Post by Zou ۞ on Feb 20, 2010 5:06:46 GMT -5
IC: In Character. This is when your words refer to your character and something related to him/her, such as dialogue, or actions, that he/she takes in the character realm, which is to say, in a roleplay.
OOC: Out Of Character. This is when you leave a comment and mark it "OOC" meaning that it has no relevance to your character. It is also OOC in the chat.
GM or DM: Game Master or Dungeon Master. These terms refer to a person that is controlling the events, time frame, environment, world, and NPC's inside of a roleplay adventure, or a social roleplay, or anything along those lines. The DM is a minor version of the GM, capable of controlling characters, but not canon ones, or characters that the GM created, and is limited in rewards he/she can give. The GM is the one that can control canon characters, has no reward limit, and has no limitations that the DM has.
Canon: On this forum there are two meanings for the word 'Canon.' The first meaning refers to a group of threads central to our plot. The plot based threads are called "Canons." Another definition for the word 'Canon' means "Official plot." Meaning that if you refer to something as Canon, that means it is from the actual story. If you call something from Bleach Canon, you are saying it is from the actual Bleach story written and drawn by Tite Kubo.
NPC: Non Player Character. This is a character that is not controlled by a player, and is used to further plot or other in adventures or social roleplays. Controlled by the GM or DM.
IMBA: A power that is Imbalanced. IMBA stands for Imbalanced. This means that a power or character has powers that are too strong without drawbacks, or too weak with heavy drawbacks. Most people don't do the ladder. This usually applies to a character that can do Captain Level things without repercussion.
PC: Playable Character. This is a character created and controlled by a player, such as yourself, which you train and RP with.
Firewalling: This is the act of separating your knowledge from that of your character. An example is, if someone is sneaking up on your character, but has done nothing to alert your character, your character will not know that he/she is being snuck up on. It says it in clear text, so you know, but unless you can come up with a legit reason for your character to know, they cannot know. They cannot pull the knowledge out of thin air like a god. Violation of this results in severe consequence.
Meta-Gaming: The act of violating firewalling.
Power Gaming: This is the act of controlling a character belonging to someone else. Example, person 1 slashes, and person 1 tries to say person 2 jumped out of the way without person 2 allowing such a command.
Flaming: A heated online argument that is unrelated to the forum. This is not allowed.
Trolling: Just being an asshole over the internet on the forum and on the chat just because you can and nobody can hurt you since nothing online is real. Don't do this. It ruins the experience of others.
RL: Real Life. Also referred to as IRL, this is when people speak of things in real life. It may come up as a term in a conversation, or as an example to justify something in RP.
Newb: A Newbie. Someone who is new at something.
Noob: Someone who may or may not be new, but honestly sucks at the activity in question, doing brainless things, asking brainless questions, and not listening to and/or heeding the advice of a more experienced player. Also used to define the extremely arrogant lot that cannot back up their talk.
God Modding: Mispelling of Godmoding & God Modding in rpg and forum settings, thus the meaning is the same. The term applies to "Godly-modification"; or "Godlike-modification" to a character, through skills such as evasion and the like, as well as the character's personality which usually consists of a superior "I know all, see all, and am all", et cetera. The singlemost annoying and obnoxious gamers on the planet. Tend to act like 7 year olds when they don't get their way during games of pretend, i.e. - Bang, you're dead! Yeah huh, I killed you and you can't play anymore! Those who believe they are gods never taking a hit. This is the most defiled form of Roleplaying. Don't do it.
God Modding Definition taken from NFRP.
WIP: Work In Progress. Added to the title of character apps or technique apps. This means that the thread in question is not completed, and therefore is not ready to be looked over by staff.
DE: Death Enabled. Any roleplaying thread with this label involves permanent damage to characters. Anything happening to a character in this thread is permanent.
NDE: Non Death Enabled. The vast majority of roleplay threads have this label. This means that nothing that happens to characters in the thread is permanent.
Gary Stew or Mary Sue: Gary Stew is for male, Mary Sue is for female. These are terms referring to a character that is seemingly perfect and awesome with lots of skills ability, positive traits, charisma, and likability, with lack of any real negative traits, flaws, etc. This is essentially a "Main Character" type of person. Making your RP character a Gary Stew or Mary Sue is frowned upon, and not accepted. All characters like this will be REJECTED!
OOC: Out Of Character. This is when you leave a comment and mark it "OOC" meaning that it has no relevance to your character. It is also OOC in the chat.
GM or DM: Game Master or Dungeon Master. These terms refer to a person that is controlling the events, time frame, environment, world, and NPC's inside of a roleplay adventure, or a social roleplay, or anything along those lines. The DM is a minor version of the GM, capable of controlling characters, but not canon ones, or characters that the GM created, and is limited in rewards he/she can give. The GM is the one that can control canon characters, has no reward limit, and has no limitations that the DM has.
Canon: On this forum there are two meanings for the word 'Canon.' The first meaning refers to a group of threads central to our plot. The plot based threads are called "Canons." Another definition for the word 'Canon' means "Official plot." Meaning that if you refer to something as Canon, that means it is from the actual story. If you call something from Bleach Canon, you are saying it is from the actual Bleach story written and drawn by Tite Kubo.
NPC: Non Player Character. This is a character that is not controlled by a player, and is used to further plot or other in adventures or social roleplays. Controlled by the GM or DM.
IMBA: A power that is Imbalanced. IMBA stands for Imbalanced. This means that a power or character has powers that are too strong without drawbacks, or too weak with heavy drawbacks. Most people don't do the ladder. This usually applies to a character that can do Captain Level things without repercussion.
PC: Playable Character. This is a character created and controlled by a player, such as yourself, which you train and RP with.
Firewalling: This is the act of separating your knowledge from that of your character. An example is, if someone is sneaking up on your character, but has done nothing to alert your character, your character will not know that he/she is being snuck up on. It says it in clear text, so you know, but unless you can come up with a legit reason for your character to know, they cannot know. They cannot pull the knowledge out of thin air like a god. Violation of this results in severe consequence.
Meta-Gaming: The act of violating firewalling.
Power Gaming: This is the act of controlling a character belonging to someone else. Example, person 1 slashes, and person 1 tries to say person 2 jumped out of the way without person 2 allowing such a command.
Flaming: A heated online argument that is unrelated to the forum. This is not allowed.
Trolling: Just being an asshole over the internet on the forum and on the chat just because you can and nobody can hurt you since nothing online is real. Don't do this. It ruins the experience of others.
RL: Real Life. Also referred to as IRL, this is when people speak of things in real life. It may come up as a term in a conversation, or as an example to justify something in RP.
Newb: A Newbie. Someone who is new at something.
Noob: Someone who may or may not be new, but honestly sucks at the activity in question, doing brainless things, asking brainless questions, and not listening to and/or heeding the advice of a more experienced player. Also used to define the extremely arrogant lot that cannot back up their talk.
God Modding: Mispelling of Godmoding & God Modding in rpg and forum settings, thus the meaning is the same. The term applies to "Godly-modification"; or "Godlike-modification" to a character, through skills such as evasion and the like, as well as the character's personality which usually consists of a superior "I know all, see all, and am all", et cetera. The singlemost annoying and obnoxious gamers on the planet. Tend to act like 7 year olds when they don't get their way during games of pretend, i.e. - Bang, you're dead! Yeah huh, I killed you and you can't play anymore! Those who believe they are gods never taking a hit. This is the most defiled form of Roleplaying. Don't do it.
God Modding Definition taken from NFRP.
WIP: Work In Progress. Added to the title of character apps or technique apps. This means that the thread in question is not completed, and therefore is not ready to be looked over by staff.
DE: Death Enabled. Any roleplaying thread with this label involves permanent damage to characters. Anything happening to a character in this thread is permanent.
NDE: Non Death Enabled. The vast majority of roleplay threads have this label. This means that nothing that happens to characters in the thread is permanent.
Gary Stew or Mary Sue: Gary Stew is for male, Mary Sue is for female. These are terms referring to a character that is seemingly perfect and awesome with lots of skills ability, positive traits, charisma, and likability, with lack of any real negative traits, flaws, etc. This is essentially a "Main Character" type of person. Making your RP character a Gary Stew or Mary Sue is frowned upon, and not accepted. All characters like this will be REJECTED!