History TabletopGame / RacialHolyWar

* BrokenAesop: The White Race is superior! Except... if so, how come it needs saving? Why do all the other races have hilariously broken racial abilities but not the Whites? Seriously, Asians get extra attacks (up to 5) in melee (despite supposedly learning them from watching "fake martial arts movies"), Latinos almost always win initiative (despite being depicted as lazy), black people have powerful debuffs and Jews can bribe your character to skip their turn ''with no save'' (and since you don't get any ''money'' after being bribed this way, one has to assume that you decided to do this on the mere ''promise'' of cash, which really makes it no surprise that white people are endangered). White people on the other hand, are just people. Unless you count the inexplicable ability of some (who took the Holy Books skill) to heal others by reading from ''Nature's Eternal Religion'' or the ''White Man's Bible''. All in all, it seem to unintentionally perfectly encapsulate one of Creator/UmbertoEco's observations on the ideology of fascism, namely that through constantly shifting rhetoric the fascists portray their (perceived) enemies as a bunch of weaklings that can easily be vanquished one moment, only to then claim that they are an overwhelming and powerful existential threat the next.

* MasterRace: The players are supposedly the last hope of the glorious white empire.

* ObviousBeta: "Beta" is being rather kind; the game is, simply put, not finished. There are multiple integral rules and systems missing, most famously the entire system of attacking and damaging the opponent, and what rules do exist would likely need several additional passes before they could be deemed publication-worthy.

On top of its incredibly racist subject matter, ''[=RaHoWa=]'' is also infamous for its incomplete manual and gameplay mechanics that are muddled and half-baked at best and completely nonsensical at worst, requiring {{House Rules}} to fill in the missing pieces. There is, for example, no way to calculate base accuracy with firearms, nor stats for weapons. This is not a small problem, as the game is centered around ranged combat, with only one class capable of melee without buying the skill separately. There's even two pages describing what weapon stats are and mean, and still none are provided until a correction was printed.

* HouseRules: Player-improvised rules are needed to play, since basically nothing is finished.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Blatantly stolen from ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977''. It's worth noting that the man on the cover is one of the mutants from the movie; you know, the kind that Nazis would have declared ''untermenschen'' and sent to the gas chambers.

[[caption-width-right:188:Yes. This cover was stolen from ''Film/{{The Hills Have Eyes|1977}}''.]]

''[=RaHoWa=]'' is a tabletop game by Reverend Molyneux, a "priest" for a White Supremacist cult called the Church of the Creator, a.k.a. the Creativity Movement, whose content is exactly what you might expect from such a person. The setting is a TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture society on the verge of collapse thanks to the sinister Jewish Illuminati and the growth of minorities to the point where Caucasians have become the hated and oppressed minority. The players control a cell of "White Warriors" on a self-appointed mission to "cleanse the vermin" and "bring about a glorious White Empire."

On top of its subject matter, ''[=RaHoWa=]'' is also infamous for its incomplete manual and gameplay mechanics that are muddled and half-baked at best and completely nonsensical at worst, requiring {{House Rules}} to fill in the missing pieces. There is, for example, no way to calculate base accuracy with firearms, nor stats for weapons. This is not a small problem, as the game is centered around ranged combat, with only one class capable of melee without buying the skill separately. There's even two pages describing what weapon stats are and mean, and still none are provided until a correction was printed.

''[=RaHoWa=]'' is a tabletop game by Reverend Molyneux, a priest for a White Supremacist cult called the Church of the Creator, a.k.a. the Creativity Movement, whose content is exactly what you might expect from such a person. The setting is a TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture society on the verge of collapse thanks to the sinister Jewish Illuminati and the growth of minorities to the point where Caucasians have become the hated and oppressed minority. The players control a cell of "White Warriors" on a self-appointed mission to "cleanse the vermin" and "bring about a glorious White Empire."

[[caption-width-right:188:Yes. This cover is stolen from ''Film/{{The Hills Have Eyes|1977}}''.]]

''[=RaHoWa=]'' is a tabletop game by Reverend Molyneux, a priest for a White Supremacist cult, whose content is exactly what you might expect from such a person. The setting is a TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture society on the verge of collapse thanks to the sinister Jewish Illuminati and the growth of minorities to the point where Caucasians have become the hated and oppressed minority. The players control a cell of "White Warriors" on a self-appointed mission to "cleanse the vermin" and "bring about a glorious White Empire."

* BrokenAesop: The White Race is superior! Except... if so, how come it needs saving? Why do all the other races have hilariously broken racial abilities but not the Whites? Seriously, Asians get extra attacks (up to 5) in melee (despite supposedly learning them from watching "fake martial arts movies"), Latinos almost always win initiative (despite being depicted as lazy), black people have powerful debuffs and Jews can bribe your character to skip their turn ''with no save'' (and since you don't get any ''money'' after being bribed this way, one has to assume that you decided to do this on the mere ''promise'' of cash, which really makes it no surprise that white people are endangered). White people on the other hand, are just people. Unless you count the inexplicable ability of some (who took the Holy Books skill) to heal others by reading from Nature's Eternal Religion or the White Man's Bible. All in all, it seem to unintentionally perfectly encapsulate one of Creator/UmbertoEco's observations on the ideology of fascism, namely that through constantly shifting rhetoric the fascists portray their (perceived) enemies as a bunch of weaklings that can easily be vanquished one moment, only to then claim that they are an overwhelming and powerful existential threat the next.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Blatantly stolen from ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977''. It's worth noting that the man on the cover is one of the mutants from the movie; you know, the kind that Nazis would have declared untermensch and sent to the gas chambers.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: You, the PC, are a white supremacist who, depending on group, might actually go into the hospital to massacre brown-skinned babies. Take this as a given.

* StrawCharacter: To the extent the game even ''has'' characters (no named ones appear in the sourcebook) they're this. Everyone is a one-dimensional murderous white supremacist or a a one-dimensional offensive stereotype.

* SuicideAttack: The special attack of the Arab class of enemies is blowing themselves up. ''Of course.''

On top of its subject matter, ''[=RaHoWa=]'' is also infamous for its incomplete manual and gameplay mechanics that are muddled and half-baked at best, completely nonsensical at worst, requiring {{House Rules}} to fill in the missing pieces. There is, for example, no way to calculate base accuracy with firearms, nor stats for weapons. This is not a small problem, as the game is centered around ranged combat, with only one class capable of melee without buying the skill separately. There's even two pages describing what weapon stats are and mean, and still none are provided until a correction was printed.

On top of its subject matter, ''[=RaHoWa=]'' is also infamous for its incomplete manual, requiring {{House Rules}} to fill in the missing pieces. There is, for example, no way to calculate base accuracy with firearms, nor stats for weapons. This is not a small problem, as the game is centered around ranged combat, with only one class capable of melee without buying the skill separately. There's even two pages describing what weapon stats are and mean, and still none are provided until a correction was printed.

Unplayable in every sense of the word, ''[=RaHoWa=]'' is an infamously poorly-written and designed tabletop game by Reverend Molyneux and a strong contender for being the only known pen and paper RPG worse than ''TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}''. The setting is a TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture society on the verge of collapse thanks to the sinister Jewish Illuminati and the growth of minorities to the point where Caucasians have become the hated and oppressed minority. The players control a cell of "White Warriors" on a self-appointed mission to "cleanse the vermin" and "bring about a glorious White Empire."

Famously broken and incomplete, the game is frankly unplayable without houserules. There is, for example, no way to calculate base accuracy with firearms, nor stats for weapons. This is not a small problem, as the game is centered around ranged combat, with only one class capable of melee without buying the skill separately. There's even two pages describing what weapon stats are and mean, and still none are provided until a correction was printed.

* AncientConspiracy: The Jewish Illuminati have manipulated the earth for sinister gains throughout history. Of course.

* InsistentTerminology: The game never refers to minorities except in racial epithets. Except Latinos who get the new one, "latrino" because ToiletHumor is about the level of the sourcebook.

* BrokenAesop: The White Race is superior! Except... if so, how come it needs saving? Why do all the other races have hilariously broken racial abilities but not the Whites? Seriously, Asians get extra attacks (up to 5) in melee (despite supposedly learning them from watching "fake martial arts movies"), Latinos almost always win initiative (despite being depicted as lazy), Blacks have powerful debuffs and Jews can bribe your character to skip their turn ''with no save'' (and since you don't get any ''money'' after being bribed this way, one has to assume that you decided to do this on the mere ''promise'' of cash, which really makes it no surprise that white people are endangered). White people on the other hand, are just people. Unless you count the inexplicable ability of some (who took the Holy Books skill) to heal others by reading from Nature's Eternal Religion or the White Man's Bible. All in all, it seem to unintentionally perfectly encapsulate one of Creator/UmbertoEco's observations on the ideology of fascism, namely that through constantly shifting rhetoric the fascists portray their (perceived) enemies as a bunch of weaklings that can easily be vanquished one moment, only to then claim that they are an overwhelming and powerful existential threat the next.