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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.
Treants (Ents) are walking, talking trees. Typically they move and speak extremely slowly relative to most other creatures.
Sometimes it's hard to resist the urge to accumulate a vast amount of valuables.
They possess even greater knowledge than old men with beards.
Primitive community based around common ancestry or interests.
Trolls are a mythical race of creatures that have been interpreted many different ways in games.
Reptiles known for their hard shells.
Twinking is a tactic used primarily in MMOs where low level characters are given high level equipment in order to earn experience faster. The items are typically obtained by a person with a high level character with the intention of giving them to one of their own other characters.
Weapons designed to be wielded with both hands, typically due to their size in relation to the one wielding them. Examples include longswords, claymores, lances, scythes, and giant hammers among others.
Bosses that are designed to not be beaten; however, sometimes these bosses can finally be beaten at a later point in the game.
The Undead is an umbrella term describing creatures that do not exhibit the key fundamental attributes that are associated with life, such as respiration, and blood circulation. They are divided into two main categories: Ethereal and Corporeal, depending on whether or not they have a body.
Video games contain a lot of activities for players to do underwater, from exploration to combat. Sometimes games treat water as simple low gravity movement, while other games treat underwater more realistically.
Unicorns are mythological creatures, usually thought of as magical, intelligent horse-like entities with a single horn on their forehead. They can be fierce forest protectors and are a symbol of chastity and moral pureness.
Weapons can often be upgraded with new attachments, augmentations, or magical enchantments. These upgrades result in the original item being more powerful than originally intended.
Incredibly grotesque, but incredibly useful.
Games with vehicles that can be controlled. This applies to games that AREN'T focused on just driving, but just happen to have a vehicle segment or the ability to pilot one.
Vampires are undead, nocturnal creatures that subsist on blood. They have superhuman powers and are sometimes able to shape-shift. They are weak against sunlight, foreign objects stuck in and left in their hearts, decapitation and sometimes holy water and crosses.
Items found in video games that serve little or no use to the player, other than to be sold to NPC vendors for money.
Things are not always as they appear. Just walk straight through that wall.
A walrus is a marine mammal that lives mostly in the arctic regions of the world. They have large brown bodies, flippers, tusks, and a "moustache".
War is a series of organized conflicts carried on by force of arms between two or more nations or groups. Whether it never changes or has already changed is up for debate.
An individual who specializes in armed combat.
WASD, or WADS, is the most common and often the default setting to move the player character in computer games with a first or third person perspective.
Realistically rendered water can really immerse you in a game. Just don't try to dive into your TV!
A biological entity with the innate ability to control the behavior and direction of water using little to no physical contact.
Games that feature musical instruments as weapons, whether that be by smashing them over an enemy's head or by firing projectiles via a quick jam session.
Variable and dynamic simulation of weather conditions can be used to add variety, atmosphere (a rainy day in an RPG) and/or challenge (rain on the racetrack in a driving game) to a game.
Being learned scholars and masters of the arcane arts, wizards wield great power by manipulating magical energy for the forces of good and evil.
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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