Battlewarmechbots wish everyone to “Have a nice day . . . or else” (Richard Menustik’s mini-poster in Bat-Winged Bimbos from Hell by Greg Porter, final supplement in the satirical Macho Women with Guns RPG trilogy, Blackburg Tactical Research Center, July 1989)  You know, this would be an easy modeling project with some ping pong balls

Isaac Azathoth, one of the villains in Macho Women with Guns by Greg Porter, with Darrell Midgette illustration (1989).  Azathoth was HP Lovecraft’s “blind idiot god” who bubbles and blasphemes in the center of the galaxy, so perhaps the joke here is just a punny mashup with Asimov’s name.  But listed alongside “drunken frat boys”, “chauvinist swine”, “TV evangelists”, and “congressional subcommittee”, in this game that humorously promised to right a gender imbalance in RPGs, this feels like it could be a subtle reference to the open secret of Asimov’s behavior toward women at conventions.

Macho Women with Guns, a satirical sci-fi RPG by Greg Porter, cover by Darrell Midgette (BTRC, 2nd edition, 1989)  (Previously)

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