So what's your favourite acronym?

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)?

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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