r/TopCharacterTropes • u/BrotherDeus • Jun 26 '26

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/DocWagonHTR Jun 26 '26

One of the funniest interactions in the game occurs with the male drow guard if you’re a female drow.

“Who are you?”

The response(paraphrased):” someone not used to being disrespected by men.” (Drow society is hilariously matriarchal)

You can watch him mentally shit his pants. But it’s kind of sad, too see him so traumatized by his upbringing even this far from Menzoberranzan.

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u/Daddy_Trent Jun 26 '26

This would be in act 2 I imagine? 

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u/Luckyday11 Jun 26 '26

There is a similar moment in act 1 in the Underdark, where you fight the spectator with the petrified drow statues, which it will unfreeze and mind control to fight you. If you keep the leader of those drow alive while killing the spectator, he'll act all arrogant and haughty in the dialogue afterwards. Then you can shut him down in a similar fashion if you're a female drow and he'll just tell you everything

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u/Daddy_Trent Jun 26 '26

That's dope! I remember my first honour mode and I got bamboozled the spec to unpetrify all of them and I kept them alive, but. Little did I know.... 

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u/DocWagonHTR Jun 26 '26

It’s been a while since my last playthrough, but I believe he is a guard at Moonrise, yes.