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* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Deconstructed. The heroes can break into houses, but not only will they rarely find anything useful, they may also be arrested by the city guard.
* [[Leaked Experience]]: Averted. While all active party members gain the same amount of experience from combats, unconscious, dead and absent party members miss out. Some actions and events, such as picking locks, grant experience only to the characters directly involved.
* [[Level Map Display]]:
** The spell "Penetrating Wood and Stone" reveals previously unvisited areas on the automap.
** The rather minimalist maps in ''Blade of Destiny'' can be somewhat annoying. They cannot be annotated and do not distinguish between taverns and inns or between types of shops.
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* [[Mana Drain]]: The spell "Astral Theft".
* [[Mirror Match]]: In ''Shadows over Riva'', the party fights against mirror images of themselves. Subverted in that more mirror images join the battle after a while, and some of their values differ from those of the originals.
* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]:
** The Holberkians are Elf-Orc crossbreeds.
** Apart from meeting various hybrid enemies, player characters can learn a spell to create such creatures themselves. Unfortunately, the spell requires additional paraphernalia which cannot be found anywhere in the trilogy.
* [[Monster Allies]]: Magicians can summon demons and create undead. A couple of [[Guest Star Party Member
* [[Never Trust a Title]]: In ''Star Trail'', finding the eponymous throwing axe is merely a sidequest.
* [[Nipple-and-Dimed]]: Only female characters start with shirts, and when {{spoiler|the Orcs besieging Lowangen}} take the party's equipment, they get to keep their armors.
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* [[Religion of Evil]]: The party fights the cult of the Nameless God on a couple of occasions.
* [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]]: Sometimes [[Guide Dang It|without any warning]].
* [[Save Point]]:
** Downplayed in ''Blade of Destiny'': unless it is done in a temple, saving costs experience points... not enough to be a problem, but enough to prevent [[Save Scumming]].
** Averted in the other two games.
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