History TabletopGame / MaidRPG

* {{Bowdlerize}}: A few (''[[TropesAreTools extremely]]'' [[TropesAreTools well-advised]]) examples. See PragmaticAdaptation below. Interestingly enough, this is actually something that the Kamiya himself begged Cluney to do.

* GoingCommando: On the upside, you're immune to penalties for having your underwear taken/[[ClothingDamage destroyed]]/dirtied. On the downside, [[CaptainObvious you're not wearing any underwear]].

* AnachronismStew: Robots, spaceships, guns, bazookas, etc, all still work perfectly fine in Wild West/Edo/Medieval periods. On the opposite end, space age, cyber networks, and alternate planets still have a great supply of medieval swords and katanas.
* AndYourRewardIsClothes: You work hard to please your master in all capacities, and one of the things you can spend Favor on? Clothes! Ability shifting clothes, but clothes nonetheless!

* AuthorAvatar[=/=]AuthorStandIn - Kamiya.
* BadAssOldGuy: Y, well past his prime, is more than capable of kicking ass with a pistol and a katana!

* ChainsawGood: One of the possible weapons

* ClothingDamage: If a maid loses/dirties/damages any part of her uniform (but ''especially'' the frilly headdress), she gets penalties to her rolls. This is cumulative, and can well lead to DefeatByModesty.

* Dark Secret: Using the True Nature item gives the maid that uses a random special quality (as well as increasing one of their stats by 2). Depending on the quality gained, this is either played straight or subverted.

* DigitalPiracyIsOkay: The translator has a note on the PDF version that says, in the "if you pirated the game" section, to...well, give it a try, and if you like it, then shell out some money for it. He then compliments the people who bought it and supported the game, of course.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: It's TabletopRPG about {{Meido}}.

* GenderBender: A couple Random Events in Fantasy settings involve some maids changing gender because of a spell/potion/accident/etc.

* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Knives, axes, whips, chainsaws, and more than several other weapons. Craziness optional.

** Ork maids, see RecycledInSpace below.

* HonestRollsCharacter: For attributes, they're rolled in order and that's it. For everything else, this is averted; you can reroll anything you don't like... but the rolling is supposed to encourage random wackiness.

* JumpedTheShark: Lampshaded. [[invoked]]
-->'''Hizumi''': See this? [mimes] This is a shark. [mimes jumping over it] And here I am jumping over it. I'm jumping over a shark here. Shark? Jumping. Over.

* LovableSexManiac: Yugami, despite her youth, is one of the most perverted characters of the examples in Maid, and fully epitomizes the Womanizer Trait.

* {{Miko}}: Besides having Shrine Maiden attire as a [[AndYourRewardIsClothes possible costume]], the rulebook also has a scenario that cast the players as mikos (instead of maids), who have to fight a SealedEvilInACan.
* NinjaMaid: Well, most of time players would be {{Meido}} who're also ActionGirl. It's possible to avoid this trope if you ''really'' want to, though.

* NobodyCanDie: Player characters cannot die, even from physical wounds -- at worst this leads to their listed Stress Explosion, which heavily restricts their actions until all Stress is relieved. Some equipment or scenarios, however, will alter Stress Explosions into outright character death.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Nejiri, the "replacement Mistress" for Kamiya, is a Lesbian Japanese Vampire.

** Completely compatible with TabletopGame/DarkHeresy.

* [[ShoutOut/TabletopGames Shout Out]]: A great many, not all of which survived translation due to being just plain ''too obscure''.

* TechnicolourEyes: Eye colour picks are taken from the same table as the maid uniform colours (and HairColours, if so desired). It's possible to have [[FridgeHorror transparent eyes]].
* TenderTears: Maid power.

* VaporWear: Literally. Two words: Transparent uniforms.

%%* YouAllMeetInAnInn

* HonestRollsCharacter: For attributes, they're rolled in order and that's it. For everything else, this is averted; you can reroll anything you don't like...but the rolling is supposed to encourage random wackiness.

%%* TheoryOfNarrativeCausality

%%* YouLoseAtZeroTrust

** The [[AppliedPhlebotimum Chromosome Cream]] item turns any female character that uses it into a guy. If a male character uses it, they gain the [[TestosteronePoisoning "Even More of a Guy"]] special quality.

* {{Lolicon}}: Rie Shireda, who likes both her Young Mistress and her fellow maid Kana in all the wrong ways, and is responsible for the creepiest example scenes in the book. It should be noted that the trait that makes Rie such a pervert (Likes Them Young) is primarily for the darker games, and the age range that it encompasses is up to the player and the GM.

** One is the item "Survive Card", which previously belonged to [[KamenRiderRyuki "a masked motorcycle-riding sentai hero"]].

* {{Lolicon}}: Rie Shireda, who likes both her Young Mistress and her fellow maid Kana in all the wrong ways, and is responsible for the creepiest example scenes in the book.

%%* LovableSexManiac: Yugami.

* ClothingDamage: If a maid loses/dirties/damages any part of her uniform (but ''especially'' the frilly headdress), she gets penalties to her rolls. This is cumulative.

* ButtMonkey: Kamiya isn't exactly well-liked, despite how he wrote everyone into existence. Hizumi gets to suffer a lot as well.

''Maid RPG'' is a TabletopGame created by Ryo Kamiya in 2004, and brought into English in 2008 by Ewen Cluney and Diamond Sutra. It revolves around the {{Anime}} concept of [[{{Meido}} maids]], and [[ServantTropes all its related tropes]]. The setting could be anywhere, from fantasy to present-day to cyberpunk to space, as long as there are the Maids (players), the Master (the {{GMPC}}), and the Mansion (where the adventures take place).

There are a few games of ''Maid RPG'' going on in the TVTropes forum - by Tropers, for Tropers! Look for Maid games in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/conversations.php?topic=000000000000000000000514 the "Role Playing Signups"]] or [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/conversations.php?topic=0000000000000000000005i9 "Role Playing Discussions"]] fora.

** Completely compatible with DarkHeresy.

* RecycledInSpace: If anyone is hesitant to try this game, think of it as ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', but with maids.

The English website can be found [[http://www.maidrpg.com/index.shtml here]].

->''"When it comes down to it, TabletopGame/MaidRPG is a [[WidgetSeries goddamn weird game]]."''

* {{Determinator}}: By default if you have high Will. Alternatively, the Immune To Pain power.
** [[ImplacableMan If you have both...well...]]

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin

* LovableSexManiac: Yugami.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: What the player characters tend to be, very easily. It's possible to be a perfectly normal and realistic maid, but it's even more possible to be something else entirely.
** Also, the example characters Hizumi, Yugami, and EB II.

* TheoryOfNarrativeCausality

* [[YouAllMeetInAnInn You All Work In A Mansion]]

* YouLoseAtZeroTrust

* HeroicComedicSociopath: EB II isn't a nice girl to begin with, but in the Afterwords she starts channeling {{Saw}} on Kamiya.

See also other works of Ryo Kamiya. The more violent {{TabletopGame/Nechronica}} and the more heart-warming {{TabletopGame/GoldenSkyStories}}.