History Webcomic / FriendshipIsDragons

* GenreSavvy: Applejack's player is exceedingly so, both when it comes to common game cliches and dealing with the GameMaster. Rarity is also pretty savvy, and Twilight's savviness is more focused on story cliches than gameplay mechanics.
** Everyone but Fluttershy sees where [[ExplosiveBreeder the Parasprite storyline]] is heading almost immediately.

** AJ's player deliberately designed her as GenreSavvy enough to justify this as in-character knowledge and/or reasonable conclusions based on her in-character knowledge.

* SchrodingersGun: The GM has this in their arsenal, and Applejack's player is GenreSavvy enough to recognize it, to the point that she warns the GM against turning an idle comment by Twilight into a plot twist.

* VerySpecialEpisode: The players are GenreSavvy enough to recognize [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Zecora's introduction]] as the set-up for one.
** [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope The GM was counting on it.]]]]

* TheNicknamer: Dash is the 'can't be bothered learning your real name' variety, calling the others by their classes.

* PopculturalOsmosisFailure:

** [[http://www.friendshipisdragons.com/comics/733/ Another strip]] has the gang doing a campaign based on ''Webcomic/StarMares''.

* {{Crossover}}: With ''Webcomic/OnePieceGrandLine3Point5'', wherein Applejack's player is revealed to be another of Cory's cousins, and he, Luke and Nat try designing their own characters for the pony campaign. Starts [[http://www.friendshipisdragons.com/comics/101/ here]], with a follow-up [[http://www.friendshipisdragons.com/comics/189 here]].

* [[VideoGameCaringPotential Tabletop Game Caring Potential]]: the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HGRfvc-8Lc&list=WL906AB2ACA31F26A1 300th Strip Celebratory Motion Comic]] recounts a group of players destroying [[MontyHaul a mountain's worth of Phat Lewt]] so they could keep the MacGuffinGirl [[WouldNotHurtAChild taking said lewt would have killed]] as [[ImTakingHerHomeWithMe a surrogate daughter,]] and they now pick up toys for her in addition to adventuring sundries with their rewards.

* TitleDrop: For the show.

* Rarity, an [[TrueNeutral Unaligned]] Rogue [[invoked]]

** Fluttershy is the only pony who doesn't have some shade of this, her player's inexperience leading to her focusing on charisma, which is mostly wasted on a druid. However, she mentions that she couldn't decide on just ''one'' animal companion, leading to her focus on Animal Empathy. The DM actually steps in and builds her an utterly broken animal companion (based on an earlier campaign's recurring villain) to make up the difference.

** [[http://friendshipisdragons.thecomicseries.com/comics/467 "We're not heckling,]] [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 we're]] ''[[RiffTrax riffing.]]''"

** Fluttershy is the only pony who doesn't have some shade of this, her player's inexperience leading to her focusing on charisma, which is mostly wasted on a druid. However, she mentions that she couldn't decide on just ''one'' animal companion, leading to her focus on Animal Empathy.

* SimpletonVoice: Subverted, the Diamond Dogs might sound dumb, but they know what they're doing.

* RoadSignReversal: Subverted and defied. During the Running Off The Leaves race Rainbow Dash doesn't flip the sign, but makes Applejack think she did. Apllejack, trying to defy the trope, takes the path opposite to the one pointed by an arrow and ends up going the wrong way.

* RoadSignReversal: Subverted and defied. During the Running Off The Leaves race Rainbow Dash doesn't flip the sign, but makes Applejack think she did. Apllejack, trying to defy the trope, ends up going the wrong way anyway.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: They saved the world, but that's not good enough to get them tickets to the Gala.

** [[WordOfGod NewbieSpud has commented]]] that he enjoys doing these on purpose.