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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]
Adventure: A set of game sessions united by characters and by narrative sequence, setting or goal. [1] [2]Armor Class (or AC): The difficulty to hit a specified target, abstracted from its dodging capacity and armor.
Player versus environment (PvE, also known as player versus monster (PvM) and commonly misinterpreted as player versus entity) is a term used for both single player and online games, particularly MMORPGs, CORPGs, MUDs, other online role-playing video games and survival games to refer to fighting computer-controlled enemies [1] - in contrast to PvP (player versus player) which is fighting other ...
Making any enemy within range act in the player's best interest. Making the player character act on his/her own, usually not to the player's interest. Increasing the amount of actions the target can perform in a turn. Decreasing the amount of actions the target can perform in a turn (or even skipping the target's turn).
Turn-based tactics is a video game genre. Chris Crawford, [1] Julian Gollop, Strategic Simulations, and Blue Byte developed early turn-based tactical games, [2] which were often inspired by traditional tactical wargames played on tabletops. [3]
A tank behind a tall hill would not be able to see an enemy tank on the other side of the hill. Therefore, the first tank does not have a line of sight to the enemy tank. Conversely, a squad of soldiers atop the hill may be able to see both tanks, though the tanks may not be able to see them (since the tank's upward line of sight is limited).
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]
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 ...