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* AnAdventurerIsYou
* AGodIsYou
* {{AKA47}}
* BagOfHolding
* BalanceBuff
* BitzBox
* BlackMage
* BoltOfDivineRetribution
* CharacterAlignment
** UnconventionalAlignment
* CharacterCustomization
* CharacterLevel
* CharacterTiers
* ChunkySalsaRule
* ClassChangeLevelReset
* CombatMedic
* ConvenientQuesting
* CriticalFailure
* CriticalHit
** CriticalHitClass
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul
* DamageReduction
* DamageTyping
* DemiHuman
* DumpStat
* DungeonCrawling
* DungeonMaintenance
* DungeonmastersGirlfriend
* EliteTweak
* ExperiencePoints
* FailedASpotCheck
* FantasyCharacterClasses
* FighterMageThief
* GameMaster
** {{GMPC}}
** KillerGameMaster
* GameplayRandomization
* GameSystem

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* GrapplingWithGrapplingRules
* HeavyEquipmentClass
* HonestRollsCharacter
* HouseSystem
* HybridOverkillAvoidance
* InAndOutOfCharacter
* JunkRare
* LawfulStupidChaoticStupid
** ChaoticStupid
** LawfulStupid
** StupidGood
** StupidEvil
** StupidNeutral
* LevelDrain
** MaximumHPReduction
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards
** EmptyLevels
* LimitedUseMagicalDevice
* LitRPG
* LiveActionRolePlay
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRules
* MadeOfPhlebotinum
* MagicAmpersand
* MagicallyIneptFighter
* MegaDungeon
* MechanicallyUnusualClass
* {{Metaplot}}
* MiniaturesConversions
* TheMinionMaster
* MinmaxersDelight
* MinMaxing
* MontyHaul
* {{Nerf}}
* NoCureForEvil
* NonPlayerCharacter
* NoSavingThrow
* NoSneakAttacks
* OffTheRails
* OneNationUnderCopyright
* OneStatToRuleThemAll
* OverusedCopycatCharacter
* PathOfInspiration
* PlayByPostGames
* PlayerArchetypes
** TheRealMan
** TheRoleplayer
** TheLoonie
** The {{Munchkin}}
* PlayerCharacter
* PlayerParty
* PointBuildSystem
* PrestigeClass
* PVPBalanced
* {{Railroading}}
* RandomNumberGod
* RocksFallEveryoneDies
* RolePlayingEndgame
* UsefulNotes/RolePlayingGameTerms
* RolePlayingGameVerse
* RulesConversions
* RulesLawyer
* RuleZero
* SchrodingersGun
* SchrodingersSuggestionBox
* SetAMookToKillAMook
* TheSixStats
* SlidingScaleOfTurnRealism
* {{Sourcebook}}
* SpecialSnowflakeSyndrome
* SpellCrafting
* SpellLevels
* SplashDamageAbuse
* {{Splat}}
* SquishyWizard
* StopHavingFunGuys
* SupportPartyMember
* ThatOneDisadvantage
* ThatOneRule
* TheGMIsACheatingBastard
* ToBeLawfulOrGood
* TotalPartyKill
* TreacherousQuestGiver
* {{Twinking}}
* UniversalSystem
* UtilityPartyMember
* VancianMagic
* WeHelpTheHelpless
* WhiteMage
* YouAllMeetInACell
* YouAllMeetInAnInn

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* AnAdventurerIsYou: Adventurers and typical adventuring classes.
* AGodIsYou: Players take the role of gods.
* BalanceBuff: Increasing the effectiveness of a game element or mechanic to make it more useful.
* BitzBox: Assortment of spare model pieces and scraps used by modelers.
* BlackMage: A class focused on damage output.
* CharacterAlignment: An abstracted system used to simulate the ethical nature of characters.
** UnconventionalAlignment: Unusual character alignment systems.
* CharacterCustomization: When a game allows you to customize its protagonist to your tastes.
* CharacterLevel: Representing a character's increasing prowess by moving them through abstracted levels of greater strength.
* CharacterTiers: Ranking lists of what characters are the best, for varying values of "best".
* ChunkySalsaRule: Sufficient bodily destruction kills you regardless of however many hit points you still have.
* ClassChangeLevelReset: When a character changes classes, they've got to start leveling again from the bottom.
* CombatMedic: A healer character who can also fight.
* ConvenientQuesting: The party's next destination will be the closest area that hasn't been accessible already.
* CriticalFailure: A random chance of dramatic failure.
* CriticalHit: A random chance of dramatic success.
** CriticalHitClass: A gameplay class focused on using critical hits.
* DamageReduction: The ability to reduce how much damage you take from attacks.
* DamageTyping: Classifying damage into distinct types based on nature, source, and severity.
* DumpStat: A character stat that players skimp on in order to have more points to spend on others.
* DungeonCrawling: Gameplay focused on killing monsters, taking their stuff, and doing it again somewhere else.
* DungeonMaintenance: Dungeons are deliberately kept in a state fit for adventurers to explore.
* DungeonmastersGirlfriend: Gaining an advantage in gameplay because of a real-life relationship with the person running the game.
* EliteTweak: Tweaking the rules for a character or item to make them much more effective than they are by default.
* EmptyLevels: Leveling up a character offers few practical benefits.
* ExperiencePoints: A point system used to abstractly represent a character's growing experience and skill.
* FailedASpotCheck: A character fails to notice something obvious.
* FantasyCharacterClasses: Recurring types of gameplay classes used in role-playing games.
* FighterMageThief: Three basic character classes: the brawn/melee damage-dealer the brains/ranged damage-dealer, and the bluff/sneaky damage-dealer.
* GameMaster: The guy who serves as a referee and storyteller for the game.
** {{GMPC}}: A GM-controlled NPC who travels with the rest of the player characters.
** KillerGameMaster: A GM who seems to have more fun screwing with the players than running a fair game.
* GameplayRandomization: Gameplay mechanics that involve explicit randomization in some way or form.
* GameSystem: A system of mechanics used to regulate gameplay and simulate actions.
* GrandTabletopRulesList: A list of rules meant for people new to tabletop [=RPGs=].
* GrapplingWithGrapplingRules: Rules meant to simulate grappling other characters are usually weird and frustrating.
* HeavyEquipmentClass: A class that can use weapons and/or armor too heavy for others.
* HonestRollsCharacter: Stats are randomized, so [=PCs=] get gimped by their player's honesty
* HouseSystem: A custom system of rules used by an established gaming group.
* HybridOverkillAvoidance: A tendency to avoid making too many hybrids of gameplay classes and/or races.
* InAndOutOfCharacter: The game's events are put on hold while the players chatter over decisions and mechanics.
* JunkRare: A rare item that's useless in gameplay.
* LawfulStupidChaoticStupid: A tendency to exaggerate character alignments into self-defeating idiocy.
** ChaoticStupid: Being random and contrarian even when it's stupid or pointless to be so.
** LawfulStupid: Obeying laws inflexibly and mindlessly, without reasoning about why the laws exist or what they're meant to do.
** StupidGood: When being good means being an ineffectual doormat.
** StupidEvil: When being evil means being a mustache-twirling dunce.
** StupidNeutral: When being neutral means having no ambition, beliefs, or character depth.
* LevelDrain: The ability to remove character levels from other players and/or [=NPCs=].
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: Magic-user classes gain more power at high levels than melee-focused classes.
* LimitedUseMagicalDevice: A magical item can only be used a few times before becoming useless.
* LitRPG: A story about characters playing an RPG, complete with details of their game progression.
* LiveActionRolePlay: Acting out the events of an RPG in real life.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRules: Games with extensive, comprehensive, absolutely all-exhaustive rulesets.
* MagicAmpersand: Titling games ''[X] & [Y]'' as a reference to ''Dungeons & Dragons''.
* MagicallyIneptFighter: Melee-focused classes have an explicit disadvantage in using magic.
* MaximumHPReduction: The ability to reduce the maximum health cap of other players and/or [=NPCs=].
* MegaDungeon: A dungeon extensive enough to run a whole campaign in.
* MechanicallyUnusualClass: Classes with odd mechanics or ones that have little in common with other classes'.
* {{Metaplot}}: An overall plot connecting many different installments in a work.
* MiniaturesConversions: Modifying and personalizing a gaming model to make it look different than the way it did when you bought it.
* TheMinionMaster: A class focused on controlling other characters and/or creatures.
* MinmaxersDelight: A character option with advantages that far outweigh its disadvantages.
* MinMaxing: Tweaking and adjusting a gaming character to maximize strengths and minimize weaknesses.
* MontyHaul: Loot is plentiful and easy to grab.
* {{Nerf}}: Weakening a character or class' abilities to reduce its advantages over others.
* NoCureForEvil: Evil characters, factions and classes have their ability to heal themselves and allies reduced or removed entirely.
* NonPlayerCharacter: A character in a game not controlled by the players.
* NoSavingThrow: A power or ability that cannot be defended against in any way.
* NoSneakAttacks: Even though they can, villains won't sneak attack the hero.
* OffTheRails: When players force the campaign off of its intended course.
* OneStatToRuleThemAll: A character is objectively more useful than the others.
* OverusedCopycatCharacter: A character that everyone makes expies of.
* PlayByPostGames: Games played over long distances, with players informing each other of their moves by post or email.
* PlayerArchetypes: Common categories that players fall into:
** TheRealMan: Someone who plays in order to kill things.
** TheRoleplayer: Someone who plays in order to tell a story or develop a character.
** TheLoonie: Someone who plays to have fun and do crazy things.
** The {{Munchkin}}: Someone who plays to make their gameplay avatar as strong as possible.
* PlayerCharacter: The players' in-game avatars.
* PlayerParty: A group of player characters who does things as a group.
* PointBuildSystem: Generating traits for characters by allocating points from a budget.
* PrestigeClass: A class unobtainable at character creation, which must be taken up during the course of gameplay.
* PVPBalanced: A game optimized for conflict between players.
* {{Railroading}}: The rules or the GM forcefully keep players following a specific story track.
* RandomNumberGod: The depiction of probability in game mechanics as a sapient being that must be appeased.
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: The GM's fed up with you, so now your character is dead.
* RolePlayingEndgame: When a Tabletop RPG includes explicit rules for retiring player characters and/or for ending a campaign.
* UsefulNotes/RolePlayingGameTerms: Games in which players take on the role of individual characters.
* RolePlayingGameVerse: A setting designed to have role-playing game rules as an explicit part of its cosmology.
* RulesConversions: An attempt to run a game built for one roleplaying system in another roleplaying system.
* RulesLawyer: When a player or the GM tries to use extensive knowledge of the game rules to their advantage.
* RuleZero: "The GM is always right." (The guy running the game is allowed to overrule formal rules when common sense so demands.)
* SchrodingersGun: Anything not yet explicitly revealed can be seamlessly retconned, with the players none the wiser.
* SchrodingersSuggestionBox: Players customizing abilities with the GM's permission.
* SetAMookToKillAMook: Making enemies fight each other.
* TheSixStats: The six archetypal stats of [=RPGs=] -- Charisma, Constitution, Dexterity, Intelligence, Strength, and Wisdom.
* SlidingScaleOfTurnRealism: Varying degrees of abstraction in the representation of time.
* {{Sourcebook}}: A book describing some part of a game's setting and/or rules.
* SpecialSnowflakeSyndrome: The desire for players to make their characters stand out.
* SpellCrafting: A mechanic allowing players to tweak, modify, or invent spells or similar abilities.
* SpellLevels: Increasingly powerful spells are sealed until your character levels up to a certain point.
* SplashDamageAbuse: Exploiting splash damage rules for fun and profit.
* {{Splat}}: A group or character classification.
* SquishyWizard: Magic-using classes are usually physically frail to compensate for their high damage output.
* StopHavingFunGuys: Players more focused on winning games than on puerile notions such as "fun".
* SupportPartyMember: A character option focused more on supporting other characters than on damaging enemies.
* ThatOneDisadvantage: A single disadvantage that ruins a character or tool.
* ThatOneRule: A frustrating or highly disadvantageous rule.
* TheGMIsACheatingBastard: The guy running the game can do whatever he feels like doing.
* TotalPartyKill: All the player characters die at once.
* TreacherousQuestGiver: The guy giving your characters missions is also a story villain.
* {{Twinking}}: Utilizing high-level characters so that low-level characters can deliberately mooch off their efforts.
* UniversalSystem: A game system that can, in theory, be used to play a game in any genre or setting.
* UtilityPartyMember: A character option focused on non-combat abilities.
* VancianMagic: A common magic system where spells must be prepared in advance and can only be used a finite number of times before needing to be "reloaded".
* WeHelpTheHelpless: A character's profession is to help those who can't help themselves.
* WhiteMage: A class focused on healing allies.
* YouAllMeetInACell: The in-universe player characters meet by being thrown in the same slammer.
* YouAllMeetInAnInn: The in-universe player characters meet by wandering into the same bar.
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!!Tropes common to {{Tabletop RPG}}s:
[[index]]
* AnAdventurerIsYou
* AGodIsYou
* {{AKA47}}
* BagOfHolding
* BitzBox
* BlackMage
* BoltOfDivineRetribution
* CharacterAlignment
** UnconventionalAlignment
* CharacterCustomization
* CharacterLevel
* CharacterTiers
* ChunkySalsaRule
* ClassChangeLevelReset
* CombatMedic
* ConvenientQuesting
* CriticalFailure
* CriticalHit
** CriticalHitClass
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul
* DamageReduction
* DamageTyping
* DemiHuman
* DumpStat
* DungeonCrawling
* DungeonMaintenance
* DungeonmastersGirlfriend
* EliteTweak
* ExperiencePoints
* FailedASpotCheck
* FantasyCharacterClasses
* FighterMageThief
* FiveRaces
** FantasyAxisOfEvil
* GameMaster
* GameSystem
* GamingStatTropes
* {{GMPC}}
* GrandTabletopRulesList
* GrapplingWithGrapplingRules
* HonestRollsCharacter
* HouseSystem
* HybridOverkillAvoidance
* InAndOutOfCharacter
* JunkRare
* KillerGameMaster
* LawfulStupidChaoticStupid
** ChaoticStupid
** LawfulStupid
** StupidGood
** StupidEvil
** StupidNeutral
* LevelDrain
** MaximumHPReduction
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards
** EmptyLevels
* LiveActionRolePlay
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRules
* MadeOfPhlebotinum
* MagicAmpersand
* MagicKnight
* MagicWand
* [[TheMagocracy Magocracy]]
* MechanicallyUnusualClass
* {{Metaplot}}
* MiniaturesConversions
* TheMinionMaster
* MinmaxersDelight
* MinMaxing
* MontyHaul
* [[TheNecrocracy Necrocracy]]
* {{Nerf}}
* NoCureForEvil
* NonPlayerCharacter
* NoSavingThrow
* NoSneakAttacks
* OffTheRails
* OneNationUnderCopyright
* OneStatToRuleThemAll
* OpenRoleplayingDecay
* OverusedCopycatCharacter
* PathOfInspiration
* PlayByPostGames
* PlayerArchetypes
** TheRealMan
** TheRoleplayer
** TheLoonie
** The {{Munchkin}}
* PlayerCharacter
* PlayerParty
* PointBuildSystem
* PrestigeClass
* PVPBalanced
* {{Railroading}}
* RandomNumberGod
* RocksFallEveryoneDies
* UsefulNotes/RolePlayingGameTerms
* RolePlayingGameVerse
* RulesConversions
* RulePlaying
* RulesLawyer
* RuleZero
* SchrodingersGun
* SchrodingersSuggestionBox
* SetAMookToKillAMook
* TheSixStats
* SlidingScaleOfTurnRealism
* {{Sourcebook}}
* SpecialSnowflakeSyndrome
* SpellCrafting
* SpellLevels
* SplashDamageAbuse
* {{Splat}}
* SquishyWizard
* StopHavingFunGuys
* ThatOneDisadvantage
* ThatOneRule
* TheGMIsACheatingBastard
* ToBeLawfulOrGood
* TotalPartyKill
* TreacherousQuestGiver
* TurnUndead
* {{Twinking}}
* UniversalSystem
* UrbanFantasy
* UtilityPartyMember
* VancianMagic
* WeHelpTheHelpless
* {{Whatevermancy}}
* WhiteMage
* YouAllMeetInAnInn
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