''Macho Women with Guns'' (MWWG) is a
comedy role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...
created by
Greg Porter and published by
Blacksburg Tactical Research Center (BTRC). (A
D20 System version of the game is also available from
Mongoose Publishing.) 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. 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
Vatican 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
fantasy,
Lovecraftian horror
Lovecraftian horror, sometimes used interchangeably with "cosmic horror", is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock. It is named a ...
or
science fiction. These universes, along with Earth, constitute a
campaign setting that ''Macho Women with Guns'' calls The Machoverse.
Player character
A player character (also known as a playable character or PC) is a fictional character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player rather than the rules of the game. The characters that are not control ...
s in ''Macho Women with Guns'' are
buxom
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