Abbreviations and Jargon

RP-Related

• GM: The person who runs an RP. You've been reading about how to be one!
• PC: Player character. The characters the players are RPing as.
• NPC: Non-player character. A character who is not a player, like a shopkeeper, old man, or villan. RPed by the GM.
• RP, RPing: Roleplay, roleplaying. A sophisticated form of "let's pretend," roleplaying entails "being" someone else, some sort of character in an interactive story.
• IC: In character. In character actions are actions that a PC would feasibly take. An evil character, for example, would not be sweet and loving (not without some motivation anyway). It also refers to acting like one's character, i.e., acting IC.
• OOC: Out of character. Actions which a character would not take realistically, or things that the player would do. Talking about XP is an OOC sort of dialogue.
• Twink: A player who tries to cheat the system in an RP somehow. Synonomous with cheese-whizzer, min/maxer, munchkin, godmoder.
• XP: EXP, XP, Experience points. Players need these for their characters to gain levels and become stronger. The GM is responsible for doling these out.
• Checks: Die rolls used to determine success or failure of an action.
• Metagaming: Referring to game mechanics, particularly IC. Referring to the strength of enemies in HP, gaining XP, or other related things.
• &: Used as an abbreviation for "Elemaer"; this practice started because on Spleen's Trillian buddy list, buddies with Elemaer characters are sent to the top of alphabetical order with an ampersand before their screenname. Thus, an &CIRP is an Elemaer Character Interaction RP, and the &CT is the Elemaer Character Thread.
• CIRP