''Macho Women with Guns'' (MWWG) is a

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created by

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and published by

Blacksburg Tactical Research Center Blacksburg Tactical Research Center (BTRC) is an American game publishing company best known for the TimeLords, Macho Women with Guns, and EABA role-playing games. They have produced a variety of role-playing games, card games, and board games. ...

(BTRC). (A D20 System version of the game is also available from

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.) Nominally a science-fiction game, it parodies both action films and other role-playing games.

Setting

''Macho Women with Guns'' is set in a near-future America where society has collapsed due to the misdeeds of the

Reagan administration Ronald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1981, and ended on January 20, 1989. Reagan, a Republican from California, took office following a landslide victory over D ...

. Taking advantage of the earthly chaos,

Satan Satan,, ; grc, ὁ σατανᾶς or , ; ar, شيطانالخَنَّاس , also known as Devil in Christianity, the Devil, and sometimes also called Lucifer in Christianity, is an non-physical entity, entity in the Abrahamic religions ...

has dispatched her female minions, the Batwinged Bimbos From Hell, to rebuild society in a form she approves of. The

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has responded to Satan's plans by dispatching its elite group of warrior nuns, The Sisters of Our Lady of Harley-Davidson to combat the bimbos. The two groups of women compete (sometimes violently) to rebuild civilization by vanquishing post-apocalyptic menaces and

male chauvinism Chauvinism is the unreasonable belief in the superiority or dominance of one's own group or people, who are seen as strong and virtuous, while others are considered weak, unworthy, or inferior. It can be described as a form of extreme patriotism ...

. Dimensional warps caused by the conflict have opened connections to a series of parallel universes, each of which represents a different genre environment such as

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. These universes, along with Earth, constitute a

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that ''Macho Women with Guns'' calls The Machoverse.

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s in ''Macho Women with Guns'' are

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