List of RPG Cliche's

[Lecan]

Saw a list of ten in this month's PSM magazine, and it had the URL to the complete list, which I visited of course, and bring to all you good people.

http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html

Great stuff, I was LOLing all over the place.

 

[Bajaratt]

I love these.

 

[Neche]

Haha...

Good post.

 

[chpal]

Mommy, why didn't they just use a Phoenix Down on Aeris

HAHA, I was wondering that too. why ddint they??

 

[Trippyhippy]

So many of these rules ring so true...

Apocalypse Any Time Now
The best time to do side quests is while the huge meteor hovers in the sky above the planet, waiting to fall and destroy the world.

Sephiroth Memorial Escape Clause
Any misdeed up to and including multiple genocide is forgiveable if you're cool enough.

Vivi's Spellbook Principle
Over the course of the game, you will spend countless hours learning between twenty and one hundred skills and/or spells, approximately three of which will still be useful by the end of the game.

Arbor Day Rule
At some point, you're going to have to talk to a tree and do what it says.

Law of Cartographical Elegance
The world map always cleanly fits into a rectangular shape with no land masses that cross an edge.

those are my favorites.

 

[Veteran]

Read the whole thing. SO TRUE! XD

 

[Ryuoho]

Dimensional Transcendence Principle
Buildings are much, much larger on the inside than on the outside, and that doesn't even count the secret maze of tunnels behind the clock in the basement.

Haha not Tales of Destiny :wink:

rofl these are great

 

[Gatttsu]

Good find there Lecan, too many are true, now I wanna make an RPG that breaks at least 90% of them

How's BST working out for ya btw? Haven't seen ya since you were looking for your AF axe ^^

 

[Lecan]

It's going okay ^_^, I hit lvl 58 BST and stopped, so I could farm/craft up the money for a Hauby, even though I technically don't need it...




Not Invented Here
Trade of technology will not exist. One place in the world will have all the techno-gadgets while all the others will be harvesting dirt.

Lol, that's my favorite one... so true.

 

[Rinoah]

Good find there Lecan, too many are true, now I wanna make an RPG that breaks at least 90% of them

And i want to try and make an RPG which follows every single rule