Difference between revisions of "Abbreviations and Jargon"
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* 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. | * 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. | * 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.</ul> | + | * 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.</ul> | ||
==== Other ==== | ==== Other ==== | ||
Revision as of 12:59, 18 March 2006
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.
