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Bile Fascination / Hype Backlash: As a result to not showing or even talking about what made Violence Jack so horrifying several fans went out to see it for themselves, only to find it fairly boring and mild (he reviewed more graphic anime before). At least compare to how Bennett treats it.
Dogstar: Bob Santino shows off his laser cannon by blowing up Pluto on TV and manages to still be a Villain with Good Publicity.
Goodnight Sweetheart: Gary has Ron, his Secret-Keeper and a printer, make 1940’s white banknotes to spend when he travels back to World War II. In one episode, he thinks he’s going to be caught when the police start finding counterfeit notes. But it turns out they came from a Nazi spy and are actually worse quality than Ron’s fakes.
The Simpsons: In "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" Homer burns a thousand dollar bill.
—>Homer: Don't worry. I make six of these a year.
edited 25th Dec '13 6:03:25 PM by jormis29
Doctor Who: "A Town Called Mercy" gives us this:
—>Doctor: Ooh! You know all the monkeys and dogs they sent into space in the '50s and '60s? You will never guess what happened to them.
The alien invaders from Alien Siege force humanity to give them ten percent of the population, so they can liquefy them and turn them into cure for a plague. USA chooses who they give by a lottery while all other countries empty their prisons, get rid of their poor, etc, etc.
Dogstar has a planet shaped like a tetrahedron. The whole planet has a theme of threes, with the local aliens having three arms, three legs, three eyes, etc.
- Actor Allusion:note
- "Dead Man’s Curveball" has Danny Glover playing a baseball coach. When a fight breaks out on the field, he complains "I'm too old for this crap".
Castle: In the two part episode "Setup" and "Countdown", a group of military veterans plan to blow up a dirty bomb in New York and leave the body of middle eastern man as a patsy, to drum up support for military.
Criminal Minds "A Thin Line”: The UnSub, Trevor Mills, murders entire Caucasian families in staged home invasions while leaving behind the corpses of minorities. He does this to create fear about minority based gangs and boost the profile of a local racist politician, who was directing him. The attempt to inflame racial tensions likened to the aim of Manson Family murders.
Hello
This is first of many incoming entries about Tabletop RPG "The Witcher". Since posting it as a whole is out of question (25 pages of text in standard formating), I will send one letter at a time for inspection. Today will be the day of letter A.
List of tropes:
- Acrofatic: Halflings are pudgy, to put it mildly and look hardly like dangerous. And yet their Splat requires from player to take at least 3 points in Agility.
- Aerith and Bob: Names of settlements and landmarks sound like this. Some are in Polish, many fit under generic Medieval European Fantasy setting, others are Gratuitous Foreign Language and few are all of those in the same time.
- Alternative Calendar: It's somewhere during 13th century of Age of Man... counting from unspecified event, most likely the Conjunction of Spheres. Humans themselves have no idea why their calendar works this way. The oldest written down event was their arrival to what's now Northern Kingdoms somewhere during year 764.
- Amazon Brigade: Since dryads are One-Gender Race of Cold Snipers devoted into protecting their forest, this is basic way of organizing their ranks. And absolutely nothing prevents players from creating all-female party.
- Amulet of Dependency: Zig-Zagged with witchers' medallions. On one hand, they are the only source of Arcane Points for witchers and not couting emergency meditations, they can't be recharged instantly. On the other hand, witchers got special race trait, allowing them to use Combat and Arcane Points interchangeably. So without their medallions their poll of available Points is simply lower.
- An Adventurer Is You
- Ancestral Weapon: Self-sharpening swords cost quite a lot, but they also never wear off, so they are usually held by the same family for generations.
- Annoying Arrows: Averted. After calculating everything, regular weapons deal about the same damage as weakest type of bows. That makes them even already, without going for more powerful bows and crossbows. It's also far easier to shot someone - shields, magic barriers, costly fencing moves and bad weather are the only things that can stop arrows.
- After certain distance, all types of projectiles are dealing less damage, up to -4 damage. Combined with armour, in some circumstances arrows can simply slide off their target.
- Anti-Cavalry: Pikes and polearms by default. Magic barriers and some signs may be used to create invisible force-fields, breaking any possible charge and scaring horses in the process. Combat move Break charge may be used to stop any kind of charge, incluging cavalry.
- Anti-Magic: Sign Heliotrop can block any form of offensive magic and concentrated sound-waves. Witchers are advised to use it from safe distance - it tends to create small explosion when deactivating spell's energy.
- Anyone Can Die: This system is a hard punch for anyone who get used to players' characters being Made of Iron. You. Will. Die. A lot. Most basic weapons in hands of average enemies can deal enough damage to take quarter of your hit points. With single blow. In hands of professionals the same weapons can kill you on spot. And that's without even mentioning monsters.
- Arbitrary Maximum Range: Both averted and played straight. All types of bows and crossbows have effective ranges of their real life counter-parts. Meanwhile, you can't throw a rock further than 10 meters...
- Arbitrary Minimum Range: You can't use bows or slings from less than two meter distance, while javelines and spears are no longer considered as ranged weapon.
- Archer Archetype: Dryads. They could be poster-girls of this trope played very serious.
- Armor and Magic Don't Mix: First of all, armour is bad for just everyone untrained into wearing it and can add tons of penalties. Which badly blends with magic, as in this setting sorcery is all about lots of complicated sequences and gestures, while armour simply constrict movement.
- Witchers don't have this problem, since their signs are the most rudimentry and basic telekinesis possible, created purpousefully to solve this issue in-universe.
- Armor Is Useless: Zig-Zagged. When facing humans and humanoids, armour can be very useful, going as far as making a character almost invulnerable. On the other hand bigger animals and monsters deal so much damage that armour won't even stop fixed part of it, not to mention outcome of damage rolls.
- Armor-Piercing Attack: Overseas weapons bypass anything lesser than plate mail, while there is combat move allowing to bypass plate mail with any weapon. However this works only on crafted armour, not those natural of monsters.
- Spells dealing direct damage by default bypass half of target's armour, rounded down.
- Ascended Extra: Every single monster ever mentioned (even if just by name) in the short stories or the saga is present in the source book, with description, stats, attacks and most of them - with picture.
- Attack Its Weak Point: It's the only way to beat armoured opponents and bigger monster. Dragons are extremely hard to take down, since their only body parts that can be effectively attacked are eyes and insides of their mouths. Skill Knowledge: Monsters is dedicated to figuring out what is the weakpoint of monsters your character is facing.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Whips, exotic weapons and two-handed weapons suffer from this in general.
- Awesome Yet Practical: Mini-crossbows. They deal relatively small damage and have very short range, but they can be hidden in wide sleeves and shoot two bolts in single turn. Right in your face.
- Awesomeness by Analysis/Taught by Experience: Your character can learn new combat moves and spells by observing, analizing and going by trial and error routine. It still cost you Points of Proficiency, requires few tests based on different skills and stats and takes much more time than normal training, but removes the need for teacher or manuscript to learn from.
edited 28th Dec '13 2:37:09 PM by rzorrz
When the Duke of Lorraine of Rex Mundi turns around the war in his favour, he reorganises France in very Nazi like way. This includes rounding up Jews and Gypsies, brown uniforms for his troops and his symbol is the Nazi’s but with a Cross of Lorraine
instead of a swastika. It’s not
◊ very
◊ subtle.
The Big Bad of Rex Mundi wants to gain the power of the grail. It turns out to be a cup made from the skull of John the Baptist. If a descendant of Jesus drinks Blue Pomegranate wine from the grail, it heals them and gives them a boost in magical power. If anyone else drinks from it, the results are... unpleasant.
Bat Deduction Strange Minds Think Alike
Suits: Louis finds out that the new quartermaster is an old foe of his, Nigel. Nigel points out that Louis should have realised that it was him because he used a fake name with the initials BLT. He meant BLT as in the sandwich and what do you put on a BLT? Mayonnaise, that brings to mind another sandwich, the Monte Cristo. Monte Cristo as in The Count of Monte Cristo, a story about a person returning to seek revenge like Nigel is doing. Louis manages to deduce this exact same line of reasoning, right after Nigel points out the initials.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia "The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre": When Mac and Charlie try to warn a pale, moaning Sweet Dee about the zombies, she attacks them. Subverted when Dee tells her side of the story, there were never any zombies, just people high on bath salts and she attacked them because they just crashed her car.
Everything's Deader with Zombies
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The season eight episode, "The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre", is a parody of zombie films. Though the "zombies" turn out to just people who drank milk spiked with bath salts.
The Cleveland Show: LeVar did some ridiculously abusive things during to Cleveland during his childhood, like fighting him in a very one sided boxing match every boxing day.
Strange Hill High: A student affected by a rash of bad luck says she was attacked by a tiger, then a zombie and then a zombie tiger.
The Dark Matter version of the Crawfordsville monster
is a floating giant bacteria-like creature. They are transparent except for a short time after absorbing something, when they take on a pinkish-red hue as they dissolve the flesh of their prey. Their entire species have become endangered, due the danger of large aircraft hitting them. As a result they have started to become more aggressive to humans on the ground, as they are safer to hunt then their traditional prey of birds.
edited 31st Dec '13 4:30:13 AM by jormis29
I've been thinking about adding a Special Chapter section for The Warhammer 4000 character section similar how we have one over at Warhammer Fantasy (for those that don't already have a character page already, like Ultramarines)
Don't want to be here all day, so here's only one character.
Trazyn the infinite Overlord of Solemnace and its vast Galleries. Trazyn is the self-proclaimed [[Collector of the Strange: preserver of histories, artefacts and events]]
- Actually a Doombot
- Artistic License – History: In-Universe. Trazyn doesn't care about minor details like uniforms being of the wrong time period, only the event itself.
- Evil Is Hammy: And a Deadpan Snarker
- Faux Affably Evil
- Fatal Flaw: His need to collect things, in fact has some of these most powerful Artifacts of Doom but never uses them as a result.
- Man Behind the Man
- Meaningful Name: The Infinite
- Troll: In-universe. Does things like send letters to enemies "thanking them" for adding to his collection.
Note: I didn't really focus on linking the tropes right, mostly on the grammar and spelling.
Hi everyone, can you please check my grammar? I would like to add some of this editions. All other suggestion besides grammar are welcome.
Hell Norse Mythology
Actually, Norse people believed in different possible destinies for the Afterlife including rebirth
and a holly mountain that, according to
The Other Wiki the members of the Norse clans would lead lives similar to the ones they had lived in the world of the living. Some psychic people could look into the mountain and what they saw was not intimidating, but instead it was a scene with a warm hearth, drinking and talking
The Underworld in Legend Of The Seeker resembles the traditional depiction of Hell. Everybody seems to go there when dying no matter how they act during their life time.
Buddhist believe that this Universe is a place of endless suffering, which can only be stop by following the teachings of the Buddhist Doctrines.
In episode Gropos of Babylon 5, the Earth government is helping a dictator of another planet to crush a rebellion. This and other episodes seem to indicate that pre-Alliance Earth have no "Prime Directive" at all and constantly intervenes in matters of other races and planets.
Brian Lumley is one of the most Lovecraftian writers and uses many of Lovecraft’s deities and concepts. Examples of this are the Necroscope (quit Lovecraftian explanation of the vampire’s nature), Titus Crow and Dreamlands sagas
Costa Rican writer Daniel Gonzalez is also known for be very influenced for Lovecraft. Some examples are:
- Zarate Arkham, the main character of his horror novel A Scream in the Dark, her name is a clear allusion to Lovecraft.
- Zarate comes from a rich British family prone to practice Witchcraft, Satanism, Demon Worship and incest.
- The Arkhams have been persecuted trough several centuries because of their satanic practices, a recurrent topic in Lovecraftian fiction.
- A branch of the Arkham family rules over a rural and isolated English town although later is discover that their actually undead and the town is an Eldritch Location.
- Eldritch Abomination Actually is Cthulhu itself
- Several characters have pacts with demons Things don’t go well
- Incest is a common topic.
edited 31st Dec '13 2:06:44 PM by TVGuy
Hi again, I would like to chek the grammar here too please:
God Is Evil (South Park section)
the God in question is the Hindu deity of Maha Brahma who, in Buddhist canon, has a role as cosmic ruler of the material Universe similar to the Demiurge in Gnosticism, but many Buddhist scholar think that Maha Brahma and the God of the Judeo-Christian religions is the same being.
Sorry, folks. We may need to recruit more helpers for this thread, but please bear in mind that it's your responsibility to write properly, not ours to fix your writing. We offer assistance as a courtesy, nothing more.
I'll try to catch up a bit.
@Hollow101, #1392
- Character Development:
- Tsubaki goes from a Knight Templar Yandere to a more independent note woman who fights for her loved ones and her own meaning of Justice.
- Makoto goes from a person note who would back-stab anyone who harms her friends to someone fighting for the greater good and not just her companions. She note also seems to have finally gotten over her racism note issues.
So yeah since then the good guys improved a bit losing their shades of grey a little.note
- Took a Level in Kindness: Hakumen seems to have cooled down in CP note , note giving up his Knight Templar ego as well as speaking less harshly towards others, and isn't as hostile to Ragna as he was before.
Note: You're still omitting spaces after punctuation and you seem to have some confusion over the proper use of commas, semicolons, and periods.
@Alega5, #1393
:
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: In Benny's trial for armed note robbery, her mother was brought in by George to be a character witness. Unfortunately, note she instead starts to mock Benny, calling her a whore and admitting to hitting her. This is so bad that George, who had up to this point refused to be a character witness and was looking forward to the ridicule, decides to defend her. The episode makes it look like Benny's mother was the worse of the two in raising children. This is despite Benny lying to George about his father being alive and having a sister, hitting him for no good reason, and even stealing money from him when he was a kid.
Note: This doesn't seem like a proper example of the trope to me. Without knowing anything about the work in question, it seems like the portrayal is completely intentional here. In any event, you haven't explained anything about the author's intent at all.
@jormis29, [1]
:
- Chuck: Sarah and Casey retrieve a handheld EMP device, created by Volkoff Industries, in "Chuck Versus the Anniversary". It is later used to deactivate plasma bombs in "Chuck Versus the Family Volkoff".
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): Being abducted and experimented on by the Greys was the Start of Darkness for Agent Bishop. He also creates an army of phony aliens to fake an Alien Invasion and "defeat" them to ensure continued funding for his organisation. The fake aliens had heads
◊ like grey aliens but with more physically impressive bodies.
Both of these examples seem good as-is.
@d715, #1399
: I'd go even farther with that correction.
Hype Backlash: As a result of note Bennett note not showing or even talking about what made Violence Jack so horrifying, note several fans went out to see it for themselves, only to find it fairly boring and mild compared to how he treats it.
Note: This isn't really a proper use of Hype Backlash, in my opinion, because it applies neither to the hype for the work being discussed in a general sense nor to the hype for the reviewer in question.
edited 31st Dec '13 4:32:42 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"@jormis29, #1401
- Robbie the Reindeer "Close Encounters of the Herd Kind": Em is a reindeer in black, complete with memory wiping and black vans filled with alien detecting gear. Except when she’s wearing her poofy bridesmaid dress, that is.
Note: Other than a missing comma in the last sentence, this looks okay.
- Judge Dredd: In one comic a man decides to try this whole democracy thing. So he kidnaps his neighbour, dresses him up in a shoddy judge uniform, and has the viewing audience vote on what he does to him, note all at the low price of one cred for a vote. Almost no-one votes to let him go.
Note: If you can name the comic by title or issue number, it would improve the example a lot.
- Splinter Cell: Third Echelon and the later Fourth Echelon are kept top secret, to allow for deniability by the U.S. government.
—>President Caldwell: There is no program. No secret spies. No hidden agendas. Any questions?
Note: This looks mostly fine. U.S. is properly written with periods, not as an initialism.
- DmC: Devil May Cry: The energy drink note Virility is 'advertised as making a "fitter, smarter, sexier you". It turns out that the drink’s Secret Ingredient is secreted from the backside of a giant slug-like demon and has the effect of a "lobotomy in a can".
Note: I'm not sure this is an example. May Contain Evil is about The Corruption in a consumer product; if it just makes people brain-dead, it's not really "evil" so much as just plain old toxic.
- Blue Bloods: The episode "Protest Too Much" opens with a group of protesters note outside the police commissioner’s note office. One of the louder protesters mockingly brandishes a giant fake donut hanging from a stick. Later in the episode, a protester posts images of the Reagan family online, including Jamie eating a donut. Erin comments, "Yeah, note a cop eating a donut, that’s news".
- Family Guy "When You Wish Upon A Weinstein": Jim Kaplan sells volcano insurance to Peter. This is despite the Quahog not having an eruption in living memory.
—>Jim Kaplan: Well, don't you think we're overdue for one?
Peter: Touché, salesman.
Note: This looks good.
- Fringe: The episode "The Recordist" note has a group whose members isolate themselves in the wilds note in order to preserve recorded history so it cannot be rewritten by the Observers. They are willing to do this even though the local conditions are causing growths all over their bodies and significantly shorting their lives.
Note: This seems like you're writing an example of a different trope. Written by the Winners should be primarily about the Observers rewriting history; that people are trying to stop them is secondary.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"@jormis29, #1403
- Dogstar: Bob Santino shows off his laser cannon by blowing up Pluto on TV and manages to still be a Villain with Good Publicity.
Note: This is okay. Better is to omit the direct call to the trope and instead pothole it to something more descriptive, like "manages to still be extremely popular".
- Goodnight Sweetheart: Gary has Ron, his Secret-Keeper and a printer, make 1940s white banknotes to spend when he travels back to World War II. In one episode, he thinks he’s going to be caught when the police start finding counterfeit notes. But it turns out they came from a Nazi spy and are actually worse quality than Ron’s fakes.
Note: This is fine. You don't generally use apostrophes when using a year as an adjective.
- The Simpsons: In "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" Homer burns a thousand dollar bill.
—>Homer: Don't worry. I make six of these a year.
Note: This looks fine.
@jormis29, #1404
:
- Doctor Who: "A Town Called Mercy" gives us this:
—>Doctor: Ooh! You know all the monkeys and dogs they sent into space in the '50s and '60s? You will never guess what happened to them.
Note: Quotes can work as examples by themselves, but it's not preferred.
- The alien invaders from Alien Siege force humanity to give them ten percent of the population, so they can liquefy them and turn them into the cure for a plague. The United States chooses who they give by holding a lottery while all other countries empty their prisons, get rid of their poor, etc.
Note: You omitted an article before "cure". I also fixed the wording of the last sentence; don't use "USA" as an abbreviation.
- Dogstar has a planet shaped like a tetrahedron. The whole planet has a theme of threes, with the local aliens having three arms, three legs, three eyes, etc.
Note: I'm not sure the threes thing is relevant to the World Shapes trope unless it also has to do with the geography of the planet.
@jormis29, #1405
:
- Actor Allusion:note
- "Dead Man’s Curveball" has Danny Glover playing a baseball coach. When a fight breaks out on the field, he complains, "I'm too old for this crap".
Note: A comma always separates dialog quoted in a sentence.
- Castle: In the two part episode "Setup" and "Countdown", a group of military veterans plans note to blow up a dirty bomb in New York and leave the body of a Middle-Eastern note man as a patsy to drum up support for the military. note
- Criminal Minds "A Thin Line”: The UnSub, Trevor Mills, murders entire Caucasian families in staged home invasions while leaving behind the corpses of minorities. He does this to create fear about minority based gangs and boost the profile of a local racist politician, who is note directing him. The attempt to inflame racial tensions is note likened to note the Manson Family murders.
@rzzorz, #1406
: You have a whole host of problems there.
This is the first of many incoming entries about the Tabletop RPG "The Witcher". Since posting it as a whole is out of the question (25 pages of text in standard formatting), I will send one letter at a time for inspection. Today will be the day of the letter A.
List of tropes:
- Acrofatic: Halflings are pudgy, to put it mildly, and hardly look dangerous; yet their Splat requires the player to take at least 3 points in Agility.
- Aerith and Bob: The names of some settlements and landmarks
sound like thisare in Polish, some sound like they fit into a generic Medieval European Fantasy setting, others are Gratuitous Foreign Language, and a few are all of those at the same time. note - Alternative Calendar: It's somewhere during the 13th century of the Age of Man counting from an unspecified event, most likely the Conjunction of Spheres. Humans themselves have no idea why their calendar works this way. The oldest written down event is their arrival to what's now the Northern Kingdoms somewhere during the year 764.
- Amazon Brigade: Since dryads are a One-Gender Race of Cold Snipers devoted to protecting their forest, this is the basic way of organizing their ranks.
And absolutely nothing prevents players from creating all-female party.note - Amulet of Dependency: Zig-Zagged with the Witchers' medallions. On the one hand, they are the only source of Arcane Points for Witchers and, not counting emergency meditations, they can't be recharged instantly. On the other hand, Witchers get a special racial trait allowing them to use Combat and Arcane Points interchangeably. So without their medallions their pool of available points is simply lower. note
-
An Adventurer Is Younote - Ancestral Weapon: Self-sharpening swords cost quite a lot, but they also never wear out, so they are usually held by the same family for generations. note
- Annoying Arrows: Averted. After calculating everything, regular weapons deal about the same damage as the weakest type of bows. That makes them even already, without going for more powerful bows and crossbows. It's also far easier to shoot someone — shields, magic barriers, costly fencing moves and bad weather are the only things that can stop arrows.
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After certain distance, all types of projectiles are dealing less damage, up to -4 damage. Combined with armour, in some circumstances arrows can simply slide off their target.note
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- Anti-Cavalry: Pikes and polearms note by default. Magic barriers and some signs may be used to create invisible force-fields, breaking any possible charge and scaring horses in the process. The combat move Break charge may be used to stop any kind of charge, including that of cavalry.
- Anti-Magic: The sign Heliotrop can block any form of offensive magic as well as concentrated sound-waves. Witchers are advised to use it from a safe distance — it tends to create a small explosion when the spell's energy is deactivated.
- Anyone Can Die: This system is a hard punch for anyone who is used to Player Characters being Made of Iron. Most basic weapons in the hands of average enemies can deal enough damage to take a quarter of your hit points with a single blow. In hands of professionals, the same weapons can kill you on the spot.
And that's without even mentioning monsters.note - Arbitrary Maximum Range:
Both averted and played straight.All types of bows and crossbows have the same effective ranges as their real life counterparts. Meanwhile, you can't throw a rock further than 10 meters... note - Arbitrary Minimum Range: You can't use bows or slings at a range of under two meters, while javelins and spears are no longer considered ranged weapons. note .
- Archer Archetype:
Dryads. They could be poster-girls of this trope played very serious.[[note: There's no context here at all; it's just Word Cruft.[[/note]] - Armor and Magic Don't Mix: Armor restricts movement, making the complicated gestures needed for sorcery difficulty — doubly so if you're untrained in wearing it. Witchers, by contrast, use rudimentary signs created specifically to overcome this problem. note
- Armor Is Useless: Zig-Zagged. When facing humans and humanoids, armour can be very useful, going so far as to make a character almost invulnerable. On the other hand, bigger animals and monsters deal so much damage that armour won't even stop the fixed part of it, not to mention the outcome of damage rolls. note
- Armor-Piercing Attack:
- Overseas weapons bypass anything less than plate mail, while there is a combat move allowing a character to bypass plate mail with any weapon. However this works only on crafted armour, not the natural armor of monsters.
- Spells dealing direct damage by default bypass half of the target's armour, rounded down.
- Ascended Extra:
Every single monster ever mentioned (even if just by name) in the short stories or the saga is present in the source book, with description, stats, attacks and most of them - with picture.note - Attack Its Weak Point: It's the only way to beat armoured opponents and bigger monsters. Dragons are extremely hard to take down, since the only body parts that can be effectively attacked are their eyes and the insides of their mouths. The skill Knowledge: Monsters is dedicated to figuring out the weak points of the monsters your character is facing.
- Awesome, but Impractical:
Whips, exotic weapons and two-handed weapons suffer from this in general.note - Awesome Yet Practical: Mini-crossbows. They deal relatively little damage and have a very short range, but they can be hidden in wide sleeves and shoot two bolts in a single turn.
Right in your face. - Awesomeness by Analysis/Taught by Experience: Your character can learn new combat moves and spells by observing, analyzing, and through trial and error. It still costs you Points of Proficiency, requires a few tests based on different skills and stats and takes much more time than normal training, but removes the need for a teacher or manuscript to learn from. note
My thoughts: You have a major problem with omitting articles and some problems with subject-verb agreement. You also don't understand Zero Context Example, have a problem with Sinkholes, and are using improper Example Indentation.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"- Amulet of Dependency: Witchers' medallions. They are the only source of the Arcane Points for witchers and, not counting emergency meditations, they can't be recharged instantly. If they are depleted, witchers can't cast their signs until recharge. note
- Armor Is Useless: Guess then it's averted and the part about monsters can be delated?
- Awesome, but Impractical:
- Whips can be used for very flashy combat moves like tripping over, disarming and strangling, but on such short distance that it's easier to just draw your sword or shoot your enemy from afar. They are close to useless against armoured enemies, most of animals and monsters.
- Exotic weapons bypass any armour exept plate mail, but also cost a small fortune and have only d6 damage roll, while normal weapons can be customised for the user, dealing additional fixed damage and being easier to wield.
- Two-handed weapons deal 2d6 + twice the Strength of damage, but they require sufficient Strength and many combat moves are restricted for one-handed weapons. Using a combination of one-handed weapon and shield grants protection, while the shield may be weaponized, so characters may have two d6 damage rolls instead of single, easier to miss 2d6 attack.
- Awesome Yet Practical:
- Lamia, a whip with metal spikes all over it's length, has range limitations of other whips, but deals damage of two-handed weapon. And unlike other whips, it overcomes problem with close-quarter fights, since it's handle is a mace.
And new batch, this time the letter B. Notes won't be in the final version - they serve only as additional information for whoever will check this entry:
- Background Magic Field: The Arcane Points can be recharged just about anywhere, even if by a small amount. Of course some places are better sources than others.
- Badass Normal: In world with powerful magicians utilising Functional Magic, mutated monster hunters, few different non-human races that tend to excell capabilities of human body, personified Gaia's Vengeance and tons of monsters able to eat you whole for dinner, playing as a human tends to give this feeling. Because you can and often must stand your ground against all of those.
- Bears Are Bad News: You really, really, really don't want to fight them. They are the strongest of normal animals... and stronger than most of the monsters. A single bear can tear a Player Party composed entirely of grizzled veterans apart, one character per turn. It says something when short from flying dragons and high vampires, bears are the toughest creatures you may fight with. And they are much, much more common.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: Cult of Freyja from the Skellige Isles takes it to the logical extreme, since she's a goddess of beauty and fertility. Her clergy is made entirely from girls chosen by their looks and nothing else.
- Berserk Button: Some of the disadvantages you can pick during character creation have those. Your character can be vengeful beyond reason, extremely racist toward certain race or just going Ax-Crazy when the blood is drawn.
- Big Eater: Halflings are friendly and cuddly version of this trope. Then there are bigger monsters. And oversized arthropods.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Few of them. Dangerous like hell, as they got strong carapace, most of them are poisonous and all of them are always hungry.
- BFS: The standard-issue Temerian Landsknechts' two-handed sword.
- The Blacksmith: Dwarven Splat gives players a choice to pick one of a few Craft skills as their starting. They include: Armourer, Blacksmith, Goldsmith and Weaponsmith. Oh, and Stonemason.
- Blade On A Stick: Two-handed weapons that are not swords are all types and kinds of pikes and polearms.
- Bolt of Divine Retribution: You really don't want to piss off Coram Agh Ter or his worshippers.
- Bound and Gagged: The best way to deal with magic users when you don't have to kill them. Or at least a cost-efficient one, since dvimerite handcuffs cost a fortune. This can badly backfire if the mage in question is good enough to cast spells without gestures or words.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Dwarves, but only when you are nice to them. People from Skellige are like this as part of their culture.
- Boring, but Practical: Shields. They make their wielders harder to hit with any kind of physical attack, add armour and are not penalized by anything. Polearms and pikes are very good against mounted enemies.
- Bow and Sword in Accord: Entirely possible, with mechanics designed to help doing so. The better the bow, the more required Statistics. Longbows require 3 points in Dexterity. Compound bows need that and 3 points in Strength. Weapons fighting and Hand-to-hand combat are Dexterity-based skills and melee damage got fixed bonus from Strength (weapons got twice the Strength). So with minor investment in Weapons fighting, archers can be deadly both on distance and in close quarters. Humans got it especially easy to do, since they've got 5 bonus points to skills during character creation, which can be only used on skills from their Splat. And Weapons fighting is one of them.
- Brainwashed: The extent of it and how much it's lasting depends on the process used for it:
- Mages can use Charm and Hypnosis spells. The first one turns it's target into very friendly toward caster. The second gives total control over it's target. Both can be broken by sudden sound, pain or strong will and can't last for more than an hour.
- Witchers have the Aksji sign, which turns any creature friendly and obedient for a short while. Witchers can also use it on themselves, making them more focused on given task and lowering difficulties of actions related with fulfilling it. Aksji can be broken by roll of the Concentration skill and lasts for a single turn in the basic version.
- Naturalised dryads are created by giving normal human girls the Water of Brokilon. Their memories of previous life are erased (some traces may remain) and they think about themselves as dryads. The effect lasts forever and is irreversable.
- Depending how powerful psychics are and how much they focus, effects may range from a single, simple order to turning someone into a vegetable.
- Bread and Circuses: The Nilfgaard Empire is literally using this over it's population, with Gladiator Games, doing everything on time and providing basic consumer products in reasonable prices. Who cares that half of those things came from pillage of the far North?
- Break Meter: Played every possible way. Combat moves, especially those in melee, can affect defences of both target and user of that move. Most often using combat move expose it's user for next turn (because of ending up in bad position for blocking incoming hits or being surrounded by enemies). They can also increase defence of their target, making it harder to hit (try to reach two people with a single slash of sword). Usually more powerful moves do both. There are also defensive moves - they make it harder to hit your character, often exposing enemy in the process.
- Breaking the Bonds: Inverted to the point of a deconstruction. The spell Fire net bonds it's target and that's about all it does. Any attempt of movement will deal d3 damage. Breaking free? That's 2d6 damage - almost half of the maximum possible Vitality an average character may have.
- Brown Note: Bruxas can utter a scream strong enough to make your ears bleed. Or knock you to the ground in close distance. note
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Fringe "The Recordist": A hidden group preserves a number of news articles from destruction by the Observers. One of the stories has the title, "Thousands of Libraries Burned to the Ground
◊".
Jeremiah "Out of the Ashes": Kurdy helps a man defend a library from a gang who burn books because they blame the pre-apocalypse knowledge for the Big Death. When asked why the gang hadn't already destroyed the library, the man explains that the book bonfires are the gang's best recruiting tool, so they only take a few books at a time rather then burning it all at once.
The Book of Eli: The World War III survivors burned all Bibles, blaming religion for the apocalypse. [spoiler: Except they missed the Braille one Eli is carrying]. Also when Carnegie is searching for religious texts, he burns all the non-scriptural books that his illiterate mooks bring him, including copies of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Da Vinci Code.
Not Always Right: This entry
deals with a customer buying Harry Potter books to burn.
Doctor Who "Journey To The Centre Of The Tardis": After a mishap, the TARDIS is left adrift in space and is almost immediately snapped up by a salvage team. The Doctor has to stop them from immediately looting the TARDIS by activating a self-destruct countdown.
Dogstar: Space travel is easy enough that the children protagonists travel around the galaxy, in a spaceship that was used for their father’s removalist business.
Futurama "Free Will Hunting": Bender joins the Order of the Binary Singularity, a robot monk order that embraces their lack of free will and worships Mom as the "Creatrix".
Get Smart "The Day Smart Turned Chicken": A dying man in a cowboy costume shows up at Max's apartment and whenever he tries to show him to other people, he’s moved to another place. The cowboy turns out to be a KAOS agent trying to make Max look insane and discredit his upcoming testimony.
@Rzorrz: Look, I'm happy to help you improve your writing, but I won't be your personal proof reading service. You are still omitting articles and misusing of/to. Those are the biggest mistakes.
I'll look at some of those others later today.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"@jormis29, #1407
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- When the Duke of Lorraine of Rex Mundi turns the war around in his favour, he reorganises France in a very Nazi-like way. This includes rounding up Jews and Gypsies, issuing brown uniforms for his troops, and adopting the Nazi symbol but with a Cross of Lorraine
instead of a swastika. It’s not
◊ very
◊ subtle.
Note: Aside from simple stuff like articles and hyphenation, "Nazi" is a possessive in and of itself, and I fixed some wording and list sequencing issues.
- The Big Bad of Rex Mundi wants to gain the power of the grail. It turns out to be a cup made from the skull of John the Baptist. If a descendant of Jesus drinks Blue Pomegranate wine from the grail, it heals them and gives them a boost in magical power. If anyone else drinks from it, the results are... unpleasant.
Note: This is fine, except I question if "blue pomegranate" needs to be capitalized. If it's a brand, yes; if not, no.
Bat Deduction Strange Minds Think Alike
- Suits: Louis finds out that the new quartermaster is an old foe of his — Nigel. Nigel points out that Louis should have realised that it was him because he used a fake name with the initials BLT. He meant BLT as in the sandwich and what do you put on a BLT? Mayonnaise, that brings to mind another sandwich, the Monte Cristo. Monte Cristo as in The Count of Monte Cristo, a story about a person returning to seek revenge like Nigel is doing. Louis manages to deduce this exact same line of reasoning, right after Nigel points out the initials.
Note: A bit awkwardly worded but it would pass.
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia "The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre": When Mac and Charlie try to warn a pale, moaning Sweet Dee about the zombies, she attacks them. Subverted when Dee tells her side of the story: there were never any zombies, just people high on bath salts, and she attacked them because they just crashed her car.
Note: Fixing punctuation to separate ideas.
Everything's Deader with Zombies
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The season eight episode, "The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre", is a parody of zombie films.
ThoughThe "zombies" turn out to just people who drank milk spiked with bath salts.
Note: Starting a sentence with "Though" is incorrect unless it's a subordinate clause.
- The Cleveland Show: LeVar did some ridiculously abusive things
duringto Cleveland during his childhood, like fighting him in a very one sided boxing match every boxing day.
Note: "Every boxing day" doesn't make sense. Are you referring to the holiday Boxing Day
?
- Strange Hill High: A student affected by a rash of bad luck says she was attacked by a tiger, then a zombie and then a zombie tiger.
Note: This looks okay.
- The Dark Matter version of the Crawfordsville monster
is a floating, giant, bacteria-like creature. They are transparent except for a short time after absorbing something, when they take on a pinkish-red hue as they dissolve the flesh of their prey. Their entire species has become endangered, due the danger of large aircraft hitting them. As a result they have started to become more aggressive to humans on the ground, as they are safer to hunt then their traditional prey of birds.
Note: Commas separate multiple, distinct adjectives.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"@d715, #1408
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Trazyn the Infinite
Overlord of Solemnace and its vast galleries note . Trazyn is the self-proclaimed preserver of histories, artifacts and events note
- Actually a Doombot Zero Context Example
- Artistic License – History: In-Universe. Trazyn doesn't care about minor details like uniforms being from the wrong time period, only the event itself.
- Evil Is Hammy: And a Deadpan Snarker Zero Context Example
- Faux Affably Evil Zero Context Example
- Fatal Flaw: His need to collect things. He has acquired some of the most powerful Artifacts of Doom in the world but never uses them. note
- Man Behind the Man Zero Context Example
- Meaningful Name: The Infinite Zero Context Example
- Troll: In-universe. Does things like send letters to enemies "thanking them" for adding to his collection.
@TVGuy, #1410
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Hi everyone, can you please check my grammar? I would like to make some of these additions. All other suggestions besides grammar are welcome.
Hell Norse Mythology
Actually, Norse people believed in different possible destinies for the Afterlife including rebirth
and a holy note mountain where, according to
The Other Wiki the members of the Norse clans would lead lives similar to the ones they had lived in the world of the living. Some psychic people could look into the mountain and what they saw was not intimidating, but instead it was a scene with a warm hearth, drinking and talking.
Note: This is Natter. Don't start concepts with "actually"; edit the changes into the existing example. What you've got here is either a correction or an irrelevant observation. Also, don't italicize whole blocks of text.
The underworld in Legend Of The Seeker resembles the traditional depiction of Hell. Everybody seems to go there when dying no matter how they act during their life time.
Note: Okay enough, although "underworld" probably shouldn't be capitalized.
- Buddhists believe that this universe is a place of endless suffering, which can only be stopped by following the teachings of the Buddhist Doctrines.
Note: Fixed pluralization, conjugation, and capitalization. This example might violate No Real Life Examples Please; check the article.
- ''Babylon 5: In the episode "Gropos", the Earth government is helping a dictator of another planet to crush a rebellion. This and other episodes seem to indicate that pre-Alliance Earth has no "Prime Directive" at all and constantly intervenes in matters of other races and planets.
First, wrong trope. The Prime Directive you're thinking about was renamed Alien Non-Interference Clause. Second, you are writing this as an aversion when we usually don't recognize those, unless the point of the example is that they have one now but did not previously.
- Brian Lumley is one of the most Lovecraftian writers and uses many of Lovecraft’s deities and concepts. Examples of this are the Necroscope (quite Lovecraftian explanation of the vampire’s nature), Titus Crow and Dreamlands sagas.
Note: This is hyperbolic ("most Lovecraftian") and doesn't explain anything for all its wordiness; making it a Zero Context Example.
Costa Rican writer Daniel Gonzalez is also known for being influenced by Lovecraft. Some examples are:
- Zarate Arkham, the main character of his horror novel A Scream in the Dark. Her name is a clear allusion to Lovecraft. note
- Zarate comes from a rich British family that practices witchcraft, Satanism, demon worship and incest. note
- The Arkhams have been persecuted for several centuries because of their Satanic practices, a recurrent topic in Lovecraftian fiction.
- A branch of the Arkham family rules over a rural and isolated English town, although it is later discovered that they're actually undead and the town is an Eldritch Location. note
- The Eldritch Abomination is actually Cthulhu itself. note
- Several characters have pacts with demons. Things don’t go well. note
- Incest is a common topic.
edited 1st Jan '14 1:30:14 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Hi Fighteer, thank you very much for the corrections and observations. I only have two doubts:
The edit about Buddhism was thought to be included in the trope Crapsack World: Mythology & Religion which have several real life examples.
The trope Alien Non-Interference Clause has a lot of examples about Star Trek and how the human-lead Federation doesn’t intervene in matters of extraterrestrials. So I thought that the trope was to include all cases, not only Aliens-to-Humans but also Humans-to-Aliens. Am I wrong?
On the first one, you may be right. I didn't check. On the second one, the example says nothing about the reverse case, although you are of course correct about the reverse case being a valid example.
edited 1st Jan '14 1:31:53 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"True. What about this, the trope mentions the Alliance in Babylon 5 and the fact that the members worlds does not intervene in internal matters of themselves, but before the existence of the Alliance the direct intervention was pretty common, there I can include this example of Earth’s intervention along with examples of other races.
Also, I think that even post Alliance the members can’t intervene in internal matters of allies BUT the Alliance do intervene directly in matters of extra-Alliance worlds, or at least is said in the canonical expanded universe novels that the Alliance directly help the Centauri resistance against the Shadows. Of course it will require an entire new redaction.
edited 1st Jan '14 2:05:39 PM by TVGuy

The Men in Black
Robbie the Reindeer "Close Encounters of the Herd Kind": Em is a reindeer in black, complete with memory wiping and black vans filled with alien detecting gear. Except when she’s wearing her poofy bridesmaid dress that is.
Televised Torture
Judge Dredd: In one comic a man decides to try this whole democracy thing. So he kidnaps his neighbour, dresses him up in shoddy judge uniform and has the viewing audience vote on what he does to him. All at the low price of one cred for a vote. Almost no-one votes to let him go.
Covert Group
Splinter Cell: Third Echelon and the later Fourth Echelon are kept top secret, to allow for deniability by the US government.
—>President Caldwell: There is no program. No secret spies. No hidden agendas. Any questions?
May Contain Evil
DmC: Devil May Cry: The energy drink, Virility is sold as making a "fitter, smarter, sexier you". It turns out that the drink’s Secret Ingredient is secreted from the backside of a giant slug-like demon and has the effect of a "lobotomy in a can".
Donut Mess with a Cop
Blue Bloods: The episode "Protest Too Much" opens with a group of protestors outside the police commissioners’ office. One of the louder protesters mockingly brandishes a giant fake donut hanging from a stick. Later in the episode, a protester posts images of the Reagan family online, including Jamie eating a donut. Erin comments "Yeah a cop eating a donut, that’s news".
Impossible Insurance
Family Guy "When You Wish Upon A Weinstein": Jim Kaplan sells volcano insurance to Peter. This is despite the Quahog not having an eruption in living memory.
—>Jim Kaplan: Well, don't you think we're overdue for one?
Peter: Touché, salesman.
Written by the Winners
Fringe: The "The Recordist" episode has a group who isolate themselves in the wilds, in order to preserve recorded history so it cannot be rewritten by the Observers. They are willing to do this even though the local conditions are causing growths all over their bodies and significantly shorting their lives.
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