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Re: Hard Gay - what namespace does he go in? Does Japanese professional wrestling qualify for that namespace?
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
The page covers both his wrestlign career and his comedian career. I would go for Wrestling/ under the "original medium" tie-breaker.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
What about The World as Myth? It has a weird history. From what I can tell, it was created as a definition page. Then it got misused as a trope, and a TRS thread determined it would be better to create a trop for that, and redirected The World as Myth to All Stories Are True. Now someone seems to have undone all that work.
edited 5th Dec '13 9:25:20 PM by frosty
That person was our head administrator. Anyhow, as-is The World as Myth it seems like a mixture between genre and work.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Anyhow, Lone Wolf seems to be frequently used as a trope. I wonder if we already have that trope.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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Loners Are Freaks are about a specific personality, but it ain't the Lone Wolf.
I Work Alone is about the phrase, and lists a lone wolf-character as one possible person to say it, but the page is really about the phrase.
Then we have Lone Wolf Boss, but that's written as a videogame trope, about an unassociated boss.
Definitely a case of a missing trope. I think the closest thing we have is The Drifter, Knight Errant,
Bumping this to the top with Rise And Fall, whose only two wicks are trying to use it as a "rise and fall" trope.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
So, my mass wick cleanup of Dungeons and Dragons has yielded the following examples of D&D being listed as a trope, and I wondered if something useful could be gained from such examples:
- Mahou Daisakusen:
- Dungeons And Dragons: Beholders are a recurring enemy throughout the series.
- Planeocracy:
- Dungeons And Dragons - several of the NPCs are from Dungeons And Dragons-esque fantasy worlds. This might be left over from the game's original concept of being set in the Planescape setting.
- Rose of the Prophet:
- Dungeons And Dragons: The cosmology is based on a twenty-sided die, with references to D&D character alignments.
- Syrunn:
- Dungeons And Dragons: Syrunn's setting is in part based on D&D, among other things.
- Tales from the Securemarket:
- Dungeons And Dragons: The modern mythos of New Washington borrows a great deal from D&D's fantasy world.
- Vote Up a Campaign Setting:
- Dungeons And Dragons: The setting is for both 3.5 and 4th edition D&D.
- With Strings Attached:
- Dungeons And Dragons: The story had its genesis in a melding of Beatlemania and D&D.
- Yureka:
- Dungeons And Dragons: A number of spells (like magic missile and chain lightning) are taken from the game and have exactly the same effects as in Third Edition, to the point where strategies characters use based on minor details of the spells would work in D&D without alteration. There's even a point where Aradon appears to use the Maximise Spell feat.
- Then there's lines like "they're throwing everything in the Monster Manual at us!"
- Dungeons And Dragons: A number of spells (like magic missile and chain lightning) are taken from the game and have exactly the same effects as in Third Edition, to the point where strategies characters use based on minor details of the spells would work in D&D without alteration. There's even a point where Aradon appears to use the Maximise Spell feat.
Also, moving this topic to Long Term Projects since it's apparently a moderately long lasting one.
edited 2nd Mar '15 9:23:10 AM by SeptimusHeap
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
Quite a few belong under RPG Mechanics 'Verse, such as that Rose Of The Prophet example and Yureka. I think we may have to go down the Dungeons And Dragons links and disambiguate them. I've still got my hands full with Wick Migration, HITG / HITV removal and putting up a page for Music.Gloryhammer.
EDIT:Tales from the securemarket is too vague to be an example. What aspects does it borrow from D&D? Also, as an avid Board gamer and Tabletop roleplayer of games other than D&D / Hackmaster / Pathfinder, there might be other games they're copying but D&D is the "goto" example.
We have no trope, I believe, for when something is copyrighted but so iconic that it is better not to sue since it gives your product free advertising, like the beholder/eye tyrant example.
edited 16th Apr '16 4:17:49 PM by TheOneWhoTropes
Keeper of The Celestial Flame
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
I found myself doing this recently. I potholed stuff to Alternate Reality instead of Alternate Universe (I think someone on ask the tropers said Alternate Reality) anyway, I should have checked, because Alternate Reality is a game, whereas Alternate Universe is the trope.
EDIT:This is a different topic to the one above.
edited 16th Apr '16 4:18:21 PM by TheOneWhoTropes
Keeper of The Celestial Flame
Bump. Just noticed that The Optimist is actually a comic.
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