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Advisors are experts (in their respective fields) whose job is to offer advice regarding everything from city planning to world domination.
Supernatural armor that moves on its own. This could be due to possession, magic or animatronics.
Barbarians in games are often known for their brute strength, large size compared to normal humans, appetite for meat and ale, general crudeness, and prowess in melee combat.
Classes are different archetypes and playstyles that players can choose to play their game with.
Crafting allows players to create their own items with the correct ingredients. It is used mainly in MMOs and RPGs.
A gaming genre of its own, but also frequently featured as a mini-game in other titles, especially RPGs.
Foraging is the ability to effectively gather food and drink from ones surroundings. Rangers, druids, and elves often excel in this skill.
Giants are tall humanoid beings, found in mythology and various fairy tales. They are usually portrayed as being slow-witted and quick to anger, though gentler kinds also exist.
The concept of affecting the universe through supernatural methods, breaking the fundamental laws of science.
Many games allow you to buy stuff, these are the dudes who help sell it to you. Typically they also engage in light conversation.
The act of taking on an in-game task; most often, these are provided to the player by an NPC. MMOs and RPGs are the primary users of this concept.
In MMORPGs and similar games, a raid is a (generally large) group of people working together to accomplish a goal.
Random Loot is a popular concept for dungeon crawler and MMO style games. In essence, monsters or objects drop something that is considered valuable to the player with random qualities.
A gathering of people who believe in the same higher power(s), and follow the rules laid out by the mortals chosen to be their prophets. Video games generally try to shy away from negatively portraying real religions to avoid controversy, however they make ample use of fictional in-game religions.
Two or more factions, either with the same or completely different goals, that constantly try to one-up each other. The player is sometimes forced to pick a side to root or work for during the struggle. Other times the rivalry is only mentioned in the plot.
Wolves are mammals closely related to dogs and are known for howling in moonlit forests and hunting in packs to pester players in numerous RPG games.
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