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MMORPG by Jagex ltd. It's browser based, and much enough of it to be a hook is free to play. Uncommon in its quests being more elaborate fetch quests held together by some surprisingly good story lines than the usual "Kill X Of Y", which is instead given a separate skill. Often critiqued for its graphics and considered the laughing stock of MMORPGs, but excellent for a more casual player, especially considering the low price (with no added costs for sporadically cancelling and re-instating membership), and the quality of the free content.
As a result of this, the game holds the official Guinness world record for largest free MMOG.
Official site: http://www.runescape.com/
Tropes used by Rune Scape include:
- Abnormal Ammo: The fixed device, which shoots dyed toads.
- There is also explosive squirrels called Chinchompas, and Lizards that can act as flamethrowers.
- Adam Smith Hates Your Guts
- Only end game items, everything else you can mostly make some coin off of. Only the nice stuff you need to shell out a fortune for.
- Aerith And Bob: There is a Bob in the game, if memory serves this troper. And then you have names like Zanik
- Air Guitar (an emote)
- Allegedly Free Game (many skills, quests and runes are only available to those who pay)
- "Many" would be the understatement of the year.
- Can't forget the fact that non-members are given a pittance of storage space. Around 1/7th of the space given to members. That's to hold all the cool member stuff, though.
- And smithing pickaxes. A non-member is free to smith nearly all the standard metal weapons and armor available for non-members...except pickaxes. If I remember, members STILL have to complete a quest just to earn that right, but it's still a members-only quest.
- Yes, it's the Anvilicious Perils of Ice Mountain Quest. Which just makes it worse...
- Indeed. Then again...by the time you can mine and smith the metal needed to make a given pickaxe, you can already use better types. No wait, that actually makes it even more insulting. It's really such a minor thing, and yet Jagex seems to think it's so special it even needs a quest just to do it. >_>
- An Interior Designer Is You
- Animated Armor
- Anti Grinding (The retired 'dangerous' Random events - most of them now spend their days as common citizens - these were mostly to prevent bots though. The safer Randoms are still at large, but are less likely to appear, with a better reward depending on your skill total.)
- Anvilicious (Perils of Ice Mountain quest, so very much.)
- A Plague On Both Your Houses
- Artificial Stupidity: Oh so many examples. Namely, that none of the monsters can seem to figure out to just walk around the table from behind which the player is shooting arrows at them.
- Bad Is Good And Good Is Bad: subverted by Evil Dave.
- Bald Of Awesome: Saradomin.
- Bank Robbery: The Wise Old Man.
- Batman Gambit: The entire plot of Hunt for Red Raktuber.
- Big Bad: Lucien, who steals not one, but TWO artifacts of the gods, with the intent of becoming a god himself.
- You can't forget about Zemouregal. In the ingame story called The Legend of Arrav, Zemouregal leads an army of undead against the human capital city, Varrock, and is defeated by Arrav. In the game's events, however, Zemouregal returns to attack the city once more, this time with undead Arrav as his slave. Not to mention that Arrav is aware of what he is doing, but has no power to stop himself, which may qualify as Nightmare Fuel in itself.
- Bilingual Bonus: The Burthorpe Soldiers, who speak in Latin.
- Blessed With Suck: Zanik.
- Broken Bridge: See Missing Secret below.
- Capital City: Varrock, Falador, and Ardougne.
- Not to mention Lumbridge, capital of newbies.
- Capture The Flag: Castle Wars
- Chained To A Railway: Zanik in Another Slice of H.A.M.
- There's even a good storyline reason for it that makes sense. Also justified by the fact that trains are a relatively new invention in Rune Scape and so Sigmund isn't aware that it's a cliche.
- Chain Of Deals: "One small favour" (Not small at all), and a shorter version in the Fremmenik Trials.
- Christmas Mode: Special events happen every Halloween, Christmas, and Easter and all give out appropriately-themed costumes, emotes, and items.
- Circling Birdies: Used when anyone is stunned.
- Control Room Puzzle
- Convection Shmonvection: But actually falling into lava doesn't do much damage either.
- Crystal Dragon Jesus: Saradomin is the obvious answer. Stained glass, monks, even church organs.
- Cool Chair: Thrones in Construction, such as skeleton thrones and demonic thrones.
- Crowning Music Of Awesome: "But We Can Fight".
- Also a Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming, considering that this is unlocked when the city of Dogresh-Kaan is convinced to fight against a god. A GOD! Knowing they'd all die, this music seems really deep. Believe me, this sounds a lot less Narmy if you've played this far.
- Crystal Spires And Togas: Crystal saws, seeds and bows. Made by elves, of course.
- Forget the small stuff. How about the enormous WALL around the (currently unaccessable) Elven capital, which is also rumored to be made of crystal?
- Desperation Attack: Dharok the Wretched's armor set effect.
- Dramatic Wind: While holding a 2-handed weapon
- Dog Stereotype
- Dual Wielding: The defenders, Torag's Hammers.
- Easter Bunny: Played around with. In 2009 Easter event, it turns out that the Easter Bunny is actually a rabbit wearing a rabbit costume.
- Elemental Crafting
- Everythings Better With Penguins: Someone at Jagex definitely likes penguins too much.
- Eviler Than Thou: After seeing the horrible acts the demon Agrith-Nar is capable of in Shadow of the Storm, Evil Dave decides this is too evil even for him.
- Fetch Quest: Oh so many! Played with in 2 quests.
- Fifteen Puzzle: Actually a 24 puzzle.
- Filler: Kennith's Concerns quest is considered that by many.
- Fishing For Sole: Boots and gloves can be caught when fishing with a big net.
- Fishing Minigame
- Fox Chicken Grain Puzzle: Recruitment Drive Quest.
- Game Breaker: Just... Ice Barrage...
- Gameplay And Story Segregation: Often played straight but often subverted to Gameplay And Gameplay Segregation.
- For an example, you have to hunt a few types of creatures instead of killing them which is justified only by a few creatured like chinchompas.
- Gas Mask Mooks: Mourners.
- Genie In A Bottle: A random event.
- Goddamned Bats: Wild dogs in Brimhaben dungeon.
- Gods Need Prayer Badly
- Grandpa God: Saradomin.
- Grappling Hook Crossbow
- Grim Up North: "The North" is referenced in several quests.
- Not to mention the Wilderness, formerly the most dangerous area in the game, and still pretty frightening. In the days when Runescape was entirely free, the instructions to reach the Wilderness were simply "Go North".
- Harmless Freezing: The God Wars dungeon and combatants inside seem to be perfectly fine after being frozen for thousands of years.
- The Ancient Magic Spellbook's Ice Spells, on the other hand, are certainly NOT harmless.
- Hellhound
- He Who Shall Not Be Named: Zaros
- High Class Glass: A Tz-haar in a play.
- Horny Vikings: The Fremennik.
- Horsemen Of The Apocalypse
- Hulkspeak - Goblins, trolls, ogres etc.
- Hyperactive Metabolism
- Idea Bulb: An emote.
- Impaled With Extreme Prejudice
- Incredibly Lame Pun: Thisa game has so many puns (especially with hands) that it's often ridiculed.
I need to make some furniture, could you lend me a HAND?
Haha. Very funny.
- Indy Ploy
- Infinity Plus One Sword: Several, the Godsword fitting the trope best.
- Which is 4 swords in 1, so... Infinty Plus Four Sword?
- Instant Death Radius: TzTok-Jad.
- Also, the Corporeal Beast. Don't ever stand under him. You will be trampled to death.
- Item Crafting
- Joke Item: Several, specially the Holiday items. (Ironically, some of these are now the most valuable items in the game.)
- Justified Tutorial
- Karma Meter: At least two quests let you choose which god to side with.
- Subverted in that whatever you choose has no real impact outside of those quests.
- Killed Off For Real: Duradel, Turael, Cyrisus, etc.
- And Sigmund in 'The Chosen Commander'.
- Kill It With Fire: Without the proper protection, dragonbreath REALLY FRICKEN HURTS.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: So much that there's even a thieving skill for it.
- Last Of His Kind: Thurgo, General Graardor
- There Is Another: In "Defender Of Varrock" you discover that there is another Imcando dwarf.
- There's also and Fairy Dragon.
- Leitmotif: Goblins have one, H.A.M menbers have one, and many others have one too.
- Lethal Lava Land: Inside Karamja Volcano, parts of Wilderness etc.
- Level Grinding: The game is full of ways to do it.
- Light And Mirrors Puzzle: One of the hardest quests has quite a sadistic version of this.
- Not just light and mirrors, but COLORED lights and mirrors, which is much worse than it sounds.
- AND you're constantly being attacked by shadows.
- Load Bearing Boss: Bork.
- Lord British Postulate
- Lost Marbles Quest: Trope Namer.
- Magick
- Milestone Celebration: "Recipe for disaster".
- Missing Secret: Acts as a form of Gameplay And Story Segregation in that many more cities and civilizations exist in the background than have actually been coded into the game. As a result, an absurd number of major cities and entire nations (Most prominently Prifddidas, Menaphos, and Arposandra) are in isolation, be it mythic or overtly enforced by snooty border guards who will tell you that the place is 'closed to outsiders'. If an update eventually rolls around that lets you in (as with Keldagrim or Meiyerditch) this becomes an example of Broken Bridge: you'll still have to do a quest to get in and the people inside will be fearful or distrustful of outsiders. And the city will still be full of places you can't access.
- Mithril
- Mobile Shrubbery: The Penguin's disguises in Penguin Hide and Seek.
- The Mole: Many: King Lathas and one elf faction. More obviously Sigmund and Stranger in Canifis.
- Money Sink: The entire Construction and especially Summoning skill.
- Monster Is A Mommy: Rocs and dagannoths. In quests.
- Multi Armed And Dangerous: Some TzHaar.
- Nice Hat: The party hats. Their rare status makes them Serious Business.
- Nice Job Breaking It Hero: The ends of 'Spirit of Summer' and 'Enakhra's Lament'.
- Certain parts of various other quests involve the player inadvertantly causing things to get worse before having to make them better. Some, unfortunately, are a result of stupidity being the only option.
- No Fourth Wall: The barkeeper in the Blue Moon Inn in Varrock is aware that Runescape is only a computer game and says as much if the player asks him for advice.
- If you were to ask King Arthur what he is doing here, he will explain that he is no longer needed in "Briton", and so is passing the time in Runescape.
- Noodle Incident: Marion the bartender said that she lost her skill in Archery after an incident involving a Chinchompa named Fluffy and a butter churn.
- No Pronunciation Guide: While there are official pronunciations for some words, there are weirder ones like "Mahjarrat".
- Nothing But Skulls
- Older Than They Think
- One Steve Limit: Parodied in some cases and simply averted in other cases.
- Oracular Head: Postie pete.
- Our Dragons Are Different
- To give an example, they were apparently created by a race known as dragonkin, which happen to look like Skeksis.
- Our Ghosts Are Different
- Our Ghouls Are Different
- Our Goblins Are Different
- Our Homunculi Are Different
- Orcus On His Throne: Many villains.
- All Trolls Are Different
- Paper Thin Disguise: Both averted and played straight.
- For an example, on one hand, you can wear only a fake beak and feather cape to fool an eagle into think you are its child.
- But on the other hand though, changing sex, skin color, hairstyles etc. won't usually trick other NP Cs at all.
- This is largely because it'd be a nightmare for the Jagex designers to implement NPC reactions to such things.
- The Bedsheet Ghost in the quest Ghosts Ahoy fools all.
- Phantasy Spelling: Vampires and Vampyres both exist, but the two are fairly different. To be more specific, Vampires are feral monsters, while Vampyres are more civilized. But that wouldn't stop either of them from chowing down on your neck, given the chance.
- Physical God
- Pirate Parrot
- Planet Of Steves: Pollnivneach, where everybody's name is Ali.
- Player Punch: Players who have become fond of Hazelmere the ancient gnome mage, Cyrisius the fighter, Ghommal the giant door man, Sloane the Strength master, and the Slayer Masters Duradel and Turael may feel like they've been punched in the gut when all of those people die confronting Lucien during While Guthix Sleeps.
- Plot Induced Stupidity: Several quests involve you being quite gullible. Of course, you can not be gullible, but you can't finish the quest by not being gullible.
- Plotline Death: Quest NP Cs seem to suffer from these. Others, including players, will be perfectly fine.
- Poisoned Weapons: Daggers, spears and ammo for ranged weapons.
- Port Town: Several of them: Phasmatys, Sarim, Rellekka etc.
- Public Domain Character: King Arthur, Romeo and Juliet, Robin Hood, etc...
- Punny Name: White knights, some druids, etc.
- Rage Against The Heavens: The cave goblins' questline runs on this trope. Justified somewhat in that the cave goblins' former god falls somewhere between Blood Knight and God Of Evil, although all of the other gods take a PR drubbing as well.
- Rainbow Pimp Gear: You can equip any combination of clothes you want. ANY. Keep in mind that the equipment in this game ranges from blue armor to magenta robes to mime costumes and everything in between.
- Recurring Traveller: Bob the cat, Elfinlocks.
- Relax O Vision: Parodied
- Ret Irony: Turael mentions during While Guthix Sleeps that he may retire soon. He dies during the quest.
- Reverse Grip: The Dragon dagger and the Keris.
- Rodents Of Unusual Size: Giant rats.
- Ruined FOREVER!!!: Fans are screaming this every update now, and Jagex has begun Lampshading this with T-Shirts declaring it.
- Sacrificial Lamb: In In Search of the Myreque, you're introduced to several of the resistance group against Morytania's vampires, and all of them are given backstories and motivations for joining the resistance. And then two of them are killed when the villain of the quest shows up.
- Sacrificial Lion: In While Guthix Sleeps, NP Cs that the player has probably spent a lot of time with during previous quests, Slayer tasks, and so forth are killed by the Big Bad to let the player know just how serious this situation is.
- Sealed Evil In A Can: Mother Mallum, mahjarrats.
- Selective Condemnation: So prevalent that even Lampshade Hanging is done to that.
- Senseless Sacrifice: Many characters in While Guthix Sleeps quest.
- Shape Shifting: Mahjarrats can change their forms to whatever they want, which ends badly for Jhallan in 'The Tale of the Muspah'- he has a nightmare while he hibernates and transforms into a Muspah, a mythical beast in Mahjarrat culture, which takes most of his strength.
- Shifting Sand Land: Kharidian desert.
- Shout Out: Star Sprites look suspiciously like Teletubbies, no?
- Oh, they are. The terminology for when a star is mined through completely is 'tubbied'.
- There's also a few dozen Monty Python references, although not usually in the form of a character.
- Sinister Scythe: A holiday item.
- Slippy Slidey Ice World: "Myths of the White Lands", and Trollweiss.
- Space Compression: Cities, towns and other settlements take almost as much space as forests, even though largest cities have the size of a medium-sized village. It takes only less than half an hour for a player to walk from one end of the mainland to another. Yet the manual, NPC stories and historic tales might leave the impression of large cities and vast lands.
- Very notable example is Burgh De Rott. Vampyres think that town is deserted, but it's less than 100 meters from the capital of Morytania where town should clearly be seen, especially for the fact that flying vyrewatch approaches very close to the settlement.
- Stalked By The Bell
- The Starscream: Zamorak is a successful version of this to Zaros. Lucien also serves as Zamorak's Starscream.
- Stupid Sacrifice: Why won't friendly NP Cs send players to investigate things first since players come back to life all the time?!
- Summon Magic: Subverted since summoning is not part of the magic skill.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial
- Tactical Rock Paper Scissors: Melee->Ranged->Magic->Melee
- In theory. Depending on who is complaining, melee users either slap on dragonhide armor and slaughter mages, rangers use one magic spell to lock melee users in place and can kill them at their leisure, or mages just rape everybody because they are OP. Plus people whine about prayer all the time.
- Take Your Time
- Tap On The Head: Citizens of Pollnivneach can be easily knocked out with blackjacks.
- Bizarrely, attempting to knock someone out with your bare fist gives the same message as trying to use any weapon besides a blackjack: "You need to find a different weapon. You want to knock him out, not kill him." Apparently, bare fists are deadlier than wooden clubs.
- Could be plausible depending on the Strength level - someone with 99 Strength could probably kill someone by hitting them.
- The Gods Must Be Lazy: Guthix is the most powerful being in the universe, perfectly capable of solving every problem in the world in two minutes, but instead of doing so, he chooses to take several-thousand-year-long naps.
- They Changed It Now It Sucks: The 12-10-07 updates.
- This Page Will Self Destruct
- This Trope Is Bleep: Though changes of late have made this more of a Scunthorpe Problem, since definite "cuss words" are permitted more often, but certain others are not. (Example: "Phone") Of course, this may have been resolved, also.
- This has been mostly resolved.
- Title Drop: Quite commonly in quests.
- Too Much Information
- Training Dummy
- Turns Red: Some of the quest bosses.
- Urban Segregation: Varrock, Ardougne and Keldagrim.
- Vader Breath: Mi-Gor, who coughs when he speaks.
- Video Game Stealing: The Thieving skill.
- Vigilante Execution: Zanik in "The Chosen Commander".
- Visible Silence: Parodied in one quest.
- War For Fun And Profit: Most of 'Royal Trouble'.
- Walk It Off: But you'll be doing that for a long while, directly proportionate to your max Hit Points.
- Wall Master: Wall beasts.
- Who You Gonna Call: "Big High War God!"
- Winged Humanoid: The Icyene, Vyrewatch, and Aviantese
- Whatevermancy: The Culinaromancer, a mage who draws his power from food.
- What Measure Is A Non Human:
- When Trees Attack: Ents and undead trees.
- There's also the Jade Vine, which will turn "wild" if it goes too long without being trimmed. Much unlike its real-world counterpart. Ironically, they were almost driven to extinction because of the amount of slayer experience they give upon death.
- Whip It Good: The Abyssal whip.
- Whoring
- Why Did It Have To Be Snakes: Anyone scared of spiders, stay the hell away from the 2009 Halloween Event. Seriously.
- Wizard Needs Food Badly
- Worthless Yellow Rocks: Trolls discard some valuable stuff.
- Your Money Is No Good Here: The Tz-haar caves, Tai Bwo Wannai village, etc.
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