What are some tropes you absolutely love seeing in your games?

even better with prince Eugen at the helm, meaning a guy of the defenders having rallied the allies. Best example Gandalf at Helm's Deep.

Smug and haughty princesses.

*ahem* source/artist?

>Its not a trope if I dont think about it

*suck my dick*

>Completely missing the point
>Sponge Bob poster

Yeah, not surprising.

Had this happen with an NPC in a game I ran once. He was on guard duty (got the straw) for the player characters while they were being processed for treason. He went from dropping his weapon and ditching a player while they were running from some thugs to taking a sword meant for another player in just the span of a week. The players gave up on chasing their target to give him medical attention as he lay bleeding out in their arms.

Good times.

Trope is just another term for 'storytelling convention.' It's still a story telling tool even if you don't notice it.

Still not getting the point.

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What are you not understanding?

That trope is just slang for a longer phrase or how something can still be a story telling device while being successfully implemented into a piece of fiction?

Would like to be helpful but
>*ahem*
So go jump down a well.

I understand that just fine. But what you don't understand is, THAT'S RETARDED!

Story telling techniques don't have value outside their execution. You can say you love X TROPE but with no context there's nothing that separates a good example from a bad example.

Tropes I like - negotiations that devolve into violence. Violence that devolves into negotiations and stale mates as well. The story that begins with the successful heist but then the question of laying low and getting away with the loot in the aftermath becomes sticky.

Ancient cultures and conspiracies that make sense. Portals to other dimensions as source of magic corruption. Revolutionary nonconformist punks in over there heads against impossible odds. Untrustworthy mercenaries. Evil corporations. Unusual allies forced together by circumstance.

Also Tropes are any repetitive story element. The word trope doesnt trigger me. Its possible you are just bitchy impotent and weird.

>YOU CANT LIKE INGREDIENTS WITHOUT SAYING HOW THEY'RE COOKED!
Nah nigga, carrots are pretty dope, even if occasionally a retard fucks them up.

>All the friends you have made coming to lend a hand in the darkest hour

Came here to post this

What he said.

Maybe you could try reading what this thread is about before getting mad?

>What are some story elements (which are definitely not tropes because calling them that would piss off Veeky Forums autists, even though they are tropes by definition) you absolutely love seeing in your games?

>Paladin who's a genuinely good guy instead of just an asshole who's a stickler to the rules

>Old soldier/merc takes up his sword or comes out of retirement for one last job

>Ordinary guy in party/world of exotic people and things

>Party of misfits who hate each other at first come to be close friends forged through their shared experiences

>All the friends you have made coming to lend a hand in the darkest hour
Love this shit. Especially if they're clearly outmatched but intend to buy you just enough time to defeat the villain while they hold off his forces

>Love this shit.
My nigga. As a GM I'm absolutely terrified of pulling it though.

Not the same guy but I'm also interested in it. Mind helping a pervy fa/tg/uy out?

No because by helping you I'm helping
>*ahem*

>A good man facing impossible odds to save one innocent life or give his enemy one last chance at redemption
Always gets me. Dresden Files actually did this really well in the last book.
>"You're asking me to take an awfully big risk. You mind telling me what's at stake?"
>"a soul"
>"Oh. You should have said that from the beginning."

Damn, time to go do some leg work.

Easier than usual. Disappointed it's futa.

>futa on female
>not the most patrician of all porn

Lewd and smug anime girls

>the adventurer party of morally dubious individuals and their rustbucket spaceship keeps accidentally saving places while trying to escape them/steal something else/get revenge for some petty reason

You do realize that is pretty much just a clearing of the throat, correct? Which is commonly used in speech as "excuse me"

No it's not. It's
*action*
If he had just asked where pic was from without *cancer* then al would be well and good and his request would probably be granted.

boku no pico

This

>All the friends you have made coming to lend a hand in the darkest hour
That's the stuff.

That's just retarded.

The villain has the utmost respect for the party, and they for him.

Only works if the villain has standards. If he's a twat nugget then he just comes off as a condescending twat. Prime example the chess playing DLC villain on Omega in Mass Effect 3. Fucker might have had respect for Shepard but he was also a total turd who, to his detriment, didn’t know that acting smug to the man who has a gun pointed at your head is not a good idea.

>using a well defined word in the correct context is enough to trigger neckbeards nowadays

wew lad

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>Story telling techniques don't have value outside their execution

why do you talk like a rick and morty fan

>Story telling techniques don't have value outside their execution.
I dunno man, call me a faggot but previously I thought heroes in shining armor with sword and shield fighting for good were lame and generic as fuck. Now that I am more aware of the long tradition of hero tales and the conventions of how they repeat I sometimes get goosebumps when I see an archetypal hero stand up against a generic dark lord/monster or when the people in the story talk about "the fabled hero" or some shit because it now feels like it's tapped into and is connected to this grander universal narrative.

>"Go ahead, I'll hold this guy"
>All the allies do this until it's 1vs1 with the villain

>You do realize that
Jesus, the cancer has metastasized to every part of your speech.

>Two matched warriors engage in a duel, starting out in perfect form only to abandon all technique as it devolves to brute force and raw power as they wear out

Too bad no system does this well

I really like villains that use transformative spells or methods.

Partly because it's actually somewhat rare to see, and to see it shows off a lot of the villain's personality and power level. What they're turning people into and WHY they're doing that can reveal a lot about a character, and differentiates them from your typical smash'n'grab villain, whether they're doing it out of playfulness, or as a curse, or scientific experimentation.
And I also like it because it's my magical realm.

May I please ask the source op?

I love to see are magic actually having some form of metaphysical cost.

Nanachi's pants always crack me up. They're so goofy.

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You are a gentleman and a scholar.

faggot

My man!
>Villain inspires loyalty
>Villain is loyal in turn
>They cannot be divided and are the bulwark that shields success from your filthy hands

>Story telling techniques don't have value outside their execution.

What IS execution? Can you provide any concise definition?

It generally seems to refer to some vague, ineffable set of properties that are effectively equivalent to “quality.”

>using [spongebob poster] as a term
user if you DON'T consider yourself a spongebob poster what the fuck are you doing here
This is nearly as bad as people who complain about weebshit

>This
>Rather than a single clusterfuck battle its all 1v1 duels
>As this is right at the end of the story each fight gets to showcase all that the heroes have learned so far, and finish up character archs in the middle of the climax

This is a total fucking abortion of a post and I'm at a loss to think up a reply.

I don't know what to say about this other than that you are objectively wrong.

>Calm before the storm

>You always meet twice

>Dickgirl is always bigger

>King fights at the front

>Magnificent bastard villains

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user, this is an anime imageboard, not a Spongebob imageboard. And most people who hate anime are Spongebob posters, while /a/nons hate Spongebob.

That's sort of what happened last session to me.

My character and the party are running from the BBEG's right hand and a pair of flunkies: while the other two hide and run away respectively, my character tries outrunning three guys on horseback.

Doesn't work, unfortunately, which is why he hulks out and turns into a werebear, does a 180° turn and charges the motherfuckers: thanks to being a werebear, the enemies have to make fear checks and can't attack, while my character and the evil boss man wail on each other.

After a few tense moments and lots of Fortune Points spent, the boss man lies with a chopped off arm and his guts spilled on the road and a flunkie with his throat filled with blood. Third one got away tho.

Literally take the hammer to your TV/monitor/other visual devices and find better things to watch. Like paint drying.

>Godzilla Threshold
>There's Always A Bigger Fish
>Big Damn Heroes

Noticing them is the crime, not their exostence. The more youn notice tropes, the emptier and cheesier a story seems. This goes even for well written ones. If you reduce stories to base elements like tropes while it takes place, it ruins any and all immersion to the story.

Can I get a sauce please?

>honorable enemy
>heals the party before the fight
>demands they don't hold back
>still kicks everyone's asses

I'm planning on including a recurring enemy like this later on, but I haven't decided between outright joining the goodguys or a noble sacrifice.

> play a villain campaign
> tfw I am EXACTLY this kind of villain
> the rest of the party is pragmatic with an edge of ham
> I'm the only person who'll throw a free healing potion at the rival hero, declare one-on-one duels, and doesn't coup de grace a fallen enemy
> I still kick everyone's ass

Characters like this are fun as hell, both to play and fight. Not to mention memorable. Patrician taste, user.

My nigga.

The game I'm running has Final Fantasy-style four crystals that the villains are after. One of the big things in the setting is the crystalmark, which seemingly-random people receive after communing with a crystal. It has some minor benefits, but it's mostly a status symbol. Nobody knows if the crystals bestow great destinies, or if they mark people who already have great destinies, or if it's about skill or potential.

Anyway, my plan is later on, after they've fought him a few times, he gets defeated and he turns to the crystal for help and tries to use its power for himself. Instead, he receives a crystalmark, is granted a vision, and immediately surrenders and becomes an ally.

He's going to be one of four generals inspired by the four Chinese weapons. He represents the Jian, the Gentleman of Weapons.

>Villain groups that are a dark mirror of the hero group, but are defeated because the heroes can recognize their own flaws. Also works with alternate anti-dimension versions of the heroes.

>Bad-guy duos that come off as slightly comical. Usually lieutenants, always reoccurring.

>Paladin who's a genuinely good guy instead of just an asshole who's a stickler to the rules
I like paladin-like characters who are asshole stickler to the rules BUT are genuinely good guys. Works better as a villain or boss of he heroes than as a companion, tho.

>Godzilla Threshold
>There's Always A Bigger Fish

That's a lot of fish!

Sounds awesome, user. I hope it goes well.

>Story telling techniques don't have value outside their execution

You're a contrarian moron.

Aww yiss

Best finale. Have all the characters from the entire campaign come back for a last stand

>everyone the PCs helped appears in a vision to grant them strength after the villain initially overwhelms them
>everyone has encouraging words and tells them to get up

user clearly said "and they for him"

>tfw the battle scene is better than the ero
Shame it's the "story in porn" problem, where it's instictivly better just because it's in something we don't expect to have action/story.

For you two, anons.

You gotta bring your A-game against villains like those. They aren't fucking around.

Also I wanna say the source is Dancougar? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Why the fuck is Sauron standing next to a giant toupee?

That's just what trump looks like without his hairpiece.

Just realized I accidentally made these NPCs as an orc house-steward and a halfling battlemage.

They're precious and I love them.

>you can't just break down a story element like it's an ingredient.
Except clearly we can.

This bait is gross

Those aren't villains, those are antagonists, big difference

what's the difference?

>implying loyalty to the boss and coherence is any indication that someone isn't "evil"
Dumbass.

>my lord, I've gone ahead and raped the entire city of innocent people to death on giant metal spikes, just for you
>Well done, my dearest lieutenant, you've done my orders just as I love it. Oh, but all of you other ones are also my dearest! I love you all!
>[fangirl screams]

Just because someone is evil doesn't mean they can't inspire/be loyal.

>they accomplish nothing but die painfully as well
The DM told us this was coming, we didn't believe him

you're not a gentleman amd a schoolar
an imizu-fag would accept that Horrible translation AND wouldn't be a saucefaggot

shit taste

Good man. That's the shit.