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A meter measured much like HP that depletes when you use magic, and depending on the game, regenerates over time or can only be regenerated through rest or potions. Mana is usually displayed as a blue bar beneath it's red counterpart, the HP bar.
Meditating is often used as a means to regenerate mana faster.
From Beat-em-ups to fighting games to modern FPS, one dude hitting another has made an enjoyable pastime.
Extra-planar creatures originally seen in Dungeons & Dragons, but have since appeared in many other games.
Micromanagement is the act of increasing the efficiency and longevity of units during a battle, or managing equipment, statistics and abilities on an obsessive level.
The concept of minimizing undesirable qualities of a character so as to maximize desirable qualities in order to achieve the most powerful character possible in an RPG.
A Miniature Giant Space Hamster is a large hyper-intelligent interstellar rodent that, through unknown means, has been reduced to the size of normal hamster.
Mythological creatures with the body of the human and the head of a bull. They are often found in video game dungeons, waiting for foolhardy players to stumble upon their lairs. Sometimes they're mindlessly violent, other times they're oddly peaceful and in tune with the world around them.
Frequently featured as a class in many RPGs, the monk often fights unarmed and unarmored.
Moral dilemmas presented to the player that often have a significant effect on the story or other characters.
Multiple endings is a term used to describe different outcomes or conclusions to a game based on the previous actions of the player.
Necromancers are spell casters who specializes in conjuring and controlling the undead.
Magic or divination involving the dead and departed. One that practices necromancy is generally referred to as a necromancer.
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
Want to make your character grow how YOU want? These games let you develop whatever skills you want at any time, in any order.
Radioactive particles in the air released by a nuclear explosion.
Nuclear war is a conflict in which nuclear weapons are used.
Female spirits often associated with a place or a land form and take the form of beautiful nude women.
An open source 3D graphics API used in computer and console games.
Orcs/Orks/Orques are a fictional race of tough humanlike creatures, often with green or black skin, originally coming from the Saxon word for the Normans during the invasion, meaning demon or foreigner.
Games that have had an Original Soundtrack album released.
A paladin is a holy warrior, who gains extra abilities through faith and devotion to a deity.
A large wild cat, which typically comes in either black, white and pink varieties.
A system in which the player is allowed to control multiple characters. Most commonly seen in role playing games. Can also be used to describe party systems in the MMORPG genre, which brings a group of players together to accomplish various tasks.
Combat that takes place in real time, but that can be paused to give commands to certain characters.
Pick Pocketing appears in many games as a way of obtaining information, items, or cash from people.
Piercing weapons are designed primarily for stabbing and puncturing to cause damage rather than slicing or cutting. Examples include knives, daggers, spears, lances, needles, shivs or improvised weapons such as ice picks.
Games where the player either can, or must, create all their protagonists as custom characters.
In some games, total immersion is helped along by allowing players to purchase and customize their own housing.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
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