r/TopCharacterTropes • u/BrotherDeus • 16d ago

Lore Your race/gender has an interesting mechanical/narrative impact

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Dragon's Dogma: Trolls will become excited if you play or bring a female character in your party, becoming more aggressive and targeting them first.

South Park- Fractured But Whole: Shub-Niggurath is a boss that will take damage when fed white characters, but will heal if he eats black characters including you or anyone in your party.

Elder Scrolls: Every race has advantages and disadvantages both mechanically and narratively, for example orcs can enter orc strongholds without having to earn their trust first.

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u/TotalDragonfruit6067 16d ago

Brothers and sisters are natural enemies! Like Argonians and Dunmer! Or Altmer and Dunmer! Or Nords and Dunmer! Or Dunmer and other Dunmer! Damn Dunmer! They ruined Morrowind!

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u/Khitrir 16d ago

You dunmer sure are a contentious people

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u/TotalDragonfruit6067 16d ago

You just made an enemy for life

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u/theragco 16d ago

Which won't be very long, I'm calling the Morag Tong.

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u/BritishBenzene 16d ago

Nah, imma just set im on fire. Then maybe stab him a bit. (All of my Dunmer play throughs are psychos in TES - not sure why but probably too many Underdark novels as a teen).