When did you first start playing RPGs and what were they? When I was teen, or possibly before then. It would probably have been D&D or Advanced D&D or Warhammer Fantasy back then. What was the most memorable part of those sessions? Building and exploring a strange world. Why did you start GMing? I really enjoy having a story that the players not only play in but can move in directions you did not foresee, creating a new story out of it. How long have you been GMing? Years and years on and off What systems have you GMed? D&D multiple editions, Warhammer Fantasy and soon Walking Dead What are the pleasures and pitfalls of GMing? Thinking on your feet, when the party inevitably does something or goes somewhere you did not think of. What was the most memorable part of the sessions you GMed? Any session where the players tackle it in new and unexpected ways. For example an expected battle is prevented/circumvented via other means or an extremely lucky roll, that means that the
Role Play Games are littered with acronyms from DM (or Dungeon Master) or GM (or Games Master), both of which are used interchangeably.
But you can roll further up to Role Play Games, or is it Roleplay Games, or even Roleplaying Games, or Role Playing Games..... confused, yep. Well the acronym stays the same at least RPG.
Then Tabletop (or is that Table Top) RPG enters from stage left, crying out ha har! You forgot me! then you have TTRPG, as why not elongate an acronym to make it longer.
So with this mess kicking it all off, what other acronyms litter the game(s)?
But you can roll further up to Role Play Games, or is it Roleplay Games, or even Roleplaying Games, or Role Playing Games..... confused, yep. Well the acronym stays the same at least RPG.
Then Tabletop (or is that Table Top) RPG enters from stage left, crying out ha har! You forgot me! then you have TTRPG, as why not elongate an acronym to make it longer.
So with this mess kicking it all off, what other acronyms litter the game(s)?
- AC – Armor Class
- d% or d100 – A percentile die roll, either by rolling a round 100-sided die or two 10-sided dice.
- AoO/OA – Attack of Opportunity or Opportunity Attack
- AoE – Area of Effect
- AP – Action Points
- BTB – By the Book
- CP – Character Points
- Crit – Critical Hit
- DC – Difficulty Class
- nat 1 – fumble
- HP – Hit Points
- IC – In Character
- LoE – Line of Effect
- LoS – Line of Sight
- Metagame – Metagaming is when players discuss the rules or things their characters would not know versus roleplaying and keeping conversation in character and in-game.
- Min-max – Using the rules of the game to try and squeeze our any and every advantage for your character rather than designer a character to roleplay with strengths and flaws.
- Natural # – The result of the actual dice roll, before any modifications are made.
- NPC – Non-Player Character
- OOC – Out of Character
- PvP – Player vs Player
- RAW – Rules as Written
- SP – Skill Points
- TPK – Total Party Kill
- XP – Experience Points
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