History Main / StandardRPGItems

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' has many of these items, but after about ten or twenty levels the effectiveness of most of them are too small for the cost and inventory space to justify using besides healing StandardStatusEffects, and the other ones that ''are'' worth using are either drops from endgame monsters or stupidly expensive to craft, making those last resorts only. Worse still, using many of these items invokes the universal cooldown timer for a few precious seconds, preventing you from taking any action aside from continuing to auto-attack. Oh, and Phoenix Downs? ''They don't exist.'' Alchemy NeedsMoreLove.

* ''VideoGame/SagaFrontier''

* Snake Oil from ''SagaFrontier''

* The magic stone item in ''SagaFrontier''.

* ''SagaFrontier'' has no revive item, the mechanics of the game mean downed characters can be brought back by normal healing.
** However there are special Items that can restore LifePoints on the spot; in the earlier two SaGa games, those items are a bit more common [[spoiler: In RomancingSaGa2, the only known item that can restore LifePoints can be bought from a witch for 10,000 (Max amount of money you can carry at one time). In Romancing SaGa 3 these items were mostly [[RandomlyDrops item drops.]]]]

** Or increasing your intelligence (and thus ability to make potions) then drinking it and makeing another and so on, until your potions are {{Game Breaker}}s

* An item which heals HitPoints. See HealThyself, HealingPotion and HealthFood for examples. There may be progressively more powerful versions of the item, to be useful at higher levels of the game. This may go for two or three tiers, up to an item that heals all hit points.

* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series has loads. For instance, the [[InconsistentTranslation Golden Needle[=/=]Soft Potion]] cures [[TakenForGranite petrification]].

* Similarly, the ''{{Disgaea}}'' series has no revive items or even ''spells''. You have to pay a healer between battles (This also means a measure of redundancy in your force is recommended, in case someone gets killed in an Item World run).

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' has only one category of usable items -- those which change the party's RelationshipValues. Healing and buffing can only occur during battle, or the automatic regeneration of health between battles. So, if you ran into a trap with little or no healing on your chosen threesome...

'''''Note:''' Feel free to split parts of this article once they have acumulated a sufficent amount of examples. It might be a good idea to take them to {{YKTTW}} first though.''

* The ''DragonQuest'' series has antidotal herbs, which cure poison, and moonwort bulbs, which cure paralysis. ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' and ''DragonQuestIX'' added upgraded versions of these items that restore HP in addition to curing these status ailments.

** Also, you can throw cream pies at monsters, with the CreamPieInTheFace temporarily blinding them. TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything.

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' had mages drink Lyrium Potions for restoring mana, stamina draughts for warriors and rogues, and everyone could drink poultices for restoring health (... a moist cloth bandage. As some lines from characters low on health ask for bandages, perhaps either the animations or the naming of poultices were a discrepancy that never got fixed.). ''2'' calls the health restoring items the conventional term "health potions".

* ''DragonAge: Origins'' had mages drink Lyrium Potions for restoring mana, stamina draughts for warriors and rogues, and everyone could drink poultices for restoring health (... a moist cloth bandage. As some lines from characters low on health ask for bandages, perhaps either the animations or the naming of poultices were a discrepancy that never got fixed.). ''2'' calls the health restoring items the conventional term "health potions".

* The ''FinalFantasy'' series has loads. For instance, the [[InconsistentTranslation Golden Needle[=/=]Soft Potion]] cures [[TakenForGranite petrification]].

* Various examples from the ''FinalFantasy'' series

* Ethers from ''FinalFantasy''

* Elixirs and Megalixirs from ''FinalFantasy''. Megalixirs actually heal all of the party members currently in combat.

* Phoenix Downs from ''FinalFantasy''

* Many examples in ''FinalFantasy'', such as the Magic Lamp that casts a random summoning spell.

* Many examples in ''FinalFantasy''. Most interestingly, the Ninja's "Throw" ability in many games lets them turn ''any'' inventory item into one of these.

* ''FinalFantasyXI'' has many of these items, but after about ten or twenty levels the effectiveness of most of them are too small for the cost and inventory space to justify using besides healing StandardStatusEffects, and the other ones that ''are'' worth using are either drops from endgame monsters or stupidly expensive to craft, making those last resorts only. Worse still, using many of these items invokes the universal cooldown timer for a few precious seconds, preventing you from taking any action aside from continuing to auto-attack. Oh, and Phoenix Downs? ''They don't exist.'' Alchemy NeedsMoreLove.

* The ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' series has plenty. ''VideoGame/EarthBoundZero'' has PSI Stones, ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' has Bottles of Water, PSI caramel, Magic Truffles, and others, and ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' has magic pastries.

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' has too many to count. Most of them are real-life foods, too.

* ''TheElderScrolls'' goes as far to allow the player to make their own in the form of enchanted weapons and potions.

* ''TheElderScrolls'' series tends to have diverse items; although potions are most often of the restoring kind, it's possible to create potions and enchanted items with (almost) ''any'' effect, provided you can find 2 (often rare and expensive) materials with the same effect (and such a pairing may have a negative effect appear twice, applying it to the potion), down to summoning an InfinityPlusOneSword from {{Hammerspace}}.

*** This is capped in Oblivion, so you can't get something completly gamebreaking... just mostly. Unfortunatly a couple effects (Vampirism, and the Conjuration school spells) are gone from the alchemy lists in Oblivion.

* ''{{Pokemon}}'' plays this straight; the sequel includes berries which can be attached to {{Mons}}, to activate as soon as they are needed.
* The ''FinalFantasy'' series has loads. For instance, the [[InconsistentTranslation Golden Needle / Soft Potion]] cures [[TakenForGranite petrification]].

* Dis-X (where X is the condition) in ShinMegamiTensei games.

* Tasty Tonic from ''VideoGame/PaperMario''

* Pokemon has Potions (20hp), Super Potions(50hp), Hyper Potions(200hp), Max Potions(Max hp) and Full Restores(Max hp + Cures all status effects), plus a variety of other healing items. It also has Ethers and Elixers, which recharge the PP(mana).

* Life Shrooms from ''VideoGame/PaperMario''
** And 1-Up mushrooms from ''Mario and Luigi''

* As well as ''VideoGame/GoldenSun''

* Pokedolls (from ''Pokemon'', natch) have the same effect as Roar or Whirlwind. The equippable item Smokeball guarantees an [[EscapeBattleTechnique escape from battle]] if the Pokemon holding it is battling.

* "X Rocks" "X Gems", and sometimes "X Magatama" each cast a specific spell in ShinMegamiTensei games.

* Rock Candy in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG''

* As well as ''VideoGame/GoldenSun''
* And the ''TalesSeries''
* The Dizzy Dial, Fire Flower and POW! Block, among others, from ''VideoGame/PaperMario''.
* The magic stone item in SagaFrontier

* X-Items from ''Pokemon''

* Peppers in ''MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga: the Red ones boost power, and the Green ones boost defence.

* The Power Punch, Courage Shell, and Repel Cape, among others, from ''VideoGame/PaperMario''

* In VideoGame/DevilSurvivor and [[VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2 its sequel]] there are ''zero'' items to be had. Battles tend to be pretty short and if you don't have any demons or humans with skills to heal the damage and ailments [[NintendoHard too bad]].
* VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles has only one category of usable items - those which change the party's RelationshipValues. Healing and buffing can only occur during battle, or the automatic regeneration of health between battles. So, if you ran into a trap with little or no healing on your chosen threesome...

* As well as ''GoldenSun''

* As well as ''GoldenSun''

* Staves in ''{{Lunar}} Silver Star Story Complete''. In ''Eternal Blue Complete'', the devs realized there was no reason to use the item's regular attack, and so switched the attack to these.

* ''DragonAge: Origins'' had mages drink Lyrium Potions for restoring mana, stamina draughts for warriors and rogues, and everyone could [[DidNotDoTheResearch drink poultices for restoring health]] (... a moist cloth bandage. As some lines from characters low on health ask for bandages, perhaps either the animations or the naming of poultices were a discrepancy that never got fixed.). ''2'' calls the health restoring items the conventional term "health potions".
* Elixirs and Megalixirs from ''FinalFantasy''. Megalixers actually heal all of the party members currently in combat.

* An item which heals [[{{Mana}} Mana Points]], or the game's equivalent, and the more powerful versions.

* ''EarthBound'', with its more modern varieties of StandardStatusEffects, has cold remedies that cure the common cold, and wet towels that cure sunstroke.

* ''EarthBound'' has Refreshing Herbs, which cure most status ailments. Secret Herbs, Cups of Lifenoodles, and Horns of Life, although usually used to revive unconscious characters, can also cure pretty much every status ailment in the game.

* The ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' series has plenty. ''EarthBoundZero'' has PSI Stones, ''EarthBound'' has Bottles of Water, PSI caramel, Magic Truffles, and others, and ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' has magic pastries.

* ''EarthBound'' has too many to count. Most of them are real-life foods, too.

** And 1-up mushrooms from ''Mario and Luigi''

* Peppers in ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]''

* The ''[[VideoGame/PaperMario Mario [=RPGs=]]]''

* Refreshing Herbs from ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi Mario & Luigi]]''

* A wide variety of drugs in the ''{{Fallout}}'' series could increase various stats, with a chance of addiction and withdrawal. Drug use also results in temporarily decreased stats after the effects wear off, even if you don't become addicted.

* An item which [[{{Panacea}} cures]] ''[[{{Panacea}} all]]'' [[{{Panacea}} status effects]]. Usually rare and/or expensive at the start of the game, but becomes trivially easy to stockpile by the end.
* An item which heals HitPoints. See HealThyself, HealingPotion and HealthFood for examples. There may be progressively more powerful versions of the item, to be useful at higher levels of the game. This may go for two or three tiers, up to an item that heals all hit points.

** Weapons or Equipment that cast a spell or other form of SpecialAttack when used as an Item.

* The ''DragonQuest'' series has antidotal herbs, which cure poison, and moonwort bulbs, which cure paralysis. ''DragonQuestVIII'' and ''DragonQuestIX'' added upgraded versions of these items that restore HP in addition to curing these status ailments.

* Most weapons/items with an [[ElementalPowers Elemental Affinity]] in ''ShiningForce'' (Also Halberds). However, using them too many times would cause the weapon to destroy itself. Fortunately, the game would warn you when the weapon was on it's last use, and you could have it repaired.
* Staves in ''{{Lunar}} Silver Star Story Complete''. In ''Eternal Blue Complete'', the devs realized there was no reason to use the item's regular attack, and so switched the attack to these.
* Every object in ''PhantomBrave''. Not just weapons, but loaves of bread, vases, rocks, trees, fish, clumps of grass, crates, and more. Otherwise, the game pretty much averts this trope with no inventory items at all.

* Similarly, the ''{{Disgaea}}'' series has no revive items or even ''spells''. You have to pay a healer between battles (This also means a measure of redundancy in your force is recommended, in case someone gets killed in an Item World run).

* In [[DevilSurvivor Devil Survivor]] and [[DevilSurvivor2 its sequel]] there are ''zero'' items to be had. Battles tend to be pretty short and if you don't have any demons or humans with skills to heal the damage and ailments [[NintendoHard too bad]].

* An item which cures ''all'' status effects. Usually rare and/or expensive at the start of the game, but becomes trivially easy to stockpile by the end.