BeerBaron is a troper (since 2012) from Central Pennsylvania who currently resides outside of Philadelphia. He works in software development, is a freelance writer, and loves dogs. He is a big believer that Tropes Are Flexible, dislikes tropes that are overly narrow in scope, and hates deletions without an edit reason.
Favorite series and pages with major contributions:
- The Elder Scrolls:
- Fallout:
- Fire Emblem:
- Madden NFL
- Magic: The Gathering - Gameplay Tropes
- National Football League:
- NCAA Football
- Pokémon
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Rome: Total War
- Starfield
- The Venture Brothers
- The Wayward Realms
Tropes Launched:
- Ancestor Veneration (96)
- Borrowing from the Sister Series (67)
- Cameo Cluster (99)
- The Great Exterminator (46)
- Nerd Hoard (Adopted Draft) (81)
- Notary Nonsense (47)
- Outcast Refuge (93)
- Sinister Deer Skull (Adopted Draft) (63)
- Technician/Performer Team-Up (73)
- Video Game Delegation Penalty (89)
Trope Ideas:
- Clutch Performer - A character in a competitive event who does particularly well in key moments/games/matches.
- Player Gimmick Counter - An enemy tactic/ability/type who counters or negates a gimmick unique to the player character/party.
- Our Balrogs Are Different - Typically large, demonic entities associated with fire and/or shadow based on the Lord of the Rings Trope Codifier. (Subtrope of Our Demons Are Different)
- Musings Of God - (Trope Finder query
) - A work's creator shares their thoughts about an ambiguous or undefined aspect of the work without establishing it as canon.
- Organizational Purpose Drift - (Trope Finder query) - An organization founded with a specific purpose drifts away from that purpose, opening up to do other things and possibly even moving away from that purpose entirely.
- Call To Mundanity - Missing Supertrope to Call to Agriculture - a hero takes up a mundane job other than agriculture.
- Outdated References Character - (Trope Finder query) - A Character who makes outdated references showing that they are old and/or out of touch.
- Revisit Reward - Trope Finder query - Getting a special reward for revisiting a previous area/past dungeon/etc. in a video game.
- Elevated Guest Star - Trope Finder query - Someone who is initially a guest star becomes a main cast member.
- Martian Mundanity - Trope Finder query - In space fiction, Mars tends to be portrayed as a boring backwater.
- Merchant Money Cap - Trope Finder query - Merchants in video games have a maximum amount of funds available for trading in a set period.
- Name TBD - Waiting to complete a mission/quest/task/etc. in a video game to get a better reward.
- Video Game Exploit
TLP Adoption Consideration
Tropes with Major Efforts:
- Drafting Mechanic (Expanded the formerly Board Game-focused description and added numerous examples.)
- Good Guns, Bad Guns (Cleaned up the overly long, overly technical, largely lacking context description. Alphabetized the examples, expanded some, added plenty, and commented out ZCEs.)
- Very Fake Résumé: (Planned to adopt the TLP effort, worked on it in a sandbox... then realized the OP had very quietly launched it. Added my expansions, cleanup, and examples.)
Favorite Tropes:
- Beef Gate
- Changing Gameplay Priorities
- Crutch Character
- Developer's Foresight
- Disc-One Nuke
- Early Game Hell
- Easing into the Adventure
- Game-Breaker
- Guide Dang It!
- Magikarp Power
- Minmaxer's Delight
- Peninsula of Power Leveling
- Scrappy Mechanic
- That One Sidequest
