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* ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]''. Consider this situation: the city of Neverwinter has been struck by a plague that can only be cured with specific components from a variety of magical creatures. This is a fantasy world where a powerful mage can teleport stuff easily long-distance. Do they just send the reagents and produce a cure that afternoon? No, they send the creatures themselves; this may be a [[Justified Trope]], because teleporting is expensive, but is Lord Nasher really going to complain about the fees when lives are in danger? This is just the beginning; [[It Got Worse|It gets much, much worse]]. When the creatures escape from the least defensible region of the structure they're being held in, [[New Powers as the Plot Demands|by teleporting, even if they don't actually have that ability]], they disappear into the four main outlying areas of the city. Then, instead of the [[Informed Ability|heroic]] [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|paladin]] going out to look for them (using some flimsy excuse about a tracking spell), [[An Adventurer Is You|a weak and inexperienced adventurer]] is sent out to get them. Complete with a [[Hand Wave]] about the cockatrice being in a box because they didn't actually have a cockatrice monster model. This is all in the ''first act''.

** No excuse is ever given for Neverwinter not simply ''requesting'' new creatures (or rather, the parts from said creatures) from various other cities and have them teleported there immediately. None of the creatures are unique specimens.

* ''[[Baldur's Gate]] II: Throne of Bhaal'' [[retcon]]s the protagonist's childhood so that their mother was a {{spoiler|priestess of Bhaal who belonged to a cult that was trying to sacrifice Bhaalspawn children to effect his resurrection}}. This ceases to make sense when you try to figure out the timeline: The game takes place in the year 1369 and the protagonist is twenty years old at the beginning of the first game a year earlier and was an infant when the cult was active. But {{spoiler|Bhaal, who had sired his mortal children to be fuel for his eventual resurrection after his foreseen death, died}} in 1358. So in fact the evil cult was trying to sacrifice the children while he was still alive, which at the very least would mean they had misunderstood his plans very badly.

** More to the point, the flashback also reveals that {{spoiler|the protagonist was apparently conceived during the Time of Troubles}}, which also happened in 1358. So {{spoiler|the main character suddenly is ten years old?}}