RPG Codex

"We're just a bunch of angry cunts."

What's the matter, Troper? Don't you like CRPG sites that don't pander to the decline of this once great genre or shut down discussion as soon as it becomes too heated? I thought Christians were supposed to be open-minded.

So you've been Googling around, browsing the various RPG communities online. What you're really looking for is a friendly, relaxed place where you and your fellow CRPG-players can discuss your favourite quests from Oblivion.

But now you're in a dark place. There are a lot of people here, and all of them seem to be angry. They don't seem to like your favourite CRPGs very much. Most of them don't even like Oblivion. What they do like is arguing with each other, loudly and very violently. And they keep going on about these really old games with really old graphics and some guy called Chris Avellone who you've never heard of before.

Welcome to the RPG Codex.


 * Accentuate The Negative
 * Always Chaotic Evil: The rest of the internet's impression about its users.
 * Alter Ego Acting: Admiral jimbob and POOPOO MCBUMFACE.
 * Apocalypse Day Planner: The site has been crashing a great deal recently. Some blame a horse. Others blame RPG Watch or Wikileaks. At any rate, each crash leads to a mass exodus/takeover of the more angelic RPG sites.
 * Armour Piercing Question: Inverted with Andhaira.
 * Attention Whore: Scottish Martial Arts will derail your thread into a discussion about trannies.
 * Berserk Button: Scoffing at the idea of playing older games.
 * Skyway has been known to send a few users into a psychotic rage with one-liners about how upcoming games are guaranteed to be "shit".
 * 'One'-liners? Give his rants more credit than that.
 * Betty and Veronica: Vault Dweller and Dark Underlord respectively.
 * The Cassandra: BLOBERT.
 * Comic Books: The Codex has its very own Bayeux Tapestry, written by the Admiral.
 * Crazy Survivalist: Cleve is always ready for ITZ. What's ITZ, you ask? Your tiny manboon brains won't comprehend that until there's a mob of cybernegroes with machetes outside your window.
 * Dead Baby Comedy: Part of the essential nature of the 'Dex. If you balk at the blackest of black humour, it's probably best to flee.
 * Fetish Fuel/High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Pretty much anything in General Discussion.
 * GIFT
 * Guilty Pleasure: Some users will admit to watching anime and playing on consoles, if you poke them enough.
 * Hatedom: Bioware and Betheseda are favorites also popamole
 * High-Class Glass: Monocles are truly essential.
 * Internet Backdraft: What happened regarding the various "improvements" in Fallout 3 when it was being developed.
 * Intoxication Ensues: Drunken rants are commonplace.
 * Knight in Sour Armor: "Can't we repel this light...with the darkness in our hearts?"
 * Let's Play: Some genuinely great ones are at the Codex Playground. Likely the only area safe for ordinary peoples' sanity.
 * Or at least it was, until they started LPing hentai games, especially Sengoku Rance.
 * Memetic Mutation: Many - some inane, some terrifying.
 * Bullshit.
 * But is the rape tastefully done?
 * Is it good? No, but it is good for what it is.
 * Good? No, it's popamole!
 * OMG ITZ HEAVAN
 * You don't even know what you don't know.
 * Memetic Sex God: Some members are devoted to Chris Avellone. Others are...really devoted to him.
 * The Multiheaded Dick seems to be a literal sex god, turned meme.
 * In certain circles, Rance is this.
 * Nietzsche Wannabe.
 * No Indoor Voice: BLOBERT
 * Obvious Trap: C'mon, if you clicked on a link without checking the URL bar first, it's your own damn fault for getting a faceful of goatse.
 * Reviews Are the Gospel. Almost completely averted - all of the big-name reviewing sites are, after all, bought-and-paid-for extensions of the publisher's PR departments. Smaller sites or solo-bloggers are not safe either - they are too stupid or uneducated or both, to be able to form a respectable opinion. Even Codex's own reviews are prone to be criticized for this.
 * Sanity Slippage: Driac Kin nearly loses it at points during his Fallout 3 LP. His cynical character merely shrugs, and seems to find the whole thing somewhat amusing.
 * The Scrappy: The petty feuds, rivalries and virulent hatred are all part of what makes the site great. And there's plenty of it. If you've ever posted at the Codex, you're somebody's Scrappy.
 * Andhaira X, Volourn, drog and Emotional Vampire (now banned) are all users hated by the majority of the userbase, though.
 * The Snark Knight: The whole userbase seems to be composed of these.
 * The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Mamma's Gang's take-over, arguably.
 * They Changed It, Now It Sucks: At pretty much every point in the forum's history, someone has complained that the site's gone down the toilet, usually due to an absence of serious RPG discussion in favour of one-liners and 4chan memes. 99% of uses may or may not be used as a joke about this behaviour at this point
 * Third Person Person: The Barbarian
 * Troll: A handful.
 * Trope Decay: "Popamole" originally referred to the system of cover+regenerating health quickly sliped into another term for "dumbed down".
 * Uncanny Valley: Wyrmlord. Talks like a human, interacts with others...yet you can't help it but feel there's something...off about him. Currently MIA.
 * Wretched Hive: The Codex itself, more specifically General Discussion


 * Chances are, something you like very much sucks. Why? Because this is RPG Codex.