History VideoGame / BoardGameOnline

%%** Intoxication Mechanic: Drugs and alcohol affect the player in different ways. While alcohol mostly just gives the player an AlcoholHic, drugs can have a variety of buffs and debuffs. Meth, for example, gives the player extreme focus and immunity, but also dehydration; weed makes you stoned and hungry, and cocaine gives you boosted speed, with the chance for addiction and burnout to follow.

** IntoxicationMechanic: Drugs and alcohol affect the player in different ways. While alcohol mostly just gives the player an AlcoholHic, drugs can have a variety of buffs and debuffs. Meth, for example, gives the player extreme focus and immunity, but also dehydration; weed makes you stoned and hungry, and cocaine gives you boosted speed, with the chance for addiction and burnout to follow.

* RealityEnsues: A good number of the deaths in the game can be attributed to cartoonish items interacting with a realistic setting. For example, the ACME Magnet attracting everything metallic to you also includes ''swords and grenades'', and launching yourself forward from a catapult has a high chance of you simply going splat upon landing.

* NWordPrivileges: Averted. [[http://www.boardgame-online.com/faq/faqOffensive.php The game's policy on potentially offensive content]] is an anti-censorship one.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: How did the devs make the cave event more awesome? Add a dragon!

* 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. It also doesn't lose energy over time as the regular laser blades do.

* KarmicDeath: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in that you must sometimes gather enough karma ''to recincarnate after you die''.

** 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. It also doesn't lose energy over time as the regular laser blades do.
* MomentKiller: Non-romantic example, this is an ability of the Lawyer class called [[Franchise/AceAttorney "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.
** 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 his victory! (There is an achievement for doing exactly this.)

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

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

* AncientTomb

* HornyDevils: The Incubus/Succubus class.

* ExtremeOmnivore: Getting the VideoGame/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.

** There are three reference events that can affect what events happen throughout the rest of a game: ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', ''Series/GameOfThrones'', and ''Series/DoctorWho''.

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* BlackComedy: When the humor isn't [[ReferenceOverdoses referential]], it's pitch dark. Or both.

* RickRoll: Happens as an event in the game. Avoiding the Rickroll moves you 5 spaces forward.

* DeathIsCheap: Initially averted; while death never lasted for more than 3 consecutive turns and came often, it used to be extremely difficult or expensive to prevent it, especially while already dead. As time when on, updates and new items came, and classes got rebalanced, it became very easy to die several times in a single game and still never leave first place, or even never see the "you're dead!" screen.

* InstantWinCondition: Escaping the pyramid with the Pharaoh's Treasure or combining Sausage, Eggs, Spam, and Bacon to make the English breakfast will allow a player to win the game instantly.

** If you're ''really'' lucky you can get an 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.

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

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

[[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.

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