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Tower defense (TD) is a subgenre of strategy games where the goal is to defend a player's territories or possessions by obstructing the enemy attackers or by stopping enemies from reaching the exits, usually achieved by placing defensive structures on or along their path of attack. [1]
Stephanie Claire Bendixsen (born 31 March 1985 [1]) is an Australian video game critic, author, and is best known as one of the former presenters of the video game television programs Good Game and Good Game: Spawn Point, where she went by the gamertag "Hex", and screenPLAY.
Though new tactics games continued to be released on personal computers, tactical combat became more of a component in tactical role-playing games, [2] and tactical games grew more popular on handheld consoles. These complex but accessible games widened the appeal of turn-based tactics. [1]
A progress clock is a tabletop role-playing gamemaster (GM) tool for keeping track of ongoing events that cannot be handled within a single turn, such as the player characters' continuous headway toward defeating a challenge, the gradual approach of an enemy, or a time-limited window of opportunity. The GM draws a segmented circle to represent ...
Additional Yum Yums are handed out for advancing the plot, role-playing well, or making the GM snort lemonade out her nose. In the play example of Rollo the Superspy (eyeballing Isvestia across the ballroom floor), he can throw the GM a Yum Yum instead of rolling dice, granting him an automatic success in his attempt to impress Isvestia.
Random encounters were incorporated into early role-playing video games and have been common throughout the genre. [2] [3] [4] Placed and random encounters were both used in 1981s Wizardry [5] and by the mid-1980s, random encounters made up the bulk of battles in genre-defining games such as Dragon Warrior, [1] Final Fantasy, and The Bard's Tale. [6]
Role-playing games also have specialized slang and jargon associated with them. Besides the terms listed here, there are numerous terms used in the context of specific, individual RPGs such as Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), Pathfinder, Fate, and Vampire: The Masquerade. For a list of RPGs, see List of role-playing games.
See Lists of video games for related lists.. This is a comprehensive index of turn-based strategy video games, sorted chronologically.Information regarding date of release, developer, platform, setting and notability is provided when available.