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== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Eberron]]'': 12+ 1, a Baker's dozen. The guy who designed ''[[Eberron]]'' is named Keith Baker. There are lots of examples where you get twelve obvious things and a hidden one. Twelve dragonmarked houses—and the eradicated (?) dragonmark of Death. Twelve Planes—and the sealed Plane of [[Cosmic Horror Story|Xoriat]]. Twelve moons—plus the dark moon. Twelve nations in the Khorvaire continent, plus Cyre...which is now the D&D equivalent of Fallout.

* Mocked, [[Lampshade Hanging|like so much else,]] in the ''[[Planescape]]'' setting for AD&D. According to the ''Rule of Three'', everything always appears in sets of three. Since reality is very much [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|defined by what people believe]], this remarkably often proves to be true. Though some cynics quite rightfully point out that it works with every number if you just look long enough.

* Almost everything in ''[[Exalted]]'' is based around the number 5. This is even the case when it looks like it isn't; there are seven types of Exalt - Solar, Lunar, Terrestrial, Sidereal, Alchemical, Abyssal and Infernal - but since the last two are based on corrupted Solar shards...

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