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Eternity's End Glossaries




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Eternity's End Glossary

 

- 3pp: Third Party Publisher
- 4FWG: 4 Fantasy Wind Games (3pp)

- AC: Armor Class
- AMF: Anti-Magic Field
- AoE: Area of Effect; can refer to the area affected by a spell, or as a generic designator for spells (especially damaging spells) that affect an area rather than a single target (ie. fireball's AoE is a 20ft radius; fireball is an AoE spell)
- AoO: Attack of Opportunity
- atk: Attack

- BAB: Base Attack Bonus
- BBEG: Big Bad Evil Guy. The main (or at least a very major) villain in a campaign.
- Bbn: Barbarian
- Bg or bg: Background, particularly a write-up of one for a character.
- Brd: Bard

- CdG: Coup de Grace
- CE: Chaotic Evil
- CG: Chaotic Good
- Cha: Charisma
- Clr: Cleric. Also sometimes seen as Cle.
- CLW: Cure Light Wounds. A basic healing spell.
- CMW: Cure Moderate Wounds. A basic healing spell.
- CN: Chaotic Neutral
- Con: Constitution
- CR: Challenge Rating
- CSW: Cure Serious Wounds. A strong healing spell.
- CT'X': Class Tier, where X = 1-4. Class Tiers are based on utility and address the quadratic wizard vs. linear fighter issues and frequently come up as part of discussion of policy and game balance. Compare PT'X'

- d[X]: A die of [X] sides; for example, a 20 sided die is d20. A standard set of polyhedral dice contains a d4, one to three d6s, a d8, two d10s (one usually a different color or numbered 00-90 for use as a d%), a d12, and a d20. Typical non-standard types include the d16, d24, and d32. Unusual variants such as the d5 and d7 also known to exist. With the advent of dice rolling software, [X] can potentially be any whole number.
- DC: Difficulty Class
- Dex: Dexterity
- DM: Dungeon Master (in Eternity's End we use the Term GM instead, DM is a trademark property of D&D)
- dmg: Damage. Usually the amount an attack or spell deals, or the amount taken by a creature.
- DoT: Damage over Time; refers to effects that do damage over several rounds, or as a generic designator for a spell that deals damage over several round (eg. Melf's acid arrow is a DoT spell)
- DR: Damage Reduction
- DSP: Dream Scarred Press (3pp)
- Drd: Druid
- DvR: Divine Rank

- ECL: Effective Character Level
- EE: Eternity's End
- EL: Encounter Level
- EM: Eternity Mote, the primary currency used in Eternity's End. Typically speaking 1 EM is equivalent 1 Gold for mechanical purposes. Gold can be used in adventures, but not at the inn and vice versa.

- Fort: Fortitude Save
- FGG: Frog God Games (3pp)
- Ftr: Fighter

- GM: Game Master
- GP: Gold pieces

- HP: Hit Points (do not use HP to abbreviate Hero Points)

- Int: Intelligence
- IC: In Character, denotes something that happens within the contest of the story, compare OOC

- JBE: Jon Brazer Enterprises

- LA: Level Adjustment
- LE: Lawful Evil
- LG: Lawful Good
- LN: Lawful Neutral
- LPJ: Louis Porter Junior (3pp)

- MMO: Massive Multiplayer Online
- Mnk: Monk

- N, NN, or TN: Neutral, or True Neutral. Neutral on both alignment axes.
- NE: Neutral Evil
- NG: Neutral Good
- NPC: Non-Player Character, refers to any sentient being run by a game master. Compare PC.

- OGC: Open Gaming Content. Material published under the OGL.
- OGL: Open Gaming License. An "open source" concept for d20 rules that allows them to be used and published by third party sources. Not all d20 material is OGL; generally, only hard stats are OGL, and occasionally not even that for certain products.
- OOC: Out of character, denotes something that happens outside the context of the story, such as players talking to each other about real life situations.
- OP: Over Powered, or Original Poster, see context.

- Pal: Paladin
- PaO: Polymorph Any Object. A sor/wiz spell that can turn one thing into another; considered to be very powerful and/or broken.
- PBP: Play by Post
- PBS: Point Blank Shot
- PC: Player Character, refers to characters operated by players rather than GMs.
- PF: Pathfinder
- PFS: Pathfinder Society
- PM: Private Message. A mail function that allows users of the forum to send each other info without posting it for all to see. At the top right of the screen is a link that tells you about notifications.
- PrC: Prestige Class
- Psi: Psion
- PT'X': Player Tier 'X' where X = 1-3. This refers to player tiers as outlined in the EE Player's Manual. Compare PT'X'.
- PvE: Player versus Environment. Refers to when the players combat NPC opponents primarily. Compare PvP.
- PvP: Player versus Player. Refers to when the players combat other players. Compare PvE.
- PW: Psychic Warrior

- RAI: Rules as Intended
- RAW: Rules as Written
- Ref: Reflex Save
- Rgr: Ranger
- Rog: Rogue
- RPG: Role-Playing Game

- SK: Soulknife
- SGG: Super Genius Games (3pp)
- Sor: Sorcerer
- SR: Spell Resistance
- SRD: System Reference Document. At EE we utilize http://www.d20pfsrd.com/ and http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/
- Stats: The statistical representation of a character, or more specifically a set of ability scores.
- Str: Strength

- Tabletop: The original format of playing RPG's, done physical on a table top with other gamers present.
- THAC0: To Hit AC Zero. An old D&D term that refers to how the probability of a creature hitting its target with an attack was figured. THAC0 is roughly analagous to BAB.
- TPK: Total Party Kill (also a 3pp publisher)
- TWF: Two-Weapon Fighting

- UMD: Use Magic Device

- WBL: Wealth by level (guidelines). Refers to the XP and Wealth chart in the EE Players Manual listing the value of gear and treasure a character is assumed/expected to have by a certain character level.
- Will: Will, or Willpower, Save
- Wis: Wisdom
- Wiz: Wizard
- Wld: Wilder

- XP: Experience Points

Alternate Faction Names:
The Lost: The Unaffiliated
The Society of Planeswalkers: SoP, The Society, Planeswalkers
Ordo Lux Aeturnus: The Order of Eternal Light
The Mingott Cartel: Morkwert's, The Cartel, The Mercs
Goners: The Fated
Skull N Bones: Scoundrels
The Mysterium: The Schollars, The Veil
The Eternals: Knights of Eternity, Arbiters of Justice
Chimarae: The Wylders, The Hedge Dwellers, Fey-Touched, Otherkin, The Dreamers, The Displaced
Technoratti: Technocrats, Technocracy, Steampunks, Technomancers
The Brotherhood of Ascendancy: The Brotherhood, The Monks
The Schaduwen Clan: The Deathless, The Schaduwen
The Nethermancer's Guild: Nethermancers

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Commoner's Glossary

This list could go on infinitely, but here are few you are more likely to see...

 

404 - Page not found (no data)
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
AFK - Away from Keyboard
AWOL - Absent WithOut Leave (gone without permission)
B&W - Black and white
BTW - By The Way
FIFO - First in, first out (a method of production)
FUBAR - Fracked* Up Beyond All Recognition (usually used while exasperation to signal distress)
Hooah - is a phrase by soldiers "referring to or meaning anything and everything except no." Heard, understood and acknowledged
IMHO - In My Honest/Humble Opinion
IMO - In My Opinion
IRL - In Real Life
J/K - Just Kidding
KK - OK, okay
LARP - Live action role-playing
noob/newbie - a new member
OMG - Oh my God (exasperation)
OC - Original Content
OL - Online
OP - Original Poster, also Over Powered, see context.
RIP - Rest in peace (usually said to the dead)
Shoop - The process of altering graphics with photoshop or GIMP software
SOP- Standard Operating Procedure
TBA- To Be Announced (sometimes TBD, to be decided)
TMI - Too Much Information
Woot! - An expression of delight
YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary (your opinion/experience may differ)

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In-Character Dialect Lexicon
This jargon is some phrases that are common in the pub of Eternity's End. Additional terms will be added as they become naturally incorporated.

 

This list will be added to periodically as new phrases are crafted and catch on in game.

ANTHILL - City or town.

BARMY - Insane. As in, "The winds of Pandemonium'll drive a body barmy if he stays too long." Barmies are insane folks, especially those of Eternity's End who've been "touched" by the impossible bigness of the planes.

BERK - A fool, especially one who got himself into a mess when he should have known better.

CUTTER - A complimentary term that refers to anybody, male or female. It suggests a certain amount of resourcefulness or daring, and so it's a lot better than calling someone a berk. OOC: This will generally refer to anyone level 2-9

DARK - Anything secret is said to be dark. "Here's the dark of it," is a way of saying "I've got a secret and I'll share it with you."

FRED - At Eternity's End, the living suits of armor that can be asked for directions, but less specifically, any guide.

GATE-TOWN - A town or city with a gate to Eternity's End, more commonly, one that has a gate to somewhere else also, generally used as a transit point by the adventurers of Eternity's End.
Towns with gates in them or near them a common term for adventurers. "Yeah, room 32, the Gate town is just to the north and that will get you to the right city."

GETTIN' WRAITH'D - Executed, possibly destroyed permanently. A specific reference to the voidwraiths of Eternity's End and what happens to someone who draws their attention.

GIVE 'EM THE LAUGH - To escape or slip through the clutches of someone. Rogue's generally compare the best stories of giving the laugh at the pub... Anyone can get caught and die to return to Eternity's End, but only the best can give 'em the laugh...

GONER used in hushed whispers by the older patrons of the taproom. Yeah, he's a goner...

 

The reference specifically refers to the idea that the person is an affiliate of Mr. Gone. This can imply several things such as "being untrustworthy, not being able to guard secrets well, being capable of permanently dying or perhaps a potential ally/enemy, depending on who is using the phrase.

GRAYBEARD - A sage or scholar. This term refers to the stereotypical wizened old man but can apply to any learned intellectual.

GREAT RING, GREAT WHEEL - The Outer Planes, often depicted in maps and diagrams (which are often misleading) as a ring. This also refers to their infinite size, another allusion to the endlessness of a ring.
It should be noted that while this is an IC term, it's not the full extent of the cosmology.

HIVE - Refers to the Inn of Eternity's End as it is a virtual hive of activity as there is always something going on somewhere.

MARK - The business of cheating someone, whether it's of their cash, honor, or trust. Often times the target is even referred to as "Mark", or "The Mark".

MOTES - The slang/common term for Eternity Motes. Other motes exist of course, especially for caster components, but generally speaking, everyone knows which motes are the most important...

PLANAR - Any being native to a plane other than the Prime Material Plane. These are living beings, not petitioners.

PLANE-TOUCHED - A planar crossbreed. Any offspring of a planar native and a human. Tieflings are plane-touched, as are aasimar and genasi. Alufiends and cambions are also considered plane-touched.

PLANESWALKER - Any hero who travels the planes looking for adventure, motes, or glory - a plane-traveling adventurer. Usually, to refer to someone as a planewalker carries a tone of some respect, for such individuals are considered capable, knowledgeable, and experienced. OOC this term isn't ever used to describe anyone under level 10. The term also implies that the "planeswalker" is subject to banishment, binding and other hazards when on material planes.

POWER - A being of incredible might, drawing energy from those who worship it and able to grant spells to priests. Also called a deity or god. Powers are not at all uncommon at Eternity's End.

PRIME - The Prime Material Plane or someone from that plane. Also a single prime-material world. OOC: Players are NOT primes, even if they once were.

RENTING OUT THIRTEEN - Renting out room thirteen means the person in question is irrevocably destroyed and lost to all of time, even if they didn't pass into room 13 specifically. "Bob, no, he's not coming back... he decided to rent out 13 instead."

RUBE - A naive or clueless person, but not necessarily a prime. Often-times this term's used to describe any new arrival at Eternity's End.

RULE OF THREES - One of the fundamental rules of the multiverse: Things tend to happen in threes.

SCRAGGED - Arrested or caught.

SPELLSLINGER - A caster, more specifically a wizard or sorcerer, but not necessarily.

TOP-SHELF - Greatest or best available in any comparison, refers specifically to the choice liquors Thugruck has behind the bar on the "top shelf".

TURN STAG - To betray somebody or use treachery. Saying "He turned stag" is about the worst thing that can be said about a cutter.

YAWN, THE - The state of being bored: "This place gives me the yawn." This is highly offensive thing to say about someone in the pub as those that have been at Eternity's End struggle to stave off boredom throughout eternity, and as the saying goes "Bored people are boring" which translates directly to "Bored people have negative and infectious attitudes" among the old-timers at the pub.