Line #18 Radio/PartiesAndParodies


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3	->''"Why? What do you mean 'why'? Why do we do anything around here? Because the plot demands it!"''
4	-->-- '''[[GameMaster The DM]]''' explaining the show in seven seconds
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6	In a world where an epic band of adventurers roams the countryside, scouring dungeons and facing grave threats to all of existence with marvelous magic and massive might, these legends shall be forever engraved in the tomes of history.
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8	[[WellThisIsNotThatTrope THIS...is not their story.]]
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10	Parties & Parodies is the ever-going tale of the Order of the Half-Priced Heroes, a radio drama that follows the adventuring party on an epic quest as they strive to force back the shadow creeping across the land. Hosted and DM'd on WUOG 90.5 FM by their very own DJ Ninjay (with a rotation of victims -- I mean other players), the show features 2-3 hours of comedy and heroism as the players try to foil the Dungeon Master's plans (after all, he IS the one controlling all the villains).
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13	!!''Parties & Parodies'' provides examples of:
14	* AerithAndBob: The Order of the Half-Price Hero has characters like Merthuvial, Kribnefka, Yaseilex...and Matt.
15	* AllAccordingToPlan: The Shapeshifting party gives an outline of their [[spoiler: first]] master plan to the heroes, only doing so because, whether or not the Order actively tries to subvert their plan, their was no chance of doing so; all available options would have led to the Order failing.
16	* AllJustADream: The K-Team seems to have been sent into the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' campaign setting (played like a ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' game), only to wake up from a dream.
17	* AllThereInTheManual: Knowing how to play D&D certainly helps the show to make more sense.
18	* AnotherDimension: The heroes get flung into one when they talk to the shapeshifting party.
19	* BackFromTheDead: This is ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', so dead characters seldom remain so.
20	* CityOfAdventure: Greyhawk
21	* CloudCuckooLander: Miserthal, the [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals omnipresent]] magic shop owner, is exactly this.
22	* CommieLand: Kobolarus, home of the Union of Kobold Communists.
23	* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: Fharlanghn, god of travel, hits the BigBad in the back for 4dPLOT damage.
24	* DarkerAndEdgier: "Parties & Parodies" became "Darkness & Despair" [[RealLifeWritesThePlot when the DM was going through a rough time in the semester]] (it didn't help that half of the villains wanted to annihilate all of existence, which was planned long before the series ever began).
25	** VileVillainSaccharineShow: No one caught one because they were too busy being ChaoticStupid.
26	* DeadlyUpgrade: Since the heroes did not get enough power to beat the BigBad simply by [[spoiler: becoming epic demigods]], they had to consolidate their power in Kribnefka.
27	* DealWithTheDevil: The members of the Order sign their souls over to Asmodeus, Lord of the Nine Hells, in exchange for them going back in time to before [[spoiler: they released Tharizdûn]]. Unfortunately, they players didn't ReadTheFinePrint, so he only sent them back one round.
28	* DePower: The Order, especially Kribnefka, rises and falls in power several times in the beginning of the second season.
29	* DeathFromAbove: Skullcopters can drop brown mold bombs (with alchemist's fire for automatic doubling its size), but they were absorbed by a [[SphereOfDestruction sphere of annihilation]] the first time they were used.
30	* DeathIsCheap: Rather expensive actually. Still little more than a temporary inconvenience.
31	** Also, Asifa Skullhunter kicked Sid into a poisonous-spiked trap, of course killing him. He then was reincarnated as a [[spoiler: Phanaton]].
32	* DeusExMachina: When the players are forced to fight [[spoiler: Tharizdûn]], this is how they beat him every time.
33	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Order attacks with, and is attacked by, tentacles on a fairly regular basis, always leading to {{Hentai}} references.
34	* EarthShatteringKaboom: Singularity of Cheese, caused by noting that the True Creation spell has a volume requirement, but no mass requirement. [[spoiler: used to destroy Atropus, the undead afterbirth of creation]]
35	* ElementalPowers: Worshipers of the Elder Elemental Eye are divided up into elemental sects, except [[spoiler: those that know the real identity of EEE as Tharizdûn, which so far this story only reveals as being Lareth the Beautiful]].
36	* GameMaster: The DM wears all of the hats featured in the article.
37	%% * Getting Crap Past The Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
38	* GodMode: The [[spoiler: Order of the Half-Price Hero]] become epic AND gods.
39	* {{Hentai}}: Matt Tenant and Lulu saying of the ubiquitous tentacles in the story, "I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going."
40	* HumongousMecha: The Kobold War Engine ([[BattleCry SYMBOL OF THE REVOLUTION!]]) even has it's own stats:
41	** http://www.thetangledweb.net/forums/profiler/view_char.php?cid=56014
42	* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Miserthal, [[CloudCuckooLander the cloudcuckoolander]] magic shop owner.
43	* KryptoniteFactor: In an episode that only featured spellcasting heroes, the enemy simply surrounded themselves in an [[AntiMagic anti-magic]] field, rendering them helpless.
44	* LampshadeHanging: If it can be lampshaded, it will by someone. Frequently by naming the very tropes used. This is so omnipresent, it leads to:
45	** BetterThanABareBulb
46	* LazyBackup: The "In-Universe" explanation for why characters suddenly change in the middle of the fight. [[RealLifeWritesThePlot The real reason is that different people do the show at different times.]]
47	* LethalJokeCharacter: Somewhat subverted by the fact that he isn't truly ''lethal'', but Kribnefka's Diplomat has two levels, but can achieve a 50 on diplomacy checks, making him able to stop all fights [[spoiler: except against Tharizdûn, who was immune because of his portfolio and madness]].
48	* TheLoonie: After the first few episodes, this ends up being pretty much EVERYONE except the DM, to various degrees.
49	* TheMunchkin: Kribnefka Terunterik is always trying to make broken characters. Also, the DM [[MinMaxing min-maxes]] about half of his villains, only for them to get killed off in silly ways (or the DM gets out-munchkin'd).
50	* OurElvesAreDifferent: Grey Elves, the race Yaseilex, Merthuvial, Rebecca, and Uthreth are members of, are even prouder and more arrogant than regular ones.
51	* [[OurGnomesAreWeirder Our Gnomes Are]] [[ButtMonkey Designated Butt Monkeys]]: For whatever reason, all the players seem to hate gnomes. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] with the K-Team, who are all Kobolds; a race who canonically harbors FantasticRacism against gnomes.
52	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Who can or cannot be on the show has a huge impact on what happens that episode.
53	* RedsWithRockets: The Kobolds have the Kobold War Engine (SYMBOL OF THE REVOLUTION), a space program, factories, and skeleton-based technology.
54	* RocksFallEveryoneDies: This was the original motto for the show (which is now "Because the plot demands it!")
55	* RunningGag: Kobold hatred of Gnomes. Dartak and Sid dying.
56	* RuleOfCool: Not watching explosions is a sure-fire way of accomplishing this, as well as putting on sunglasses and screaming "Yeeeeeeah!"
57	* RuleOfFunny: Everything in this show tries, at least.
58	* ShapeShifterShowdown: When threatened by the shapeshifting party, Kribnefka turns into a gold dragon...[[AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter so does one of them]].
59	* SillinessSwitch: Why cast spells when you have a Greater Rod of Wonder? Dressmar and Matt, both primary casters, [[ChaoticStupid prefer random effects]] to any semblance of law.
60	** A rod of wonder roll actually does something useful when [[spoiler:it removes Tharizdun's Well of Many Worlds, integral to his multiversal destruction plan, from existence... along with every other Well of Many Worlds in the mutliverse.]]
61	* [[SovietSuperscience Soviet Supermagic]]: Kobolds have a teleportation network, spells that can create an entire city in a day, and of course research ANY magical items that come into their possession.
62	* VileVillainSaccharineShow: It is actually impossible to make the setting scary…because the players will come up with utterly

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