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An exam every aspiring fantasy novelist should take.Created by David J. Parker, with help from Samuel Stoddard, this quiz made up of 75 questions is an attempt at averting Tropes Are Not Good. It lists many common tropes which have been overused or misused by fantasy authors over the last few decades. Reproduced here in its full Troperiffic glory, or can be found here on its original site. |
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Farm Boy |
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Is your main character a young farmhand with mysterious parentage? |
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Trilogy |
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Is this the first book in a planned trilogy? |
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Punctuation Shaker |
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Do any of your main characters have apostrophes or dashes in their names? |
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Artistic License – Biology |
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Do you not realize it takes hours to make a good stew, making it a poor choice for an "on the road" meal? |
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Our Orcs Are Different |
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Does your novel contain orcs, elves, dwarves, or halflings? |
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Abandoned Mine |
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At any point in your novel, do the main characters take a shortcut through ancient dwarven mines? |
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Poor Communication Kills |
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Could one of your main characters tell the other characters something that would really help them in their quest but refuses to do so just so it won't break the plot? |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall |
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Heaven help you, do you ever use the term "hit points" in your novel? |
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Automaton Horses |
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Do you think horses can gallop all day long without rest? |
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Ancient Artifact |
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Is your story about a quest for a magical artifact that will save the world? |
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Failure Is the Only Option |
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Read that question again and answer truthfully. |
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Defrosting Ice Queen |
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Does your hero fall in love with an unattainable woman, whom he later attains? |
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Hurricane of Puns |
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Does a large portion of the humor in your novel consist of puns? |
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Down on the Farm |
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Do you not know when the hay baler was invented? |
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Damsel out of Distress |
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Do any of your female characters exist solely to embody feminist ideals? |
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Scatterbrained Senior |
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Does "a forgetful wizard" describe any of the characters in your novel? |
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Artifact of Doom |
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How about one that will destroy it? |
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Human Pincushion |
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Do you really think it frequently takes more than one arrow in the chest to kill a man? |
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Damsel in Distress |
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Do any of your female characters exist solely to be captured and rescued? |
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Heroes Gone Fishing |
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Do you think that the only two uses for ships are fishing and piracy? |
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Warring Natures |
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How about "a half-elf torn between his human and elven heritage"? |
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Eskimo Land |
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Do you have nomadic barbarians living on the tundra and consuming barrels and barrels of mead? |
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You Have Failed Me |
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Does your main villain punish insignificant mistakes with death? |
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Monty Haul |
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Is the countryside in your novel littered with tombs and gravesites filled with ancient magical loot that nobody thought to steal centuries before? |
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Plot-Powered Stamina |
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Does anybody in your novel fight for two hours straight in full plate armor, then ride a horse for four hours, then delicately make love to a willing barmaid all in the same day? |
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Arc Fatigue |
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Did absolutely nothing happen in the previous book you wrote, yet you figure you're still many sequels away from finishing your "story"? |
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Our Dwarves Are All the Same |
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Is any character in your novel best described as "a dour dwarf"? |
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Artistic License – History |
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Do you think you know how feudalism worked but really don't? |
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God Was My Co-Pilot |
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Does your novel contain a character that is really a god in disguise? |
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Hollywood Density |
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Do you not realize how much gold actually weighs? |
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Armor Is Useless |
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Does anybody in your novel stab anybody straight through plate armor? |
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Planet of Hats |
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Does your story involve a number of different races, each of which has exactly one country, one ruler, and one religion? |
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Tabletop RPG |
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Do you write your battle scenes by playing them out in your favorite RPG? |
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Bar Brawl |
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Do inns in your book exist solely so your main characters can have brawls? |
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I Don't Like the Sound of That Place |
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Did you draw a map for your novel which includes places named things like "The Blasted Lands" or "The Forest of Fear" or "The Desert of Desolation" or absolutely anything "of Doom"? |
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Common Tongue |
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Is "common" the official language of your world? |
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BFS |
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Do you think swords weigh ten pounds or more? [info] |
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Vanity Is Feminine |
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Do the female characters in your novel spend a lot of time worrying about how they look, especially when the male main character is around? |
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The Six Stats |
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Have you done up game statistics for all of your main characters in your favorite RPG? |
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Mr. Exposition |
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Does your novel contain a character whose sole purpose is to show up at random plot points and dispense information? |
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Overly Long Name |
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Do any of your main characters have names longer than three syllables? |
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Feminine Women Can Cook |
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Would "a clumsy cooking wench more comfortable with a frying pan than a sword" aptly describe any of your female characters? |
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Long-Running Book Series |
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How about a quintet or a decalogue? |
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Made of Iron |
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Is your hero able to withstand multiple blows from the fantasy equivalent of a ten pound sledge but is still threatened by a small woman with a dagger? |
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Filler |
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Do your characters spend an inordinate amount of time journeying from place to place? |
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Secret-Keeper |
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How about "a wise, mystical sage who refuses to give away plot details for his own personal, mysterious reasons"? |
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Half-Human Hybrid |
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Do you have a race prefixed by "half-"? |
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Thieves' Guild |
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Is the best organized and most numerous group of people in your world the thieves' guild? |
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Really Royalty Reveal |
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Is your main character the heir to the throne but doesn't know it? |
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Coming of Age Story |
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Is your story about a young character who comes of age, gains great power, and defeats the supreme badguy? |
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Battle Boomerang |
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Does your main character have a magic axe, hammer, spear, or other weapon that returns to him when he throws it? |
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Trapped in Another World |
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Does your novel contain characters transported from the real world to a fantasy realm? |
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Aerith and Bob |
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Do you see nothing wrong with having two characters from the same small isolated village being named "Tim Umber" and "Belthusalanthalus al'Grinsok"? |
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Plucky Comic Relief |
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Is your story about a crack team of warriors that take along a bard who is useless in a fight, though he plays a mean lute? |
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The Need for Mead |
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Do you think that "mead" is just a fancy name for "beer"? |
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Having a Blast |
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Do any of the magic users in your novel cast spells easily identifiable as "fireball" or "lightning bolt"? |
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Luke, I Am Your Father |
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Is the evil supreme badguy secretly the father of your main character? |
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Introdump |
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Does your novel contain a prologue that is impossible to understand until you've read the entire book, if even then? |
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Action Girl |
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Would "a fearless warrioress more comfortable with a sword than a frying pan" aptly describe any of your female characters? |
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The Good King |
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Is the king of your world a kindly king duped by an evil magician? |
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Slow-Paced Beginning |
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Does nothing happen in the first fifty pages?invoked |
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Little People |
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Does everybody under four feet tall exist solely for comic relief? |
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Mana |
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Do you ever use the term "mana" in your novel? |
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Bruiser with a Soft Center |
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How about "a powerful but slow and kind-hearted warrior"? |
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Role-Playing Game 'Verse |
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Is your novel based on the adventures of your role-playing group? |
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Follow the Leader |
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Is your book basically a rip-off of The Lord of the Rings?invoked |
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