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** The latest edition has made a decidedly strong return to this trope. While 4th edition removes nearly every outstanding environmental hazard from the previous editions (Hell no longer tries to kill you just from you being in the environment for example), now, quite literally, ''every single creature you meet may attempt to destroy you''. There's no such thing as a truly "Good-aligned" creature anymore, (or there is, but alignment in 4th doesn't actually mean much of anything): angels, devils, humanoids, dragons (all shapes, sizes and colors), living, unliving, [[Killer Rabbit|fluffy bunnies]], [[Happy Fun Ball|very small rocks]], literally anything that can have stats can, and most likely ''wants'' to, murder you.
** [[The Spoony One]] tells of a D&D adventure in a world based on [[Alice in Wonderland]] - where ''everything'' and everyone tries to kill you almost instantly, from the Cheshire Cat to the Caterpillar. Hell, even the ''[[Killer Rabbit|Dormouse]]'' is a [[Crazy Awesome|20th level ninja monk]]
** As far back in the original D&D Basic Set, TSR established this in the tutorial. The player - a novice Fighter - had the goal of hunting down a criminal named Bargle the Infamous, and along the way, met and befriended a beautiful female Cleric named Aleena. While it was possible to slay Bargle in this story (assuming the player overcame the ''charm person'' spell with a Saving Throw, which wasn't likely), the villain would murder Aleena, and no option the player could take could prevent it.
* In the RPG ''[[Paranoia]]'', there are countless ways to die. Whatever your mission is might kill you. Your teammates might peg you as a traitor and kill you. You might kill your teammates as traitors and have your death ordered by the Computer for murder. Malfunctioning equipment or the wrong paperwork might kill you. Ending up in a section of Alpha Complex with the wrong color-coding can kill you. There's a reason every player gets 6 backup clones.
** The second rule listed for the gamemaster: "Kill the bastards."
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* [[Warhammer 40,000]] is an example where ''everything in the setting'' is trying to kill each other.
* If you're a [[Promethean: The Created|Promethean]], your very existence ''pisses off reality''. No, seriously - the universe quite literally hates Prometheans, and makes it impossible for them to live peacefully. Spend more than a few minutes around humans? [[Hate Plague|Good chance they'll try to kill you.]] Try to pet a dog? [[Evil-Detecting Dog|It tries to take your hand off.]] That odd-shaped rock? Good chance it's actually the results of your kind's generative act gone wrong, forced into dormancy and waiting to be awakened by your presence, and the only way it can survive is by eating your viscera. Stay in one place more than a day? ''[[Walking Wasteland|The land itself wants you dead.]]'' Hang around your own species? Some of them are okay, but others have decided that this whole "Pilgrimage" business is a waste of time, and they ''like'' the powers being a horrid excuse for a living being can bring, and they can gain more power by doing unspeakable things to you. The entire world and everything in it is out for the fluid that passes for blood in your veins. [[To Become Human|There's a way out.]] [[Earn Your Happy Ending|Good luck.]]
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