HoL, short for Human Occupied Landfill, is a satirical science fiction role-playing game first published in 1994 by Dirt Merchant Games and then issued by White Wolf through its adult oriented Black Dog Game Factory imprint. Its core rulebook was followed by one supplement, Buttery Wholesomeness, in 1995. The books are written by hand and take open aim at other role-playing games, especially Vampire: The Masquerade and Dungeons and Dragons, and at the people who play them. The setting is the planet HoL, a dumping ground outside the galaxy to which the ruling Confederation of Worlds sends its criminals and rejects, so that characters spend their time trying to survive and escape among mountains of rubbish and mutated creatures. The game grew out of a conversation between friends in 1990 and 1991 and was playtested in 1992. The reviewer Shannon Appelcline later said it prefigured the wacky turn taken by independent games in the 2000s.
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is a role-playing game created by Dirt Merchant Games and produced by Black Dog Game Factory
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HoL was first published by Dirt Merchant Games in 1994
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