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* RRatedOpening:
** More like X-rated, considering the later chapters are still nowhere remotely close to work-or-child-safe, but yes; the first chapter is a WholeEpisodeFlashback that goes into protracted detail on the systemic take-down of the hapless rookie party, with a lingering, graphic look at how Fighter got gang-raped by the goblins.
** The ''Year One'' manga opened in a violent scene immediately, showing a man impaled through his mouth by a spear, three women stripped naked and raped, and all other nasty things happened when goblins attacked the young Goblin Slayer's village.



* RolePlayingGameVerse: The story's setting is very much like standard fantasy RPG complete with adventurers, monsters, guilds, and quests. [[spoiler:It is implied that the world is actually a tabletop RPG with the gods as the players who roll the dice.]]

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* RolePlayingGameVerse: The story's setting is very much like standard fantasy RPG complete with adventurers, monsters, guilds, and quests. [[spoiler:It It is implied suggested in the novels that the world is actually a tabletop RPG with the gods as the players who roll the dice.]]dice. However, the gods are AdaptedOut of the anime, and other than the classic ''D&D'' VancianMagic system, the "game mechanics" aren't known to the mortal characters, who also have to actually train and practice their skills and occupations rather than simply getting stronger by dint of "leveling up".



* RPGMechanicsVerse: [[AvertedTrope Nope.]] No hitpoints, magic points, or anything like that. And trying to operate as if you did live in one can have fatal consequences.
* RRatedOpening:
** More like X-rated, considering the later chapters are still nowhere remotely close to work-or-child-safe, but yes; the first chapter is a WholeEpisodeFlashback that goes into protracted detail on the systemic take-down of the hapless rookie party, with a lingering, graphic look at how Fighter got gang-raped by the goblins.
** The ''Year One'' manga opened in a violent scene immediately, showing a man impaled through his mouth by a spear, three women stripped naked and raped, and all other nasty things happened when goblins attacked the young Goblin Slayer's village.

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* AlienGeometries: The Dungeon of the Dead has 10 floors. Each floor is slightly spatially displaced from the one above starting with the third, and at the fifth they are fully in a warp-hole of magic.

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* AlienGeometries: The Dungeon of the Dead has 10 floors. Each floor is slightly spatially displaced from the one above starting with the third, and at the fifth they are fully in a warp-hole of magic. [[spoiler: By the ninth floor, the warp hole becomes a whirlpool that will tear an adventurer apart or blink them into random locations if they don't sense the "current" of the spatial warping and walk only along its flow]].



* CombinationAttack: ''Diakatana'' introduces the mechanic of magic-users pooling energy to supercharge one big spell by each chanting part of its incantation in concert.



* EvilSmellsBad: The curses of the Dungeon of the Dead are repeatedly compared to and associated with the stench of dead bodies or ashes throughout ''Daikatana''.



* HumanArchitectureHorror: It's speculated and joked about early in ''Daikatana'' that most of the disappearances of adventurers in the Dungeon of the Dead are caused by Gate traps making them TeleFrag into walls. [[spoiler: When they finally reach the ninth floor, the Golden Party discover which specific wall those traps were linked to. For extra horror, its explained at length that the poor souls are OnlyMostlyDead while the magic of the Dungeon remains active, and wandering monsters will sometimes torture their stuck bodies for amusement]].



* ThinDimensionalBarrier: Later light-novels have characters refer to their planet as "the Four-Cornered World" but it's not until Volume 12 that anyone explains what that means; [[spoiler: the "corners" are temporary nexus points where the material world and the realms of the gods are closest together. Certain extremely powerful mages can find these places and [[DimensionalTraveler planeswalk]] through them to [[DeityOfHumanOrigin join the gods at their table]]. The "corners" change over time, and it is possible for one to artificially create one through mass HumanSacrifice and TerrainSculpting.]]

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Later light-novels have characters refer to their planet as "the Four-Cornered World" but it's not until Volume 12 that anyone explains what that means; [[spoiler: the "corners" are temporary nexus points where the material world and the realms of the gods are closest together. Certain extremely powerful mages can find these places and [[DimensionalTraveler planeswalk]] through them to [[DeityOfHumanOrigin join the gods at their table]]. The "corners" change over time, and it is possible for one to artificially create one through mass HumanSacrifice and TerrainSculpting.]]]]
** At least the bottom two floors of the Dungeon of the Dead [[spoiler: have been almost entirely [[PhysicalHell melded with the realm of demons]], which lets greater fiends freely manifest in them and has produced AlienGeometries so strong it could kill a human that steps wrong in the hallways]].


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* WarRefugees: In the beginning of the third volume of ''Daikatana'' the demon-led Army of Darkness manages to raze a massive chunk of the human kingdom, which causes a veritable flood of civilian refugees to swarm Fortress City. Background adventurers are immediately put on edge by the desperate beggars taking up lodging and harshing the vibe, while the Golden Party and Diamond Knight's entourage realize that they have officially run out of time to build experience and need to find and kill the Demon Lord in their very next outings.

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* ArtifactTitle: The ''Daikatana'' subheading of the second spinoff series is in reference to [[spoiler: the red-bladed cursed sword that the Dungeon Master wielded]].


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* MacGuffinTitle: The ''Daikatana'' subheading of the second spinoff series is in reference to [[spoiler: the red-bladed cursed sword that the Dungeon Master wielded]].
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* ArtifactTitle: The ''Daikatana'' subheading of the second spinoff series is in reference to [[spoiler: the red-bladed cursed sword that the Dungeon Master wielded]].
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* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The first entry establishes very clearly that this series is not pulling its punches when the party of adventurers reaches the goblin cave. In the span of a few minutes, Wizard gets fatally wounded with a poisoned knife stab to the stomach, a warrior gets ripped to pieces by a horde, and a female fighter is gang-raped by goblins.

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* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The first entry establishes very clearly that this series is not pulling its punches when the party of adventurers reaches the goblin cave. In the span of a few minutes, Wizard gets fatally wounded with a poisoned knife stab to the stomach, a warrior gets ripped to pieces by a horde, and a female fighter is overpowered by a much bigger goblin and then gang-raped by the rest of the goblins.
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** Priestess has this reaction when she uses Purify to [[NotTheIntendedUse turn the blood of the Goblin Shaman to water.]] Her looking at the sky with a stricken and tearful face shows the viewer both her guilt at such a violent act, and that she just got a "stern" warning from her patron deity.

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** Priestess has this reaction when she uses Purify to [[NotTheIntendedUse turn the blood of the Goblin Shaman to water.]] Her looking at the sky with a stricken and tearful face shows the viewer both her guilt at such a violent act, and that she just got a "stern" ''stern'' warning from her patron deity.
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** Priestess has this reaction when she uses Purify to [[NotTheIntendedUse turn the blood of the Goblin Shaman to water.]] Her looking at the sky with a stricken and tearful face shows the viewer both her guilt at such a violent act, and that she just got a "stern" warning from her patron deity.

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** [[spoiler:In the Water Town arc when the party encounter a Goblin Champion. Goblin Slayer is out of commission after a single, devastating hit from the Goblin Champion, High Elf Archer being swarmed by Goblins with Dwarf Shaman desperately trying to reach her, Lizard Priest holding his own but is slowly being overwhelmed by the numerous Goblins, and the Priestess being in the grasp of the Goblin Champion who have also taken a bite out of her shoulder and is being overwhelmed by both fear and pain. All seems lost ... [[HeroicSecondWind Until a red, blazing eye flares back up.]]]]


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** [[spoiler:In the Water Town arc when the party encounter a Goblin Champion. Goblin Slayer is out of commission after a single, devastating hit from the Goblin Champion, High Elf Archer being swarmed by Goblins with Dwarf Shaman desperately trying to reach her, Lizard Priest holding his own but is slowly being overwhelmed by the numerous Goblins, and the Priestess being in the grasp of the Goblin Champion who have also taken a bite out of her shoulder and is being overwhelmed by both fear and pain. All seems lost ... [[HeroicSecondWind Until a red, blazing eye flares back up]].]]
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** '' Goblin Slayer Another Adventurer: Nightmare Feast'' (2024): An original story written by Kumo Kagyu with Noboru Kannatsuki as the character designer, this StrategyRPG will be released for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, featuring new characters such as Guild Master, Blood Princess, Squire, Polar Bear Priest and Lady Principality. Characters from the main story will also make an appearance.

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** '' Goblin Slayer Another Adventurer: Nightmare Feast'' (2024): An original story written by Kumo Kagyu with Noboru Kannatsuki as the character designer, this StrategyRPG will be released for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch Platform/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Platform/{{Steam}}, featuring new characters such as Guild Master, Blood Princess, Squire, Polar Bear Priest and Lady Principality. Characters from the main story will also make an appearance.

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