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== Gaming ==

* [[Game Breaker]]: Numerous in all editions, although 3rd edition is particularly famous for this, due to the sheer volume of various mechanical goodies, provided by its supplements, as well as the generally high power level of the characters. Notable in 4th edition for having at least two discovered ''before the game was released''. Errata has fixed most of 4e's breaking stuff, but not all. Some examples:

*** If they stick to healing, it breaks the game in the opposite direction. Attack and Damage scale up far faster the Armor Class and Hit Points in D&D. Playing a Cleric that is [[The Load]] isn't much better than playing one that that is the [[Game Breaker]].

** Certain builds were able to incur ''trillions'' of damage in one attack, at range. One low-level spell with a specific combination of metamagic feats would raze anything and everything in a 10-mile radius to the ground. And then there's Pun-Pun, a level ''one'' kobold with inifinite stats who can reach infinitely far, including across the planes, and can cast any and every spell an infinite number of times per day. Did I mention this kobold is more of a god (infinite divine ranks) than the actual gods?

** And, more recently after WOTC released a new set of core books called "Essentials", there is a heavy flame war between people who like "pre-E" D&D and those who like "post-E". The former group tends to call this new set "4.5", the latter gets positively enraged at seeing this number.

** And with [http://wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ll/20120109 a new edition just being announced], you can bet your sweet bippy the edition wars will begin anew...

* [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|Complaining About Games You Don't Play]]: Considering that this is a game with its rules spread across as many as six different editions, with extra supplements for almost anything, a monthly publication that provided extra rules and modules, and that this is a gaming hobby where most people internalise the identity of the game they love, it's very common to find people complaining about whole editions of the game they've never played, never read, or in some cases, never heard of outside of the complaints of others. In the information age, the most noticeable version of this is the reaction to 4th Edition's latest extra rules supplements, but it goes back further than that. Especially given how complex some rules supplements are, it's pretty much inevitable that people will disallow some based on no '''actual''' play experience. This can make it awfully awkward to deal with legitimate concerns about any particular part of the game, since there's a lot of backdraft over disliking things other people like.

* [[Fandom Rivalry]]: Some fans of weapon-using classes (I.E. Fighter, Ranger, Rogue, Barbarian, Paladin and Monk) don't get along with some fans of magic-using classes (I.E. Wizard, Sorcerer, Cleric, Bard, Druid and Warlock). [[Trolling Creator|Mike Mearls]] encourages this.

* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: It has happened for every edition change. Some might argue that 4E most of all, but veteran D&D players would point out that it only seems that way due to the much wider availability of the Internet. Interesting to note is that this is now happening WITHIN 4th Edition itself. Wizards has started to release errata/updates every few months, usually to stop overpowered exploits (although sometimes for other purposes too). Naturally, people have either declared it to be the best thing since sliced bread, or threatened to stop playing D&D. And with a new edition in the works, expect to see this ''yet again!''

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: You have your elves. They're Usually [[Chaotic Good]]. Then you have your Drow. They're evil and black and the women are in charge. [[Always Chaotic Evil]] races in general fall straight into this, so let's just say that's just the start.

 

 

=== From the T.V series ===

 

** Averted in most of the Michael Reaves-written episodes, most notably ''The Dragon's Graveyard''.

* [[Animation Age Ghetto]]: The writers were obviously pushing the envelope as far as they could, but [[Executive Meddling]] still shows.

* [[Epileptic Trees]]: So many theories behind the reason why the series was canceled...possibly because the actual reason (ratings were dropping and the show was quite expensive) is disappointingly ordinary.

* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: That you should give into peer pressure because the group knows best.

* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: This series is ''obscenely'' popular in Brazil. TV Globo airs reruns on their Monday-to-Friday morning block even in 2011.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: The impressions some fundamentalist Christians tend to have of ''D&D'' and [[Bibleman|what Hank's voice actor went on to do]] a few years down the road.

*** Related to TGWTG, [[Paw Dugan]] played Profion in ''[[Suburban Knights]]''... and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iTZSS2gefk was] [http://twitter.com/#!/cosmicbushell/status/85800292934885376 dead-on]!

** This film also contains Richard O'Brien. This is notable for one very significant reason: he is ''the most understated actor in the whole film''. Think about that for a minute.

* [[Narm]]: Ridley's [[Big No]] when {{spoiler|Snails is killed}}, complete with dropping to his knees and a [[Skyward Scream]].

** ''Everything Damodar says.''

** That noise that the dwarf makes after his helmet is shot off. It's a high-pitched "Nyur! Nyur!" sort of sound. Some think it was a mating call.

* [[Role Association]]: Hi, [[Rocky Horror Picture Show|Riff Raff]]! Nice to see you make a cameo in this film.

** And [[Jeremy Irons|Profion]] is an [[The Lion King|lion usurper]].

* [[Running the Asylum]]: Courtney Solomon's credentials consisted of being a D&D fanboy and [[The Determinator|spending ten years trying to get a D&D movie made]].