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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game)

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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game)	comment	The Dark Eye (originally called "Das Schwarze Auge" or DSA for short) is a German pen-and-paper RPG. Originally released in 1984, its fifth edition came out in 2015. The fourth edition was translated into English in 2006, with two supplements; the fifth edition received an English translation in 2016, with its supplements following suit. The game is set on the planet Dere (called Ethra in the English version, with both terms anagrams of the respective words for Earth, "Erde" in German), primarily focusing on the continents of Aventuria and Myranor. Aventuria, the main continent for the game, is tiny, but one of the most well-described RPG settings known to mankind – every region has its own sourcebook of 200 pages or so, often with minute details about the food, customs and people of that region.Typical for The Dark Eye is a very strong and continuous Meta Plot, including the political decisions made in Play-by-Post Games for, preferably, Hard Core players. This very strong canon orientation has created a vivid background but also has the consequence that sourcebook content ages quickly and is rarely up to date. The detailed world is also one of the major selling points of the system, and creates a feeling of verisimilitude which is quite uncommon for fantasy RPG settings.The majority of the setting consists of blatant Fantasy Counterpart Cultures, with a few alterations and new names. The major religions are also very similar to either the Greco-Roman pantheon, matriarchal goddesses or Islam, respectively. All religions have a semblance to Zoroastrianism.The game is also well known (at least in Germany) for its many adventure modules, even though the quality varies widely between them.In Germany, it's the game most roleplayers start with, and more popular than every other single system.One of the strongest selling points rule-wise is the completely open character development. It is based on 4 elements:Attributes: The 8 Attributes are courage, strength, mobility, dexterity, intuition, smarts, charisma and constitution. The default starting value is 8 on a scale from 1 to 20, 11 is average for a starter character and they cannot exceed 14 on character creation, not taking into account certain bonuses/penalties from racial or cultural choices. They influence things like life and mana points, basic attack and defense values, are important for talent checks, and can later be increased with adventure points.Advantages/Disadvantages: These can only be purchased during character creation, but certain events can lead to gaining or losing any of these if the game master is feeling generous/mean. They generally involve things like social standing, physical properties, or — in the case of disadvantages — fears and negative character traits. They normally give you bonuses or penalites on talent or attribute checks in certain situations, help to flesh a character out, and — since disadvantages grant you extra generation points on character creation — can be used to make up for it if you had to sink a lot of points somewhere else. Think of perks and flaws from the The World of Darkness system.Special Skills: Can be bought with adventure or generation points at any time. They are divided into two groups: combat and non-combat. There are far fewer non-combat skills than combat skills and they generally involve things like expert knowledge on certain cultures or places. Combat skills are necessary to execute special maneuvers or use certain fighting styles like dual-wielding or shield-combat. Think of these as the equivalent to feats in D&D 3.0/3.5.Talents: These are the bread and butter of the gaming experience. They can be bought and their value increased with adventure points at any time. Every talent is associated with 3 attributes, with the possibility of one attribute being associated twice. You roll with 3D20, one for each attribute, and hope to roll a value lower than your attributes. If not below the given value, the talent's value can be used to compensate. If all 3 compensations together are higher than the talent's value, you fail the check. Leftover talent points are sometimes used as an indicator for the quality of the executed action. An exception are the weapon talents that have a total value which needs to be rolled below with no compensation for simplifying combat.The starting value of all these 4 elements are influenced by choices of race, culture, subculture and starting profession, but from there on, the character can develop any way the player wants to, making it even more interesting to keep a character for several adventures.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1044a759	comment	Dying Race: Trolls. One of the oldest civilizations of the world, in a long gone age; nowadays, just a few hundred are alive, scattered far and wide through the world. One sourcebook describes their language as due to join the ranks of dead languages soon, as it's a rare occurrence for even two trolls to meet each other anymore to actually hold a conversation in it.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_10ad7cfe	type	Elemental Baggage
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_10ad7cfe	comment	Elemental Baggage: Most magical traditions need a small amount of one of the six elements to summon a servant, djinn or master elemental of that particular element. If the element in question is not pure (sand instead of stone for a stone elemental) it will be more difficult, but should it be purer, it will be easier (diamond instead of stone for a stone elemental).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: Each of the non-human races has at least one quirk in this regard: Daffodils are contact poison to elves, whereas daphne (the plant) isn't; also, elves are highly sensitive to smell and can't stand fermented foodstuffs of any sort (like alcohol or cheese). Dwarves are resistant to mineral poisons, and thus able to eat and digest several species of metal-rich mushrooms, but are highly allergic to Whirlweed, the best-known healing plant in the setting. Orcs and goblins are very sensitive to human childhood diseases, such as scarlet fever or the in-game equivalent of German measles. Achaz (Lizard Folk) have an entire list of differences, such as being lactose-intolerant to such a degree that milk and dairy products are toxic to them.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_12a22bd8	type	Katanas Are Just Better
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_12a22bd8	comment	Katanas Are Just Better: The local katana-equivalent is one of the best weapons in its category (longswords).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Almost anyone with a pact.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_138fe57e	type	All Witches Have Cats
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_138fe57e	comment	All Witches Have Cats: Both played straight with one sisterhood of witches and handily subverted with all other sisterhoods. Most witches do have some type of Familiar though.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The series became this over the course of the years. The first edition of the game wasn't exactly bleak or pessimistic, but mostly family-friendly fantasy (well, discounting the violence inherent in battles against Orcs, for instance), with the occasional darker scenario or two thrown in (the valiant heroes raiding the lair of a vampire or other mighty undead). The setting as such wasn't really fleshed out yet; in-universe most of the region only got a few lines of description, with the largest part going to the default region, the Middenrealm, which was depicted as a failed state ripe with corruption, poverty and even (albeit illegal) slavery; and the first regional descriptions explicitly mentioned that the only place where the common folk was actually well off was the Lovely Field (which would later become the Horasian Empire). The second edition, when the setting was Growing the Beard, took a departure from the slightly grimdark first edition (and also offered much more extensive depicition of the individual regions). In-universe, the different states (which were quite strictly typecast into "good" and "not so good", but not outright "evil") were politically stable and quite well-to-do. Then, adventures and mini-campaigns dealing with Aventurian wars started coming up, as well as plots dealing with the Cult of the Nameless One (not that one), a faction best described as Lawful Evil in D&D alignment terms. Then, in the 3rd edition, the so-called Borbarad campaign (offical title: The Marked Seven) was released... which is when it really hit the fan. Aventuria was invaded by demons and a cataclysmic war nearly tore apart the Middenrealm, obliterating several central provinces, severely weakened the other states and certain regions of the continent fell prey to demonic infestation (quite analogous to the Warp corruption of Warhammer). It ended with a dearly-paid-for victory for the free species and peoples of Aventuria, but since then, basically most of the metaplot has been dealing with wars against the remnants of the Heptarchies (demon kingdoms) — the Middenrealm was attacked once again later on by the strongest of these and, additionally weakened by a civil war, was all but shattered, virtually removing its former status as the superpower of the setting. In the next stage of the metaplot, some of the Demon Kingdoms were defeated, but several still remained — and even in the liberated regions, the aforementioned infestation was far from being cleaned up, leading to mutations, instances of When Trees Attack, demon raids and so on (several people at Fantasy Production seem to have been somewhat partial to Warhammer, judging by the influences). And, in the context of a frequent sister trope to Darker and Edgier, there was Oron, one of the Heptarchies which basically was built around non-consensual BDSM, "spiced" with demons. Adventures set in Oron (a few were released) were recommended by the publisher itself to be treated as the German equivalent of M-rated material. This sub-setting really did not sit well with many fans and thus was retired (in-universe, Oron was defeated). The newest campaigns reintroduced the threat posed by the servants of the Nameless One, who, largely dormant during the Demon War, now are using the opportunity to strike at the weakened states from within... to foreign players typically not familiar with the RPG itself, but only with the video game spinoffs such as Drakensang or the Realms of Arkania series, this is mostly not known, but at the current stage of the metaplot, quite a big chunk of Aventuria has become a serious instance of a Crapsack World and the rest is not as shiny as it used to be. The good thing is that the setting as a whole has matured, considerably lessening (though not wholly abandoning) the typecasting prevalent in the beginning.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser The late Duke of Meadows (Waldemar the Bear) is Aventuria's standout example.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_15fc9fb	type	Our Elves Are Different
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_15fc9fb	comment	In additon to this, while a magic user can in theory wield anything apart from metal armor (barring Druids and Geodes which can't use metal at all), the magic-heavy professions are forbidden by law and/or custom to divert from their usual attire (robes & staff for Wizards, an obsidian dagger for Druids etc.). A Wizard could go on an andventure wearing the actually pretty good wood or bone armor and a sword, but he shouldn't get caught that way. Though in the end, they usually aren't that good at fighting anyway (see above) and their ritual weapons are usually unbreakable, bypassing the very realistic break-factor checks, so sticking to the standard garb usually is easier. All this doesn't apply to such a degree to Elves who are free when it comes to weapons usage, while having access to the Elven spells and being able to pick up others. But while they potentially could dualclass better than anyone else, they are still limited by the number of xp they've gathered. On top of that, they're still limited by the "Elven Worldview" trait which not only makes properly playing an Elf in the setting a real pain, but also comes with severe drawbacks in any social situation.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_17257125	type	The Wild West
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_17257125	comment	The Svelltland: An independent region that is modeled after The Wild West (with the Orcs playing the role of the native Americans) — at least as far as this is possible in a medieval/renaissance setting; and especially since Fantasy Gun Control is in full force.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_174b85df	type	Virgin Sacrifice
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_174b85df	comment	Virgin Sacrifice: Dragons of almost all species are known to demand sacrifices from humanoid communities in their thrall and prefer virgins of either sex, although in general they'll take any youth or child in good health, as these possess much more unspent life energy than their parents or elders do.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_17b72e30	type	Continuity Porn
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_17b72e30	comment	Continuity Porn: Some might think that the setting's depth of information was a "bad" thing.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_17ce80aa	comment	Especially in the knowledge and crafts sections there are so many skills that a character focused on those areas most commonly needs an additional sheet just to write down all their skills. This is mentioned in the rulebooks.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_187bddc1	type	Religion of Evil
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_187bddc1	comment	The leader of the Church of Borbarad Azaril Scharlachkraut is an outgoing, charismatic and generally amicable elf. Just don't test her loyalty towards her revered master or her determination to accomplish her goals.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_19211122	type	Feel No Pain
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_19211122	comment	Constitution can be, not only because it is most important to HP-Base and many physical talents, but also because the better half of your constitution is your wound-threshold. Any damage received higher than that threshold deals a wound, which is a crippling effect, that, if not suppressed, can quickly lead to another one and another one. Also, afterwards, any healing-skill-check is severely constricted by each wound.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1a303edf	type	Our Orcs Are Different
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1a303edf	comment	Our Orcs Are Different: Orcs in The Dark Eye have a thick black fur, are small and stocky and bear some traits of Mongol Golden Horde expies. In the first and second editions, they were treated much like the orcs of early D&D: Always Chaotic Evil hat-wearing but comparatively weak monsters used as sword fodder and XP source. Later, more and more of their culture was developed, transforming them into Proud Warrior Race Guys with a violent and alien culture, but also a certain kind of honour system, and a a few sympathetic Orc characters and archetypes were introduced (priests of Rikai for instance). They are still inimical to humans and most other sentients, but only because they serve their own interests, not because they are "evil" (and arguably, "it's their planet" might apply here, since the fluff strongly hints at the possibility that the Orcs are actually the indigenous population of Aventuria's northern regions, with the only older species being the lizardfolk in the south). On a final note, during the Demon War, the Orcs refrained from using the situation to crush the Middenrealm, declaring neutrality at first, and then, in the final battle, sending a small, but effective contingent to aid the Alliance's side.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1af2b763	type	Celebrity Resemblance
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1af2b763	comment	Celebrity Resemblance: The various artists have done this over and over again. Helme Haffax is the spitting image of Malcolm McDowell, the Mautaban (the chief executioner of the Caliphate) looks like Yul Brynner, Leomar of Almada was cast in the likeness of Peter O'Toole, Irmegunde of Ravensmouth looks like Sigourney Weaver, Tronde Torbenson looks like Robert Mitchum, and so on.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: Aventuria's villains quite regularly die with their hands tightly clamped around one of these.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Played straight with the various organizations in the setting which are meritocracies of sort: Most churches tend to kick really accomplished (read: high level) priests upstairs; and this goes twice for the various war deities for whom high levels literally translate into the capacity for improved asskicking. The exception being the church of Peraine as well as the cult of Boron in Al'Anfa — in both cases the leadership of the church is hereditary. Wizarding guilds and academies also tend to choose their most experienced mages as headmasters. Orkish tribes settle questions of leadership via Klingon Promotion as a rule. While it isn't exactly a requirement in Thorwalian society to be a great warrior and an accomplished warlord who brings home a lot of booty if you want to be elected as Hetman, it surely doesn't hurt. The heptarchs in the Black Lands definitely qualify, given the volatile dynamics of power politics in these regions. Raw (magical) power a requirement for the highest echelon of leadership, and for staying on top. The Magocrats of Xarxaron (a society in the Gyldenland — irrelevant for Aventuria though) have turned this up to eleven. It doesn't matter who your parents are, as long as you're magically gifted, you're golden. The same goes for the inverse: even if your parents are kings, if you aren't magically gifted, you're nothing more than a lowly commoner. If a DM is inclined to play this out, there are ample opportunities to reward a PC for his various deeds.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1d47dc06	type	Alternative Calendar
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1d47dc06	comment	Alternative Calendar: Many. The majority of the main setting uses a year of 365 days, with 12 months (each dedicated to one of the alveranian gods) of 30 days each and the 5 days of the Nameless God (which, depending on where on the continent you happen to be, are either thought of as a cursed time where it's best to stay indoors and pray or as an opportunity to party like crazy because a.) noise drives evil away and b.) the gods aren't watching). There are also several different calendars: Most of the continent counts years after the fall of Bosparan (the setting's Rome equivalent), with "BF" taking the place of real-world CE. The Al'Anfan calendar begins with the manifestation of the alveraniar ("angel") Golgari in 686 BF. The reborn Bosparanian Empire starts its calendar with the founding of the city of Bosparan by the deified first emperor Horas in 1492 bBF. (Since according to legend, the founding of Bosparan occured at the same time the Gyldenlandians landed in Aventuria, this is an obvious reference to Columbus' discovery of America.) The Middenrealm, in addition to using the BF calendar, also counted years by the ruling emperor. For example, 985 BF would also be known as 10 Reto. This fell out of use after the reign of Emperor Hal, during which an attempt was made to establish the Throne Years as the sole calendar as part of the larger cult of personality around Hal. His successors have been using BF exclusively, in part to distance themselves from Hal and in part to publicly honor him as the last "True" divine Emperor. Various smaller states start their calendars with the date of their independence from the Middenrealm or Old Empire. Dwarves don't have a single "year zero" but instead count years after various events important to dwarfdom in general or just the family of the counter ("Three times three years after Grandfather Amaxosch left the mountainhome..."). This makes converting dwarvish dates to BF extremely difficult. In addition, several cultures use completely different calendars, such as the norbardic lunar calendar, the Novadis' forty "Names of God" of nine days each (again with five days left over; which in this case are sacred holidays) or the saurians' 33-day months.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1e75509c	type	Adventure-Friendly World
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1e75509c	comment	Adventure-Friendly World: Started out as this very early on, with a Vestigial Empire in decline which had a thoroughly incompetent emperor with delusions of grandeur at its helm, where Orcs and brigands roamed freely, the wilderness was dotted with dark cults, plenty of unexplored (or explored but forgotten) areas were on the map etc. As the setting was Growing the Beard, all this was done away with (semi-retconned) and the world turned into a reasonably safe and orderly place where just abundant opportunitites for adventure were to be had, even though several crisises piled up on the continent with an astonishing regularity. Well, at least until the Borbarad crisis hit the setting, when it turned back into an Adventure-Friendly World.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Priests of Kor, the god of battle and mercenaries sacrifice a finger (usually the pinky on the left hand) to their god when they are ordained because the number Nine is sacred to Kor...and because they are all about blood, pain, scars and other fun things like that.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Despite them presiding over a steep decline of the Middenrealm, almost the entire House Gareth: Perval the Bloody won a civil war, his nephew Reto conquered Maraskan, King Brin defended the realm against the onslaught of the Orcs and died in the war against Borbarad, his wife Emer won the war against Borbarad, and his daughter, Empress Rohaja, continued the fight against the Black Lands. In fact, the rather ineffectual Hal Is the odd one out in that family. Pretty much every Amazon queen (Yppolita, Thesia Gilia etc.).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: The Imperial Chancellery of the Middenrealm. Proudly obstructing every move of their own empress.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1fc8335e	comment	The relative power of magic is rather limited in comparison to other settings: Casting two or three fireballs or other hard-hitting direct damage spells in a row is taxing enough to fully deplete the mana of a seasoned caster; magic items either work only a fixed amount of time per day or need to be recharged; creating unlife from magic is not only rather limited (golems may be created from wood, clay or stone, hybrids can't be larger than a horse, undead are rather weak) and rarely useful for ingame purposes, but also comes with a hefty price-tag attached for those who want to really master the art; immortality is pretty much off the table; making full use of certain magical actions (like, say, telekinesis) requires a character to beat outrageous modifiers; the shapechanging spell has to be leveled for each separate form and is restricted to non-magical animals up until the size of a horse and so on. That being said, spellcasters (especially guild mages) still had a lot of leeway when it came to boosting their power in 4e, and got taken down a notch in 5e to bring them more in line with mundane characters.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_204fb326	type	Yubitsume
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_204fb326	comment	Yubitsume: Priests of the god of war and slaughter, Kor, cut off their left pinky finger as part of their initiation into priesthood. This is the ninth and final deep ritual cut during this initiation, as the number nine is this god's holy number.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: The cult of Rondra the warrior goddess are the best example, but roughly half of the cults maintain their own faith militant.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_21d41a5b	type	Praetorian Guard
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_21d41a5b	comment	Praetorian Guard: A few, but mainly on the good guys' side. The Panther Guard of the Middenrealm. The Imperial Guard of Horasia. The Murawidun of the Caliphate. The Temple Guard and Order of the Raven for Al'Anfa. The Sun Legion for the Heliodans of the Church of Praios. There was even a guard unit named Prætorians for the Horasian emperors of old.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: While there is no direct spot check, you can still fail to sense stuff.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2280a9a1	type	Ancient Persia
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2280a9a1	comment	The Diamond Sultanate/the Mage Moghuls of the Gadang: These were the (pre-Gyldenlandic) ancient human nations on Aventuria, and is based on Ancient Persia.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_22ecc839	type	Kryptonite Factor
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_22ecc839	comment	Kryptonite Factor: Common iron blocks magical powers. For some spellcasters, this is only a minor problem, others like druids cannot use forged metal at all. For all elementals their opposing element is their greatest weakness, no matter how resistant to any sort of damage they become. Those who have forged a pact with a demon lord and all that lord's demons are particularly vulnerable to blessed weapons and areas of the god that is their counterpart. Somewhat related to the above example: Most Vampires are specifically cursed by one god. The most "common" variety is cursed by the God of the Sun and has the traditional vulnerability to sunlight, followed by curses from the Gods of Agriculture (vulnerable to wooden stakes, hates garlic) and the Sea (can't cross rivers, vulnerable to blessed water). This can result in some weird weaknesses, for example a vampire cursed by Tsa would be weakened by the presence of art and creativity while those cursed by Rahja are repulsed by wine and beauty. Vampires are very, very hard to get rid of without exploiting these vulnerabilities.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_234bd900	comment	Archon Megalon is a mad psychologist. Specifically, he studies mass hysteria and fear by triggering disasters or other upheavals and observing the victims' reactions. For Science!.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_24d05c2f	type	Third Eye
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_24d05c2f	comment	Third Eye: Introduced with the Gyldenland-setting: The optimates (the nobles of that continent) are descendants of the Archeans, a race of archwizards that looked almost human with the exception of having a third eye on their brow, the so-called Ea'Myr, which is still a sign of arcane power (and also the reason why the optimates war masks with a third onyx-black eye that looks like the TDE-logo on it). While most of their contemporary descendants have lost that eye (and have little more than a dimple in its place), the most powerful mages are indeed rumored to still have one. An interesting case is the Emperor of the Aventurian Horasian Empire, who traces his human lineage back to the same Archeans (being the descendant of optimates himself), but who - presumably due to his half-dragon heritage - has enough raw magical power running through his veins that he got a fully opened third eye ouf of it.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2a519529	type	Sourcebook
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2a519529	comment	Sourcebook: Lots. One for every region, and additional ones for specific topics.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2af0378f	type	Mayincatec
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2af0378f	comment	Mayincatec: The ancient saurian civilizations. Stepped pyramids in the jungle, human sacrifice, obsidian-edged war clubs, plus a lot of similarities in terms of style (saurian glyphs look a lot like Mayan writing, for example). There are also parallels to the Long Count and an expy of Huitzilopochtli...who is still worshipped as a sun god (and chief of the pantheon) by modern Aventurians.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2b0d73eb	type	Outlaw Town
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2b0d73eb	comment	Phexcaer, the formerly secret holy city of the God of Thieves, started out as an Outlaw Town but has pretty much gone respectable in recent decades.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2c136406	type	Standard Royal Court
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2c136406	comment	Standard Royal Court: Quite widespread, especially in the Middenrealm and the Horasiat.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Most of the people who form a pact with Belhalhar (demon lord of bloodlust and murder) tend to become this, if they weren't already by the time they formed the pact. Some members of the clergy of Kor (demi-god of wars and bloodshed) tend to act in a similar way, some have even begun questioning whether this god is in fact a demon. There are subtle differences between the two though, Kor priests are disgusted by the murder of innocents and only revel in the battle and eventual death of armed combatants. There is more than one indication, that the god Kor was almost seduced by the demons though... Thorwalians who suffer from a condition called "whale rage": they have a hair-trigger temper and the tendency to go berserk over the slightest provocation.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2dc726c8	type	Gold–Silver–Copper Standard
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2dc726c8	comment	Gold–Silver–Copper Standard: The setting uses a decimal system in which one gold ducat is equal to ten silver thalers, each of which is worth ten bronze farthings (in the English version; heller in the original). Additionally, there are ten iron kreutzers to the farthing.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2df8760d	type	Frog Men
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2df8760d	comment	Frog Men: Krakonians are a species of humanoid toads found along the coastlines of Aventuria. They can breathe both air and water, but dehydrate quickly and so mostly stick close to large bodies of water. They worship a pantheon of dark gods and demon lords, and are said to be a remnant of an age when aquatic creatures ruled the world. They despise most air-breathers, which they mostly see as foes and potential sacrifices, although they get along fairly well with the Lizard Folk.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2f57a4cb	type	Divine Intervention
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2f57a4cb	comment	Divine Intervention: The second Demon Battle, in which the Horas Empire fought the outnumbered Rebels, is thought to have been one. When the battle changed in favour of the rebels, The Empress Hela tried to summon the Archdemons like her predecessor Fran-Horas did half a millenium earlier. However, her attempt was cut short by alveraniars of the gods Praios, Rondra, Efferd and Ingerimm, which saved the day for the rebels (and led to the fall of Bosparan and the establishment of the New Empire. The events have later been aggrandized by the winners who claimed that the higher beings that saved them had actually been aforementioned gods themselves.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_3121f1e6	type	Noob Cave
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_3121f1e6	comment	Noob Cave: A pen-and-paper variation on the trope insofar as there is an entire "noob region" recommended for players new to the system lacking background knowledge, namely the northern kingdoms of Andergast and Nostria. This is specifically pointed out in the sourcebook. The in-universe reasons are: Both kingdoms are remote, small, impoverished and backward, which kept them out of the line of fire during the war against Borbarad and his heirs and also kept them largely free of intrigues by cults of the Nameless God, political cloak-and-dagger games like in the Horasian empire etc. There is simply nothing of interest for the "big players" there and so both kingdoms enjoyed a relatively peaceful existence — well, when they were not beating the snot out of each other, that is, being hereditary enemies for several centuries. There is much less of the supernatural present in the region than in many parts of the Middenrealm, especially after the war against Borbarad and the Heptarchies, not to mention the South with its legacy of magocracies and the like. There is the occasional druid circle, a few witches, a couple of Waldschrate (think "wild Ents") and numerous orcs and goblins — and that's it. No undead necromancer dragons, no flying cities, no demonic hordes, and a grand total of 2 mage academies that can't hold a candle to their colleagues/rivals from further south. In gameplay terms, this means less monsters and magic to fight, with the main threat being fellow humans, the environment (distances between settlements are higher than the Aventurian average, making travel a longer — and riskier — business) and the occasional Orc band or disgruntled witch. In general, Andergast and Nostria form the only region in Aventuria that is well and truly still in the Middle Ages (even the Viking expy Thorwal is more advanced and knowledgeable about the outer world, and all others are culturally either in equivalents of the late High Middle Ages or the Renaissance, or even further) — think a severely devolved Ruritania stuck in the Dung Ages and you'll have a good idea of it. The distance from the events of the metaplot and the fact that the Andergastians and Nostrians don't know much about the wider world and care even less about it enables newcomers to TDE to roleplay in a somewhat familiar Low Fantasy setting tying much more into German folk and fairy tales than the rest of Aventuria (the Middenrealm province of Weiden is comparable in its inherent "German-ness", but it is tied much more centrally into the metaplot, requiring some background OOC knowledge on the part of the players) without knowing or caring much about in-universe history, cosmology etc.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_319cc4d7	type	Low Fantasy
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_319cc4d7	comment	The distance from the events of the metaplot and the fact that the Andergastians and Nostrians don't know much about the wider world and care even less about it enables newcomers to TDE to roleplay in a somewhat familiar Low Fantasy setting tying much more into German folk and fairy tales than the rest of Aventuria (the Middenrealm province of Weiden is comparable in its inherent "German-ness", but it is tied much more centrally into the metaplot, requiring some background OOC knowledge on the part of the players) without knowing or caring much about in-universe history, cosmology etc.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_33179374	type	Deity of Human Origin
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_33179374	comment	Deity of Mortal Origin: The Dark Eye generally averts this trope: The gods have existed as divine beings since the beginning of time; the only way for a new god to come into being is if older gods split themselves up. The notable exception is Satinav, the god of time, who was once a powerful chronomancer of the Jhrarhra (a now extict species of Triceratops-people) and travelled back to the beginning of time in order to rewrite history. Kha, the warden of the cosmic order, turned him into the guardian of time as punishment.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Leonardo of Havena starts out as a Gadgeteer Genius with a side order of Absent-Minded Professor. Then he's captured by Galotta and forced to create demonic war machines...which he actually grows to enjoy so much that once his captor is overthrown he takes over and runs an even less pleasant version of Mordor using demonic 'robots'. Archon Megalon is a mad psychologist. Specifically, he studies mass hysteria and fear by triggering disasters or other upheavals and observing the victims' reactions. For Science!.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_3722d66c	type	Hold Your Hippogriffs
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_3722d66c	comment	Hold Your Hippogriffs: There was even an entire section on sayings.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_37690091	comment	Stable Time Loop: Time travel follows a simple law: you cannot change the past, as it had already happened and you'll just end up doing what you did to create the present you're currently living in. If by some chance the hero does discover some hopelessly contradicting action, be prepared for time to heal itself. Oh, and the universe has wardens against such misuse, too.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_38047858	type	Squishy Wizard
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_38047858	comment	Squishy Wizard: All magic users have trouble with heavy armour, since iron interferes with magic. Druids have a religious taboo against smelted metal, so they can't even use a regular knife (they do get skill points for flintknapping, though). Wizards specifically are forbidden by law to wield weapons bigger than a dagger, or wear armour heavier than a gambeson.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Hitting stuff with deadly weapons. While spellcasters can be extremely powerful in their own right, it's hard to match the raw sustained damage a dedicated and skilled melee combatant can dish out.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: The Aventurian pantheon actually has a patron saint of this trope: Saint Thalionmel, the Lioness of Neetha. A priestess of the goddess of valor, she defended a bridge against an invading army that had so far smashed straight through any attempt to even slow them down. When she was finally overwhelmed, a sudden flash flood (believed to be a divine miracle) swept away the bridge, the invading army and her remains.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_3c598f56	type	Conflict Ball
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_3c598f56	comment	Conflict Ball: Followers of Lolgramoth juggle these by contractual obligation.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Various. Answin of Ravenmouth, former chancellor, traitor, and usurper. Tried his best but couldn't stand against the power of canon. Pardona, Voice of the Nameless One, is supposed to be this. Alas ...she's great at manipulating dragons, demigods, ancient high elven wizard-kings and so on. Unfortunately, mere mortals have never really registered as relevant in her world view, so she has absolutely no clue how to deal with them...
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_41d8a845	type	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_41d8a845	comment	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: With magic being of the Functional Magic variety, this trope is very much in effect among the three Mage Guilds, whose members are generally (to varying extent) of the "rational" and "scientific" mindset, leading to copious amounts of Magi Babble. Much less prominent/nearly non-existent among magic users with a Wild Magic mindset, like Elves, witches, druids or shamans. For Guild mages, it sometimes crosses the line into outright expies of real-world academia, with -quite faithfully rendered- typical academic behaviour, jargon, bureaucratic peculiarities etc. The reason for this is likely that the magic system in TDE, as well as large parts of the initial magic-related fluff, has been strongly influenced by Thomas Römer (a longtime key member of the TDE core design team), who happened to have studied (at a university, that is) physics and astronomy, but left before obtaining a degree. This exposure to a) hard sciences and b) the academic world very much shows in his TDE work.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_42224ac2	type	The Good Kingdom
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_42224ac2	comment	The Good Kingdom: The Middenrealm combines aspects of this with Vestigial Empire.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_44bed11d	type	Stubborn Mule
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_44bed11d	comment	Stubborn Mule: Donkeys are commonly stereotyped as stubborn and stupid animals, but the game rules note that this is an artifact of how people try to deal with them — they tend to be suspicious animals, and will refuse to move if something (say, someone pulling on them to make them move forward) blocks their view of the road. They're actually fairly intelligent animals, and this, combined with their patient natures and tough hardiness, makes them popular beasts of burden.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_453871ec	type	What Could Have Been
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_453871ec	comment	What Could Have Been: Originally, TDE didn't really have a distinct setting (it was basically just a generic pen&paper that was cobbled together within the span of a few weeks because the company behind it wanted to corner the German market for Role-Playing Games before Dungeons And Dragons beat them to the punch); but after a few month the first module that introduced the bare bones of the setting was introduced. Said module was focused exclusively on Aventuria, but mentioned the other continents of the world and made it clear that Aventuria was a rather modest backwater of the world at large (hinting at an expansion of the setting in the future). However, due to Executive Meddling and even moreso due to bad planning, all attempts to expand the game beyond the borders of Aventuria weren't well received and more or less fell flat. While two of the alternative settings - the Gyldenland and Tharun - were outsourced to another company that poured a lot of creative energy into it, they didn't play any role of note on the Aventurian main theater.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4604fd4d	comment	Many Ferkina tribes believe that the afterlife will be the opposite of their mortal lives. If they endured plenty of pain and hardship while alive, their afterlives will be paradise. If on the other hand they lead soft, pampered lives, their afterlives will be an eternity of torment. With this premise, it actually makes a little bit of sense for them to consider torturing a Worthy Opponent to death a gesture of respect: After all, you're ensuring that their eternity in the land of the dead will be that much nicer.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_47d56aac	type	Fish People
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_47d56aac	comment	The maritime zilites communicate through their gills. Land creatures are unable to reproduce these sounds, and in return Zilites cannot speak languages, that require vocal chords. Risso, who own both bodyparts, are typically used as translators.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: Played completely straight with the Dark Elves of the setting (which are actually elf-demon hybrids), Also, demons (and those who consort with them). And the followers of The Nameless God.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Invoked by shamanistic rituals that can seal "evil spirits" (curses, illnesses, demons...) into containers. There are also Rohal's Jars, a collection of various nasty entities (evil spirits, demons and the like) bound by the great wizard. It is generally a very bad idea to open one, as the contents tend to be things that even the nigh-godlike Rohal was only able to imprison rather than destroy.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4a02a75e	comment	Narrowly avoided almost 700 years ago with Rude II. The guy was slated to become the Emperor of the Middenrealm after his father's premature death, but alas, he was assassinated three days before he turned 15 (his legal coming of age), an event that kicked off the reign of The Theocracy.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4a2bac68	type	Fire Purifies
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4a2bac68	comment	Fire Purifies: The Inquisition's habit of burning heretics and witches has an in-story justification in that burning someone who has entered a pact with an Archdemon to death may indeed save that person's soul.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4a9c731e	type	When Trees Attack
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4a9c731e	comment	In the next stage of the metaplot, some of the Demon Kingdoms were defeated, but several still remained — and even in the liberated regions, the aforementioned infestation was far from being cleaned up, leading to mutations, instances of When Trees Attack, demon raids and so on (several people at Fantasy Production seem to have been somewhat partial to Warhammer, judging by the influences). And, in the context of a frequent sister trope to Darker and Edgier, there was Oron, one of the Heptarchies which basically was built around non-consensual BDSM, "spiced" with demons. Adventures set in Oron (a few were released) were recommended by the publisher itself to be treated as the German equivalent of M-rated material. This sub-setting really did not sit well with many fans and thus was retired (in-universe, Oron was defeated).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4c49b8f7	type	Hot as Hell
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4c49b8f7	comment	Hot as Hell: Laaranim demons can turn themselves into whatever form their target considers most seductive and attractive. They specialize in slowly seducing, corrupting and maddening mortals, and are usually summoned as spies and infiltrators, or to seduce, corrupt or enslave political enemies. In their true form, however, they're coal-skinned, warty, neckless, perpetually drooling horrors. A variant exists in the form of thaz-laraanim, who only manifest in erotic dreams.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	comment	Gods Need Prayer Badly: Zig-Zagged Trope. On the one hand, the net amount of worshippers doesn't really affect a god's status in a given era (the Top God Praios for example has considerably fewer followers than the goddess of agriculture Peraine) — this has already been determined at the beginning of every age by Kha (the god of fate who basically oversees the pantheon but never actually intervenes). However, the gods do indeed have some "shared worship" (since all believers of the Twelver-pantheon revere all gods, they only actively follow a few of them). More important is that they mostly act through their followers, and when they actively intervene, they usually only do so at their request (which makes acting difficult for those gods who don't have ordained priests). Ultimately, worship does play a role in the long term, though. For a god like Rashtul who has been "comatose" basically since the dawn of time, gaining a sufficient amount of followers would be the only way to become able to rise again. Completely averted with the archdemons. They don't want wordly power or mortal worshippers who fear them as gods, their only currency are souls. And worshipping them isn't enough for that, one actually has to sell their soul to them for that to happen.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4e6e9b64	type	A Child Shall Lead Them
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4e6e9b64	comment	A Child Shall Lead Them: Played really straight with the current Horas, Emperor of what amounts to the second most powerful empire on the continent. Frenja Thorkillsdotter, a thorwalian pirate, took command of her dead father's ship at the age of 15. That was almost 50 years ago, though. Narrowly avoided almost 700 years ago with Rude II. The guy was slated to become the Emperor of the Middenrealm after his father's premature death, but alas, he was assassinated three days before he turned 15 (his legal coming of age), an event that kicked off the reign of The Theocracy.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4ee487f2	type	Evil Makes You Ugly
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4ee487f2	comment	Evil Makes You Ugly: The goddess Rahja is said to be more beautiful than her demonic counterpart Belkelel, as the face of the latter is contorted by her evilness. They are implied to be both beautiful and human-looking, with subtle differences. Played straight with Rahja's son Levthan, who raped another goddess and was cursed to look like a goat. Those who worship (some) archdemons, or the nameless one, become gradually uglier, as the domains of some demons are directly connected to things that make you ugly, like disease, and the nameless one requires the sacrifice of body parts. On the other hand, being friends with the churches of the love goddess Rahja or the goddess of youth, Tsa, tends to preserve your beauty, as both have blessings that can remove blemishes or regrow body parts.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Loads. Gods and their priests: In the first edition, the priests of various gods had rather specific commandments they were obligated to follow, some of which didn't make sense at all (and were relaxed later). In the worst cases, these commandments also extended to the players of said priests, like the followers of Boron (who were only allowed to utter one sentence every 5 minutes) or of Firun (who weren't allowed to laugh at the table). Boron, the God of sleep and the dead, was a much darker god during the first edition, whose cult was banned in various cities. Also, his priests were necromancers. Neither of these two aspects were picked up later; in fact, they were treated as if they had never existed. Particularly annoying was the game mechanic that priests were generally only able to regenerate their spellpower by actively proselytizing others. This rule persisted until wayyyy into the 3rd edition, when priests were finally allowed to regenerate through prayer and meditation. Some early adventure modules were rather odd: In one the rulers of two kingdoms are estranged brothers, even though it was later established that these kingdoms were perpetually at war with each other for almost two millenia In another the players go on a snipe hunt for seven magic goblets which are hidden in a dungeon, with these goblets later being established as divine artifacts of immese powers. It also wasn't fully established inhowfar the setting was clear-cut medieval fantasy or would also dip into science fiction. For example, in one module the players visit a humongous tree that's implied to be on another (technologically far more advanced) planet, in the infamous "Borbarad's Curse" the titular villains is established as an alien from another world who came to Aventuria with a starship, and in various adventures the heroes encounter various robots (though these are usually a case of Clockwork Punk). Ethnic groups and cultures: Originally, the Tulamids (the second-largest ethnic group in the setting) didn't even exist - they were just said to be a mix of peopes from the Middenrealm, the desert and Southern Aventuria. Only a few years later were they established as a culture and ethnicity in their own right. Characters and character generation: The first edition had the option to effectively multiclass into becoming a druid or witch for characters that hadn't picked a class during character generation. This was canned later. When the forest peoples were introduced as playable characters for the first time, their background dictated that they were almost universally slaves. The reasoning behind this was that the only way such a character would choose the life of an adventurer was if they had been exposed to the life beyond their jungles. Use of (black) magic: Necromancy and demonology weren't particularly frowned upon early on. Only a few years in it was established that wizards who were caught doing stuff like that had their lives effectively forfeit.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Al'Anfa and the Horasiat are breeding grounds for this lot. Combined to great effect in the Kingmaker Campaign with an Al'Anfanian conspiracy in Horasia. Smugness all around abounded.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_50ed1af4	comment	Our Demons Are Different: Multiple types of demon exist, each in the service of a specific archdemon, which are often summoned by mages to serve various purposes. They cannot enter the material world of their own will, and must rely on summoners to do so. Specific demon breeds each have a base shape most members of that kind of demon take, but variety is common both among individuals and broader regions — demons that take after animals, for instance, tend to resemble the closest local alternative if their associated creature isn't native to the region where they're summoned. Difarim are difficult to observe, because they are constantly in motion and usually perceived only as a moving blur, but are thought to look something like an awful rodent. They are often summoned to serve as messengers or spies, or as speedy, agile fighters with which to wear down enemies. Karakilim are flying serpents with batlike wings and a single horn somewhere on their bodies. They are typically summoned to serve as flying mounts or aerial troops. Karmanthi resemble ice-white wolves with frozen spikes jutting from their elbows and ankles. They possess freezing bites and supernaturally frightening howls, live purely for the thrill of the hunt and of tearing prey to pieces, and are typically summoned to serve as hunters. Laaranim are coal-skinned, warty, neckless, perpetually drooling horrors who can take the shape of seductive humanoids. They are usually summoned as spies and infiltrators, or to seduce, corrupt or enslave political enemies. Shruufya are colossal, vaguely avian, two-limbed creatures with five-eyed beaked heads crowned by four horns and five tentacles. They are violent creatures that live to kill and maim, and are thus often summoned to serve as wartime juggernauts, but are intelligent and patient enough to also serve as efficient guard monsters. Zantim resemble nine-foot-tall upright tigers with slimy fur, numerous open wounds, and armored draconic tails tipped with sharp bone blades. Some resemble other big cats instead, or more rarely take the form of other predators such as canines. They're brutal, violent monsters, and have little use outside of the battlefield.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_51567188	type	Cast from Hit Points
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_51567188	comment	Cast from Hit Points: Exists both in a socially acceptable way, by using one's own life force when all magic power is gone, as well as the socially unacceptable way of Borbaradianism, where anyone who learns this can cast any (borbaradian) spell he learns without any inherent magical talent, only using his life force to cast. The additional downside of borbaradian spells is that they are all at least somewhat demonically tainted, and until after Borbarads return they had a control element allowing him to control everyone who knows them.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_517ae522	type	Loads and Loads of Rules
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_517ae522	comment	Loads and Loads of Rules: Oh, yes. In every edition since the third, there was a "basic" rulebook but it usually is so abbreviated, it is basically worthless or can’t really stand on its own. In 3e and 4e, all information in the book was repeated or contradicted later on, making it entirely possible to skip the "basic" rulebook and start with the real rules; while in 5e you need the basic rules and a lot more. Also, it is usually assumed that you use the full rules. These consist of at least two full-sized hardcover books containing rules for character creation, combat, skills and the environment. If you want to play a priest you will need another book. A magic-user, another two books. You still lack enemies to fight and comprehensive setting information.The authors addressed this issue, however, not by reducing the rules, but by making them extremely modular. Many rules (especially for combat) are marked as optional and you can play with about half of the rules cut out and still have a very detailed experience. Also, the ruleset has undergone a very particular development over time. 1984, it started out as a super-simple Dungeons & Dragons knockoff with 5 stats, only 5 character archetypes (generic adventurer, warrior, mage, elf, dwarf) a handfull of weapons and armor items, around 15 magic spells and no skill system to speak of. Pretty early on, the whole thing got expanded to include a few more archetypes, partially scattered throughout other adventures or background modules (druid, sylvan elf, rogue, all sorts of priests etc.), introduced a simple skill system and added a few arcane and divine spells as well as more items, and added a fairly extensive critical success/failure system for combat. In 1988, the 2nd edition introduced human cultures as separate archetypes for the first time, but other than them mostly stuck to the existing archetype already introduced during the four years before. However, it added 5 negative attributes (which had preciously little impact to be honest) and introduced the trademark TDE skill system with 3d20 skill checks and expanded the skillset in general. The combat system got an overhaul as well by adding a few maneuvers (and by doing away with the overly ludicrous critical success/failure tables); combat stats became far more intricate (also due to the new skill system), and the spell lists (also streamlined with the skill system) got expanded a lot. In 1991, the 3rd edition hit the shelfs, though it was actually more of a 2.5e given the fact that it wasn't really that much of a leap from the edition of 1988, but just restricted itself to expanding on the concepts introduced before. The most fundamental change was that the system got another 2 positive and negative attributes each, but other than that it was just a lot of polishing and upgrading: even more skills and spells, more creatures and demons, more special rules for everything (from wilderness to social to combat), more archetypes. In 2000, the 4th edition was introduced, which was partially a reaction to the changing RPG landscape. As opposed to the 3rd edition, this one actually changed things by overhauling most of the concepts that had characterized the game for the past 16 years. For starters, instead of being fully randomized, characters were now generated using a stat budget including having access to newly introduced extensive perks/flaws lists (both changes were obvious ripoffs of The World of Darkness systems) with the negative attributes being outsourced to the flaw list (and thus made entirely optional, unlike before); and an additional 8th stat. Also, the characters were designed with a character construction kit that made every character a combination of race/species, culture and profession (unlike before, where one was limited to be either race/species/culture, profession, or both combined as an additional option). Oh, and loads and loads of different options for each group were added. Also, levels were made meaningless because now you could buy skillups by expending XP instead of getting a fixed budget every level. Also, the skill system got expanded again by adding specializations for each skill, thus basically bloating the number of skills to over 100 with 4-5 specialization options each. The fact that players weren't necessarily forced to take up every skill (and, in fact, couldn't do so due to the nature of the stat budget-based system) alleviated this a little, but not by much. Combat got another overhaul by changing the nature of weapons (some weapons were now better than others at converting strength into damage) and adding special skills (another ripoff, this time from the feat system introduced in DnD3E) that mostly focused on combat and magic as well, and of course loads of maneuvers (usually tied to said special skills). And a lot more changes, too many too mention. The entire thing, while in theory pretty eclectic, turned TDE into a rather convoluted and not really beginner-friendly system; with the added irony that this was the system they stuck with the longest (15 years, almost the duration of all the three prior editions combined) which probably didn't help when it came to acquiring additional players during that period. In 2015, the staff decided to do something really novel and outrageous: for the first time in the history of the game, they actually downsized the rule system instead of restricting themselves to only adding things. A lot of things were downsized, streamlined and cut (like the number of skills, special skills, weapons, perks, flaws etc.), the character creation process was streamlined with the leveling process (players got an XP budget at the start to design their character instead of having a different budget for either process), the character creation kit lists were now streamlined in a way that every preset race/species, culture and profession could be perfectly recreated using the creation system (before, this wasn't possible) which increased player autonomy. Combat stats were made easier to calculate by removing extensive formulas and so on. Whether all changes were for the better is up to debate, but given the drastic measures that were undertaken, at least it's feasible to say that the staff realized that something had been amiss with the 4th edition.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_5281d5b1	type	Our Dwarves Are All the Same
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_5281d5b1	comment	Our Dwarves Are All the Same: The dwarves, which name themselves Angroshim, are one of the main playable races. They're a short, bearded people who usually live between 300 and 400 years. Legend says that they were created to guard to treasures of the earth and originally lived in a single empire, but have since fragmented into numerous peoples. The forge dwarves live in an eponymous mountain range and embody the stereotype of bearded mountaineers who live in great underground halls and only interrupt their forge-work for adventures and mighty battles. They also view forging as a religious vocation. The ore dwarves are unyieldingly conservative, obsessed with mathematics, and still live the original dwarven homelands. They distrust the open air and rarely leave their richly decorated underground holds, and scorn the other dwarves for abandoning their old traditions and for their love of excitement and celebration. The hill dwarves are a hobbit-like race who lives in low hills alongside humans, and abandoned their old traditions of warfare and hardship in favor of agriculture and indulgence. The diamond dwarves are former refugees who have created a new culture that places great value on art, beauty and cultured society. Ore dwarves think of diamond dwarves as happy-go-lucky dandies who have lost the fire of dwarven heritage; the diamond dwarves reply that at least they don't waste their lives sitting in the dark and brooding over long-gone glories and outdated traditions and grudges.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_52873db	type	Classical Cyclops
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_52873db	comment	Classical Cyclops: Cyclopes are a race of one-eyed giants who live among the volcanoes of the Cyclops Islands. They're extremely skilled smiths and made many legendary weapons, but jealously guard their secrets and don't readily share their creations with humans.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: Emperor Perval. Slightly less violent, more on the incompetent side, joint Emperors Bardo and Cella (Perval's children).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: The leader of the Church of Borbarad Azaril Scharlachkraut is an outgoing, charismatic and generally amicable elf. Just don't test her loyalty towards her revered master or her determination to accomplish her goals.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Rhazzazor to Borbarad. Bonus points for actually being a dragon. Similarly, Pardona to the Nameless God, who, while a High Elf, gets a half-bonus for being artificially created by a dragon and another half-bonus for being able to morph into a dragon due to her unique mastery of the shapechanging spell.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_54f999c	type	AlternateCharacterInterpretation
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_54f999c	comment	An alternative interpretation of the good Emperor Hal (and entirely official if you regard the Answin books as canon). The earliest sources (as early as 1984), taking place at the beginning of Hal's reign, depicted the emperor as vain (declaring himself a lesser God), ineffectual and indecisive and basically predicted that he was to blame for the coming decline of the Middenrealm. Later expansions rectified this since the authors apparently decided that casting the monarch of the most powerful empire in the known world as a buffoon might not serve their interest in creating a proper atmosphere. From then on, Hal was strictly described from an in-universe perspective.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_57d43e40	comment	This is basically the hat of the Fountland's rural nobility. The Fountland is partly based on medieval Russia, and its landholders tend to be either brooding and saturnine...or boisterous bruisers who drink the local vodka-equivalent in gallon-sized mugs, wake up the next morning in a stable somewhere and then go on a brisk ten-mile-run through the snow (wrestling a bear along the way) to work up an appetite for breakfast.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_58204b95	type	Magic Knight
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_58204b95	comment	Magic Knight: Even though actual fighter/mages like in other games don't really exist in this setting, a few combos qualify as Magic Knights to some extent: A few priests (either those of war and combat deities or specific ordained knights) are basically warriors by trade but happen to be able to use their gods' favor for channeling supernatural abilities. The Gjalskerlanders have totemic warriors who have a few magic abilities on top of their martial skills. Theoretically, it is possible to mold actual mages into fighters since their weapon limitations are legal but not technical and a few really decent armor aren't made of metal. This is generally a poor idea due to the fact that dispersing your XP to bolster your character in two areas equally generally doesn't result in a much stronger characters, and that it basically puts you at the mercy of the Dungeon Master and his willingness to let you suffer the consequences of your extralegal decision. Suprisingly, it's Elves who make the best characters for this: On the one hand, they're full wizards by default (i.e. able to actually cast a wide array of spells and not being restricted to merely a few enchantments, rituals and tricks like half- or quarter wizards), which means that the Elf-specific fighting professions are also proficient casters. Also, they don't have the same legal restriction to bear arms or don armors as other human magic classes (though of course metal armors are still off the table).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Zantim, violent demons resembling bipedal tigers, are known to embody the worst traits associated with felines, especially in their tendency to cruelly toy with their prey instead of killing it cleanly.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_5a8df8c5	type	Our Nymphs Are Different
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_5a8df8c5	comment	Our Nymphs Are Different: Nymphs are fairies who resemble beautiful humanoid women with slightly pointed ears. Like all fairies, they come to the material world from the fairy realm for reasons they don't usually discuss, although they must return to their home to avoid wasting away. They appoint themselves as protectors of bodies of water and use their magic to punish humans who damage them. They're also extremely beautiful and almost always nude, and are known for seducing humans away to the fairy land and never to be seen again. There are also dryads, which are much the same but look after trees instead.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": There are a few mineral and vegetable examples: oranges are known as as "aranges" (after the region they're most common in, Arania), hemp is called "ilmenleaf" (possibly to get its recreational use past the censors...) and platinum is known as "moonsilver".
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_5d1eb74d	type	Dump Stat
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_5d1eb74d	comment	Even some stats are regarded lesser by almost all characters, while others are more important, no stat really overtakes all others, since for every talent-check, at least 2 attributes are necessary, balancing characters out automatically.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_5e4c5d63	type	DungAges
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_5e4c5d63	comment	In general, Andergast and Nostria form the only region in Aventuria that is well and truly still in the Middle Ages (even the Viking expy Thorwal is more advanced and knowledgeable about the outer world, and all others are culturally either in equivalents of the late High Middle Ages or the Renaissance, or even further) — think a severely devolved Ruritania stuck in the Dung Ages and you'll have a good idea of it.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_5e66f8ca	type	Pro-Human Transhuman
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_5e66f8ca	comment	Pro-Human Transhuman: Borbarad was one in a very twisted way. Although he himself was sort of a semidivine being who has existed for ages and has seen entire species rise and fall, his aim has been to uplift them and turn all mortals into Casters via Magic Enhancement, to ultimately make them independent of the Gods. He just failed to consider that turning muggles into mages isn't possible by non-demonic means.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_5e751f8	type	Fallen Angel
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_5e751f8	comment	Fallen Angel: The Nameless One is a fallen god. This is actually a recurring trope; Mada's sacrilege works very similar, and this is also the point of the Borbarad Campaign. Various Archdemons (Amazeroth, Charypta) also qualify.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_60bba69b	type	Magic Potion
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_60bba69b	comment	Magic Potion: While one does not necessarily need to possess magical abilities to create a potion, having access to them allows the creation of more powerful varieties of regular potions and enables the alchemist to create certain potions one needs to cast a spell on.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_60cc14ba	type	Ruritania
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_60cc14ba	comment	Nostria and Andergast: Two city states that have been locked in a perpetual feud for 2,000 years, but for some odd reason never have developed their own vastly distinctive cultures that differentiate them from the Middenrealm — apart from being a lot more backwards (especially Andergast, which is basically the setting's Ruritania) and isolated.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_60f92ddd	type	Oireland
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_60f92ddd	comment	Middenrealm, Albernia province: Oireland or Scotireland (more the former than the latter), though in-universe it has quite some Thorwalian influences.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: An Admiral Vikos victory is one where you suffer higher losses than the enemy but, unlike them, can afford to do so.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_61cd6e2b	type	Color-Coded Wizardry
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_61cd6e2b	comment	Color-Coded Wizardry: the three guilds of mages, white(law abiding and usually following strict ethics and codes when using magic, brlieving research must only happen under strict regulations), black(free thinkers who believe that every type of magic deserves to be researched and that no boundaries should be forced upon this research) and grey(somewhere in between, usually rather moderate in one way or the other). All other practitioners of magic don't fall into this scheme though.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6243b83b	type	Armor and Magic Don't Mix
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6243b83b	comment	Armor and Magic Don't Mix: Forged metal interferes with the flow of magical energies (with some rare exceptions) in such a way that it makes casting spells more difficult and prohibits the regeneration of Mana if a significant amount is worn close to a magic user's body. While magic users can wear anything not made out of metal (e.g. heavy leather), this is frowned upon by the Magician's Guilds as not befitting a wizard's standing, further restricting proper certified wizards to fancy robes and such.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_626b202b	type	The Necrocracy
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_626b202b	comment	The Necrocracy: Warunk, a city state under the control of an undead dragon, used to fit this very much. There still are mini-necrocracies in the area around the city.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Wizards might tell the universe to shut up and sit down, but a competent fighter will usually be able to do the same with the wizard.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6700b479	type	Hybrid Monster
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6700b479	comment	Hybrid Monster: Chimaerology, the magic of creating magical hybrids from all kinds of animals and humans is a classic but nowadays somewhat rare form of black magic. Later versions are based on the hybrids of mundane creatures – or people and demons.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_67677940	type	Giant Flyer
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer: Well, there are dragons. To make them fit into the usually more realistic approach of the setting, these creatures use intuitive levitation magic.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: The Demon-Emperor Galotta had a stereotypical evil cackle.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_68f6e811	type	Made of Plasticine
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_68f6e811	comment	Made of Plasticine: Compared to the unstoppable juggernauts in many other fantasy RPGs, TDE characters are pretty easy to kill. On the other hand, if you manage to survive grievous injury, chances are you'll heal extremely quickly even without magic.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6bcfbc7e	type	Fantasy Gun Control
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6bcfbc7e	comment	Fantasy Gun Control: The church of Rondra, goddess of war, goes a step further and even abolishes crossbows and similar weapons for their "unsportsmanship".
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6bfc52a3	type	A Wizard Did It
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6bfc52a3	comment	A Wizard Did It: The reason for Artistic License – Geography - thousands of years ago, a semidivine dragon used his power over the elements to separate the different elements from one another and started to concentrate them in separate places, thus extracting them from other places. He started by concentrating the Ice in the North, thus raising fertility levels in the rest of the world (according to the hexagonic TDE elemental system, Ice and fertile Earth, or Humus, are opposites, while the counterpart to Air is barren Earth, or Stone). Then he concentrated Humus in the South. He couldn't go through with his plan, but his work brought different climate zones to Ethra.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: The setting is full of them. Quite a few places, people, legends and organizations throughout the setting. For example there is Mantrash'Mor, a mountain range in which the faces of by now five of the twelve gods have been carved... Also a few people. Like the sinister black mage Pôlberra whose hulking bodyguard is presumably undead, the famous prophet "Nostria Thamos", the historian Maffia Vella and son. All the sourcebooks are full of stuff that visibly belongs elsewhere: An academic volume named "The Study of Rings, Beginners and Advanced Levels" was written by Gandalf of Gareth, the battle song of a southern mercenary army is "Forty-thousand Warhammers" etc. Unsurprisingly, most of them only work in German, though. Example? "The wrestling lord", a work on politics and statecraft. However, the German translation of "to wrestle" is homophonous with the German word for "ring" (the trinket, not the sound), which makes the whole thing a pun on the German title of The Lord of the Rings. Incredibly lame indeed.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6d740dff	type	Enforced Trope
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6d740dff	comment	Naturally, the followers of the Demon Lord of deceit and strife Lolgramoth.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6de1a09e	type	Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6de1a09e	comment	Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid: The holberker are a very minor fringe race originating from otherwise unheard of crossbreeding between elves and orcs.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6e429667	type	Fantastic Slurs
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_6e429667	comment	Fantastic Slurs: Some elves call humans "rose-ears", a derisive and insulting term. The elves and dwarves' names for each other also translate to "short beard-mumbler" and "tree sitter". The orcs are called "blackpelts" and the goblins "redpelts", and the orcs themselves have "smoothskins" for humans. The lizardfolk use "f'zzmech", which translates literally to "excrement", as a slur against every sapient warm-blooded species.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_705f57d0	type	Demon Lords and Archdevils
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_705f57d0	comment	Demon Lords and Archdevils: Every Demon Lord is the dark reflection of one of the major gods, with an agenda which is basically the perverted ideals of the original god. Averted when it comes to their appearance, though — with a few exceptions, most demons tend to look rather alien, with a few of them having a pretty Lovecraftian (like the infamous tentacled Shruuf) appearance. Each demon lord also has one or several types of lesser demons associated with it, which reflect some part of their master's portfolio in their natures.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: if it is black, red or black and red it is likely to be something bad. Or a priest of the god of smiths, or the god of mercenaries.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_74828aea	type	Killer Rabbit
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_74828aea	comment	Killer Rabbit: Death squirrels resemble black squirrels with unicorn horns, and are dangerous ambush predators that hunt by waiting in trees until prey passes below — say, for instance, a human or an orc — and then jumping down to stab them to death with their horn.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	comment	The Achaz see the gods as this, which can certainly be attributed to having been abandoned by them at the end of their age. This is insofar different from the "god is not good"-stance as they actually see them as dying godswho ultimately became forces of destruction and whose attention has to be avoided at all costs (their perception is at the very least debatable considering that a few of their gods are very much alive and became well-respected gods in the human pantheon). Their priests basically try to distract them from possibly destroying the world. Said achaz priests are essentially like really experienced Investigators, treading ever so lightly as not to awaken them.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_77473d35	type	God Is Evil
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_77473d35	comment	God Is Evil: The Achaz see the gods as this, which can certainly be attributed to having been abandoned by them at the end of their age. This is insofar different from the "god is not good"-stance as they actually see them as dying godswho ultimately became forces of destruction and whose attention has to be avoided at all costs (their perception is at the very least debatable considering that a few of their gods are very much alive and became well-respected gods in the human pantheon). Their priests basically try to distract them from possibly destroying the world. Said achaz priests are essentially like really experienced Investigators, treading ever so lightly as not to awaken them. The Nameless God also counts, as he indeed was a member of the Twelver Pantheon at the creation of the universe, and is an aspect of Order — unlike the Archdemons, who are separate Evil Counterparts to the gods and aspects of Chaos (even though they partially were once gods themselves). He was even said to have been the mightiest of them, but then turned to evil and was banished from Alveran (i.e. heaven). In-universe, some freethinkers (not necessarily members of the Nameless God's cult) theoretize that the banishment was actually due to Praios envying his might but that, of course, is heresy. It's partially true, though. He was the Top God, and Praios did envy him, but his fall was his own doing: the short version is that he tried to cut off the world from the other gods and rule their in perpetuity as the only deity of the setting.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_77480c5e	type	God Is Good
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_77480c5e	comment	God Is Good: What most humans think of the gods they worship, though of course what "good" means might be up to debate. For example, for a follower of the god of the sun, law, and rulership, this would be more "god is just", for a follower of one of the war deities this would rather be "god is honorable" (or, for those not-so-honorable, "god is strong"). Which is another source of conflict because ultimately, in a battle between two sides who worship Rondra (the most important war deity) equally, there still can be only one winner. But even those gods who should be unambiguously good and peaceful may still find themselves at odds, like the goddess of love and passion and the goddess of marriage and fidelity. Semi-averted with those cultures/races who knowlingly worship hard, sinister and cruel gods, like the Ferkina or the Orks. Though of course this might also be attributed to different concepts of what constitutes "good".
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: After the major retcon that was introduced with the Historia Aventurica sourcebook in 2015 (which rearranged and expanded canon background information on the world's history from its beginning to the present), it can now be said that all culture's myths are true or at least have a true element in them, even though they are partially contradictory. Ironically, the creation of humankind is indeed as it is said in one of the more obscure creation myths, that of the Nivese: the myth said that a tribe of divine wolves created men as brethren for the wolves; the ingame reality is that the first men were created 25000 years ago by a wolf-shaped god Ripgrief as comrades to a race of (now extinct) wolfmen. Which is twice as ironic considering how the close relationship between humans and dogs came into being IRL.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_77f47fea	type	The Savage South
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_77f47fea	comment	The Savage South: Meridiana is a region of dense jungles, blowpipe-slinging native tribes (some of them cannibals), ancient overgrown temple-cities and city-states dominated by deadly decadent courts. What little is known about the southern continent of Uthuria indicates that it takes this trope up to eleven.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_7ae40f90	type	Manly Facial Hair
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_7ae40f90	comment	Unlike in some other settings, male and female dwarves are fairly easy to tell apart. Elves... aren't. This can lead to embarrassment.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Naturally, the followers of the Demon Lord of deceit and strife Lolgramoth. Also the modus operandi of Al'Anfanian politics.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_7d3da681	type	The Legions of Hell
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_7d3da681	comment	Then, in the 3rd edition, the so-called Borbarad campaign (offical title: The Marked Seven) was released... which is when it really hit the fan. Aventuria was invaded by demons and a cataclysmic war nearly tore apart the Middenrealm, obliterating several central provinces, severely weakened the other states and certain regions of the continent fell prey to demonic infestation (quite analogous to the Warp corruption of Warhammer). It ended with a dearly-paid-for victory for the free species and peoples of Aventuria, but since then, basically most of the metaplot has been dealing with wars against the remnants of the Heptarchies (demon kingdoms) — the Middenrealm was attacked once again later on by the strongest of these and, additionally weakened by a civil war, was all but shattered, virtually removing its former status as the superpower of the setting.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_80cd1f62	type	God of Evil
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_80cd1f62	comment	The Nameless One is a fallen god.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: The Middenrealm once encompassed the whole continent, and even in its decline it holds onto a sizable chunk of Aventurica and remains the greatest of the Great Powers.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: All dragons have some spot on their bodies where they armor is thinner and more easily breached. These vary between different species and between individuals of the same species, but they're typically at the base of the neck, on the underbelly, or at the base of their wings.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_82d1f93f	type	MagiTek
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_82d1f93f	comment	Magitek: Very rare in modern Aventuria (except for one of the Heptarchies, where demon-powered machinery is gaining in popularity), but a strong element in the culture of the now-extinct High Elves a few millennia back. Everlights, magical elevators in their spire-like skyscrapers, the occasional airship or two — the usual works. The modern elves are technologically backward even compared to humans by choice, as they believe that it was this lifestyle coupled with the hubris of the High Elf leaders that led to their culture's downfall. In Myranor Magitek (called "Arcanomechanics") is a major part of the setting, and occasional examples make "cameo" appearances in Aventuria (such as a submarine being mistaken for a sea monster). Another Aventurian example would be Artefact Magic. It's rather low-level compared to "true" Magitek settings, but the possibility of imbuing items with spells, with a set number of charges or a specific effect duration, does exist in the rules. In-universe, it's nowhere near the level of, for instance, Eberron (or Myranor, for that matter), but nonetheless present, and the magic academy in Khunchom, which specializes in artefact magic and got filthy rich selling various artefacts, many of which are of the classic "magic ring" variety, but some of which straddle the line into magitek, has this as their hat. One could, for instance, imbue a metal rod with the Ignifaxius spell, used to generate a jet of flame, with the "tight beam" modification, in which the jet becomes a narrow, very hot, focused beam of, well, essentially thermal energy, pump a set amount of charges into the artifact, specify a trigger (say, when the user of the artefact touches a "button", which could be a gem set into the rod) and voila— you got a magitek handheld combat laser.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_82d2715f	type	Magitek
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_82d2715f	comment	In Myranor Magitek (called "Arcanomechanics") is a major part of the setting, and occasional examples make "cameo" appearances in Aventuria (such as a submarine being mistaken for a sea monster).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_82da9d46	type	Mundane Fantastic
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_82da9d46	comment	Mundane Fantastic: Called "phantastic realism" by the authors, making magic pretty weak compared to Dungeons and Dragons, at least as far as most PCs go. There actually IS a rule describing how to become super-awesomely powerful, but you'll always have to pay with something. In the end, with spells being extremely flexible on the run and often having basic effects usable to the caster's liking, wizards are more of a "box of super awesome utility". Very few spells have definite descriptions, and most are only limited in their power, not their potential.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_83ede4e3	type	Automatic Crossbows
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_83ede4e3	comment	For the pirates and musketeer sub-settings/regions, highly advanced torsion based weapons take the place of firearms. Arguably these are more dangerous than the weapons they replace. There are also Automatic Crossbows and other advanced forms of bow weapons.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The supplement literature concerning the Demon Lords and their minions contains a small section about a being called the 'Daemon Sultan', a creature so terrible that not even the most insane and twisted summoners would attempt to bring it into the world, lest it destroy all of creation — starting with the poor dumbass who summoned it, and finishing... not at all, really. It should be noted that 'The Daemon Sultan' is one of the official monickers of Azathoth.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8a97b762	type	Dragons Prefer Princesses
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8a97b762	comment	Dragons Prefer Princesses: The more powerful dragons occasionally do this. However, they're typically after entertainment, not food, and prefer nobility because they tend to be better conversationalists.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8aaa6f4f	type	Character Customization
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8aaa6f4f	comment	Character Customization: From the 4th edition onwards. Using a Point Buy system and several templates. Characters are all based on race/culture/profession (4e) or people+profession (5e), and are customized afterwards.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: Most cultures are given too much depth to be reduced to this, but the Thorwalians (Viking expies) and Orcs might qualify.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8c96e3bc	type	Chandelier Swing
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8c96e3bc	comment	Combat suffers from this as well. Beyond a certain point it is neither affordable nor useful to keep maxing your weapon-talents. Then you are just better off buying extra maneuvers that allow you to trick opponents in combat, break their block, turn an attack into a defense, use your legs, use things as weapons, swing from a chandelier, etc. Luckily, all those special moves may play out as epic strikes with much finesse and creativity, but are not more than a basic attack/defense roll with maybe a difficulty modifier.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8eb3d48f	type	Revisiting the Roots
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8eb3d48f	comment	Revisiting the Roots: Done in a few instances. Aventuria was initially cast as an Adventure-Friendly World with roaming orcs, marauding bandits, corrupt nobels who don't do their job etc. Then the setting was Growing the Beard and Aventuria was retconned into an overall actually pretty peaceful place where civilization was still intact, but plenty of adventuring opportunities were to be had. And then shit hit the fan and civilization collapsed in wide parts of the world. Hal was initially presented as an Upper-Class Twit who had no idea what was going on. Then, during The Dark Eye's golden age, he was (officially) presented as a respectable, much beloved ruler. Ultimately, it turns out that he actually was an ineffectual and indecisive ruler — his popularity with the common folk on the other hand remained canon (after all, the guy presided over an era that was overall pretty peaceful and prosperous). In order to make the game more beginner-friendly (not like it originally was, but definitely in an attempt to move away from the 4th edition tradition), the convoluted background and the ruleset were a bit reigned in. This was also a consequence of Executive Meddling which saw a few oldtimers in the editorial staff being sacked.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8f37b	type	Medieval Stasis
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8f37b	comment	Medieval Stasis: Very much in effect. In-universe, the timeline has progressed to more than a millenium after the fall of Bosparan (Ancient Rome expy). While advances in social organization have definitely been made, and lots of magical research has been going on (most of it related to rediscovering the old secrets though, as there have been several dark ages in Aventuria after the fall of Bosparan, the Mage Wars etc.), technology is pretty much stagnating: The scientific development is roughly comparable with the Real-Life progress that has been made in the millenium after The Fall Of The Roman Empire, but the age of gun powder certainly hasn't been reached yet. Seen even more clearly with the Dwarves, who are quite technologically developed (though not to Steampunk levels) and inventive, but have been stuck at the same level of technology for millenia, and especially with the local Lizard Folk, the Achaz, who are the oldest playable species in existence on Aventuria, had a high culture for millenia and survive both in feral variants and a few isolated, civilized communities — which nevertheless have been essentially unchanged for tens of thousands of years. For non-humans it actually makes sense, however. The dwarves are a comparatively young species (far more recent than humans, for example), but due to their long lives (which last 4-7 times as long as your average human's lifespan) they have had far fewer generations since they came into being. As for the Achaz: Ever since their fall, their few civilized communities simply didn't have the manpower to make a lot of progress or regain lost knowledge.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8f788a30	type	Color-Coded Elements
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_8f788a30	comment	Color-Coded Elements: The six elements are coded (at least by human standards) mostly this way with a few exceptions: fire is red, wind is yellow or colorless, ice is purple or light blue, water is blue, rock/stone is orange and humus(earth and plants as well as all living things) is represented by earthen colors, but usually by green.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_905af87e	type	Fantasy Character Classes
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_905af87e	comment	Fantasy Character Classes: The Dark Eye has lots and lots of classes, divided into fighting professions, traveling professions, social professions, crafting professions, magical professions and clerical professions. On one hand, most professions are only separated from one another by their point allocation which, due to having loads of possible skills, opens up a lot of possible options that ultimately result in the aforementioned lots and lots of classes. On the other hand, not every profession is automatically a good choice for an adventurer, though it's absolutely possible to play something like a confectioner with wanderlust.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_90b98fbb	type	The Needless
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_90b98fbb	comment	The Needless: Demons do not need to eat, drink or sleep. Many still hunt and kill prey as a matter of course, but simply because they enjoy doing so.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_90c018ac	comment	The heptarchs in the Black Lands definitely qualify, given the volatile dynamics of power politics in these regions. Raw (magical) power a requirement for the highest echelon of leadership, and for staying on top.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_90d5b651	type	Our Fairies Are Different
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_90d5b651	comment	Our Fairies Are Different: Fairies are a varied group of creatures that originate from the fairy realm and can cross into Dere when holes open between the two worlds. They sicken and die if they spend too much time away from their home, however, requiring them to periodically return to the fairy lands to rest and recover. Elves are their descendants. Blossom fairies are the classic tiny, butterfly-winged, forest-dwelling humanoid kind. They're the most common type and the ones most people think of when they think of fairies. They are all female, and wear clothing shaped like flower blossoms. Nymphs and dryads are larger and resemble beautiful humanoid women, and appoint themselves as protectors of ancient trees and of bodies of water, respectively.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9136471a	type	Our Goblins Are Different
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9136471a	comment	Our Goblins Are Different: Goblins are small humanoids with reddish-brown fur. They're clever, dangerous in large numbers and often get bullied by larger races like orcs. They ride wild boars, which is also how they depict their mother-goddess.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_91ed563c	type	Hobbits
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_91ed563c	comment	Hobbits: The hill dwarves are hobbits in everything but name. They have long since abandoned the traditional dwarven lifestyles of warfare and hardship, instead settling rolling hill-lands where they live in round earth houses. They pointedly avoid combat and adventure, which they view as extremely unpleasant, prefer to lead lives of gregariousness and pleasure, and are very fond of fine food and drink.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_921cdca8	type	Nothing Personal
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_921cdca8	comment	Also the modus operandi of Al'Anfanian politics.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_93b39134	type	Training the Gift of Magic
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_93b39134	comment	Training the Gift of Magic: One has to have both magical talent and a long, involved education to become a full mage. A person who wasn't trained, or whose talent was weaker, is a "quarter-mage" or "magic-dilettant": they have a limited number of spells they can cast as a supernatural ability, but they can't learn other spells and have a smaller spell point pool. Half-mages are in between (depending on a character's culture and profession, they may have had more or less magical education). Only some humans are capable of magic, but all elves are, and every half-elf is at least a quarter-mage.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_970c790a	comment	There's exactly one event in the source material that qualifies as category 4: After a cult of theNameless God gained a foothold in a major city, Poseidon Expy Efferd killed off the whole settlement, and the PCs with it. However, time is turned back immediatedly after the event thanks to the Love Goddess, who does what she did best in order to win over the otherwise normally bribe-proof God of Time. And this very likely was only possible because she acted right of the bat and didn't wait until the events could have an impact on the "real" timeline.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_97522514	type	Heel–Face Revolving Door
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_97522514	comment	Heel–Face Revolving Door: Ansvin of Ravenmouth.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_977ddbc	type	The Upper Crass
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_977ddbc	comment	The Upper Crass: This is basically the hat of the Fountland's rural nobility. The Fountland is partly based on medieval Russia, and its landholders tend to be either brooding and saturnine...or boisterous bruisers who drink the local vodka-equivalent in gallon-sized mugs, wake up the next morning in a stable somewhere and then go on a brisk ten-mile-run through the snow (wrestling a bear along the way) to work up an appetite for breakfast. While most of the continent is moving well into the Renaissance in terms of technology and culture, the imperial province of Weiden is still very firmly medieval, with a strong focus on chivalric and feudal traditions. The nobles of Weiden are considered backwards by most of their peers from other provinces, while they themselves tend to view the more modern nobles as useless fops.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_98c2d5b8	type	Merchant City
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_98c2d5b8	comment	Merchant City: Lots of them. Al'Anfa, Festum, the Horasian seaports and Khunchom being the most famous.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9a08517a	type	Elves Versus Dwarves
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9a08517a	comment	Elves Versus Dwarves: No outright violence (although there have been wars in the past), but a lot of issues to work out nonetheless. Elves prefer to live under the open sky. Dwarves consider that to be suicidally insane, since you never know when a dragon might attack. Elves love the forest and will defend it from loggers. Dwarves view the forest as a good source of more mineshaft supports. Dwarves believe (with some justification) that dragons, specifically the Great Dragon Pyrdacor, are the root of all evil in the world. Elves once worshiped Pyrdacor as a god. note Although that particular point is probably the least divisive issue for modern elves, seeing as they are... well, not very fond of either their former gods or the very fact that they once worshiped them. They're not much fond of the Twelver pantheon either, on that note. Dwarves distrust all magic, viewing it as the Dragon's Work. Elves are inherently magical. Dwarves love beer (and wine, and rum, and...). Elves find the smell of any fermented foodstuff or drink so revolting it can cause them physical damage. Elves have no body (or facial) hair. Dwarves believe any male without a beard must have been cursed by their god for some very serious crime. Unlike in some other settings, male and female dwarves are fairly easy to tell apart. Elves... aren't. This can lead to embarrassment. The list goes on. Needless to say, the two races have had a traditionally rocky history...
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9a692ae9	type	13 Is Unlucky
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9a692ae9	comment	13 Is Unlucky: Every Aventurian knows why. For those who don't: Next to the twelve good gods there exists the thirteenth, the Nameless One, the god who tried to overthrow the others and who should not be mentioned unless it is absolutely necessary. Inverted with the Novadi, for whom 12 bodes misfortune but 13 is lucky.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9abc3aec	type	Our Manticores Are Spinier
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9abc3aec	comment	Our Manticores Are Spinier: Manticores resemble lions with flattened human faces, three rows of teeth — typically some combination of human and feline ones — and scorpion tails. They're creations of dark magic, as all chimeric beings are, and are typically considered the most perfect product of the craft. They're intelligent enough to speak and have distinct personalities, but not enough to reliably control their animalistic side. Some exceptional specimens can master themselves enough to find a place in a royal court, a mage's tower or a temple as councilors guards or exhibition pieces; most live as beasts and die violent deaths.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9b54d536	comment	The Nameless God also counts, as he indeed was a member of the Twelver Pantheon at the creation of the universe, and is an aspect of Order — unlike the Archdemons, who are separate Evil Counterparts to the gods and aspects of Chaos (even though they partially were once gods themselves). He was even said to have been the mightiest of them, but then turned to evil and was banished from Alveran (i.e. heaven). In-universe, some freethinkers (not necessarily members of the Nameless God's cult) theoretize that the banishment was actually due to Praios envying his might but that, of course, is heresy. It's partially true, though. He was the Top God, and Praios did envy him, but his fall was his own doing: the short version is that he tried to cut off the world from the other gods and rule their in perpetuity as the only deity of the setting.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The Demon Lords' domains definitely qualify.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	comment	Chainmail Bikini: Amazons' body armor only reaches from waist to breast as a matter of religious tradition.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Standard procedure of the militant order Rays of Light to deal with magic users, or any given problem really. However, it should also be noted that unlike in real life, Fire Purifies (see below under "Mythology").
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9c23f3a0	type	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9c23f3a0	comment	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Yetis are a type of ten-foot-tall, white-furred apes found in the far north of Aventuria. Most live on the isolated Yeti Island, although a few live on the mainland, and lead a tribal stone age existence in the wilderness. A related species, the brown-furred forest-sneakers, are said to live in the southern jungles.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9c6ba43a	type	Values Dissonance
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9c6ba43a	comment	Values Dissonance: (In-Universe) Showing mercy to a defeated opponent is generally regarded as a decent thing to do in most human cultures, but two in particular take a different view: Many Ferkina tribes believe that the afterlife will be the opposite of their mortal lives. If they endured plenty of pain and hardship while alive, their afterlives will be paradise. If on the other hand they lead soft, pampered lives, their afterlives will be an eternity of torment. With this premise, it actually makes a little bit of sense for them to consider torturing a Worthy Opponent to death a gesture of respect: After all, you're ensuring that their eternity in the land of the dead will be that much nicer. The tribesmen of the Trollcrag mountains (distantly related to the Ferkina) instead believe that their ancestors committed a horrible, unforgivable sin in the distant past and that they are irrevocably condemned to an eternity of pain after death because of it. To harden themselves for what they know is coming, they strive to train their tolerance to pain at every opportunity, and a captured trollcrag barbarian will often beg their captors to torture them and not deny them the chance to prepare a little more for hell before they die.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: An alternative interpretation of the good Emperor Hal (and entirely official if you regard the Answin books as canon). The earliest sources (as early as 1984), taking place at the beginning of Hal's reign, depicted the emperor as vain (declaring himself a lesser God), ineffectual and indecisive and basically predicted that he was to blame for the coming decline of the Middenrealm. Later expansions rectified this since the authors apparently decided that casting the monarch of the most powerful empire in the known world as a buffoon might not serve their interest in creating a proper atmosphere. From then on, Hal was strictly described from an in-universe perspective. The House of Almada, too. A whole Lineage of spoiled, incompetent morons, who, as its reigning Emperors, brought down the Middenrealm from a continental empire to a vestigal rump-state almost entirely on their own.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: Not a common feature, but a few adventure modules deal with this. With a mix of Temporal Mutability types 1 and 2 (and occasionally but rarely 3): Base sources say that all time travel is supposed to be a Stable Time Loop, and all adventure modules featuring time travel turn out to be such after the fact; and if someone really tries to change the timeline in order to capitalize on the change of events, Satinav, the God of Time, gets sufficiently pissed to join the action (and this is something you don't want, even gods and demons don't want that, in fact he is the only entity that always wins besides Los, the primeval creator of the universe). Should someone still inadvertedly make irrevocable changes, like killing one's own ancestor, the DM is encouraged to let type 3 kick in (f.ex. like making the PC father a replacement ancestor himself). There's exactly one event in the source material that qualifies as category 4: After a cult of theNameless God gained a foothold in a major city, Poseidon Expy Efferd killed off the whole settlement, and the PCs with it. However, time is turned back immediatedly after the event thanks to the Love Goddess, who does what she did best in order to win over the otherwise normally bribe-proof God of Time. And this very likely was only possible because she acted right of the bat and didn't wait until the events could have an impact on the "real" timeline.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9e2c893	type	Black Magic
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9e2c893	comment	Black Magic: Everything dealing with demons is treated that way. Many other spells are regarded similarly, as well. Summoning demons and most (read: any really effective (using creatures with a soul)) forms of blood magic are punishable by death. Necromancy gets you buried alive. Just killing someone with magic, even in self-defense, gets you automatically charged with murder. In the last case, the main common privilege of the three wizards' guilds — the right to conduct their own trials, if magic is involved — kicks in, so you'll at least get a fair trial.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9f4a47f2	type	Competitive Balance
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9f4a47f2	comment	Competitive Balance: Presumably in order to avoid a Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards situation, the system has various drawbacks that serve to rob classes who are able to use supernatural abilities of their edge over completely mundane characters (though it also serves to put fighting classes more in line with "civilian" classes): The relative power of magic is rather limited in comparison to other settings: Casting two or three fireballs or other hard-hitting direct damage spells in a row is taxing enough to fully deplete the mana of a seasoned caster; magic items either work only a fixed amount of time per day or need to be recharged; creating unlife from magic is not only rather limited (golems may be created from wood, clay or stone, hybrids can't be larger than a horse, undead are rather weak) and rarely useful for ingame purposes, but also comes with a hefty price-tag attached for those who want to really master the art; immortality is pretty much off the table; making full use of certain magical actions (like, say, telekinesis) requires a character to beat outrageous modifiers; the shapechanging spell has to be leveled for each separate form and is restricted to non-magical animals up until the size of a horse and so on. That being said, spellcasters (especially guild mages) still had a lot of leeway when it came to boosting their power in 4e, and got taken down a notch in 5e to bring them more in line with mundane characters. In additon to this, while a magic user can in theory wield anything apart from metal armor (barring Druids and Geodes which can't use metal at all), the magic-heavy professions are forbidden by law and/or custom to divert from their usual attire (robes & staff for Wizards, an obsidian dagger for Druids etc.). A Wizard could go on an andventure wearing the actually pretty good wood or bone armor and a sword, but he shouldn't get caught that way. Though in the end, they usually aren't that good at fighting anyway (see above) and their ritual weapons are usually unbreakable, bypassing the very realistic break-factor checks, so sticking to the standard garb usually is easier. All this doesn't apply to such a degree to Elves who are free when it comes to weapons usage, while having access to the Elven spells and being able to pick up others. But while they potentially could dualclass better than anyone else, they are still limited by the number of xp they've gathered. On top of that, they're still limited by the "Elven Worldview" trait which not only makes properly playing an Elf in the setting a real pain, but also comes with severe drawbacks in any social situation. What applies to magical classes even more to priests of any sort (at least to those who aren't considered magic users, like druids or shamans): Gameplay-wise, they are very similar to mundane characters and hardly qualify as casters. Apart from some minor feats which are available to all priests (like blessings etc.), they only have access to those miracles which their patron god's portfolio allows — something that limits their number as well as their versatility (though these can be quite powerful). Rule-wise, spells (which count as skills since they need spell checks to succeed) and abilities that are magically oriented work pretty much the same way as mundane skills and abilities and are raised the same way. Due to the "stats for xp"-trade system, magic users raise their skills alongside their spells, which could potentially lead to dualclassing characters, but since they have only one xp-pool for both abilities, they have to decide whether they want to raise magical or mundane abilities, attributes or skills. If a PC is played for long enough, a magic-user could level up in combat arts greatly — however, they pay more experience points for combat ability than dedicated fighter types and most weapon skills depend on physical attributes that won't be particularly high on a wizard's list of priorities: The professionals (Magicians, Druids, Geodes and Witches) usually have better things to spend their experience on, as they usually should be somewhat academically educated, and either socially or naturally too. Building a professional magic user into a competent warrior leads to bad magic users that are equally bad warriors. The nonprofessionals (shamans, savants, totemics etc.) on the other hand don't have that much load in the magical and academical fields, and can "dualclass" way better. This also means that being a Jack of All Stats in regard to magic doesn't really work: One just doesn't have enough xp to learn all spells one may potentially have access to — which prevents "swiss army-knife magic users" that can solve any situation a DM can throw at them by virtue of having every possible spell at their disposal) On the other hand, "civilian" professions (craftsmen, bards, hunters, bureaucrats, scholars etc.) can potentially be molded into being as capable as warriors as those professions who are intended to be fighters, provided they just dish enough XP into these areas, since mundane abilities (which fighting skills are) don't have specific access requirements beyond certain stats. On the other hand, warriors could also potentially be similarly competent as them in their respective areas (nature, science, crafts, social etc.). The usual drawback is that this wouldn't really make that much sense since it's more feasible to focus on the areas you already have decent starting stats in, and also because players tend to pick perks/flaws that make leveling up in your area of specialization easier and/or leveling other skills harder. Also, anyone can become ordained (i.e. multiclassing to priest) later on. However, this does come with the according drawbacks, like being forced to adhere to religious principles which aren't as severe for normal laymen followers of the same faith, without being reimbursed for them). On top of that, some cults (like that of Praios, for example) require a caster to forfeit their magical abilities — though generally, mage/priest characters are exceedingly rare anyway (a few dozen in the entire setting).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Somewhat related to the above example: Most Vampires are specifically cursed by one god. The most "common" variety is cursed by the God of the Sun and has the traditional vulnerability to sunlight, followed by curses from the Gods of Agriculture (vulnerable to wooden stakes, hates garlic) and the Sea (can't cross rivers, vulnerable to blessed water). This can result in some weird weaknesses, for example a vampire cursed by Tsa would be weakened by the presence of art and creativity while those cursed by Rahja are repulsed by wine and beauty. Vampires are very, very hard to get rid of without exploiting these vulnerabilities.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9fb2452d	type	Evil Is Not a Toy
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9fb2452d	comment	Evil Is Not a Toy: Mage-Emperor Fran-Horas summoned the Archdemons to deal with a particularly annoying revolt against his rule. The demons obliterated the rebels...and then promptly turned on Fran's own forces, plunging the empire into four centuries of civil war and anarchy. His descendant Hela-Horas tried to do the same thing a dozen or so generations later, and another Dark Age was only averted because the gods themselves decided that enough was enough and sent their "angels" to stop the summoning (which was later upgraded into them making a personal appearance).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a0149e0e	type	Clock Roaches
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a0149e0e	comment	Clock Roaches: Satinav, a deity, who is responsible to keep the timeline intact as a punishment for being the first to meddle with time travel. Even gods and demons rarely dare to mess with time for this reason.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a04eb363	type	Lizard Folk
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a04eb363	comment	Lizard Folk: TDE has several of these races. The most common and well-known one are the Achaz (salamander-people, the only playable race), and there are also the Maru (vicious and violent alligator-people), the Shindra (wise and intelligent cobra-people), the Shingwa (chamaleon-people), the Krisra (Pteranodon-people), the Ssrkhrsechim (basically magical Yuan-Ti), the Jharhra (gargantuan Triceratops-people with great magical powers) and the Leviathanim (a giant magical hybrid race that looks like a mix of a frog and a dragon).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a0e51cd2	type	Judge, Jury, and Executioner
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a0e51cd2	comment	Judge, Jury, and Executioner: In theory, every Noble with the privilege of Jurisdiction. As long as he or she is on the grounds of his/her own fiefdom. Also Inquisitors. The Rays of Light often assume these privileges, always in error (assuming the privileges, not the denunciation)
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a211849	type	Life Energy
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a211849	comment	Life Energy: Sikaryan is the cosmic energy of "All That Is" and thus covers this trope as well (another form of it is Mana, which is why Cast from Hit Points works). It is contrasted with Nayrakis, the cosmic energy of "All That Can Be", which could loosely be called "Soul Energy".
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: A particularly strange case is Khadan-Horas, current child-emperor of the Horasiate. His mother was a human noble and priestess. His father was a 70-foot dragon. Nobody is quite sure how that works, and he looks perfectly human for now... with the notable addition of a Third Eye.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: Several setting elements have suffered from this, as common with many RPGs. Notably applies, combined with Fanon Discontinuity, for the "legendary" solo adventure "Borbarad's Curse", one of the very first published scenarios when the setting was still developing. It was notable in its own right for the first (and only) attempt of a fantasy/SF crossover in TDE. It begins as a classic dungeon crawl with the solitary hero exploring an abandoned wizard's tower in the Gorean desert, but after the first third or so it features a crashed alien spacecraft, complete with alien monsters on board, technology (which the protagonist can figure out how to use) and, at its climax, the task to repair the ship's drive (aided by the ship's AI), enabling it to launch. Some fans view it as So Bad, It's Good, but the vast majority prefer not to even mention the name. As for the canon discontinuity, certain NPCs were retained as they later became key figures of the setting (among others, Borbarad and Rohal, first introduced here), but the main plot of the scenario and its components (i.e., everything related to the spacecraft) were erased from existence.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a52f8fdf	type	Bolt of Divine Retribution
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a52f8fdf	comment	Bolt of Divine Retribution: This is a power of the priests of the sun god Praios; they can only harm demons and knock out magic users, though.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a77dc648	type	Our Kobolds Are Different
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a77dc648	comment	Our Kobolds Are Different: Kobolds are relatives to fairies and extremely varied, both in appearance and in behavior. Some are diminutive humans with additional traits such as mouse tails, green or wrinkled skin, large and pointed ears and noses, and the like; others look like small humanoid bears or monkeys instead. They are typically mischievous and fun-loving, but beyond that can range from helpful house and shipboard aides to cruel tricksters who spread chaos and disorder, steal children to replace with their own changelings, and turn precious gems and metal to worthless junk. Most live in human dwellings and ships, although many prefer to live in nature under trees and rocks, in riverbanks, inside huge mushrooms or underground. They speak a clicking, whistling language that most other species can't pronounce, which is good for them, as someone who knows a kobold's true name can magically control it.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Mizirion III, King of Brabak, played the bumbling, ineffective ruler for decades to keep his Decadent Court from looking too closely at what he was actually doing. Now, thanks to his clever policies, particularly in the diplomatic arena, Brabak is actually flourishing for the first time in centuries.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a8cff6a	type	Familiar
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_a8cff6a	comment	Familiar: Most witches and some of the dwarven version of druids (only the kind ones though) have these. They come in many shapes and sizes: cats, ravens, snakes, owls, toads, snakes, small monkeys and spiders for the witches and dogs, wildcats, snakes, eagles and toads for the dwarves. Each familiar is linked to a type of behavior and character that is more or less expected of its mistress.Witch characters can choose a specific benefit (powerful background feats chosen during character creation) to obtain a more powerful familiar. For instance, in the case of the Black Widow coven (Sisterhood in Aventurian terms), the familiar is usually a big (but not giant), somewhat intelligent spider — with the "powerful familiar" benefit, however, it is a Maraskan tarantula, a giant poisonous spider with a diameter of two meters or more. In extreme cases (if the GM agrees, that is), witches can even choose small (housecat- to dog-sized) dragons, which are fully sentient, capable of speech and possess magical powers of their own, as familiars.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_aa2bd65c	type	Mordor
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_aa2bd65c	comment	Mordor: The Heptarchies are like that, to varying degrees.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_ab2d015a	type	OurGhoulsAreDifferent
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_ab2d015a	comment	Our Ghouls Are Different: Ghouls are technically living creatures, but resemble undead in most regards. They're gaunt, long-armed, hairless humanoids ruled by a constant hunger for rotten flesh, and are usually found around graveyards, battlefields, and other areas where corpses are abundant. The sun burns and kills them, and they're consequently nocturnal creatures who spend the day hiding underground. They do not breed naturally, and instead turn intelligent humanoids into ghouls by means of their infectious bites. When they gather in large groups, they also tend to mutate to serve specific roles — common, undifferentiated feeders, quick and agile but fragile scouts who find prey for the pack, strong but slow gatherers of body parts, bloated regurgitators who swallow huge quantities of meat and regurgitate them for the rest to eat, blind diggers with large claws who maintain tunnel systems for the rest to hide in during the day, rare morokun capable of casting spells, and bloated, immobile and telepathic ghoul kings who rule over the rest.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_ac5afbd8	type	Hellfire
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_ac5afbd8	comment	Hellfire: The god of law is also the god of the sun. His demonic antagonist uses this instead.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_ac9f78d9	type	Jack of All Stats
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_ac9f78d9	comment	This also means that being a Jack of All Stats in regard to magic doesn't really work: One just doesn't have enough xp to learn all spells one may potentially have access to — which prevents "swiss army-knife magic users" that can solve any situation a DM can throw at them by virtue of having every possible spell at their disposal)
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Borbarad, stuck in an endless cycle of death and rebirth with his twin brother Rohal, eventually manages to cheat and permanently kill his counterpart...which makes his own final defeat possible. Without his act of fratricide, the defeat he suffered at the end of his final grab for power would have been just another temporary setback.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_add14bc2	type	Orcus on His Throne
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_add14bc2	comment	Orcus on His Throne: Glorana and the Aikar have both grand masterplans that are only a measly 80% away from completion and require no hands-on intervention.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: Over the last 35 years, lots of initially sympathetic characters have switched their allegiance to join in their forces with the baddies. Leomar of Almada (or of the Mountain, his actual name) had betrayed the legitimate Empress and thrown in his lot with the usurper Answin. Helme Haffax, most famous general and former Arch Marchall of the Middenrealm, had joined forces with Borbarad and even became one of the Heptarchs. Reknowned engineer Leonardo of Havena was first kidnapped by Galotta, but then inherited his demon shard and his realm.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Guild Wizards following the Codex Albyricus aren't permitted to wear armor made from metal (not that they'd want to, since contact with iron weakens magical power), boiled leather, horn or wood. This rules out the vast majority of worthwhile suits of armor outright, but adventurous wizards through the ages have found that a suit of (rare and expensive) Iryan Leather isn't covered by these very specific rules, since Iryan (made from reptilian hides) is quite strong enough for use as armor without any hardening. Note that the prohibitions against armor made from wood or horn were already obvious rule patches designed to prevent the abuse of certain other exotic (and highly effective) forms of armor.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Happened a few times. Most spectacularly, an old adventure about a crashed UFO was cut out of the canon, while the adventure's supposed big bad later became the big bad of the Borbarad Campaign.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b2c737e8	comment	Orkish tribes settle questions of leadership via Klingon Promotion as a rule.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b2e10cc9	type	Growing the Beard
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b2e10cc9	comment	The second edition, when the setting was Growing the Beard, took a departure from the slightly grimdark first edition (and also offered much more extensive depicition of the individual regions). In-universe, the different states (which were quite strictly typecast into "good" and "not so good", but not outright "evil") were politically stable and quite well-to-do. Then, adventures and mini-campaigns dealing with Aventurian wars started coming up, as well as plots dealing with the Cult of the Nameless One (not that one), a faction best described as Lawful Evil in D&D alignment terms.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b6de94d1	comment	In order to make the game more beginner-friendly (not like it originally was, but definitely in an attempt to move away from the 4th edition tradition), the convoluted background and the ruleset were a bit reigned in. This was also a consequence of Executive Meddling which saw a few oldtimers in the editorial staff being sacked.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b77a6d82	type	Evil Is Deathly Cold
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b77a6d82	comment	Evil Is Deathly Cold: The Netherhells, home of the forces of chaos that want to destroy the world, are proverbially cold.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b798d379	type	One Stat to Rule Them All
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b798d379	comment	One Stat to Rule Them All: Constitution can be, not only because it is most important to HP-Base and many physical talents, but also because the better half of your constitution is your wound-threshold. Any damage received higher than that threshold deals a wound, which is a crippling effect, that, if not suppressed, can quickly lead to another one and another one. Also, afterwards, any healing-skill-check is severely constricted by each wound. Another example would be Intuition. Taking a major part in attack- and defense- base values (until 5e, that is) and in many physical talents is good enough for most action-oriented characters, but it also has at least normal weighting in all science talents, along with almost all spells (ALL spells in elven representation, along with often having double weighting) and additionally all social and language talents. This is the stat to go especially for characters who are supposed to be able to fight AND talk/cast magic in usable proportions. In their case, cunning most often gets less attention than it normally would. Even some stats are regarded lesser by almost all characters, while others are more important, no stat really overtakes all others, since for every talent-check, at least 2 attributes are necessary, balancing characters out automatically. The strength attribute used to be the top dog since it was equally important for hand-to-hand stats as dexterity, but paramount when it came to calculating damage, which was arguably the most important stat for any melee-oriented class — and on top of that was also indispensable for the generally fairly low carrying capacity. The most recent edition has downgraded the efficiency of strength for all but the really heavy weapons to such an extent that it rarely pays off to raise the stat above 15, though. Some talents (and the associated attributes, guess which!) are seen as core important to play and survival. Self-control, body-control and acuity may be rolled any number of times between once per adventure to once every few actions, but almost all GMs agree that those are the talents most commonly saving a character's ass outside of combat. Similarly, empathy is the most important social talent; without it, nearly no decent sale, negotiation, persuasion or intimidation would ever work (again, varies from GM to GM).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: All clerics of Kor, son of Rondra fulfill this trope to a certain extent. As do the Maru, a race of crocodile people. According to their legends, their patron god Kr'Thon'Chh wanted them to be this way despite the belief of many humans that Kr'Thon'Chh is a demon, he is in fact the god Kor.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_ba7c20be	type	Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp"
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_ba7c20be	comment	Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp": TDE is particularly guilty of this, it's obvious that the creators intentionally went out of their way to avoid naming their stats the way they're called in other tabletop games (particularly D&D). Fairly literal-minded example: "hit points" are "life points". "damage points" are called "hit points' before armor or other mitigating factors; after the reduction, they're called 'damage points' as well. "strength" is "body power" or "physical power". "intelligence" is changed into what could be translated as "sagacity". "dexterity" is "agility" (3rd edition onwards). "wisdom" is "intuition" (they're not completely the same though, yet similar enough in most regards). "skills" are called "talents" (introduced in 2nd edition). "feats" (from D&D 3e) are called 'special skills' (introduced in 4th edition). "experience points" are 'adventure points". "perks" and "flaws" from The World of Darkness are called "advantages" and "disadvantages". Also quite a few classes use unusal terms - priests are called "Geweihte" ("ordained"), and thiefs/rogues are called "Streuner" ("roamers"). An interesting exception is the term for a GM or DM, who is called "master", which is reasonably close to the "original"... it's just that the german version of Dn D uses the term "game director" for that role (the translators probably decided on that word because a faithful translation of "Dungeon Master" would sound too much like "gaoler").
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: The Rays of Light, The Priest-Emperors and often the Church of Praios in general.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_bc19150b	type	Demihuman
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_bc19150b	comment	Demihuman: The central races — humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, half-orcs and half-elves — all fit the "humans with a couple of differences" template.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_bcc2f921	type	An Adventurer Is You
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_bcc2f921	comment	An Adventurer Is You: The most basic character class existed in the very first edition.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_bd3dc623	type	Fiendish Fish
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_bd3dc623	comment	Fiendish Fish: Snapfish, also called brabacudas, are marine fish that can grow to seven feet of length and live in large schools. They're aggressive predators, and easily spurred into feeding frenzies by creatures falling into the water or by the smell of blood. Their flesh is toxic to booth, so they're not useful as food.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_bf8ae149	type	Layered Metropolis
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_bf8ae149	comment	Layered Metropolis: The city of Fasar is a medieval version of this, with the fortified towers of the rich and powerful linked by a network of narrow bridges so their owners won't have to mingle with the common rabble below.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c0f8b680	type	Trickster God
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c0f8b680	comment	Trickster God: Three: Phex (Greater God, thievery, commerce and "rogue-ish" behaviour in general), Aves (wanderlust) and Xeledon (mocking the futility — and destruction — of anything, basically the bad side of Loki).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c1c29f00	type	Character Level
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c1c29f00	comment	Character Level: Editions up to third use classes, after which they are strictly skill-based. 4e still lists levels as a measure of comparative power.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c2c9748c	type	Standard Fantasy Setting
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c2c9748c	comment	Standard Fantasy Setting: A very standard indeed medieval European-ish setting home to elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, dragons and the like menaced by a variety of demons, undead and dark lords and watched over by distant but meddling gods. Due to its popularity, The Dark Eye is the standard for many German roleplaying gamers. However, it is only this, due to the fact that the actual core of the game isn't the ruleset (which wouldn't be fit for things like modern-day or space-RPGs), but the world with its history and metaplot.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c391447c	type	God Is Flawed
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c391447c	comment	God Is Flawed: Given the polytheistic nature of the setting, this is hardly surprising and has in a way been like that since its inception. However, in the beginning it was more a "the gods can be overly sensitive, short-tempered and occasionally murderous, but ultimately they are forces of good, have their metaphorical hearts in the right place and stand between humanity and oblivion" (which, in a setting with actual soul-eating demons, certainly is a good thing). Strictly speaking this is correct: most gods do indeed value their followers (usually) living an orderly, peaceful, god-fearing life (for war deities: only god-fearing); lead the faithful to a reasonably pleasant afterlife, (usually) promote order and stability (or at least their brand of it) and help keeping the forces of darkness at bay. However, this productive role has been put into perspective later with the ''Historia Aventurica'': the gods are even more petty and selfish than originally presented, since the onset of time most of them have tried to usurp each other's status at least at some point (even despite formally cooperating with one another); several gods have fallen into demonhood (also as a consequence of this infighting) because they couldn't cope with their loss of status; some gods descended into evil even before their fall (though that usually was a consequence); and even though the gods may defend the mortal races and lead their souls to the afterlife, but when an individual race's time has passed, they nevertheless discard it and hedge their bets on the new top dog (even if said top dog now mercilessly persecutes their once-favored servants or uses them as a source of slaves, food etc.) — though this of course can also be explained by most races in the past (the Trolls, the Gryphons, the Achaz etc.) having faltered in one way or another by turning to the worship of demons, the Nameless God or themselves. Generally extempt from this callous treatment are those races who have been created by an individual god himself — if that god still wields power, one can bank on him or her not tolerating his children being endangered.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c3f6e68	type	Dem Bones
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c3f6e68	comment	Dem Bones: Skeletons are a very common type of undead, routinely created by necromancers who want cheap, plentiful troops without having to put up with the decomposition, clumsiness and bad smell of zombies. They quicker and more agile than the walking corpses, although they're vulnerable to blunt weapons as these can shatter their bones.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c46ca9fe	type	SpoonyBard
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c46ca9fe	comment	Spoony Bard: Averted with bards and their varieties, who (from a gameplay perspective) play pretty similar to the other generic "civilian" classes (thieves, craftsmen, hunters...) who don't fit into the fighter/mage/priest-concept. Played straight with the "trickster" class (see Jester above), who is probably the least player-friendly class in the game, and also to some extent with the "charlatan", a carnival magician who is sub-par compared to any actual guild mage, but without offering meaningful perks to compensate like the other magic users (witches, druids, elves...) do.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c4d82017	type	TheDarkLord
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c4d82017	comment	The Dark Lord: Borbarad was one for the history books, his heirs are not that bad, either.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c64b67f7	type	DungeonMaster
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c64b67f7	comment	Theoretically, it is possible to mold actual mages into fighters since their weapon limitations are legal but not technical and a few really decent armor aren't made of metal. This is generally a poor idea due to the fact that dispersing your XP to bolster your character in two areas equally generally doesn't result in a much stronger characters, and that it basically puts you at the mercy of the Dungeon Master and his willingness to let you suffer the consequences of your extralegal decision.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Always a favorite of demonologists and other users of black magic. The Achaz did this in their heyday.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: There are many, a lot of which work only in German. Besides those, there are things like the towns "Camparisodano" and "Wodkalemonis", and "Sylla" and "Charypso" (Scylla and Charybdis, two obstacles for Odysseus). The dwarf Gargi, son of Gax, wrote the book "Dragons and Demons" (Gary Gygax, Dungeons & Dragons), another book is called "Der ringende Herr" (compare the German title of The Lord of the Rings: Der Herr der Ringe), Gandolf von Gareth wrote the books Ringkunde für Anfänger und Ringkunde für Fortgeschrittene (Rings for Beginners and Rings for Advanced Learners). There's a legendary gorger — a cold-blooded pseudo-tyrannosaur — named G'dzill.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: Several examples. The aristocrats, merchant-lords and other power-brokers of the Horasian Empire tend to follow this trope when they're not kept in check by a strong ruler. Their last civil war was such a massive Gambit Pileup that even today nobody is entirely sure who backstabbed whom. The courts of the southlands strongly tend towards this, with the traditional enemies Brabak and Al'Anfa being the most prominent examples. Both have a reputation for taking the "decadent" part to ridiculous levels.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c97ca4d8	type	Magic Staff
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c97ca4d8	comment	Magic Staff: Trademark weapon, ritual implement and status symbol for wizards. Almost entirely indestructible and capable of injuring otherwise invulnerable opponents, the wizard's staff can also be enchanted with effects that require a ritual once and then just a thought, word or gesture every time the PC wants to use it and require only a handful of mana points to trigger. One of the most useful examples (besides the magical torch spell) is the Hammer of the Magi: Breaking down doors is easy with this physical amplification of any swing with the staff, although it only works against nonliving materials and only increases force not damage. Other options include transforming the staff into an animated, levitating flaming sword, storing spells inside the staff for later use or simply reducing a full-sized quarterstaff to the size of an elegant cane.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: The Invincible Legion of Yaq-Monnith is a particularly dark example. A long-standing villain who'd been considered a bit of a joke until that point conducted a series of raids on coastal towns, abducting dozens of children. He then proceeded to fuse them with demons, creating nigh-unkillable Super Soldiers in a constant state of homicidal rage. It took an act of direct divine intervention to grant them peace in the end...
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_ca9e3345	type	Temporal Mutability
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_ca9e3345	comment	With a mix of Temporal Mutability types 1 and 2 (and occasionally but rarely 3): Base sources say that all time travel is supposed to be a Stable Time Loop, and all adventure modules featuring time travel turn out to be such after the fact; and if someone really tries to change the timeline in order to capitalize on the change of events, Satinav, the God of Time, gets sufficiently pissed to join the action (and this is something you don't want, even gods and demons don't want that, in fact he is the only entity that always wins besides Los, the primeval creator of the universe). Should someone still inadvertedly make irrevocable changes, like killing one's own ancestor, the DM is encouraged to let type 3 kick in (f.ex. like making the PC father a replacement ancestor himself).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_cadbe2b3	type	She Is the King
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_cadbe2b3	comment	She Is the King: Type 3 (gender-neutral title) with the Horas, emperor/empress of the Realm of Horas (though in German, the definite article will give away the gender). Also, type 1 for Emperor Hal of the Middenrealm, actually Hal's believed-to-have-died-at-birth sister Selinde.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_cf168867	type	The Corruption
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_cf168867	comment	The Corruption: Played straight but in the unusual way that the forces of evil are corrupted by something more or less good. As the Netherhells stand for pure chaos, even the existance of the Archdemons and their domains shows some kind of order and organization in at least those parts of the Netherhells wich are close to the universe, which is ruled by the gods and stands for Order. This effect most likely comes from Sakaraya, the Energy of everything that is, which is slowly draining into the Netherhells.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d251db87	type	Alchemy Is Magic
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d251db87	comment	Alchemy Is Magic: In a way; while one does not necessarily need to possess magical abilities to create a potion, having access to them allows the creation of more powerful varieties of regular potions and enables the alchemist to create certain potions one needs to cast a spell on. However, what really puts alchemy in that ballpark is that potions can be quite powerful and emulate the effects of a bunch of spells (like healing magic, stat boosts, invisibility etc.). Given the fact that magic in TDE tends to be less powerful than the "sky is the limit"-sorcery of other systems and that a caster's mana is usually rather limited, being able to outsource part of one's work to potions can be godsend for them.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d37c028d	type	WorldHalfEmpty
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d37c028d	comment	World Half Empty: According to the background mythology, creation is inevitably doomed.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d3b02ffb	type	I Know Your True Name
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d3b02ffb	comment	I Know Your True Name: Someone who knows a kobold's name has great power over the creature. For this reason, kobolds closely guard their names and prefer to use ones most other species can't pronounce.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: In an inversion of the usual fantasy problem with distance and size of land masses, the entire continent of Aventuria, with all the cultures and empires, is only about the size of Greenland. While that's not small, it doesn't begin to explain the climatological and cultural diversity (some of which has been Hand Waved by way of A Wizard Did It).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d5656fbe	type	The Unpronounceable
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d5656fbe	comment	The Unpronounceable: The maritime zilites communicate through their gills. Land creatures are unable to reproduce these sounds, and in return Zilites cannot speak languages, that require vocal chords. Risso, who own both bodyparts, are typically used as translators. While basic communication is possible, on advanced levels, the languages of the elves (which require the speaker to speak with two voices at once) and dragons (which requires telepathy) are impossible to master for humans. Kobolds use a whistling, clicking language that other species cannot reproduce. This is a good thing for them, as a kobold's name confers magical power over its owner — it's a bit hard to take advantage of this trick when you physically can't produce the name's sounds.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d64827f6	type	Good Hurts Evil
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d64827f6	comment	Good Hurts Evil: Zigzagged. Demons take additional harm from priests, holy objects and grounds, but the effect is not restricted to good deities.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d6de6609	type	In Harmony with Nature
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d6de6609	comment	The elves are divided between a number of major cultural groups, all found in the north of Aventuria. The glade elves ("auelfen") live along forest edges and floodplains, where they usually live in treehouses or stilt villages. They're the most numerous and most likely to interact with humans, and the ones most others think of when thinking of elves. The wood elves ("waldelfen") inhabit deep forests bordering the glade elf lands, where they live In Harmony with Nature, and are deeply isolationist. The steppe elves ("steppenelfen") are horse-riding nomads of the northern plains. The firnelves live in the frozen north, sometimes on the open pack ice, and wage a constant guerilla warfare on the darkness growing in their lands.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: In-universe, the first emperor of the Middenrealm, Raul of Gareth, was (posthumously) subjected to this: Raul originally was a Tulamid whose family was killed off by the evil empress Hela-Horas who had a deep hatred against everything Tulamid (her father was killed in a war against them). Later on, Raul became the leader of the resistance who crushed the Bosparanian Empire and founded the "New Empire" (the Middenrealm). Since all this was basically a Retcon 25 years after the character of Raul was invented, the fact that his heritage has never been mentioned was handwaved away by stating that he was subjected to a Race Lift by the historians.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d87ba943	type	Combat Sadomasochist
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d87ba943	comment	Combat Sadomasochist: Several varieties. On the evil side: Cultists of Belkelel, the archdemon of perversion and counterpart to the goddess of love and lust, qualify when they are forced to fight, sadomasochism (with a focus on the sadistic aspect) being their main focus in service to their demonic mistress. However, by and large, they act on their urges in the bedroom (either using willing -at first- victims or slaves), preferring to let others do the fighting. On the neutral, barbarian side: Ferkinas, a brutal nomadic offshoot of the Tulamids infamous for their cruelty to trespassers and enemies and for the bloody raids upon their sedimentary Tulamidian neighbours. Their favorite tribal sport can be described as a sort of hockey/rugby mix on horseback with a liberal dose of (unarmed) combat thrown in — in which the ball (or puck) is either a living animal or a -similarly living- human prisoner. These usually do not survive the "game". The tribes of the Trollcrags, distantly related to the Ferkinas, believe that since their ancestors committed an unforgivable sin eons ago they are condemned to an eternity of pain after death. Because of this they strive to harden themselves against what they know awaits them by learning to endure as much pain as possible while still alive, which makes them this trope in battle (and disturbingly eager to self-flagellate and torture each other in their free time). On the good side, although "good" in this specific case is fairly relative: Priests of Kor, the demigod of carnage, unrestricted war and bloodlust and patron deity of mercenaries, in contrast to Rondra, the goddess of "civilized" war, combat for a higher cause and embodiment of the romanticized military honor ideal. Those serving Kor are not evil as such and are firmly in the Twelver Pantheon camp as far as theology/cosmology and the cosmic battle between gods and demons is concerned...but they are ruthless bastards and remorseless sadists focusing on brutally, effectively and stylishly (read: as bloody as possible) dispatching enemies and do not shy away from the dangers of combat in return — multiple scars and wounds are seen as status symbols and tokens of honor by the church. note On a side note unrelated to their actual fighting style, but related to their combat philosophy: they are a very mercenary lot and often command mercenary companies — which might be a good thing, since such companies do have higher moral standards than other mercenaries (albeit still lower ones than "conventional" soldiers and officers, let alone priests of Rondra, have), e.g. a priest of Kor would not hire his company out to a Heptarchy, as quite a few "ordinary" sellswords did during the war against Borbarad. Also, if they take a contract, they fulfill it to the letter, never breaking their word.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: Multiple types of dragon exist, which can vary greatly from one another, but most tend to be very large, very dangerous, strictly reptilian in appearance and provided with multiple limbs, which may or may not include wings. With a few exceptions, they all breathe fire and gather hoards of treasure. They all have a red stone in their brains, which is called a carbuncle and is the source of the magic. They also have small areas on their bodies where their scales are weaker, and where they're consequently less well-protected. They are divided between the large, powerful and intelligent greater dragons, whose lifespans typically run from one to two millennia, and the smaller lesser dragons of purely animalistic intelligence, who tend to live for a century or so. Cave dragons are wingless, serpentine creatures with either six or eight pairs of limbs, the foremost pair useable as arms. They're classically covetous beasts that lurk in isolated places, terrorizing isolated settlements for treasure and sacrifices, preferably virgins, although any healthy youth is acceptable, or living as isolated wilderness predators. They generally lair in caverns or underground complexes, heading out only by night — they can't see very well in bright light — although some make their homes in dense forests. They're also ancient enemies of the dwarves, and are some of the few dragons to regularly make their way into dwarven holds. Giant wyverns are some of the most common and feared dragons. They possess six legs, two wings and three monitor lizard-like heads — their carbuncle is tripartite and at the base of their necks — which can grow back when cut off, but over an extended period and without their previous memories. They typically lair in high mountains, periodically flying out to terrorize towns for plunder and sacrifices, and while strong and fearsome are also fairly dim and easily outwitted. Glacier worms resemble typical fantasy dragons with light gray to ice-white scales, although they're born as caterpillar-like beings that mature into their adult forms in their thirteenth year of life. They're found in the far north, only coming south during particularly cold and bitter winters, and breathe freezing wind. They're cruel, wicked creatures, and are said to be the most evil of all dragons. Pit worms are lesser dragons that resemble nothing so much as oversized, smelly lizards. They live in swamps and gather no hoards. For unclear reasons, all other dragons, greater and lesser alike, despise pit worms and try to kill them on sight. Tree dragons are small — about human-sized — lesser dragons that live forests with large, tall trees. They make their nests high in the canopies and mostly hunt small prey. They gather hoards, but these mostly consist of whatever shiny rocks and trinkets catch their eye and are almost entirely worthless.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: The short-lived "Swordmaster" campaign took place inside the (hollow) planet and was intended as an epic challenge for high-level characters. "Myranor" is a far less heroic, but higher-magic setting on the distant western continent. "Uthuria" is on the continent south of Aventuria. "The Dark Ages" is a singular box that takes place in Aventuria, but roughly 1500 years ago — during the decline of the Bosparian Empire and the Diamond Sultanate (which both still exist at the time).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: A systemic example: A pretty standard action that was neither considered too hard nor very easy was accomplished by using a standard skill +0 check — given the 3d20-mechanic of skill checks, however, this meant that any beginner level character had an extremely high chance of blowing rather trivial tasks, even when it came to areas they were actually specialised in; and if that wasn't enough, most 2e and 3e sourcebooks treated the unmodified skill check as the lower end instead of an average check: while negative modifiers didn't really have a cap, there were hardly any skill checks with even minor positive modifiers. On the other hand, high level characters passed even checks that were considered very difficult with flying colors (apart from some prolonged efforts with aggravations that went through the roof). It took 25 years to remedy that situation by introducing more extensive modifiers that properly considered both ends of the scale.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_dd3d1f69	type	Wicked Witch
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_dd3d1f69	comment	Wicked Witch: The witches of the setting fulfill most aspects of the trope, with the notable exception of, well, not being necessarily wicked. They brew potions, specialize in casting curses, gather in covens, and even fly on brooms. Witches are classified into "Sisterhoods" based on their animal familiars: Cat Witches are beautiful and seductive with a taste for luxury, Toad Witches are rustic types who deal in herbs and potions, and Raven Witches are ominous crones who make prophecies. Some witches also hatch fully grown from mysterious human-sized eggs, rather than being born, and are blessed with eternal youth.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_dd92bf66	type	Warrior Prince
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_dd92bf66	comment	Warrior Prince: Quite common for the heirs of the Middenrealm, Princes and Princesses alike.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_de9047ac	comment	The aristocrats, merchant-lords and other power-brokers of the Horasian Empire tend to follow this trope when they're not kept in check by a strong ruler. Their last civil war was such a massive Gambit Pileup that even today nobody is entirely sure who backstabbed whom.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_dea715d	type	True-Breeding Hybrid
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_dea715d	comment	True-Breeding Hybrid: Half-elves can reproduce fine with elves, humans and each other, and can be separated from their human and elven forebears by many generations.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_df237522	type	Hellhound
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_df237522	comment	Hellhound: White harriers are monsters created from the crossbreeding of wolves and a type of canine demons, the karmanthi. They resemble hideous, twisted wolves with snow-white fur, two-heads, and up to eight legs. They're vicious beasts and often kept by corrupted nobles as monstrous hunting hounds, typically for Hunting the Most Dangerous Game, while others live in the Shadowlands as dangerous feral predators.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_dfa71e43	type	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_dfa71e43	comment	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Well, perhaps not all that sympathetic — but certainly ineffectual: Pardona, the Tongue of the Nameless God and Envoy of Evil, is canonically defeated, rejected or thwarted in every one of her apperances. Even if their characters might fear her, most players regard her with a bemused mix of detached pity and condescension. Not too bad for a 5000 year old being that spent the last 1000 of those in hell and just recently spotted the civilization these dumb apes have built. She is still learning that humans aren't animals anymore... Also she presents the writers and GMs with the same problem every really powerful being does: if you do them right the heroes are toast. The archmage Xeraan was this for most of the time (he makes his first appearance in an adventure module from 1984, but was already level 20 back then) until he went all-in and became a follower of a dark demigodlike wizard, and later one of his successors. While it would be an exaggeration to call this a case of From Nobody to Nightmare, the actual danger he posed for the setting as a whole was magnified basically over night.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_dfe120e5	type	Functional Magic
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_dfe120e5	comment	Functional Magic: A textbook example of the force magic variety, complete with Mana, Background Magic Field and leylines.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e0207930	type	Humans Are Special
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: Zigzagged. On the one hand, humans are by far the most populous race in the setting, rule over the known world, their most popular religion reflects the actual makeup and balance of power in the heavens, and they're actually the ruling race of this age. On the other, nothing of this is special in any way or form, since there have been ten other ages before, six of which have been ruled over by other species or types in a similar fashion (draconids, trolls, Cat Folk, arachnids, maritime creatures, Lizard Folk), with humans being nothing more than a servant or even cattle race; and it's to be expected that human civilization will similarly decline once their age is over.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e1acc872	comment	The archmage Xeraan was this for most of the time (he makes his first appearance in an adventure module from 1984, but was already level 20 back then) until he went all-in and became a follower of a dark demigodlike wizard, and later one of his successors. While it would be an exaggeration to call this a case of From Nobody to Nightmare, the actual danger he posed for the setting as a whole was magnified basically over night.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e1ff8ff6	type	Fantasy Kitchen Sink
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e1ff8ff6	comment	Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Despite the usually more "realistic" presentation of the setting, Aventuria includes many, many creatures and concepts. As a rule of thumb, if something was popular in another RPG, it is likely to appear in TDE as well. This includes dark elves, Lovecraftian monstrosities, and the usual mixture of mythological creatures.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e2d7ce08	type	Basilisk and Cockatrice
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e2d7ce08	comment	Basilisk and Cockatrice: Basilisks, also called toadspawn, are large serpents with metallic crests on their heads. They are unnatural aberrations and intensely deadly — they can petrify any creature they look upon, merely touching one's dead body is a death sentence, and their passage kills plants, mildews soil, and turns water to polluted filth and air to toxic gas; any area they pass through becomes tainted unlivable. They do not need to drink, eat or sleep — they are sustained purely by magic — and legend says that only one is born every 700 years. They are very greatly feared, and the title of Basilisk Slayer is coveted and respected.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e34ada78	type	Authority Equals Asskicking
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e34ada78	comment	Authority Equals Asskicking: This is par for the course for a Medieval-style setting: most noble classes in the world aim to produce warriors. Honorable mention goes to the Amazons where the (hereditary) queens aren't just competent warriors, but tend to be top-notch.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e42c07e6	type	Holy Hand Grenade
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e42c07e6	comment	Holy Hand Grenade: Some of the divine powers are truly scary. While they are limited by the slow regeneration of karma (the "fuel" for divine powers) and are somewhat limited in application compared to magic, their power is immense: Magic usually takes effect for seconds or maybe minutes; divine powers at least minutes, usually days and up to several months. Magic needs high investment to become somewhat powerful (banishing a demon? It better be a really weak one or you have to be a lucky expert), while divine powers are far superior (Want to banish a demon? You need a bit of time, but then everything short of a demon prince is toast. Don't have the time? Well if you're a priest of the sun god and spend a degree of karma then a heavenly ray will fry every demon besides demon princes in seconds)
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e491684a	type	Odd Job Gods
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e491684a	comment	Odd Job Gods: Some of the half-gods are this, luckily not as odd as you might think. Kor is this for Middenrealmians, and was this in the beginning: Due to the honorable nature of Rondra, the actual war goddess, the editors probably thought "well, where does this leave the not so honorable fighters?" and thus they came up with Kor, patron god of mercenaries, revered by those who aren't in it for honor or the protection of the weak, but who like gold and killing - in other words: a deity for murderhobos and munchkins. Later depictions of Kor are more badass, describing him as a dark and merciless but powerful god, and gave him the moniker "he who rides laughing across the battlefield". The child of the goddess of love and ecstasy and the god of trade and thievery? He's a travelling flute-player and the patron of wanderlust. The child of the god of death, sleep and forgetting and a mortal woman is the goddes of peaceful death, assisted suicide and hospices. The oddest might be Ifirn, who is almost the same as her father Firun, god of hunting, living off the land and self-reliance, except compassionate instead of grim. Xeledon, son of the goddess of wisdom and a mortal, who is the god of futility (especially of mortal endevours).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e5421161	comment	Leonardo of Havena starts out as a Gadgeteer Genius with a side order of Absent-Minded Professor. Then he's captured by Galotta and forced to create demonic war machines...which he actually grows to enjoy so much that once his captor is overthrown he takes over and runs an even less pleasant version of Mordor using demonic 'robots'.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e5448c9	type	Pimped-Out Dress
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e5448c9	comment	Pimped-Out Dress: THE court fashion in the Horasian Empire under Empress Amene. The fashion at her successor's court is slightly more subdued.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e5455dac	type	Mana
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e5455dac	comment	Mana: One of the forms of Sikaryan (see Life Energy above) is "Astral Energy", used in spells and rituals.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e7db27c7	type	Sympathetic P.O.V.
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e7db27c7	comment	Sympathetic P.O.V.: Seems to be becoming a thing for Aventuria's major villains. The following happened twice: An odd year or two after a major villain's demise at the hand of an adventuring party follows the inevitable release of an official biography. Those biographies tend to depict the villains long before their fall and are written by fans (the editorial staff consists only of fans...) Thus we are treated to stories of how relatively normal people are driven mad by circumstances. We see the later Evil Overlord petting Kittens or the later Evil Chancellor as the only person with a basic grasp of politics in the entire Empire, freeing peasants and being a far better ruler than the actual emperor in general.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License – Geography: In the attempt to create a very large palette of distinct regions and cultures (see Fantasy Counterpart Culture and Fantasy Kitchen Sink below) — even hopping across historical eras — and, in what almost feels like a desperate attempt to avert the Single-Biome Planet trope, the developers crammed fictional versions of nearly all real-world biomes into Aventuria. There's a polar region, multiple coastal regions ranging from temperate to Mediterranean-like, fertile farmlands, barren steppes, several mountain chains, two deserts (one big, one rather small) and a tropical region. The catch is that all of this is crammed onto a continent about 3000 miles long and 2000 miles across, yielding an area of 6 million square miles. It's pointed out that an Aventurian mile is equivalent to a real-world kilometer. Basically the geological and meteorological diversity of the entire world is compressed into an area slightly smaller than real-world Australia. This is quite literally an example of a A Wizard Did It, though, when the semidivine dragon Pyrdacor used his power over the elements to shape the face of the world.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_eb4cc0bc	type	Villainous Harlequin
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_eb4cc0bc	comment	Villainous Harlequin: Torxes of Freespirit, a Court Jester turned evil.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Their ancestors, the high elves, were the typical "better than all of you" elves of fantasy fame, but with the Jerkass factor dialed up. After Pardona established her cult, that high elves (granted, a minority, but a sizeable one) became outright evil. (She later fused her most devout followers with demons, creating the black elves, a fertile species of elf-demon hybrids that plagues parts of Aventuria to this day.)
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_eba911fd	comment	Dark Messiah: The Aikar Brazoragh, leader of all orcish tribes, is one of these at least in the eyes of the humans.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_ece27800	type	Kill and Replace
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_ece27800	comment	Kill and Replace: There are at least two demons who use this as their trick, along with the Shapechangers (creatures of uncertain origin likely linked to the Nameless God) and the Mantra'Kim (shapechanging, nigh-immortal dragon-men created to serve the elder dragons).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_edae412c	type	Fighter, Mage, Thief
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_edae412c	comment	Fighter, Mage, Thief: Averted — the TDE group build is far more often optimized around different fields of problem solving than just combat expertise. The main areas, in broad strokes, are Combat, Wilderness, Social, Science and Crafts. There are so many different skills that special rules are present if you want, for example, help repair a boat and only have the woodworking-skill but not the boat-carpentry-skill, so you can use the skill you have to supplement the missing skill. Especially in the knowledge and crafts sections there are so many skills that a character focused on those areas most commonly needs an additional sheet just to write down all their skills. This is mentioned in the rulebooks. Combat suffers from this as well. Beyond a certain point it is neither affordable nor useful to keep maxing your weapon-talents. Then you are just better off buying extra maneuvers that allow you to trick opponents in combat, break their block, turn an attack into a defense, use your legs, use things as weapons, swing from a chandelier, etc. Luckily, all those special moves may play out as epic strikes with much finesse and creativity, but are not more than a basic attack/defense roll with maybe a difficulty modifier.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_edcdddac	comment	Disabled Deity: The Nameless God is a villainous and self-inflicted example. Chained into a breach in the firmament by the other gods as punishment for attempting to conquer all creation, he rages and tears off bits of his own body to free himself. His mortal followers seek to emulate him and sacrifice body parts one by one as they ascend through the ranks of his cult. This doesn't make them any less dangerous, which can make veteran players very nervous when they encounter a one-eyed NPC.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_f5eda11	comment	Mix-and-Match Critters: Chimerology, the practice of fusing multiple animals' natures into a single being, was a widespread and respected science in the past, but has since fallen into disfavor. A successful chimera is typically considered to be one which blends wildly different creatures and does so elegantly and efficiently, and preferably one that can be put to some practical use. Almost all chimeras are sterile and cannot breed on their own, but some are fertile enough to have established stable wild populations. Examples include manticores (human face, lion body, scorpion tail) and wolf lizards (wolves with lizard scales, tails and tongues).
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_f6f6adeb	comment	Railroading is to be expected, given the huge amount of Metaplot-centric adventure modules published. Also depending on the writer. Ulrich Kiesow was said to be particularly fond of this, even among his colleagues.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_f8173bd9	comment	Medieval European Fantasy: Aventuria fits this nearly perfectly, if it were not for those Arabian, Native American and African expies.
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The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_fc148c2c	comment	Weapon Specialization: Weapon skills are expensive to increase, so it is very useful to specialize for most warriors. This is made worse by the inclusion of D&D 3-like feats in an otherwise GURPS-like point-buy system. Pre-planning for your future combat style is almost a must — then again, a half-decent GM will throw in some NPCs for you that happen to know that technique that is basic for every other technique your WOP is capable of.
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