1 | '''Basic Trope''': Items of equipment have requirements that must be met in order to use them. |
2 | * '''Straight''': The Sword of Troperism requires the user to be at least [[CharacterLevel level 42]]. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': ...and also requires high Stamina, high Strength, high-ranked [[HeroesPreferSwords Weapon Focus: Sword]], and [[KarmaMeter a light-side alignment]]. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Characters lower than level 42 can use the sword, but they take penalties when using it which may or may not outweigh the bonuses it provides. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** The Sword is an EmpathicWeapon that refuses to be wielded by a wimp. |
7 | ** The Sword is [[{{BFS}} so big and heavy]] that only a mighty hero can even lift it. |
8 | ** Equipment explicitly draws from its user's aura as a power source. Using a weapon that is too strong for you would result in a painful death as your weapon drains you dry. |
9 | * '''Inverted''': |
10 | ** Far from having strength ''requirements'', the Sword actually [[StatSticks strengthens the]] [[AmplifierArtifact wielder]], and may even be an UpgradeArtifact. |
11 | ** The Sword [[LowLevelAdvantage can only be used by the ]]''[[LowLevelAdvantage lowest]]''[[LowLevelAdvantage -level characters]]. |
12 | * '''Subverted''': To obtain the sword, you need to do a quest, which requires level 42. However, you can also just buy it from another player, and you can wield it at any level. |
13 | * '''Double Subverted''': You still need level 42 to use the sword's transformation power, which is the sword's one and only worthwhile aspect. |
14 | * '''Parodied''': The item appears in an RPGMechanicsVerse, and the characters actually talk about needing to [[CharacterLevel level up]] to use it. |
15 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Some items have requirements, some don't, [[SituationalSword some only have them on certain days of the week]], and you can never find out any of this. |
16 | * '''Averted''': The Sword has no requirements for use. |
17 | * '''Enforced''': The dev team wanted to make sure that a player couldn't somehow acquire the Sword at level 6 for an instant DiscOneNuke. |
18 | * '''Lampshaded''': "So with 291 strength I can't even lift it, but if I had 300 strength I could wield it like a master? What's ''with'' this thing?!" |
19 | * '''Invoked''': [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] forged the Sword and designed it to require an impossibly high-level wielder, knowing that the Hero will one day discover it but find it useless against him. |
20 | * '''Exploited''': |
21 | ** Evulz makes this unusable sword to be his contractually-required AchillesHeel, effectively making himself invincible. |
22 | ** Evulz, when required to supply the hero with a weapon for a duel, hands the level 10 hero a sword that requires level 42 to equip. He's a cheating jackhole like that. |
23 | * '''Defied''': The Sword is made specifically to be usable by weak characters. |
24 | * '''Discussed''': "Oh great, now my character has a sword that he's two levels too weak to use." |
25 | * '''Conversed''': "Oh great, now I have a sword that I'm two levels too weak to use." |
26 | * '''Deconstructed''': There is nobody mighty enough to wield the Sword of Troperism, and eventually it goes to rust. |
27 | * '''Reconstructed''': The ChosenOne who ''can'' wield it takes it to the UltimateBlacksmith and gets it repaired. |
28 | * '''Plotted A Good Waste''': "Becoming powerful enough to use the Sword" forms an entire plotline or story arc. |
29 | * '''Played For Laughs''': The character finds out that after all that questing, he can't actually use the Sword he got from all this and has a comical HeroicBSOD. |
30 | * '''Played For Drama''': Something horrible happens to a low-level character because he wasn't strong enough to wield the Sword when he needed to. |
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32 | Back to LevelLockedLoot, if you're mighty enough to wield the Mouse of Link-Clicking... |
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34 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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