Basic Trope: Anything in a game that improves the frequency and/or quality of Random Drops.
- Straight: It takes an average of 256 fights against the Ghost Princess enemy to get them to drop the "White Ermine Cape", which is the strongest light armor in the game. If Alice wears the Master Rogue's Gloves, it instead takes an average of 32.
- Exaggerated: With those gloves, Alice ends up with a dozen copies of the Infinity +1 Sword.
- Downplayed: With the gloves, The Goombas in the first area just drop two potions instead of one.
- Justified: It's All There in the Manual, but some enemies see the gloves, and realize the wearer had to have earned their use, so those enemies are willing to give some extra treasure if defeated.
- Inverted: Alice wears a hood that causes loot to be rarer (since the drops improve in quality when the probability is lower).
- Subverted: The item description says it improves the chances of loot drops, but that was a mistake when the game was being made.
- Double Subverted: It instead improves the chances of stealing items from enemies.
- Parodied: Alice beats the Winter Ghost Queen with the gloves on, and she not only gets the Queen's ermine cape, but her fur-trimmed dress, her Icicle Crown, her Ice Palace, the loyalty of the Queen's troops, her farmland, her...
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: There is no item in the game that improves item drops. Or it's done strictly through the Luck Stat.
- Enforced: After the last update to the MMORPG, aggregate player time was reduced when the loot rates dropped, since they considered farming now a waste of time. Adding loot enhancing items solved this problem.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Bob forges gauntlets imbued with a loot drop improving spell.
- Exploited: Bob's player sees that Alice's player has the gloves, and convinces her that trading items she loots will help hire more players for the raid bosses.
- Defied: Some bosses nullify loot enhancing items. These upstart adventurers aren't just taking their stuff, even if they do get killed.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Alice notices that after equipping the new gloves she found, items seem to drop more often.
- Played For Drama: In an After the End game centered around Resources Management Gameplay, the Scrounger Skill/Perk increases your drops from combat and missions as your character becomes more apt at identifying salvage that is not obviously valuable/useful, and thus is a Boring, but Practical Skill/Perk. So Boring, but Practical in fact, that the most powerful factions are not the Elite Army facing supply shortages, but the Disaster Scavengers faction that maxed out said skill/perk and pretty much pull resupply after resupply practically out of thin air.
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