RPGs that time forgot... Macho Women with Guns

Macho Women with Guns
Tag line: You want it, we've got it!
Makers: BTRC

What is it?
Though a workable game (skewed on the side of combat rather than role-playing), it is really a work of humor and parody, sending up the role-playing "art"'s interest in scantily-clad women with swords, guns, and other phallic symbols.

Neat stuff
-There's almost always at least one joke in every paragraph, which makes this really fun to read, especially if you like to laugh at the boob-happy, gun-happy, mayhem-happy, ninja-happy role-player that you probably used to be.
-Though a joke, some concepts could be ported over to other games. The spartan skill list, for example, or cinematic advantages like Scriptwriter (re-roll one event per game), or Macho Attacks used to impress enemies into submission (excellent modifier list takes into account the quality of your soliloquy, the size of your gun, and the see-through quality of your armor. Extra-gory "Macho Called Shots" are a pretty cool idea too.
-Sample enemies include Killer rabbits, Drunken frat boys and Congressional subcommittees.
-Your character can be Topheavy, which may compromise her sense of balance.
-Other comedy skills, advantages and drawbacks include: Running in heels, Plastic surgeon on retainer and chafing.

Bad stuff
-Of this product's 16 pages, 2 are basically lost to hexagonal grids for tactical combat. A couple jokes on it, but it's still 1/8th of the book serving little purpose (at least the inside cover features some "miniatures" in Cardboard Bimbo form).
-As you can see from the cover, the art is fairly primitive and all in black and white. But that's oddly appropriate here. If you want a prettier one, there's apparently a d20 version of this thing now... again, maybe the most appropriate thing that system has spawned.
-An over-reliance on parodying Call of Cthulhu may leave non-Lovecraftian players in the dust. This includes the sample adventure.

Quote
"Effective Macho can be increased by a high Looks when used against certain lower life forms (i.e. men)."

How I've used it
I haven't. The book is so thin, I'd thought I'd lost it for a decade until I recently found it inside some unrelated boxed set. In reality, I was never able to find the sequel, Renegade Nuns on Wheels, and you know I can't play a game with an incomplete setting. (I consider Batwinged Bimbos from Hell unnecessary, however.)

In conclusion
More of a comedy pamphlet, really, and thus a better read than it is a game. Your mileage may vary when it comes to the humor, of course. As a game, it's decidely geared more towards combat, moving through hex grids and rolling dice. It's a BTRC game after all, and they're hallmark is great concepts mismatched to inappropriately combat-heavy rulesets (see Timelords, for example). Here, they've actually managed to pair that system down to its essentials. I'd actually recommend you mine Macho Women for cinematic games. After all, isn't Schwarzenegger topheavy himself?

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