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]]''}}

 

== [[Music]] ==

* ''[http://www.drunkenwyvern.com/songs.html Dragon Road]'' song apparently describes such an OOC-verse:

* The lyrics to the ''Morlocks'' song "Hardcore" contains the line "What's bad for you is good for me, I've got less than five in Humanity", a reference to ''Vampire: The Masquerade''.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Disgaea]]'' characters are fully aware that they're in a turn based-strategy RPG, and thus will occasionally make comments about character levels, critical hits, save points, and whether or not the final boss has an [[One-Winged Angel|additional form]] that grants him stat bonuses.

* 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.

 

** It even goes further : some items allow characters to carry over ''their'' RPG mechanics to other worlds. For instance, when [[Chrono Trigger|Crono]], who can battle on the overworld thanks to a [[Applied Phlebotinum|Reality Stabilization Belt]] and has a really fast ATB gauge, came to the ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' world, [[Game Breaker|he became essentially a killing god.]]

* ''Yamara'' has [[Dungeons and Dragons|AD&D]] mechanics (not surprising, as it was published in ''[[Dragon (magazine)]]''):

([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.