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HoL (Tabletop Game)

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HoL, short for "Human Occupied Landfill" is a roleplaying game originally released in 1994 by Dirt Merchant Games. It's a Satire of several famous roleplaying systems, plots, and conventions, including Dungeons & Dragons, the Old World of Darkness series by White Wolf, and many others. The game was written by two long-time gamers, usually on late nights at a local IHOP, originally as attempt to create their own game based on Lobo and later to outright make fun of the complicated and often contradictory rules in role-playing games.Players take the role of a character dumped in the Crapsack World that is the Human Occupied Landfill, a Penal Colony run by the Confederation of Worlds (C.O.W.) that also doubles as a literal galactic landfill, where everything from candy wrappers to nuclear waste rests alongside the prisoners. HoL itself is full of gangs, other criminals, and native creatures with the happy name of Fleshtenders to contend with, all for the amusement of the law-abiding citizens of C.O.W. who can watch the planet's prisoners fight as entertainment, via special camera bots called Crickets. The characters must survive and escape by any means possible, but it's not going to be easy. Particularly when the more useful skills a character can have include "Make Sharp Things Go Through Soft Things That Scream and Bleed", "Tolerate Hideous Amounts of Bloody Mutilation and Still Eat Fast Foods," or "Turn Radios Into Howitzers." There's also the added complications of C.O.W's mortal enemy, the Sedud Neerg Elttil Esoht, making trouble for the Confederation itself.Although there are rules for combat, interactions, and using skills using d6s, and the game was play-tested and has been successfully played, the book is mostly meant to be enjoyed as a read and a laugh for RPG fans.There have been three editions of HoL. The original has long since been out-of-print; White Wolf later picked it up and published for a time it under its adults-only Black Dog label. It is now published by The Cabil.An expansion book, Buttery Wholesomeness (sometimes Buttery HoLsomeness) was released 1995, containing the character creation missing from the corebook, new weapons, and other goodies, as well as a short bonus RPG, Freebase that, amazingly, makes even less sense than HoL.
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Abnormal Ammo: The flaming gerbil cannon, a grenade that creates rabid monkeys on impact, a moist towelette dispenser cannon. The list just goes on. "What's more fun than a barrel full of monkeys? A GRENADE, THAT'S WHAT!" Upon detonation, the "Barrel of Monkeys Grenade" flash aged a hundred fertilized silverback gorilla zygotes into adult maturity. Just think about that for a second.
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Punctuation Shaker: long vowels are consistently spelled with a macron, e.g. "H�l" insead of "Hole", "n�m" instead of "name" etc.
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Our Orcs Are Different
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"MILLIONS OF FOUL, FETID, FUCKING ORCS!!! ALL IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!!!"
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Unwinnable by Design: Hell, it's practically Unplayable By Design.
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The GM Is a Cheating Bastard
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The GM Is a Cheating Bastard: "The HoLmeister is allowed to cheat. Whenever he wants to. Period."
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Deadly Game
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Deadly Game: The events of HoL are filmed as entertainment for the holochannels of C.O.W.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: The Human-Occupied Landfill is a prison that's also a landfill. Everyone wants to kill and/or eat you. You're also being watched by many people who likely want you dead for their entertainment. Even your money can attack and try to kill you.
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy: The game's raison d'etre.
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Player Archetypes
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Player Archetypes: All of the pre-made characters make fun of these archetypes.
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Genre Blindness
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You cannot tell them apart without the Spot Wastit skill, even if the thing is walking away from the hacked up corpse of a baby while holding a bloody butcher's knife.
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Captain Ersatz
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Captain Ersatz: Many of the pre-created characters: The Zinc Surfer (The Silver Surfer) The Man With No N�m (Clint Eastwood's character from the Dollars Trilogy) Johnny Carbon and Dredd McMahon (Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon of The Tonight Show) The King (Elvis Presley, naturally)
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Plot Armor
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Plot Armor: Figuratively, and almost literally. The Dickens Boys were originally collections agents for the imperial library. This being a Crapsack World, their job was more dangerous than Real Life repossession agents, so they had to arm themselves. The standard issue body armor they use is called War and Peace Armor, and it's the best armor in the game. Why? Because nobody gets through War and Peace.
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Living Currency
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Living Currency: The standard currency on HoL are grobules, which are grobling eggs. If you hoard them too long the groblings will hatch and attack their former owner.
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Testosterone Poisoning: Frank, the Were-Guy, who's so manly every full moon he can only turn into something even more manly.
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Except see Noodle Incident, above.
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Deus ex Machina: The Grace of God pool; a player who has any points in it will be automatically be saved if they say, "Praise Jesus!" Averted if they have no points and attempt to use Grace of God, they may instead incur the Wrath of God, the results of which are "worse than snake-eyes."
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Critical Failure
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Critical Failure: Rolling two ones, or snake-eyes: "YOU LOSE!"
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Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality
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Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality: There are no women on HoL because "no woman has been that stupid or unlucky yet."
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The Grim Reaper
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The Grim Reaper: Death is given stats. He's also been forced to hire subcontractors and open a branch office due to demand.
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Unconventional Formatting
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Unconventional Formatting: The entire book is scrawled in handwriting. Not a bit of printed text is to be found. Except see Noodle Incident, above.
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Killer Rabbit
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Killer Rabbit: The Wastits, cute little blob creatures that suddenly sprout lots and lots of sharp, pointy teeth. Not to be confused with Wastems, which are both harmless and delicious. You cannot tell them apart without the Spot Wastit skill, even if the thing is walking away from the hacked up corpse of a baby while holding a bloody butcher's knife.
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Also, Led Pighp, the mascot of the game. He is the only child to have survived HoL into double-digit years of age. Even with his BFG and pet wastit, this is impressive.
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Character Customization
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Character Customization: Averted. In the words of the authors: Later played straight in Buttery Wholesomeness, but the Chart Chart is still limited as it's entirely based on random dice rolls.
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The Six Stats
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The Six Stats: Averted. HoL only uses five. "Meat" roughly corresponds to Strength and Constitution, "Feets" to Dexterity/Agility, "Mouth" to Charisma, "Greymatta" to Intelligence and Wisdom, and "Nuts" to Courage or Willpower.
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Vulgar Humor
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Vulgar Humor: Cursing, dark humor, and bloody violence abound, and one of the pre-generated characters is a Pedophile Priest.
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Enfant Terrible
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Enfant Terrible: Babies. They look like normal ones, but HoL babies are actually engineered by the Fleshtenders, and can destroy you with their sonic mindwarp. Also, Led Pighp, the mascot of the game. He is the only child to have survived HoL into double-digit years of age. Even with his BFG and pet wastit, this is impressive.
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Oh, Crap!
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"What's more fun than a barrel full of monkeys? A GRENADE, THAT'S WHAT!" Upon detonation, the "Barrel of Monkeys Grenade" flash aged a hundred fertilized silverback gorilla zygotes into adult maturity. Just think about that for a second.
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Cute Creature, Creepy Mouth
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Cute Creature, Creepy Mouth: The Wastits look near-identical to the cute Wastems, but can reveal a very large maw filled with sharp teeth.
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Fun with Acronyms
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Fun with Acronyms: Human-Occupied Landfill (HoL), Confederation of Worlds (C.O.W.) The name of the expansion Buttery HoLsomeness can also be officially shortened to "Butt HoL".
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Several, as expected with an Affectionate Parody. The Chart Chart, to the character generation system in Traveller. Uncle Mickey, the abominable hybrid expy of Mickey Mouse and the xenomorph from Alien. Yes, it hosts a kid's show. "MILLIONS OF FOUL, FETID, FUCKING ORCS!!! ALL IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!!!" The martial arts skill is "That Psycho Bruce Lee Shit." Cosby IV, the pudding planet. HoL's status as the prison planet was established in the Imperial Decree Number S1, "The Tomb of Terror".explanation The infamous D&D module Tomb of Horrors had the production code S1.
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Hellhole Prison
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Hell Hole Prison: Sent to HoL? You are most likely going to die. Painfully. And violently.
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Composite Character
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Composite Character: Dredd McMahon, a mix of Ed McMahon and Predator. It doesn't make much sense in context either. Alien + Mickey Mouse = Uncle Mickey. Also Makes As Much Sense In Context.
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Expy
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Uncle Mickey, the abominable hybrid expy of Mickey Mouse and the xenomorph from Alien. Yes, it hosts a kid's show.
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I Call It "Vera"
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I Call It "Vera": Led Pighp's plasma cannon "The Harbinger of the Void" and Frank the Were-Guy's pistol "Phyllis".
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