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Gameplay primarily involves quests, combat (both [[Player Versus Player]] and [[Player Versus Environment]]), and, the [[Necessary Weasel]] of the genre, [[Level Grinding]], along with a variety of side activities like [[Capture the Flag]]. ''RuneScape'' is somewhat uncommon among MMORPGs in that its quests are more elaborate than your basic [[Twenty Bear Asses]] [[Fetch Quest|Fetch Quests]], instead focusing more on plot, puzzles, problem-solving, and [[Boss Battle|Boss Battles]]. New content, usually (but not always) members-only, is released on a weekly basis.

It has a series of [[Expanded Universe]] novels: ''Betrayal at Falador'' (2008) and ''Return to Canifis'' (2011), both written by T.S. Church. There's also a [[Gaiden Game]] called "Armies of Gielinor", a multiplayer [[Turn Based Tactics]] game set during the God Wars, released through [[Fun Orb]].

 

 

 

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* [[Abnormal Ammo]]:

** The fixed device, which shoots dyed toads.

* [[All Deserts Have Cacti]]: The Kharidian Desert is indeed full of cacti.

* [[All in a Row]]: There's an option to "Follow" another player. A group of players can follow each other in a chain, resulting in this.

* [[All Swords Are the Same]]: In ''Classic'', all melee weapons have the exact same fighting animation: you just bash your opponent with it and that's that. The modern game has a wider variety of stances for different types of weapon, but there are still a limited number of animations for slashing, stabbing, or bludgeoning -- the stabbing animations for a bronze dagger are the same as the ones for a mithril shortsword or a pair of gardening secateurs.

* [[All Trolls Are Different]]:

** There's an aquatic variety of troll that sports fins and gills.

** Mountain Trolls are able to change their bodies to [[Adaptive Ability|adapt to their surroundings]]. In Troll Invasion, they've shown the ability to [[Summon Magic|summon monsters]] and cast magic by [[Cannibalism Superpower|consuming the flesh]] of Summoners and Mages, respectively.

* [[Always a Bigger Fish]]: The {{spoiler|dragonkin}} to {{spoiler|Lucien.}}

* [[Always Accurate Attack]]: The special attacks of the Magic Longbow, Korasi's Sword, and Dark Bow.

* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: You find one in the "Shades of Mort'ton" quest, where the writing gradually devolves into gibberish as the author slips into madness.

* [[April Fools' Day]]: There have been several.

** In 2007, there was [http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Update:April_Fools a fake "Behind the Scenes" update] announcing that every update that month would be heavily cabbage-based. [http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Update:Behind_the_Scenes_-_April_Fools! A similar "Behind the Scenes" prank] was the April Fool in 2011, with a plethora of [[Shout-Out|Shout-Outs]].

** In 2009, all the cabbages came to life and started bouncing around.

* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: {{spoiler|Veldaban in King of the Dwarves.}}

* [[Baba Yaga]]: She's a major character in several quests and runs a magic shop. She lives on Lunar Isle in her chicken-legged hut.

* [[Bad Boss]]: Kal'Ger the Warmonger, who opens every battle with a cutscene in which he kills one of the lower-level Kal'Gerion demons.

* [[Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad]]: Subverted by Evil Dave, who tries to swap "bad" and "good" in his speeches, but ends up getting very confused.

* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]: The Zarosian Mahjarrat, who, while not uniformly good, are generally on the player's side for right now. The Ancient magicks that Zarosians use are quite dark, including spells that freeze opponents solid, steal their health, and drain their prayer. The Zarosian prayers (called "curses") are much more offensive than the other prayer sets, and drain your opponent's strength to enhance your own.

* [[Bad with the Bone]]: The Dorgeshuun goblins are pacifists, but when they have to fight, they use weapons made out of bone, including a bone club (which is just a large, heavy bone).

* [[Bag of Holding]]:

** It is an adventure game with an inventory, after all. Also doubles as [[Hammerspace]] because you can hold large hammers, anchors, other weapons, and massive amounts of food and fish, all too huge to possibly keep within.

** Tormented demons, which change their protection prayer based on what you're hitting them with.

** Astea Frostweb and the Skeletal Trio, who change their protection prayers randomly.

* [[Bat Out of Hell]]: After a graphical update, now standard Vampires, angry Juvinates and Vyrewatch look like were-bats, the Vyrewatch having [[Winged Humanoid|wings on their back]] and the other two having no wings to speak of.

* [[Bedsheet Ghost]]: [[Invoked]] in "Ghosts Ahoy", where you try to disguise yourself as a ghost by cutting holes in a bedsheet.

* [[Big Bad]]: At this point, it is pretty much certain that the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] of Runescape are the {{spoiler|Dragonkin. In ritual of the Mahjarrat, they returned out of hiding and [[The Worf Effect|showed their power by killing Lucien]], who at the time, was the most powerful Mahjarrat.}}

* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]: There are more than 10 different types of giant spiders, Kalrag from the Underground Pass is the biggest attackable one. The Stronghold of Safety is packed with Giant Roaches. Giant Ants and Giant Wasps can be found in the Jade vine maze. There are Cave Bugs and Cave Crawlers underground. The largest insects however, are the Kalphite, which are like beetle-scorpion hybrids.

* [[Big No]]: When the player is kidnapped to Evil Bob's island. "No... what? Nooooooooooooo!"

* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: [[An Interior Designer Is You|Everyone's Player Owned Houses]] and Balthazar Beauregard's Circus are these, the latter can move it's current location in a box, once a week.

* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Zanik. Chosen by the gods and raised from the dead to {{spoiler|become a brainwashed slave-general of the war-god Bandos}}.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Bandos is the "Big High War God" who teaches that fighting is the highest calling of all, and his followers are almost universally aggressive and love battle. He has specifically bred entire RACES for war.

* [[Bonsai Forest]]: The soil quality in Gielinor clearly isn't the best out there. Some graphics updates made the trees more reasonably sized, but many are still pretty small.

* [[Boogie Knights]]: The dancing knights in the Party Room.

* [[Capital City]]: Many, such as Varrock, Falador, and Ardougne. Not to mention Lumbridge, capital of newbies.

* [[Capture the Flag]]: Castle Wars. Also available as part of the Clan Citadel's battlefield editor.

* [[Catching Some Zs]]: A side-effect of a dream spell.

* [[Cessation of Existence]]: Runescape's actual afterlife is [[Offscreen Afterlife|vague but existent]], however this is implied to be the ''[[Fate Worse Than Death|eventual]]'' fate of those whose souls are devoured by the Spirit Beast or Amascut, Goddess of Destruction. Fortunately, the former has been forced into the physical world where it can no longer do this.

* [[Chain of Deals]]: [[Blatant Lies|One Small Favour]], and a shorter version in The Fremmenik Trials.

* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: With enough skill in combat, you can [[Armor Is Useless|punch through armor with your fists]], kill people unarmed, [[Barehanded Blade Block|and block weapons with your bare hands]].

* [[Cheap Gold Coins]]: Gold pieces are the standard [[Global Currency]]. A typical tavern might charge one or two gold pieces for a mug of beer. A chocolate cake is about 400 gold pieces. A typical piece of armour could be anywhere from 40,000 to [[Adam Smith Hates Your Guts|20,000,000]]. A [[Commonplace Rare|pumpkin]] costs hundreds of millions.

* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: The Runecrafting altars (or at least the Astral one) were created by making dolmens out of Rune Essence, and then by using a lot of focus from a lot of people, convincing ''the stone'' that it was something that it was not.

* [[Clothes Make the Superman]]: Aside from combat skill levels, the attack and defense bonuses given by weapons and armor are a major factor in how well a player fares in combat. Some complete sets of armor also give additional increases to attack or defense alongside the normal bonuses.

* [[Cobweb Jungle]]: [[Enforced]] in the 2009 Halloween event. The rules of Halloween say that the Grim Reaper ''has'' to have cobwebs in his house, so it's the [[Player Character]]'s job to negotiate with the Spider Queen (who lives in her own gigantic, over-the-top maze of cobwebs) to decorate Grim's mansion properly.

* [[Cognizant Limbs]]:

* [[Corridor Cubbyhole Run]]: The Rogue's Den maze has a section like this. There's also one in the "Icthlarin's Little Helper" quest.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: [[Subverted]] in "King of the Dwarves". The Consortium is accused of caring more about profits than the lives of their employees after {{spoiler|several miners die in a collapse while rescue workers are instructed to repair the equipment}}. But it turns out, as the frustrated Consortium members later explain to you, {{spoiler|if the equipment hadn't been repaired swiftly, it would have caused repercussions in the entire city's power supply, leading to even greater casualties}}, and the Consortium was only {{spoiler|trying to control the greater damages}}.

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: If you read the quest guide for "Love Story" and bring all of the required items needed to avoid banking in between parts, the Wise Old Man will note how it was [[Lampshade Hanging|rather convenient]] you had all the necessary items on you at hand the moment you two needed to create a device for that part of the quest.

* [[Critical Existence Failure]]

* [[Cutscene Drop]]

* [[Cutscene Incompetence]]: In the updated Wolf Whistle quest, your character runs from a group of trolls carrying a man hostage, and then goes on a [[Fetch Quest]] to turn the tables. If this quest is done when you are high level, [[Cowardly Lion|running away makes your character look like]] [[Don't Explain the Joke|the new Cyrisus]].

* [[Cutting Off the Branches]]: The "Temple of Ikov" quest has you choose whether to protect the Staff of Armadyl or steal it and give it to the bad guy. When the developers made the sequel quest, "While Guthix Sleeps", they realized the plot sort of hinged on the bad guy having the staff, so everyone who chose to protect it received a note from the guardians that it had been stolen by somebody else.

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Implied with the Black Knights (or, as they are formally known, the Kinshra), who have been known to perform nefarious deeds, but are also explained to be [[Written by the Winners|another political faction]].

* [[Dark Reprise]]:

** Shadow Forger Ihlakhizan's theme is that to Born To Do This track.

** Barb Wire to Barbarianism.

** Return of Lucien to Temple Desecrated.

* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: At the end of the 2011 Easter event, you have to carve an ice sculpture to show {{spoiler|the Queen of Snow}} why spring is a just as good a thing as winter. Out of the options of what to carve <ref>Including a stag, the Easter Bunny bringing eggs and cute baby animals</ref>, [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|the one that sticks out the most is the last one:]] [[Evil Laugh|"Cute baby animals... impaled on swords."]] {{spoiler|Choosing this choice works just as well as the others.}}

* [[Deal with the Devil|Deal with the Mahjarrat]]: What caused the [[Fate Worse Than Death|current state]] of the Barrow Brothers.

* [[Death Trap]]:

** You get caught in one at the end of "Path of Glouphrie". Thick, sticky tar pours out onto the floor to stop you from moving. An enchantment prevents you from teleporting. Then comes the poison gas. And of course, [[It Got Worse|at this point, the magical laser attacks start firing at you]].

** The Gorak's Plane, which is filled with many (of the same) powerful creatures who just want to kill you.

** Also implied in the Mahjarrat's home plane.

* [[Degraded Boss]]: [[Tok Tz]]-Ket-Dill has it's own eponymous quest, you fight a number of them throughout The Elder Kiln however.

* [[Dem Bones]]: There are plenty of animated skeletons in the game.

* [[Dual-Wielding]]: The defenders, Torag's Hammers.

* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Averted and played straight at different points. Average citizens never say thanks for averting the latest doom on the land, though.

:The ring was patched a few months later to [[Nerf]] this trick.

* [[Dungeon Town]]: Keldagrim and Dorgesh-Kaan are the largest of them.

** The Abyssal plane, where everything seems to have eyes or tentacles, or both.

** The Runespan, a maze of [[Floating Continent|floating islands]] filled with nodes and creatures of elemental energy.

* [[Elemental Crafting]]

* [[Emote Animation]]

* [[Endless Game]]

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in the Cave Goblin quest series; Sigmund says [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]] to his boss, Johannes, essentially because Johannes has ''too many'' standards.

* [[Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy]]: The standard bow emote for girl players. Males can also use it by right clicking.

* [[Everything's Better with Chickens]]: A random event had you being attacked by the greatest [[Super Villain]] in all of Runescape... the [[Feathered Fiend|Evil Chicken]]. They [[Large Ham|milked him for all he was worth]] too, with emotes like "Buk, buk, buk, [[Evil Laugh|BWHAHAHAHA!]]" and the like.

* [[Everythings Better With Platypus]]: Pet platypode, even.

* [[Evil Chef]]: The Culinaromancer from "Recipe for Disaster".

** The Flail of Ivandis and weapons crafted from the branches of the Blisterwood tree gain power as you cremate Vyrewatch corpses.

** Silverlight: originally an iron sword blessed by Guthix, later becoming Darklight after imbibing the blood of the defeated Agrith Naar in "Shadow of the Storm".

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]:

** If you hold you mouse cursor over the achievements at the end of a Dungeoneering run, a small tooltip pops up, telling you what you need to do in order to get that achievement. The tooltip for "Most Deaths" reads, "Exactly what it says on the tin."

** One quest's [[MacGuffin]] is the "Idol of Many Heads". Examining the idol gives this text: "An idol. It has many heads."

* [[Experience Booster]]: Lots. [http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Experience#Boosts The Runescape Wiki has a list].

* [[Expy]]: [[Word of God]] says Zanik is essentially [[Battlestar Galactica|Starbuck]], and her voice is that of [[Regina Spektor]].

** {{spoiler|Arrav}}, who is now Zemourgel's undead slave and who has almost no control over himself, forced to slaughter the people he once protected. {{spoiler|Eventually does get some peace, but his wounds are too severe and he has no more magic to sustain him, he dies.}}

** Becoming a Barrows Brother is also rather unpleasant, the originals becoming deathly ill, then dying, then having their spirits wrenched from wherever they were to fight again for their new master. Now you just get hit with an incorporeal maroon skull and die in horrible agony

* [[Feather Fingers]]: Notably averted with the penguins. Ping and Pong are looking for musical instruments, but since they have no fingers, they can't play most instruments--you have to find them bongos and cowbells.

* [[Fetch Quest]]: Occasionally [[Played With]]:

** [[Exaggerated]] in [[Chain of Deals|One Small Favour]], in which you are asked something of the typical fetch quest, to get logs from a forester... who then asks you to get his axe sharpened at an axe store, and the owner asks you to ask a favor from a witch, who in turn asks something else of you... it ends up having you traverse almost the entire continent that the game takes place on.

** [[Lampshaded]] in Rune Mechanics, where the characters make disdainful remarks about fetch quests.

* [[Fifteen Puzzle]]: Actually a twenty-four puzzle.

** The Culinaromancer can only be fought in his private dimension.

** The Spirit Beast in "Summer's End" is fought in its Spirit Realm.

* [[Fishing for Sole]]: Boots and gloves can be caught while fishing with a big net.

* [[Fishing Minigame]]: In addition to fishing as a skill, there's also the Fish Flingers minigame, where you use trial and error to determine the correct hook, bait, and weight to catch different types of fish.

* [[Flunky Boss]]: Quite a few instances:

** TzTok-Jad summons four healers when he reaches half his life. If you don't kill or distract the healers, they [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|heal him]].

** In Dungeoneering, [[An Ice Person|Astea Frostweb]] summons ice spiders. [[Badass Bookworm|Lexicus Runewright]] summons animated books.

** Bork summons Ork Legions.

* [[Fox Chicken Grain Puzzle]]: In the Recruitment Drive quest.

* [[Freemium]]: Many skills, quests, and runes are only available to those who pay; actually, "many" would be the [[Captain Obvious|understatement of the year]]. The free part of the game is probably less than 5% of the total game, and free players have severely limited options when it comes to training and bank space, and they get an update once in a blue moon. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|On the upside]], Jagex is a lot better than most games. There's still a fair bit to do in the free game, and they've started doing a lot more free content than they used to. They also advertise free-to-play content as an entire free game, with the pay-to-play content as a [[Expansion Pack|super expansion pack]].

* [[Frictionless Ice]]: "Myths of the White Lands" uses it for puzzles. It's also a stage hazard when fighting the Dungeoneering boss Plane-Freezer Lakhrahnaz and as a random room puzzle on Frozen floors.

* [[Friendly War]]: The king and queen of the neigboring island nations of Miscellania and Etceteria amuse themselves by constantly declaring war on each other. It's also a case of [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: {{spoiler|they eventually get married in "Blood Runs Deep"}}.

* [[Genie in a Bottle]]: A random event. Seen also as a villain in the "Spirits of the Elid" quest.

* [[Genius Ditz]]: How much of each varies between quests, but overall this is how the [[Player Character]] is presented.

* [[Get Back Here Boss]]: The giant mole. Fortunately, it has been altered to still target you after it burrows. This still doesn't make it simple to find, though.

* [[Get on the Boat]]: Want to visit Daemonheim? Take a boat from Al-Kharid. Want to visit Karamja, the Void Knight Outpost, or Entrana? Take a boat from Port Sarim. (And to actually participate in the Void Knight activity you have to get on another boat.) Want to visit Braindeath Island, Dragontooth Island, or Mos Le'Harmless? Take a boat from Port Phasmatys. And so on.

* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: Some of the boss fights are rather unexpected. For example, at the end of the "My Arm's Big Adventure" quest (where you have to teach agriculture to a troll), you're attacked out of nowhere by a giant roc who randomly happens to be nearby.

* [[Global Currency Exception]]: Tokkul in the Tz-haar caves, Trading sticks in Tai Bwo Wannai village, etc.

** "Spontaneous Combustion" -- Burnt yourself to death (due to a screwup with a firemaking door).

** "Fishing Folly" -- Died in a hilarious fishing accident. "You have a hilarious fishing accident that you would have told your grandchildren some day, had it not killed you."

* [[Healing Spring]]: The Oo'Glog spa pools can cure disease and poison and restore you to full health.

* [[Hell Gate]]: The Pest Control minigame has players cooperate to destroy interdimensional portals that are vomiting out deadly alien invaders.

* [[Hell Hound]]: A standard demonic foe. Special mention goes to Bouncer, General Khazard's particularly vicious pet Hellhound.

* [[Hero of Another Story]]: Several quests, such as Dream Mentor, have the [[Player Character]] team up with other NPC adventurers. After you part ways, they go off on their own adventures.

* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: Lletya.

* [[High-Class Glass]]: A TzHaar playing the role of a rich guy in a theatrical production wears a monocle for his costume.

** "Between a Rock" involves a dwarf firing you out of a cannon.

* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: The Mahjarrat, which look like skeletons in robes but are actually immensely powerful creatures from other dimensions. {{spoiler|This is an indication that they need to perform The Ritual again, as directly afterward they are much more fleshed out.}}

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Numerous instances, notably during the Hand in the Sand quest.

* [[Hybrid Monster]]:

** Chaos Dwogres, the result of the Red Axe at creating Dwarf-like creatures who are genetically able to cast Magic, but with the natural strength of an Ogre.

* [[Hyperactive Metabolism]]

* [[An Ice Person]]:

** Kamil.

** And as of "Ritual of the Mahjarrat," {{spoiler|Lucien. With the same artifact that skewered Zaros, on top of that}}.

* [[Improbable Power Discrepancy]]: Apparently, giant ants are much more dangerous than barbarians wielding large axes, and blood-drained human prisoners are stronger than healthy human citizens.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: This game has so many puns that it's often ridiculed. The Crawling Hand, for example:

{{quote|''I need to make some furniture, could you lend me a HAND?''

''Haha. Very funny.'' }}

* [[Indy Ploy]]: [[Invoked]] to fight the mind-reading Vyrewatch. Because they can predict your next move by reading your mind, the solution to defeat them is to have no idea what your next move is going to be.

* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: Chaotic weapons are a very straight example. More powerful than their [[Infinity-1 Sword]] equivalents in every area, but they can only be obtained by paying 200k dungeoneering tokens. That's equivalent to ''dozens'' of hours of training, and once you obtain them, you need to spend wads of cash to repair them when they degrade after ten hours in combat.

* [[Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence]]: The game is full of them.

* [[Interface Spoiler]]: {{spoiler|Akrisae's}} Barrows Set is easily viewable on the Grand Exchange while searching for Barrows Armour, despite it not making too much sense for those who haven't done "Ritual of the Mahjarrat".

* [[An Interior Designer Is You]]: Courtesy of the construction skill.

** One way to interpret Bob and Neite, since Bob used to be human... although it's an unusual case, as Neite was once a human as well.

** The marriage of the King Black Dragon and the Kalphite Queen, to coincide with the real marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

* [[It Makes Sense in Context]]: One quest involves working with a gnome to commit terrorism for a group of secret government conspirators, which is done by infecting the people and livestock of an entire city with a virus by shooting dye-soaked toads at a farmer's flock of sheep. {{spoiler|The plague is a hoax.}}

* [[It May Help You on Your Quest]]: In the Christmas 2010 event, where Santa Cl- I mean, [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|Thorvar Crittersmash]] sent players into a Daemonheim dungeon he'd failed, giving them a bucket and telling them they'd know when to use it. After the third puzzle, that bucket became very useful because it was needed to {{spoiler|catch the heim crab that stole Santa's hat}}.

* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: Seen in "Meeting History".

* [[Jerkass Gods]]: Originally averted, with Zamorak being the only flat-out jerk among them, but as the game has gotten [[Darker and Edgier]], dirty little secrets of the other gods have been coming to light. To wit: Guthix, formerly the nicest and still the most popular among players, was (apparently) complicit in Bandos's attempted genocide of the cave goblins, Saradomin was complicit in Zamorak's attempted genocide of the Zarosians, Bandos is an all-around [[Jerkass]], and Zamorak has just continued being a jerk. The only major gods to escape this trope now are Armadyl and, oddly enough, Zaros, the latter of whom seems to be who the [[Player Character]] will be aligned with in the greater [[Myth Arc]].

* [[Joke Item]]: Several, especially the holiday items. Ironically, some of these are now the most valuable items in the game.

* [[Justified Tutorial]]

* [[Karma Meter]]: At least two quests let you choose which god to side with. Subverted in that whatever you choose has no real impact outside of those quests.

* [[Kill It with Fire]]:

** Both Glacors and Ice Strykewyrms are [[For Massive Damage|very weak against fire spells]].

** You fight Evil Trees by lighting fires underneath them to burn them down.

* [[King Arthur]]: Camelot is located just east of Seers' Village. King Arthur, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table can all be found there. Morgan le Faye lives in a tower to the south. A couple quests revolve around these guys, often referencing the [[Arthurian Legend]].

* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: So much that there's even a thieving skill for it.

** For areas, Daemonheim floors often have a single motif heard throughout most of the floors with the same theme.

* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: The Karamja volcano, parts of the Wilderness, etc.

* [[Life Drain]]: Several, including onyx-tipped bolts, Soul Split, and the Guthan's armor set, among others.

* [[Light and Mirrors Puzzle]]: One of the hardest quests has quite a sadistic version of this: COLOURED lights and mirrors, which is much worse than it sounds, all the while being attacked by shadow monsters. The sequel features one as well, though in a much smaller area and without monsters attacking you.

* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: Bork.

* [[Lord British Postulate]]: Before the release of the Ivandis Flail, Vyrewatch couldn't be killed. This didn't stop players from trying, and succeeding.

* [[Losing Your Head]]: A zombie pirate in "A Clockwork Syringe".

** Dungeoneering has a puzzle where you have to sneak past a purple orb in a sort of turn-based puzzle, but your character can randomly 'stumble' which gives the purple orb a free move on you, making it nearly impossible to complete if this happens more than once.

** In "Mourning's End Part 2", you have to cross a set of wall hand-holds with a ridiculously low success chance and a long run back when you fail. And you have to do this TWICE!

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]:

** [[Invoked]] in "Salt in the Wound". When a mind-controlled villager asks you to identify yourself in order to gain entry to Mother Mallum's lair, one of the options in the [[Dialogue Tree]] is "I AM YOUR FATHER!" (If you select it, she'll look at you funny and tell you to go away.)

** Bob the Cat tries it out if you speak with him while you have a cat with you. He and your cat will quote the ''[[Star Wars]]'' scene, with Bob as Vader and your cat as Luke. It's just a joke, of course.

* [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]]: You, usually during quests. Occasionally lampshaded.

* [[Magick]]

* [[Microtransactions]]: Players can pay cash to buy additional spins on the Squeal of Fortune, which gives item and xp rewards.

* [[Mid-Air Bobbing]]: Seen with the pets from "The Firemaker's Curse".

* [[Minecart Madness]]: At least one quest involves navigating a maze of minecart turnoffs.

* [[Min-Maxing]]: Fairly common; characters who take this to its logical conclusion are known as "pures".

* [[Money Spider]]: Lots of enemies. Not really killed for gold, since nothing really drops a lot of gold. Rather, they are killed for items to be sold.

* [[Monster Is a Mommy]]: Rocs and dagannoths in their respective quests.

* [[Motive Rant]]: The killer delivers one at the end of "One Piercing Note".

* [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous]]: All TzHaar and TokHaar. Four arms, three fingers. They even use a base twelve maths system. Not all of them use that many weapons, though.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]:

** The Dungeoneering bosses certainly have this. All of the Kal'Gerion generals (demons) and Stalkers (giant eyeballs) have very intimidating names:

** Lucien. Sure, he doesn't sound like much, but if you meet him, run. Then teleport. Then log out. Then leave your house. Then book a flight to Russia. [[Overly Long Gag|Then sneak aboard a rocket to the moon.]]

** Nex... a single syllable that causes even the gods themselves to quake in fear.

* [[Nature Spirit]]: One is found in God Wars Dungeon and the second is found in Mort Myre.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer|Never Trust A Twitter]]: Every week Jagex releases a hint to the next update on Twitter. More often than not these hints provide no clues to the update whatsoever and make no sense until AFTER the update is released. The worst offender is the hint "Ruby Dragon" and the update was a thieving guild quest. There was no way the players were supposed to guess that based on the hint.

* [[Nice Hat]]: The party hats. Their rare status makes them [[Serious Business]].

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: There are zombie monkeys, ninja monkeys, zombie monks, ninja implings, zombie pirates, zombie pirate robots ("barrelchests"), etc.

* [[No Fourth Wall]]:

** In the 2011 Easter Event, the player explicitly tells a squirrel to stop breaking the fourth wall.

* [[No Hero Discount]]: Played straight most of the time. Occasionally [[Averted]] when a quest reward gives you a discount --for example, after proving your merit as a sailor and defeating some pirates in Cabin Fever, you can charter ships at half price.

* [[Noodle Incident]]:

** Marion the bartender said that she lost her skill in archery after an incident involving a [[Stuff Blowing Up|Chinchompa]] named Fluffy and a butter churn. Also, there are these weird sea slugs called sluglings that you pick up to make rum. When asking Captain Braindeath why they call them sluglings, he responds that they call them sluglings because of "a long, complicated story involving three dead seagulls and a busted pipe". Why you even need slugs of any kind to make rum in the first place [[You Do NOT Want to Know|is a question better left unanswered]].

** The various misfortunes that befall the Varrock Museum's expedition barge.

* [[Nothing but Skulls]]

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: The Wilderness. Particularly the deeper areas where there's hardly anything, save for a few NPCs, and you could be attacked by a powerful player-killer any moment. The [[Hell Is That Noise|ambiance]] does ''not'' make anything better...

** The pinball random event has glowing rings appear around the post you're supposed to tag.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]:

** Wizard Grayzag. He summons little imps as part of his wizarding career, but there's a lesser demon in the room next to him... and then the quest The Void Stares Back brings even more surprises. {{spoiler|Really. He accomplishes two things -- being [[Big Bad|behind the whole quest line]], and [[Killed Off for Real|causing the real, irreversible death of an NPC.]]}}

* [[Obvious Rule Patch]]:

** The Flash Powder Factory was patched to give a 50% reduction in points whenever you leave with more than 2 minutes left on the timer, to promote players to play through entire matches. Previously, players would leave the game early to get around [[Diminishing Returns for Balance]] by starting a new round.

** The Dominion Sword can only be wielded two-handed, despite obviously being only a longsword, in order to fit in with the other two-handed magic and ranged dominion weapons.

* [[Off with His Head]]:

** Done pretty nastily in the Dungeoneering dungeon. There are dinosaurs that you can kill for leather to make armour, and although it can be done through combat, it kind of destroys most of the hides you could have gotten. However, you can design a Hunter trap designed to get a lot more hides by invoking this trope when the dinosaur goes for the bait.

** Stomp. The entire boss fight is an attempt to destroy the portal that Stomp's head is sticking through. When this is achieved (after enduring a mountain of Fake Difficulty), the portal [[Portal Cut|acts like a guillotine]], separating Stomp's head from his body in a bloody, gruesome mess.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Many moments. Sometimes by NPCs during quests and the like (Garden of Tranquility's guard scene), and often by players (usually when finding a new room in Dungeoneering).

* [[Older Is Better]]: Equipment originating from the Barrows brothers or the Third Age is usually much better than any of the armor made during the Fifth Age.

* [[Ominous Pipe Organ]]: Yk'Lagor's theme and several tracks in Morytania.

* [[One Steve Limit]]: Parodied in some cases (an entire town where everyone is named Ali the Barman, Ali the Snakecharmer, etc.) and simply averted in others. Played straight with players' screennames.

* [[Only Smart People May Pass]]: Has an entire ''quest'' dedicated to this trope, including a chemistry puzzle loaded with chemistry-related in-jokes like nitrous oxide and dihydrogen monoxide.

* [[Oracular Head]]: Postie Pete.

* [[Orcus on His Throne]]: Many villains. Literally with Nomad, whose [[Cool Chair]] really does make him more powerful.

* [[Our Angels Are Different]]: They're Icyene, such as Commander Zilyana.

* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: The steampunk variety.

* [[Our Goblins Are Wickeder]]: The ordinary surface goblins have green skin. Their intelligence is as high as most humans', but the way they're raised, they usually never reach their full potential. There are also cave goblins which have pale green skin and large eyes and are far more intelligent than their surface-dwelling bretheren.

* [[Plot Coupon]]: You'll be collecting these a lot during quests.

* [[Plot Induced Stupidity]]: Several quests involve you being quite gullible. Of course, you ''can'' not be gullible, but you [[Stupidity Is the Only Option|can't finish the quest by not being gullible]].

* [[Plot Tailored to the Party]]: In the final scene of "Salt in the Wound", you need Ezekial's explosives expertise to break through damaged walls, Kennith's persuasive abilities to manipulate a mind-controlled villager, and Eva's strength and combat skill to hold off the guards and deal the finishing blow.

* [[Pocket Dimension]]:

** The Runecrafting Guild was created within the 'shadow' of the old Wizard's Tower.

* [[Post-Modern Magik]]: A rare example: the Lumbridge Cook's magic cooking range.

{{quote|'''Cook''': It's called the Cook-o-Matic 25, and it uses a combination of state-of-the-art temperature regulation and magic.}}

* [[Powerful Pick]]: Played with; while pickaxes are wieldable, they are much less effective than weapons made of the same grade of metal (or even a couple of levels below them). However, they're not worthless in combat, as they are still stronger than some weapons made of lesser metals. Some bosses even have armor that has to be broken with the pickaxe before you can damage them with normal weapons (although you can still hack away at them with your pickaxe if you wish).

* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]/[[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: There's no [[Karma Meter]] in this game, so you could theoretically slaughter everyone attackable in a given city and still for all plot purposes be considered that city's greatest hero. The game pulls no punches in mocking this.

* [[Psychological Torment Zone]]: Tolna's Rift.

** Spawn infinite amounts of any item

** Float in midair

* [[Recurring Riff]]: Dungeoneering areas. Some other areas too.

* [[Recurring Traveller]]: Bob the cat, Elfinlocks.

* [[Secret Test]]: The Lady of the Lake secretly tests your generosity in the "Merlin's Crystal" quest by disguising herself as a beggar and asking you for food.

* [[Selective Condemnation]]: So prevalent that even [[Lampshade Hanging]] is done to that.

* [[Self-Imposed Challenge]]: Some players stay at combat level 3<ref>3 is the lowest level, there is no level 1 or 2</ref>, and only level up non-combat skills like cooking.

* [[Separated by a Common Language]]: Being developed in Britain and using British terms for items can and does confuse American players unfamiliar with the game and British terminlogy in general. Adding to some confusion, some "American" (or, rather, more easily recognizable internationally) symbols and terms are used, such as the American dollar sign symbol for banks on the minimap.

* [[Sequel Difficulty Spike]]:

* [[Shifting Sand Land]]: The Kharidian desert.

* [[Shoot the Messenger]]: Kal'Ger the Warmonger does it when he hears bad news.

* [[Shrug of God]]: Jagex deliberately leaves Zaros' alignment ambiguous.

* [[Significant Anagram]]: Wahisietel is a mahjarrat who hasn't been seen in decades and is believed to be in hiding. Ali the Wise is a mysterious man who seems to be an expert on mahjarrat and is ''very'' interested in their goings-on. Jagex deliberately drew attention to this parallel by using the name as a word-scramble puzzle in a Chaos Elemental letter--some people solved it and got Ali the Wise, others solved it and got Wahisietel, and the fandom said, "Hey, wait a minute..."

'''Player''': "Who says that, then?"

'''Musician''': "I was told by a traveling medical practitioner, selling oil extracted from snakes. It's a commonly known fact, so he said." }}

* [[Sound of No Damage]]: If your enemy is hitting zeroes on you, there's a sound effect of stuff scraping off your armor (if you are wearing armor, that is).

* [[Space Compression]]: Cities, towns and other settlements take almost as much space as forests, even though largest cities have the size of a medium-sized village. It takes only less than half an hour for a player to walk from one end of the mainland to another. Yet the manual, NPC stories and historic tales might leave the impression of large cities and vast lands. Very notable example is Burgh De Rott. Vampyres think that town is deserted, but it's less than 100 meters from the capital of Morytania where town should clearly be seen, especially for the fact that flying vyrewatch approaches very close to the settlement.

* [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]: In "Deadliest Catch", Thalassus {{spoiler|spits Jones out after swallowing him whole}} when the [[Player Character]] {{spoiler|feeds it some karambwan.}}

* [[Training Dummy]]: Lumbridge, Varrock, Burthorpe, and various other locations have training dummies for practicing combat. The Thieves' Guild has a pickpocket training dummy.

* [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]:

** Underground Pass has a rather sadistic version of this, where you have to guess which panels are safe for you to walk on, and which aren't. You take 150 damage for each wrong guess, and the path is different for each person. And you have to pass through at least once or twice more before unlocking the shortcut. Hope you remember the correct path.

* [[Turns Red]]: Some of the quest bosses; Nomad, for example.

* [[Twenty Bear Asses]]: A few of the earlier quests. However, the developers realized how formulaic it was, and created a formula for making them. Hence - the Slayer skill.

* [[Ugly Cute]]: Sneakerpeepers, [[In-Universe]]. Their examine text is "Isn't it abhorable?"

* [[Uncommon Time]]: Rammernaut's and Dreadnaut's theme.

* [[Wall Master]]: Wall beasts, seen only as giant hands that reach out of cracks in the walls to grab you.

* [[Warp Whistle]]: There's a huge variety of items and spells that can be used to teleport yourself to different places around the map.

* [[We Buy Anything]]: General stores usually buy any tradeable items from you.

* [[Wham! Episode]]: ''While Guthix Sleeps''

* [[Whatevermancy]]:

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: The player calls out Xenia after the quest 'The Blood Pact' when it's revealed that {{spoiler|Xenia was faking being injured and used the rescue mission to test the player, putting Ilona's life at stake in the process. The player is not amused.}}

* [[When Trees Attack]]:

* [[Whip It Good]]: The Abyssal whip.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Solus Dellagar.

* [[Who Dares?]]:

** Yk'Lagor the Thunderous: "YOU DARE STEAL MY POWER?"

** This exchange from "Ritual of the Mahjarrat":

{{quote|'''Lucien:''' "You dare mock the power of Lucien?"

* [[Who's Laughing Now?]]: Referenced in the Mysterious Chronicles from Dungeoneering.

* [[Who You Gonna Call?]]: "Big High War God!"

* [[Winged Humanoid]]: The Icyene, Vyrewatch, and Aviantese

* [[Wolfpack Boss]]:

** The Dagannoth Kings, three powerful boss monsters who live in the same chamber and, between them, use all three combat styles.

* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]:

** [[All There in the Manual|"Postbag from the Hedge"]] is often full of puns. An example from Postbag 45:

** Most of the Tasks have punny names. For example, a mining task is named "Take Your Pick". Another task requires killing a zombie in a sewer; its name is "Draaaaaiiiiiins..." And so on. Doubles as [[Reference Overdosed]].

* [[Worthless Yellow Rocks]]:

** Often seen literally in the in-game economy; gold ore and gold bars (among others) are not particularly valuable, usually being less expensive than ''steel bars''.

* [[Written by the Winners]]: Take a look at the Siege of Falador. Basically caused because the White Knights drove out their rivals, the Kinshra (who were at that time important cofounders of Falador), thus splintering Falador and ticking the hell off the Black Knights. Why would they do this? Because the king was sick, thus giving the opportunity. But you ask any Saradominist, they'll tell you the Kinshra just 'relocated' and then attacked a year later, 'completely unprovoked'.

* [[Yet Another Christmas Carol]]: The 2009 [[Holiday Mode|Christmas Event]] had the players take the role of the ghosts trying to scare the Scrooge [[Expy]].

* [[Yet Another Stupid Death]]: It is REALLY not a good idea to try and unlock a door in Dungeoneering with low HP. And if you die due to an accident this way, you [[Have a Nice Death|get mocked for it in the end of the dungeon]].

* [[Your Mom]]: One of the insults you can use while interrogating a zombie pirate in "A Clockwork Syringe" is "Yo momma has enough chins for 99 ranged!"

* [[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry]]: The angry giant Glod bellows the [[Stock Phrase]] when you fight him in "Grim Tales". And indeed, he is very unlikable when he is angry.

* [[Your Costume Needs Work]]: Your character will try and tell two children, Amelia and Rory, that you are the hero in the Myreque quests. Rory insists that if that was the case, you would be taller, stronger, and [[Doctor Who|wear a bow tie]]. Telling him that you would never wear such a thing convinces him that you are definitely not the hero.

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