History VideoGame / BoardGameOnline

* NoSell: The "No." skill lets you do this when shot at.

** The gay cowboys in the Wild West event, though it's possible for women to sleep with them too. The sex will either result in one speed gained or one lost.

** InfinityMinusOneSword: Rarely a purchased lightsaber will be purple, which kills everything on your space and within one space of you with a single swing. Murdering people is ''much'' easier when you don't have to be directly on top of them.

* TakeThat: One event has the player entering a bar in Indiana, and beating up the bartender. This is a reference to Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, passed in late March 2015, which allows business owners to ignore anti-discrimination laws on religious grounds.

* ThanatosGambit: There are actually a few perks to being dead at the right time; explosive items don't move you upon detonation, and Guns and Arrows won't cause you to run backward, to name a few. A well-timed suicide when you're nearing the finish and everyone is getting ready to shoot you is a good way to secure a win.

* OptionalSexualEncounter: The brothel, though it's a crapshoot whether you get someone like Alizee or someone like the World's Ugliest Dog. Wearing Night-Vision Goggles or having Arcane Vision, however, will reveal who it is before you decide to sleep with them.

* FrankensteinsMonster: Can be slept with the Dark Room. (Yeah.)

* TimeMachine: Another one of the random events. It can take you to the far past or hundreds of years into the future, but never into the TheWildWest.

** Inexperienced players will drop mines or TNT into a group of opponents and then use other items to escape from the pack before detonating them. More often than not this results in a GenreSavvy player using a Lasso or Tractor Beam to drag him back, either saving everyone's bacon or [[TakingYouWithMe not noticing his re-positioning fast enough]].

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->"BG Online is a board game. Online. Without a board, really. But on a website. Seriously though, it is! Just like all your classic board games you play this game with a bunch of other people and the first to cross the finish line wins!" - BG Online FAQ, ''What kind of game is this?''

Relevant tropes:

* WheresTheKaboom: Sometimes, the time bomb doesn't explode. It is even accompanied with the trope-naming quote.
* TheWildWest: You can fight bandits for reputation, or visit the Indian tribe and learn to shoot arrows.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Due to the effects of several events, as well as some pre-game options, a very common name to see is [[AllMenArePerverts Macho]] [[SquishyWizard Sorcerer]] [[ThePaladin Paladin]] [[HornyDevils Incubus]] [Vamic] [[GameOfThrones Baratheon]].

** The "Salem's Destiny" event is the biggest example: [[spoiler:You first have to have a scroll with Spell Shield and a Pocket Ball, then go to the Magic Shop. While at the entrance, cast Spell Shield on yourself. Buy a Light Wand there, charge it with Remove Curse, then try to leave. When prompted, try to catch the cat with the Pocket Ball, but it will (inevitably) fail. Your Spell Shield will block the Blinding spell that you usually get from trying to catch the cat, so you can see the cat escape. Use your Remove Curse wand on the cat and the cat will be freed, giving you the item "Decursed Collar". Then get a Ring of Arcane Vision to read the runes hidden on the collar... ''and that's just the first part''.]]

[[http://www.boardgame-online.com/index.php Board Game Online]] is an interactive, html-based board game with a ridiculous premise and a slew of references. Gameplay is a mixture of pure luck and experienced strategy, and the developers have really thought of everything.

The site was relaunched on June 27th, 2014, giving it fancier site graphics, a better chat system and a way to tell what was all in a game before you joined in. They also added a friends and foes system, Personal Messages, and Presets to save for games. It also features the donation thermometer being animated, filling up with coins as people donate and the stretch goals explode. More features will be added as time goes on.

* AcademyOfAdventure: An expansion is literally all about the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Academy Of Adventure]] - it's very aptly named.

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: The horn IS rather fun to honk!
** Subverted by the fact you can pick up horns normally in the game anyways if one of the players is a donator.

* AtTheCrossroads: An event in the game is an actual crossroads, where you can pick between 4 and 5 events.

* BadassSanta: In the christmas-special event, you can gain a buff called "Nice" which will cause you to receive a gift of your choice from Santa. This gift can include a pogo-stick, a tractor beam, or [[BreadEggsMilkSquick a goddamn lightsaber.]] [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys Where does Santa get all those wonderful toys?]]

* DeathIsCheap: Players usually die at least 3 times every 150 spaces. If you don't, it was either a short game or played very safe.

* ExtremeOmnivore: Getting the PacMan skill allows you to [[EatenAlive eat other players]] and a few of the living hazards [[spoiler:like the bear]]. Eating people rewards you with Rupees, and eating enough gives you a rare item.

** Inexperienced players will drop mines or TNT in a group of opponents and then use other items to escape from the pack before detonating them. More often than not this results in a GenreSavvy player using a Lasso or Tractor Beam to drag him back, either saving everyone's bacon or [[TakingYouWithMe not noticing his re-positioning fast enough]].
* HolidayMode: Santa, snow and shenanigans for Christmas. Fireworks for New Year's. Love pacts for Valentine's. Scary shit for Halloween. Et cetera. (And all with achievements.)

** InSpiteOfANail: You can even use this on a player who is about to [[InstantWinCondition escape the Pyramid with the Treasure of the Pharaoh]] to prevent their victory! (There is an achievement for doing exactly this.)

* NoIAmBehindYou: The Illusionist's passive skill has a chance of invoking this, causing the player to dodge backward one space if they're targeted with a melee weapon.

* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Try using an Improbability Device inside of the Pyramid.]]

* TakeThat: One event has the player entering a bar in Indiana, and beating up the bartender. This is a reference to Indiana's recently passed Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which allows business owners to ignore anti-discrimination laws on religious grounds.

** If you're ''really'' lucky you can get a FSM Afterlife, which allows you to keep rolling the dice to move even while dead and revive whenever you want. The only way to stop this is to be forcibly resurrected by another player, which is ''very'' uncommon if none of them is a Priest.
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Horribly, horribly averted.

* TheFuture: Another location you can visit with the TimeMachine.

* UnlockableContent: Averted, for the most part. Almost all of the content is immediately available to free players. Five classes (Illusionist, Lawyer, Time Twister, Enchanter, and Warlock), however, require you to either play with someone who's donated or donate some euros yourself.

* UnlockableContent: Averted, for the most part. Almost all of the content is immediately available to free players. To get the last two classes, however, you either have to play with someone who's donated or donate some euros yourself.

* AcademyOfAdventure: An expansion is literally all about the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:AcademyOfAdventure]] - it's very aptly named.

* AcademyOfAdventure: An expansion is literally all about the AcademyOfAdventure - it's very aptly named.

* LaserBlade: [[StarWars Lightsabers]] are genuine items in the game, commonly found in the Future Shop. They function the same was as Swords, just with a battery instead of a static three uses and cutting through Shields easily. The color of lightsaber you get is decided at random.

* MomentKiller: Non-romantic example, this is an ability of the Lawyer class called "Objection!", and they are '''''hated''''' for it. When used, the current turn ends immediately and all actions current happening in that turn cease, no exceptions.