Found a list of RPG warning signs that should be clearly visible on each rulebook in a store. It is so beautiful I have to translate it right now.
- Warning! Made by dicks!
- Game provokes flamewars on the internet.
- Your GM will not allow you to use this extension. Never. We have warned you.
- Best mechanics of 1999!
- The authors wish you luck in finding players. We would come in person, but we live too far away.
- The sheer number of corrections and additions to the rules to make them even remotely playable requires another rulebook to fit in.
- The dice pool is most conveniently thrown with a portable concrete mixer.
- The authors cannot into mathematics and probability.
- Game may cause irritation with people with an acute allergy to idiocy.
- On eye contact with the designer’s production, rinse with water and seek professional help immediately!
- If you are sufficiently tempted by the cover of this book, leave the hobby immediately.
- The authors wish you luck in the quest for their non-standard dice.
- Not suitable as a toy.
- A narrative game.
- Product may cause increased sleepiness.
- The setting in this edition contradicts the setting of the previous one.
- AWFUL TRANSLATION.
- Illustrations are anatomically impossible.
- Pretends to be realistic.
- Contains a heap of author’s most liked Mary Sues.
- Before you stands a partially playable set of author’s wet dream fantasies.
- Setting consists of 100% political masturbation.
- Contains a metaplot.
- Sales restrictions were imposed by an idiot. HEY, WE HAVE TITS!
- An unprovoked fall of the complete rule book set may cause a local black hole.
- Any fact from the setting is given through a prism of schizophrenia.
- The rulebook contains an actually helpful index of terms used.
- For having fun with the game, full frontal lobotomy is required.
- A science fiction setting that contradicts physics, chemistry and school history lessons.
- Art and text quality do not correlate with playability.
- Product is 100% compatible to “edition wars” feature.
- Creators mistake “overly complicated” for “realistic”.
- The indy postmodern rules concept has to be slightly edited to be actually playable.
- A pseudo-Japanese setting. Contains industrial amounts of schoolgirls, robots, and tentacles.
- The rules use a non-Euclidean distribution curve.
- This cyberpunk’s authors have no idea about emerging technologies in mobile communication, household devices, and computer networks.
- More than a half of the text describes useless author’s NPCs.
- Character creation requires a scientific calculator, a math major, and at least one full game session.
- There was no budjit to pay the edtior.
- Contains author’s graphomania.
- Playtesting has been performed by the author’s imaginary friends, a mouse, and an empty energy drink bottle.
- This is Another First <insert native language here> Role-playing Game!
- Events from narrative interludes are not compatible with rules.
- Rules contain holes.
- One hour of gameplay describes ten seconds of game time.
- Example may be completely different from actual gameplay.
- New and improved D&D!
- Siberian school of role-playing game systems!
- Role-players are pathologically single!
- Game requires internet connection.
- Game not suitable for a sober audience.
- Only by buying this game you can save the <insert native language here> role-playing industry!
- Fans absolutely must recommend the game as the only truly universal one.
- Considers moral and ethical specifics of a paladin’s world view.
- Rulebooks consists of 80% slang. Comprehension check!
- 80% better role-playing!
- D&D 5th edition. May cause scandals and flamewars.
- D&D 6th edition. May cause civil wars.
- V:tM gift edition. May cause financial ruin.
- Illustrated by a pose software.
- Illustrated by photoshopped jointed puppets.
- Rulebook is not suited to stop bullets more powerful than a pistol caliber.
- Equipment takes more than 50% of the contents.
- This book has been written while being high on drugs.
- The authors are not playing by these rules.
- Reading the rules may be not suited for people with high intracranial pressure and chronic heart diseases.
- Precise references to the rules are not included.
- Conflicts about the seventh edition of D&D will be played out with sticks and stones.
- Rules contain abused and maltreated Latin.
- For full understanding of the character sheet, a three weeks’ worth of introductory course is highly recommended.
- Completely incompatible to previous editions. Name has been kept for market share purposes.
- Full list of warnings is given in the XXVII extension book.
- We PlAy wiTH foNTs!
- Taking the setting seriously may cause fascism.
- Butthurt and hundreds of hatred by fans of the previous edition included.
- Yes, this is all the authors could do.
- Caution! Tables.
- The authors use the game as a propaganda method for fringe socio-political concepts.
- The budget was completely spent on the copyright license!
- We don’t recommend. No, really, we don’t.
- Has no index and no table of contents.
- Yet another medieval fantasy!
- Dumb author’s in-jokes in the rules text.
- Illustrated by Google Image Search.
- Don’t buy this book, we will soon publish a new one, which is EVEN WORSE!
- The book opens uncontrollably on the pages with the least safe for work graphics.
- Caution!™ The author® has a very approximate© understanding™ of copyright©!
- We have to defend the existence of our hobby, as well as the well-being of new players.
- Characters described by the author are not compatible to character creation rules.
- Printing the character sheet may use up all the color ink in your printer.
- Rules are not suited to describe a conflict between a vampire and a couple of small girls.
- Terms are used prior to their definition.
- Full definition is spread across three chapters on 250 pages.
- Abilities include “soup cooking” and “tying shoes”.
- Game not suitable for criticism!
- Character creation is more interesting than the game itself.
- Caution! Furries!
- Illustrated by the author.
- For intended game experience, a copy of the author is required.
- For intended game experience, a copy of D&D 2ed. rulebook is required.
- The game requires the players to be acquainted with small units tactics.
- Rules text contain references to terms that were redacted away in the initial proofreading phases.
- Conflict resolution rules are close to “I have hit you!”—“No, you didn’t!”—“Yes I did!”
- Contains a chapter “What is a role-playing game?”
- The book will fall apart on the second day.
- Author considers “anime” a drawing style.
- The “anime style graphic artist” is a freshman student from deviantart.
- Contains Japanese schoolgirls!
- Almost playable.
- Warning! Pretty boring stuff!
- Made to troll the RPG community.
- NO ELVES!
- This game has been considered morally questionable by /b/.
- Authors have consulted anonymous experts from /b/.
- Warning! FATAL!