Basic Trope: A player of a tabletop role-playing game that likes to fight with their characters.
- Straight: Jake plays Jacin, a Hot-Blooded Barbarian Hero who actively searches for fights.
- Exaggerated: Jacin gets bored after 10 seconds of peace and starts a Bar Brawl.
- Downplayed: Jake is fairly skilled in both roleplaying and combat aspects, but he prefers the strategy of combat a bit more, and so tailors some of his character's traits to that end.
- Justified: Many of the game's rules concern combat to the point that most of the party's time will be spent in combat even if Jake didn't provoke as many NPCs as he could.
- Inverted: Jake's characters are diplomacy-oriented and he evades fights as much as possible.
- Subverted: When a fight starts, Jacin doesn't go in...
- Double Subverted: ...because he's busy swapping his dagger out for his sword.
- Parodied: Jacin is a Leeroy Jenkins who rushes headlong to the slightest sign of combat, even if it's a slap fight.
- Zig Zagged: Jake is The Roleplayer. Some of his characters have reasons to get in lots of fights, others don't.
- Averted: Jacin doesn't actively search for fights.
- Enforced: The adventure is a dungeon crawl and thus heavily combat-oriented. Since Jake doesn't want to roll up a new character a couple of times per session, he makes and plays his character according to the "The Real Man" rationale.
- Lampshaded: "Why does Jacin love to fight so much?"
- Invoked: Jake starts raising his character to be strong, believing he'll clear a lot of quests fast this way.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The entire party is full of diplomatic roleplayers that dislike combat.
- Discussed: "Jake, we're sick of all this roll-playing. Come back when you can do something besides fight."
- Conversed: "Ever notice how any time people play an RPG in fiction there's a lot of fighting?"
- Deconstructed:
- Due to Jacin's eagerness to start unnecessary or dangerous fights, his party gets a reputation for being violent hooligans which makes non-combat difficult. It's either that or he eventually picks a fight with the wrong creature.
- Jake alienates the other players who are more into the diplomatic side of tabletop gaming because he's constantly having Jacin start fights.
- Reconstructed:
- A reputation as violent hooligans is great if you're seeking violent work (mercenary company, military, crafting guild's bruisers, etc.). Potential employers already know you can handle it.
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