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Below is a glossary of terms used throughout Mystical Realms.
Words in this color represent terms found throughout chat rooms and the fantasy gaming industry, both online and off.
Words displayed in this shade of green relate solely to Mystical Realms.
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AD&D Abbreviation of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, an RPG.
AFK Abbreviation of Away From Keyboard
AFW Abbreviation of Away From Window
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BBL Abbreviation of Be Back Later
Body Stat The Body Stat reflects the overall Skill Level a player grants her character. Body encompasses everything from strength to agility, magical weapons and armor.
BRB Abbreviation of Be Right Back
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Character When used in association with role-playing, a character, also known as a Player Character, usually refers to a made-up character created and controlled by a Player. Character can also mean a Non-Player Character or NPC, run by either a player or a Game Master.
Chat Keeper A Mystical Realms moderator that helps watch the chat. Chat Keeper's duties include helping new people, answering questions, watching for troublemakers and resolving conflicts.
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Expert Expert is a Skill Level that can be assigned by a Player for a character Stat. Expert means the Character has an abundance of ability/training in that area and would need a score of 11 or higher on a d20 for a successful roll. An example would be the drow thief who has trained for decades, adventured for years after that, and now has the power to back her words.
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Fyres Fyres
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Gamer A person that enjoys the hobby of Role-Playing, collectable card games and wargames; also computer-based variants of these games. .
Game Master A Mystical Realms moderator that runs games in chat. Game Master's duties include creating and maintaining a challenging yet interesting game setting, playing the role of all the NPCs not run by Players and makes the final decision on rule interpretations. Posting regularly and creating webpages are also part of their responsibilities. Game Masters of other RPGs may have different titles, such as Dungeon Master, referee or storyteller.
Grand Master Grand Master is a Skill Level that can be assigned by a Player for a character Stat. Grand Master means the Character has nothing left to learn in that area and would need a score of 5 or higher on a d20 for a successful roll. Grand Masters are extremely rare.
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IC
Innate Abilites
IRL
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LARP Live Action Role-Play, this type of role playing is accomplished when you actually act out scenes from the game or storyline.
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Magic Stat The Magic Stat reflects the overall Skill Level a player grants her character. Magic encompasses everything from the learned spells of wizards to divinely granted spells of priests and druids, enchanted items such as scrolls or rings. A character at Mystical Realms may have no magical ability but still have a Magic Stat rating due to enchanted items he carries. This does not mean the character can cast fireballs, the level is only used when the magical item is being employed.
Master Master is a Skill Level that can be assigned by a Player for a character Stat. Master means the Character is at the peak of their ability in that area and would need a score of 8 or higher on a d20 for a successful roll. They are so skilled they might have students, large libraries, and great magic. There should be few Masters, an example would be a High Priest of an evil cult.
Mind Stat The Mind Stat reflects the overall Skill Level a player grants her character. Mind encompasses rare talents such as psionics and other innate abilities.
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Non-Player Character These are Characters that are played by a Game Master or a Player Character.
Noobie
Novice Novice is a Skill Level that can be assigned by a Player for a character Stat. Novice means the Character has limited ability/training in that area and would need a score of 17 on a d20 for a successful roll. An example would be a youthful wizard that has practiced long and hard in necromancy, but can only cast a few, lesser spells. More powerful ones will come with further training and experience.
NPC Short for Non-Player Character
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OOC Abbreviation of Out of Character.
Out Of Character The speech and actions made by the Player to other players, not by the player's Character to other characters. Anything that relates to the real world outside of the game.
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PC Short for Player Character, this is the player's persona within the game.
PhatL00t Any powerful, expensive, hard to find magical item. Or a big treasure hoard.
Plane Plane
Player
Player Character
Psionic
Psionics
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Realm Keeper A Patron that has elected to run a realm of their creation by purchasing a Mystical Realms chat room and forum.
RK Abbreviation for Realm Keeper.
RL
Role Play
Role-Playing
RPG
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Skill Level The level assigned by a player for his character in one of the three stats. The skill levels range from totally lacking any ability to the greatest level one can hope to achieve.
Untrained
Novice
Skilled
Expert
Master
Grand Master
Skilled Skilled is a Skill Level that can be assigned by a Player for a character Stat. Skilled means the Character has ability/training in that area and would need a score of 14 or higher on a d20 for a successful roll. A well trained fighter or mage would be an example.
Stats Character Statistics. Also called Attributes. A character's physical and mental abilities, described numerically. For instance, Strength (the physical prowess of a character); Intelligence or IQ (the mental prowess of a character); Dexterity or Agility (the speed and limberness of a character); Constitution, Stamina or Health (the characters ability to withstand injury and illness) are often recorded as stats. Further stats or different ones may be used, depending on the game in question.
Mystical Realms uses three stats. These are broad terms, which incorporate most of the combat skills that are needed for combat within MR.
Mind
Body
Magic
Mind - Mind skills can range from telepathy, mind blasts, empathy, or even defensive traits such as mind walls, and seeing through illusions. Innate abilities are also figured into the mind stat.
Body - Body traits can be anything from high strength, to fast feet. With a high body score, you can physically smash apart an opponents head with your bare hands, swordplay obviously is part of this trait as well.
Magic - Magic ability involves the casting of spells, whether learned or granted by a deity. You dont have to be a wizard or priest to have a magic stat. Gordella, a goblin/elf hybrid, has no magical ability but does possess a magical ring of charming. Although she cant cast spells, she can use her ring and therefore has a Magic Stat of 11.
Each Stat is given a Skill Level:
Untrained
Novice
Skilled
Expert
Master
Grand Master
Magical items should have an Expert (11) or a Master (8) rating, with Master reserved for the more powerful and unique items.
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The First The First was a mage from a distant planet that discovered and traveled to Rosha. When The First arrived that planet had been untouched by man, her subsequent actions spawned the Mystical Storm that altered the world forevermore and ultimately created the plane of Zatrikion.
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Untrained Untrained is a Skill Level that can be assigned by a Player for a character Stat. Untrained means the Character has no ability in that area and would need a score of 20 on a d20 for a successful roll. An example would be a ranger without any psionic ability.
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Zatrikion Zatrikion is the name of the plane that the members of Mystical Realms play within.
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