History Trivia / Runescape

** The Nightmare Zone is an exact duplicate of the King Black Dragon's lair. Similar to the case with the Summoning creatures, this was done because the developers didn't have a way to create new assets at the time. The development team also poked fun at this; a cow hangs around the entrance of the Nightmare Zone, but there was no way to remove it due to the lack of a map editor. This cow can show up inside the Nightmare Zone as a "boss".

** The original design of Kourend would allow the player to support one of the five houses to become the next monarch, and this was the original purpose of the favour system. However, the quests that came out over the five years after Zeah's release would ultimately railroad [[spoiler:Lord Kandur Hosidius into becoming the next king of Kourend]], making the favour system [[TheArtifact rather vestigial]]. In late 2023, Jagex discussed removing the favour system entirely and instead locking its reward space behind the Kourend Questline, and in early 2024 they removed it entirely.

** The original design of Kourend would allow the player to support one of the five houses to become the next monarch, and this was the original purpose of the favour system. However, the quests that came out over the five years after Zeah's release would ultimately railroad [[spoiler:Lord Kandur Hosidius into becoming the next king of Kourend]], making the favour system [[TheArtifact rather vestigial]]. In late 2023, Jagex discussed removing the favour system entirely and instead locking its reward space behind the Kourend Questline.

* IKnewIt:
** The Rewards Trader is Marmaros.
** [[spoiler:Koschei the Deathless]] revealed to be Kharshai, which was correctly theorised by a large part of the fanbase.
** Some fans even managed to correctly guess that [[spoiler:Wizard Melville Grayzag]], a comic-relief villain from the very old quest "[[spoiler:Imp Catcher]]," was [[NotSoHarmlessVillain the mysterious person responsible for the events of the Void Pest questline]], solely due to the fact that "Quiet Before the Swarm," the first installment of the Void series, has the aforementioned very old quest as a prerequisite despite otherwise having nothing to do with it.

** The book also reveals that the Sandwich Lady was inspired by a "slightly aggressive" woman who would come to Jagex's office and try and sell sandwiches.

** Jagex held a contest for the design of the Mythical Cape, with the winner’s design being the one used in the game.

** The Nightmare Zone is an exact duplicate of the King Black Dragon's lair. Similar to the case with the Summoning creatures, this was done because the developers didn't have a way to create new assets at the time.

** Jagex likes to have fun with the playbase on April Fool's day. In 2004, they added much-requested horses to the game, but in turns out they were actually toy horses. The next year, they added "Dragon Plates" to the game, which were spinning plates with a picture of a dragon on it.

** Instead of Archaeology, the Necromancy skill was proposed to release in Spring of 2020 as a major update for that year; instead, Necromancy is releasing in August 2023.

** The Nightmare Zone is an exact duplicate of the King Black Dragon's lair. Similar to the case with the Summoning creatures, this was done because the developers didn't have a way to create new assets to the game at the time.

** The Nightmare Zone is an exact duplicate of the King Black Dragon's lair.

** A head of cabbage can be a reward from a master clue scroll. The odds of getting one are the same as the ultra-rare rewards.

** A [[https://twitter.com/Jagex/status/1362378862240407554 2021 LGBT History Month tweet]] from Jagex reveals that [[AnythingThatMoves Charos is pansexual]].

** When a bird's nest falls out of a tree, the sound of a bird chirping will usually. However, on rare occasions, this sound will be replaced by the sound of the Armadyl Crossbow's special attack, which is a horrific screeching sound. Needless to say, it might scare the bejesus out of an unsuspecting player.

** Jagex held a contest for the design of the Mythical Cape, with the winner’s being used in the game.

** Jagex likes to have fun with the playbase on April Fool's day. One year, they added much-requested horses to the game, but they were actually toy horses.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://runescape.wiki/ The RuneScape Wiki]], as well as the two ''Old School'' wikis [[https://oldschoolrunescape.fandom.com/wiki/Old_School_RuneScape_Wiki here]] and [[https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/ here]] (the latter being the one more widely used by the fandom).

** [=RuneLite=] is a third-party client that's popular because of its many features and quality of life updates. After a few years, it became popular enough to warrant a link to download it on the official Old School website.

** Way back in the day, you had to carry a watch and a sextant in order to dig up a coordinate clue. Not having them in your inventory would lead to you not digging anything up, even if you were in the correct location. ''Old School'' removed the necessity to carry these items, so now you just have to dig in the correct spot.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: ''Old School'' was introduced in response to the players who got rubbed the wrong way by the Evolution of Combat. For those who weren’t interested in playing ''Old School'', Jagex introduced a “Legacy Mode” that turned off the mechanics of the Evolution of Combat.

* The Ruinous Powers, a new set of prayers, were originally going to be a reward for completing Desert Treasure II. However, after feedback from the community, Jagex decided not to implement them.

** [=RuneLite=] is a third-party client that's popular because of its many features. After a few years, it became popular enough to warrant a link to download it on the official Old School website.

** Great Kourend was originally going to be named “Great Goureng”. But the developers noticed that the pronunciation of "Goureng" was very similar to "Göring", the last name of a Nazi military leader and war criminal.

** An unused sound for a horse getting hit exists in the game's code, but was never used.

** Old School celebrates its birthday every February with an in-game event.