Impossible Item Drop: Difference between revisions

* The [[Lemony Narrator|Narrator]] in [[The Bard's Tale]] [[Lampshade Hanging|comments on the ridiculousness of this]] in the early game when a wolf drops a sword. He says he'll skip all such passages form now on, and the bard complains that its his primary source of income.

* The monsters in ''[[Dungeon Siege]]'' drop money and items at random.

* The RPG ''[[Mass Effect]]'' has a somewhat specific variation of this effect- since the game is completely devoid of standard [[Vendor Trash]], all recovered items must take the form of weapons, armor, tools/implants, and upgrade modules for the aforementioned weapons and armor. This can lead to a seemingly odd proliferation of military-grade equipment in the world. While it is perfectly reasonable to recover a Scram Rail or High Explosive Rounds from a krogan mercenary, it is odd to recover assault rifles from apparently naked and weaponless cyber-zombies, and advanced ultra-tech materials from lost, 60's era Soviet lunar probes.

* ''[[Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic]]'' featured enemies who would drop random weapons and armor. While this made sense, much like ''Mass Effect'', there were peculiar instances. It was entirely possible for enemies roughly the size of a large dog to drop six-foot long, double-bladed swords.

* ''[[Undertow]]'' came up with an interesting explanation on [http://undertow.dreamshards.org/1/u1_16.html this page]. The author's idea was the loot came out of the stomach of the monsters from unlucky adventurers they had eaten. [[Squick|Ew]].

* Made fun of in [http://www.virtualshackles.com/76 this] ''[[Virtual Shackles]]''. "What the fuck ''[[Darksiders]]''. Why does everything I smash have a soul in it?"

 

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