack-in adventure has the players investigating why there haven't been any Elvis sightings for an entire month.
* FakingTheDead: A character can, by spending ExperiencePoints and a significant amount of money, invoke this trope when their character would die.
* TheIlluminati: While secret conspiracies are all over the place, the Illuminati, (or the ''Bavarian'' Illuminati as the game insists on calling it) is the big daddy of them all.
* InnocentAliens: The Venusians are on humanity's side, fighting to protect them from the schemes of the Martians. Also, they worship Music/CharlieParker.
* TheMasquerade: Although it's achieved by most people having a particular state of mind which prevents them from believing in paranormal phenomena, which can be alleviated through alien technology or psychic occurrences. If a player loses their Englightenment, they stop believing in all the weird stuff.
* TheMenInBlack: And they are not your friends. Even Paranormal Investigators like the players don't know much about them, except they show up to suppress evidence of particularly dangerous paranormal events, and have abilities that make them more or less unstoppable. Their entry in the rulebook points out how experienced P.I.'s know to quickly get out of their way.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: One of the available powers.
* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: Naturally, many an adventure can be woven around having the players investigate the activities of one cryptid or another. There's even a power in the game, Cryptozoology, that allows a player to identify evidence of one.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Everyone has a past life and can try to summon it up to make use of its special abilities (such as making rousing speeches as Abraham Lincoln or advanced mathematics as Albert Einstein). If a character dies, they're reincarnated and can do this with the abilities of the character they'd previously had. Villains have past lives too, but ones like Hitler, Ted Bundy and Richard Nixon.
* SerialKiller: Deranged Serial Killers are a common feature of Tabloid World.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: If a character dies, the player's next character can use them as a past life, gaining access to their abilities... ''unless'' the character was killed ''specifically to be used as a past life'', in which case they die permanently.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Every character has a phobia of something. A few of the pregenerated characters are scared spitless of ''role-playing games''.
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