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A condition which affects a character's effectiveness, either positively or negatively. Common examples include Poison or Haste.
Using stealth often requires the player to accomplish their objective without being detected by enemies. Methods of detection can vary from game to game, and can be based on an enemy's line of sight, how quiet the player is, or even how the player interacts with the environment.
Stealth kills are special kills in video games that usually occur when the AI is not aware of the threat of the player.
Water vaporization usually represented in video games as a particle effect.
Moving to the left or right without rotating the body axis. The technique, also called side-stepping, is useful in FPS games to avoid incoming fire without turning away from a target.
Like a critical hit, this is a special action invoked from certain attacks in games or caused randomly on attacks by a character's statistic. It causes opponents to lose the ability to attack back for a certain period of time, and usually invokes the hit character to go into a special animation.
The act of taking one's own life.
A magician who specializes in the arcane arts of summoning. Conjurers are able to call forth otherworldly beasts and guardians to their aid.
Summoning involves bringing a distant ally into battle to either perform a single, devastating attack or to fight on the behalf of the summoner.
Super Speed is the ability for a character to travel at speeds normally unattainable by regular humans. Super speed can be a stock super power by characters such as the Flash & Sonic the Hedgehog, or a technologically enhanced ability like Nomad in Crysis.
Supply and Demand are the two fundamental forces that guide an economy. Many games feature these two forces in either a self-contained or player-driven fashion.
Enemies that are small, deal relatively low damage, and have low health, but make up for it by attacking in large numbers. Examples include Flood infection forms from Halo, Trites from Doom 3, or Crawlers from Resistance: Fall of Man.
Propelling oneself with kinetic usage of limbs while submerged in liquid (or otherwise fluid material).
Tacticians are those that focus their energies on formulating strategies to engage and overcome adversaries and obstacles.
Tailoring is the process of crafting clothing through the sewing and cutting of fabrics. It is a popular trade skill in many RPG's.
A tank is a role in an MMO game whose objective is to hold the enemy's attention and protect group members from harm. A defensive-natured class such as a warrior, barbarian, or paladin is typically suited for this role.
Whether with a button press or menu, taunts destroy friendships and can even make the computer go crazy.
The ability to move from one area to another instantaneously - typically through some sort of special power or device.
Whether by item or otherwise, temporary invincibility provides the user a brief moment where they are impervious to attack.
In many MMOs, some items, typically keys, will disappear from your inventory once you log out.
Many online games allow text chat with other players.
Many games that feature a theft mechanic also include a some form of risk or punishment. Other games just let players steal things as if it's a perfectly normal thing to do.
Throwing weapons include knives, shurikens, axes, darts or even explosives such as grenades and molotov cocktails.
Tinkering is a tradeskill typically reserved for gnomes. It involves the crafting of machinery and gadgets using gears and sprockets sometimes powered by steam or magic.
Anguish of body or mind. Can be used by authority figures to extract sensitive information that would not be given under normal circumstances.
Tracking is a skill or ability used by classes such as Rangers which allows the player to quickly locate an NPC.
Dragging a line of deadly monsters to a zone line or safe area in order to escape the penalties associated with death.
A trainer is a NPC with the ability to teach the Main Character new skills, improve upon old ones or simply raise attributes once certain conditions are met. (Not to be confused with mentor.)
A mechanical system designed to capture or cause harm. Either the player can set traps for their enemies or others set them for the player.
A trash mob is any monster that is not a boss in dungeons, primarily seen in RPGs and MMOs.
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