History TabletopGame / TheSplinter

* WinToExit: If a Player's Avatar dies, the Player dies on Earthside. This isn't a side effect of the VR technology being used, rather it's because the MegaCorp in control of the VR technology will give you an immediate lethal injection if you loose. Thanks, Gamescorp!

* {{Precursors}}: Considering how incredibly vast the simulated history of The Realm is (over 100 billion years according to the tagline from one of the splatbooks), there are hundreds, possibly ''thousands'' of Precursor species in the setting, which helps explain the SchizoTech to a degree.
** The earthside humans are the ultimate Precursors to The Realm: the programmers who originally brought that computer-simulation-cum-universe into being have entered into the mythology of The Realm as the Neomonte or "name-givers."
*** Well, that's ONE interpretation.
* ProudScholarRaceGuy: The Tzaetzi are dedicated to recovering their world’s history.

* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: Despite being the size of an 18-wheeler, a Greatwolf Guardian prefers to fight with a melee weapon that it holds in its mouth. Despite this, they are surprising skilled.

On the other side of the equation is the Avatar, which the player's Player inhabits when playing the game. Avatars are shape-shifting demigods who inhabit The Realm, a universe composed entirely of an infinite, shape-shifting mega-dungeon. The Realm's history stretches back 100 billion years, including the rise and fall of ''thousands'' of {{Precursor}} civilizations that have all left relics of their technology behind for modern societies to discover. Recently, the citizens of the Realm have been under assault by the "outsiders", strange beings from beyond reality who possess Avatars and force them to participate in murderous games...

* BioPunk: Considering the occasional piece of symbiotic equipment or living weapon that shows up, one or more of The Realms {{precursor}} races seem to have dabbled in Bio Punk.

** One of the {{precursor}} races, the Pyx, was fabulously advanced to the point of being able to create their own miniature universes, but designed most of their technology to run on steam because they enjoyed the aesthetic.

* {{Zeerust}}: Many of the higher-tech pieces of gear that can be found fall squarely into this category. The majority of such items are leftovers from a specific {{precursor}} race.

** The Luciform daemons are a shout out to a TheMarsVolta song of the same name.

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* BirdPeople: The Arventine

* MindScrew: The way Earthside and The Realm interact is a bit mind-screwey

* {{Precursors}}: Considering how incredibly vast the simulated history of The Realm is (over 100 billion years according to the tagline from one of the splatbooks), there are hundreds, possibly ''thousands'' of Precurser species in the setting, which helps explain the SchizoTech to a degree.

** Middle-form Mnemonics (a race of were-golems/were-robots) are often described as having cyberarms and cyberlegs, or the {{magitech}} equivalent.

* {{Magitech}}: In The Realm, magic & science are indistinguishable. As far as citizens of the realm are concerned, magic animates golems, makes guns fire, powers your fireball spells, holds you to the ground, and everything else. The powers-that-be on Earthside are frantically trying to figure all this out, as The Realm (in theory) operates on nearly identical physics as the real world.