History RuneScape / TropesAToG

* BareYourMidriff: The vast majority of armor or clothing items used to suddenly shrink to expose the wearer's midriff when worn by a female character. Graphical updates in more recent years have reduced the frequency of this trope from "the vast majority" to merely "a whole lot".

** Delrith and Agrith-Naar were never defeated during the events of Demon Slayer and Shadow of the Storm, respectively.
** Hazeel rules over Ardounge and Kandarin, meaning that his cult managed to successfully revive him. Philipe Carnillean is part of this cult.
** Zemouregal was able to take over Varrock during the events of Defender of Varrock, kill all of the Signature Heroes ''and'' most named {{Non Player Character}}s in Northern Misthalin and Northern Asgarnia; those who he didn't kill were made into undead thralls, with the exception of Reldo, who he deemed useful enough to keep around.
** The Fremenniks attempted to invade New Varrock, which resulted in the capture of Koschei the Deathless [[spoiler: really Kharshai the Mahjaraat]].
** Lucien [[spoiler: massacred the Crux Eqal and Temple Knights with the Staff of Armadyl and the Stone of Jas, before being killed by the Dragonkin.]]
** Azzandra was never released from his pyramid at the end of Desert Treasure, meaning he's ripe for the picking when a new ritual of Rejuvenation comes around. The same goes for Akthanakos and [[spoiler: Kharshai]], both imprisoned, while Trindine is left in hibernation in Kharid-Et's Shadow Realm and is presumably never woken up.
** It's still the Fifth Age, meaning [[spoiler: Guthix hasn't died]]. Understandable, as Orlando Smith, the archeologist that discovered [[spoiler: Guthix's resting place]] can't do much in an undead state [[spoiler: and without a mortal hero whose soul is strong enough to house the World Guardian enchantment, Guthix isn't going to manipulate Sliske into [[ThanatosGambit killing him]] to complete it]]. Because the Sixth Age hasn't started, there are still no gods on Gielinor, as the Edicts of Guthix still hold.
** Though it's not shown, Bandos successfully made Zanik his war-hungry avatar and had her spread chaos. She got all the way to the God Wars Dungeon and opened the door to Nex's room...[[EpicFail and was immediately killed as a result]].

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority:

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Someone at Jagex definitely likes penguins too much, as they factor into an entire quest line involving [[spoiler:penguins attempting world domination, with the general plotline of the quests following various tropes related to Cold War-era spy dramas and sci-fi, from Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober to Franchise/DoctorWho.]]

** In 2007, there was [[https://runescape.wiki/w/Update:April_Fools a fake "Behind the Scenes" update]] announcing that every update that month would be heavily cabbage-based. [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Update:Behind_the_Scenes_-_April_Fools! A similar "Behind the Scenes" prank]] was the April Fool in 2011, with a plethora of {{Shout Out}}s.

* CrystalPrison: The goal of the "Merlin's Crystal" quest is to rescue Myth/{{Merlin}}, who has been [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091029205221/runescape/images/thumb/a/a8/Merlintrapped.png/180px-Merlintrapped.png trapped inside a crystal]] by [[Myth/KingArthur Morgan le Faye]].

* AcidTripDimension: The Cosmic Plane where starflowers grow, accessible through fairy rings. It looks like [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101102061038/runescape/images/thumb/5/53/TheCosmicPlane.png/800px-TheCosmicPlane.png this.]]

** In 2007, there was [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Update:April_Fools a fake "Behind the Scenes" update]] announcing that every update that month would be heavily cabbage-based. [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Update:Behind_the_Scenes_-_April_Fools! A similar "Behind the Scenes" prank]] was the April Fool in 2011, with a plethora of {{Shout Out}}s.

** Certain members-only items of clothing were made available. It was discovered that some of those items ([[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Gloves_%28Canifis%29 the gloves]]) were actually usable on freeplay worlds (instead of being displayed as "member's objects" they were still wearable gloves). Because they could not be obtained on free worlds, some members would obtain them for low prices on their worlds and sell them to non-members for higher prices. They became a symbol of wealth on freeplay worlds, eventually forcing Jagex to keep it in.

* ColorCodedStones: There are blue sapphires, red rubies, green emeralds, white diamonds, black onyx, and gold-and-black hydrix. But there are also quest-related gems that are different in color (blood diamond is red, smoke diamond is gray, shadow diamond is black, ice diamond is light gray). Lastly, jade, opal and diamond are in ridiculously similar color. [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Gems You can have a reference here]].

** Several golems, such as the [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Player-owned_port/Captains_and_Crew Jade Golem]], are made out of gemstone.

* ExperienceBooster: Lots. [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Experience#Boosts The Runescape Wiki has a list]].

** DeadlyGas: In one of the Dungeoneering puzzle rooms, the player must make their way to the center of a maze within a certain time limit. Gas will start seeping out from the floor after the timer expires, and damage the player until they reach the center and unlock the chest.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Anachronia, the Land Out of Time (formerly known as Fossil Island) is home to living dinosaurs, among other things—you can hunt them in the Big Game Hunter skilling minigame, slay them as part of a Slayer task (or Reaper Task, in the case of Raksha and the Rex Matriarchs), or raise them on the Ranch Out of Time. As noted under DinosaursAreDragons, Runescape's dragons were created by the dragonkin mutating dinosaurs.
** Before Anachronia, some stegosaurus-esque creatures were trappable in Daemonheim.

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** Speaking of drygore weaponry, a milder example can be seen in drygore longswords. Although they are more expensive than the rapiers and maces, they're actually less useful, because not as many high level monsters are weak to slashing weapons as to stabbing or crushing weapons. And even in situations where your opponent ''is'' weak to slash, you'd be better off saving up for a Noxious Scythe or an Abyssal Scourge anyways. In a nutshell, you're only really paying the extra premium for looks.
** The Hexhunter Bow, while the strongest ranged weapon in the game against magic-class enemies, can't fire Enchanted Bakriminel bolts (unlike Ascension/Blightbound/Eldritch Crossbows, and even the Wyvern Crossbow), meaning even against magic-classed enemies you might be better off taking the latter due to the raw power of said bolts. Slightly alleviated with the introduction of Croesus arrows and Elder God arrows, which have their own unique and powerful effects, but are still outclassed by Bakriminel bolts in most cases. Averted with the bow's magic counterpart, the Inquisitor Staff, due to the ridiculous number of melee-class enemies and bosses that exist.

** At the end of the Blood Runs Deep quest, you manage to trap the Dagganoth Mother inside of the cavern and protect Rellekka, at the cost of [[spoiler:losing Prince Brand and Princess Astrid, who died fighting the Dagganoth Kings. It doesn't help that you married the one opposite to your gender only a few moments before.]]

* DiscOneNuke: The Waterfall Quest is a short member's quest with no meaningful skill or combat challenges, other than sprinting past enemies that can one-shot you. It gives an enormous amount of Attack and Strength xp once completed, enough to jump a character from level 1 to level 30. New members can use this to skip straight to adamant weaponry.

* AnAxeToGrind: In addition to regular battleaxes, hatchets and throwing axes, there's Dharok's Greataxe and Balmung.

** Verac the Defiled's set effect has a slight chance of ignorning defences, which will guarentee a hit if the effect kicks in.

* ArmorPiercingAttack: The enchanted diamond Bakriminel bolts have an "Armour Piercing" effect which has a 5% chance to inflict up to 15% more extra damage at 100% accuracy.

** In ''Old School'', battlestaves and Mystic staves originally had the same magic attack bonus as regular elemental staves. As such, there really wasn't much of a benefit of using a battlestaff or Mystic staff to cast magic aside from having higher melee stats, but even that was moot as most mages would be carrying a better melee weapon anyway, like a dragon dagger or dragon scimitar. Several years later, an update would finally increase their magic attack power.

** In ''Old School'', battlestaves and Mystic staves originally had the same magic attack bonus as regular elemental staves. As such, there really wasn't much of a benefit of using a battlestaff or Mystic staff to cast magic aside from having higher melee stats, but even that was moot as most mages would be carrying a better melee weapon anyway, like a dragon dagger or dragon scimitar. Severeal years later, an update would finally increase their magic attack power.

** Deathtouched darts are a single-use weapon that can OneHitKill almost any monster you throw it at, ''including most bosses''. Sounds good on paper, but in the field it's anything but. For starters, the only way to obtain it outside of seasonal events and weeklies is to buy it for a whopping 5 million coins from a traveling merchant who only appears for a short time on certain worlds, and only stocks the dart on certain days. And when you do manage to get one, there are drawbacks to using it. For starters, it's a complete crapshoot whether or not you'll get a good enough drop to cover the dart's cost. Second, on some bosses, it will only skip one phase of the fight, while others are completely immune to it. Finally, killing a boss with the dart will make your kill not count towards your Soul Reaper task (if you are on one) or your total killcount, and prevent you from advancing either of those for fifteen minutes.

** The lava whip is another example. In addition to being one of the coolest-looking weapons in the game, it has a special attack that ''[[YouWillNotEvadeMe drags your opponent over to you]]'' in player versus player combat, ''even over obstacles they otherwise cannot traverse''. The downsides? The special attack requires a whopping 75% of your adrenaline and has a completely different effect on monsters, merely stunning them instead of dragging them to you. On top of that, it costs almost as much as the stronger drygore weapons, and in order to recharge it, you have to either augment it using the Invention skill (see below), or sacrifice ''multiple'' abyssal whips, although those are pretty cheap nowadays.