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* '''Enforced''': The game is based on a book in which the party has to defeat and loot 10 Goombas before finally finding usable brains needed for a special potion. The game is coded with this same 10% chance.

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The game is based on a book in which the party has to defeat and loot 10 Goombas before finally finding usable brains needed for a special potion. The game is coded with this same 10% chance.chance.
** Goomba Brains are too powerful an item to be easily obtainable from common enemies, so the game designers make it a rare drop.



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* '''Exploited''':
'''Exploited''': The BigBad of the game, disguised as a peasant, gives the player a FetchQuest to collect 30 Goomba Brains, knowing that the difficulty of doing so will buy him just enough time to enact his evil plan.
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'''Conversed''': "Why are Goomba Brains so rare in this game? Shouldn't every Goomba have one?"
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Drama''': In a game where the motives and morality of the enemies is not explained, all monsters have a small chance to drop a trinket that humanizes them — a picture of their spouse, a drawing from their child, a gift for their loved one. Because these drops are rare, the player is unlikely to find one until they've already ended dozens of lives.
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* '''Straight''': In ''Tales of Troperia XII'', {{The Goomba}}s have a 10% chance of dropping [[OrganDrops Goomba Brains]] when defeated.

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* '''Straight''': In ''Tales of Troperia ''JustForFun/TalesOfTroperia XII'', {{The Goomba}}s have a 10% chance of dropping [[OrganDrops Goomba Brains]] when defeated.
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* '''Inverted''':

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* '''Inverted''':'''Inverted''': They have a 99% chance of dropping them.

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* '''Exaggerated''': They have just a 1% of dropping them.

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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They have just a 1% of dropping them.
** They have a 1 in a million chance of dropping
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* '''Parodied''': The rare drop is a JokeItem.

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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The rare drop is a JokeItem.
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* '''Parodied''':

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* '''Parodied''':'''Parodied''': The rare drop is a JokeItem.
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'''Basic Trope''': In a video game with RandomDrops, some items have a very low chance of being dropped.

* '''Straight''': In ''Tales of Troperia XII'', {{The Goomba}}s have a 10% chance of dropping [[OrganDrops Goomba Brains]] when defeated.
* '''Exaggerated''': They have just a 1% of dropping them.
* '''Downplayed''': They have a 30% chance of dropping them, rarer than standard drops but not overly so.
* '''Justified''': Goombas can only be slain by [[BoomHeadShot attacking their heads]], which often destroys the brains.
* '''Inverted''':
* '''Subverted''': Goomba Brains are talked about as being very rare, but they have the same chance of dropping as any other item you can get from a Goomba.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...all of which still only have a 10% chance of dropping.
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* '''Zig-Zagged''': The Goombas have a ''base'' 10% chance of dropping Goomba Brains when defeated. If you hit them in the head, this drops to 1%. If you defeat them without attacking their heads, it raises to a 50%.
* '''Averted''': All random drops in the game have the same, reasonably high chance of dropping.
* '''Enforced''': The game is based on a book in which the party has to defeat and loot 10 Goombas before finally finding usable brains needed for a special potion. The game is coded with this same 10% chance.
* '''Lampshaded''': Party member [[QuirkyBard Quirby]] comments after looting Goomba Brains "makes you wonder how the rest of them manage to survive, no brains and all..."
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