Talk:Role-playing game terms

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[edit] Natural 1 and 20

I have merged the content of the Natural_1 and the Natural_20 articles into this one. Feel free to rewrite this content if the original is not written terribly well or should be combined or shortened. --Xyzzyplugh 15:47, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Looks good to me, but I think we should keep specific-RPG terms at least slightly separate from almost-all-RPG terms; as such, I've put in a subsection. Percy Snoodle 08:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article organization

Yikes! This page looks like it needs some serious re-organization. I'm going to come up with a scheme and post it here for discussion. :-) אמר Steve Caruso (poll) 16:25, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

My suggeston:

  • Game terms:
    • Game master
      • Dungeon Master
      • Storyteller
      • Story guide
      • Troup gaming
    • System
      • (Insert examples of systems here)
    • Adventure/Run
    • Campaign
    • Setting
    • Genre
    • Goals
      • GNS Theory
    • House rules


  • Character terms:
    • Character
    • Character sheet
    • Attributes
    • Skills
    • Powers
    • Saving throws
    • Points
      • Hit points
      • Magic points
      • Experience points
    • Level


  • Dice terms
    • XdX notation
    • Success
      • Critical success
    • Failure
      • Critical failure


  • Player terms
    • "In-character" vs "Out of character"
      • Out of character knowledge
    • Derogatory terms
      • Power gamer
      • Munchkin
      • Twink


  • System-specific terms
    • d20 terms
      • Natural 20
      • "Take a 20"
      • Natural 1
    • In Nomine terms
      • Divine Success
      • Diabolical failure
      • Risk
    • (etc., etc., etc.)

This breaks things down into several categories: Game, Character, Dice, Player, and System-specific terms. Sounds good? אמר Steve Caruso (poll) 16:44, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

With no objections, I'm going to start drafting a revised version of the article. אמר Steve Caruso (poll) 02:10, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

See my comments on your talk page. You essentially took encyclopedic prose and made it into a non-alphabetical glossary that has (to me at least) less encyclopedic value. I'd keep the prose but I do agree it could use some reorganizing. Amatulic 17:50, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New article draft

I've created an example page to display how the new article will look as I work on it. User:The_Thadman/RPG_terms_draft אמר Steve Caruso (poll) 14:40, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Does This Term Belong Here?

I added a couple of terms previously which Percy Snoodle removed. I don't really have any argument with removing "handwaving", because although used, it is more of an import from math/physics, as Snoodle said, and not specific to RPGs. However, "rules lawyer" has been a major term in RPGs, at least in my neck of the woods, for over twenty years. Shouldn't it be included on this page? Artemis-Arethusa 16:55, 24 December 2006 (UTC)