RPG Mechanics Verse: Difference between revisions

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'''Roy''': It's okay, you can just say ''+5 sword'' here. [[No Fourth Wall|We do stuff like that all the time]].|''[[The Order of the Stick]]''}}

Initially, it looks like a standard [[Role Playing Game Verse]] ~~-- but~~ then the characters explicitly start referring to spot checks, hit points in [[Stat-O-Vision]], roleplaying, [[~~Always Chaotic~~ Evil]] monsters, and other [[Role Playing Game Terms]]. Is this an [[RPG]] in which the characters' players are weaving in and out of character and this is [[Deep-Immersion Gaming|represented by the characters themselves speaking]], or perhaps a video game which breaks the [[Fourth Wall]] more often than usual?

Initially, it looks like a standard [[Role Playing Game Verse]]—but then the characters explicitly start referring to spot checks, hit points in [[Stat-O-Vision]], roleplaying, [[Exclusively Evil]] monsters, and other [[Role Playing Game Terms]]. Is this an [[RPG]] in which the characters' players are weaving in and out of character and this is [[Deep-Immersion Gaming|represented by the characters themselves speaking]], or perhaps a video game which breaks the [[Fourth Wall]] more often than usual?

Nope - or at least it is not shown. [[The Verse]] this takes place in really does work exactly like a tabletop RPG.

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== Comics ==

* ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'', kind of. For the most part it's the real world, if surreal and videogame-like, but Scott occasionally talks about his allocated skill proficiencies, gains experience points and levels up.

** It's based on the mechanics from ''[[River City Ransom]]'' specifically. So if it isn't a full [[RPG Mechanics Verse]], it's at least an [[RPG Elements]] verse.

** It's based on the mechanics from ''[[River City Ransom]]'' specifically. So if it isn't a full RPG Mechanics Verse, it's at least an [[RPG Elements]] verse.

** In [[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World|the movie]], Scott earns points for defeating people or for solving things in his life (for instance, patching things up with Kim). It also seems that people in that universe have coins for blood, since Gideon coughs up a coin when injured and people burst into coins when defeated.

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* Subverted for laughs in ''[[Touhou]] 11: Subterranean Animism''. If you play as Marisa with Alice's assist, they spend the entire storyline sassing each other and discussing the quest in terms of RPG tropes. They're also ''[[Wrong Genre Savvy|hilariously wrong]]'', since SA is a [[Bullet Hell]]-style [[Shoot'Em Up]] like most ''Touhou'' games.

== [[Visual Novel~~|Visual Novels~~]] ==

== [[Visual Novel]]s ==

* Actually played completely serious in ''[[Fate/stay night]]''. All Heroes get a viewable [[Character Sheet]] that explains their skills, stats and abilities, all in [[RPG Mechanics Verse]], even how many turns an area spell lasts for,

* Actually played completely serious in ''[[Fate/stay night]]''. All Heroes get a viewable [[Character Sheet]] that explains their skills, stats and abilities, all in RPG Mechanics Verse, even how many turns an area spell lasts for,

** In-game as well, more than once the characters quantify mana, and then spend the rest of the scene treating it literally like MP.

** It should be noted, however, that Servants' abilities is something that every master views differently because their minds interpret the information given to them in different terms. The whole 'RPG [[Character Sheet]]' method is simply [[The Hero|Shirou's]] mind's way of quantifying the information. [[One of Us|Now, what does that tell us about Shirou?]]

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{{quote|'''Blag''': Cause ya see, girlie, nobody cares if ya got an 18 Intelligence. Nobody'd care if you were one o' th' lucky broads with a 18 '''Wisdom!''' All that counts is a nice, round 18--

([http://www.yamara.com/yamaraclassic/index.php?date{{=}}2005-06-02 see the right answer]) }}

* The world of ''[[Homestuck]]'', while otherwise being the Text-Based Adventure Game's equivalent to this trope, has a [[Call a Hit Point a Smeerp|strife]] system that appears to be based on turn-based RPG combat. The [[Game Within a Game]], Sburb, also features an "echeladder" that seems to parody an RPG's level ~~system-- and~~ since the lines between Sburb and reality are so blurry as to be nearly nonexistent, this could be said to apply to the story's "real world" as well.

* The world of ''[[Homestuck]]'', while otherwise being the Text-Based Adventure Game's equivalent to this trope, has a [[Call a Hit Point a Smeerp|strife]] system that appears to be based on turn-based RPG combat. The [[Game Within a Game]], Sburb, also features an "echeladder" that seems to parody an RPG's level system—and since the lines between Sburb and reality are so blurry as to be nearly nonexistent, this could be said to apply to the story's "real world" as well.

** Its predecessor, ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' is probably a straighter example with both Adventure games and RPG's. Most of the first part is dedicated to [[Lampshading]] Adventure game mainstays (''especially'' [[Solve the Soup Cans]] puzzles and [[You Can't Get Ye Flask]]), but the fight with [[Big Bad|DMK]] borrows a lot more from RPG tropes like [[Turns Red]], [[One-Winged Angel]], [[Stat-O-Vision]], [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]], [[Super Move Portrait Attack~~|Super Move Portrait Attacks~~]], etc, etc.

** Its predecessor, ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' is probably a straighter example with both Adventure games and RPG's. Most of the first part is dedicated to [[Lampshading]] Adventure game mainstays (''especially'' [[Solve the Soup Cans]] puzzles and [[You Can't Get Ye Flask]]), but the fight with [[Big Bad|DMK]] borrows a lot more from RPG tropes like [[Turns Red]], [[One-Winged Angel]], [[Stat-O-Vision]], [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]], [[Super Move Portrait Attack]]s, etc, etc.

* ''[http://www.hellsoft.net/hmp/index.htm Hael me Plz!!11]'' happens inside a "non-official" [[Ragnarok Online]] server, and all the cast are [[Genre Savvy|very aware of it]], even if one of the characters managed to bring with him a Flame spell from Lineage 2.

* [http://www.onyxsparrow.com/prepare_to_die Prepare to Die] is entirely built around a D&D-esque world, complete with character sheets, NPCs, skill checks, and die rolls.

* ''[[Rumors of War]]'' uses an [[RPG Mechanics Verse]] according to [[Rule of Drama]], of all things.

* ''[[Rumors of War]]'' uses an RPG Mechanics Verse according to [[Rule of Drama]], of all things.

* ''[[A Beginner's Guide to the End of the Universe]]'', though the protagonist is the only person aware of this.

** Alternatively, it could be argued that the RPG mechanics only apply to him: when he is hurt he loses hit points, but when other people are hurt they begin bleeding like normal people.