Standard RPG Items: Difference between revisions

In addition, most RPGs feature a [[Warp Whistle]] and/or [[Escape Rope]] to allow quick travel/teleportation to or from towns or dungeons.

 

* ''[[Pokémon]]'' plays this straight; the sequel includes berries which can be attached to [[Mons]], to activate as soon as they are needed.

* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series has loads. For instance, the [[Inconsistent Translation|Golden Needle / Soft Potion]] cures [[Taken for Granite|petrification]].

** In some games, [[Revive Kills Zombie|certain monsters will take damage or suffer instant death when a certain status-curing item is used on them]]. For instance, using a Golden Needle / Soft Potion on a stony or statue-like monster in ''V'' will hurt it, as a helpful [[NPC]] will tell you.

* The ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Mario RPGs]]''

* In ''[[Nethack]]'' delayed action [[Taken for Granite|petrification]] can be cured by {{spoiler|ingesting anything which is acidic}}, which for some reason includes {{spoiler|lizard corpses, which conveniently never rot away like other corpses do}}.

** [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Lycanthropy]] can be cured by {{spoiler|eating a sprig of wolfsbane}} or {{spoiler|drinking holy water}}.

* Various examples from the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series

* Refreshing Herbs from ''[[Mario & Luigi]]''

* Tasty Tonic from ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]''

* Break Free inspirations in ''[[City of Heroes]]''

* In ''[[Nethack]]'' using a [[Unicorn]] horn will cure all status effects except for [[Baleful Polymorph|polymorphing]], [[Our Werewolves Are Different|lycanthropy]], delayed [[Taken for Granite|petrification]] and delayed turning-into-slime. However, any individual use of a horn isn't guaranteed to work, so having a unicorn horn isn't proof against status effects causing a [[Nintendo Hard|game over]].

* The ''[[Tales (series)]]'' has fruit-flavored Gels/Gummy. Apple and Lemon heals 30% and 60% HP.

* Limes in ''[[Dubloon]]''. They aren't even as neccessary since status ailments are cured instantly after a battle.

 

* "Chakra" or "Soul" items in different [[Shin Megami Tensei]] games.

* The ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' series has magic water, and more recently, sage's elixirs. Prayer rings also restore MP, but have a limited number of uses.

 

== Examples of HP and MP healing items ==

* Pokemon has Potions (20 hp), Super Potions(50 hp), Hyper Potions(200 hp), Max Potions(Max hp) and Full Restores(Max hp + Cures all status effects), plus a variety of other healing items. It also has Ethers and Elixers, which recharge the PP(mana).

* ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' standards include medicinal herbs (HP) and magic water (MP). They also sometimes feature Yggdrasil dew, a rare item that fully recovers everyone's HP. Later games in the series feature more restorative items.

 

== Examples of items which revive downed characters ==

* Revival Beads Revival Gems, and Balm of Life in [[Shin Megami Tensei]] games.

* Amulet of Lifesaving in [[Nethack]]. As a single character game, this is your only 'get out of stupidity free' card.

* Yggdrasil leaves from the ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' series. You can usually get them for free late into the game, but you can only carry one at a time unless you find one in a treasure chest.

* Rum in ''[[Dubloon]]''.

* And the ''[[Tales (series)]]''

* The Dizzy Dial, Fire Flower and POW! Block, among others, from ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]''.

* In ''[[Nethack]]'' [[Poison Mushroom|potions with negative effects]] can be thrown at monsters; if the bottle hits and spills its liquid on the monster it will get whatever negative status effect drinking it would have caused.

** Also, you can throw cream pies at monsters, with the [[Cream Pie in The Face]] temporarily blinding them. [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]].

 

== Aversions ==

** However there are special Items that can restore [[Life Points]] on the spot; in the earlier two [[SaGa]] games, those items are a bit more common {{spoiler|In [[Romancing SaGa 2]], the only known item that can restore [[Life Points]] can be bought from a witch for 10,000 (Max amount of money you can carry at one time). In Romancing [[SaGa]] 3 these items were mostly [[Randomly Drops|item drops.]]}}

* Similarly, the ''[[Disgaea]]'' series has no revive items or even ''spells''. You have to pay a healer between battles (This also means a measure of redundancy in your force is recommended, in case someone gets killed in an Item World run).

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