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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]
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.
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]
In role-playing games, a status effect is a temporary modification to a game character’s original set of stats that usually comes into play when special powers and abilities (such as spells) are used, often during combat. [1] It appears in numerous computer and video games of many genres, most commonly in role-playing video games.
Death on the Reik is the third part of The Enemy Within campaign, and picks up where the previous supplement, Shadows over Bogenhafen, ends.The characters become river traders on the River Reik, the largest waterway in the Empire, [1] and must interact with various encounters such as pirates and mutants in order to follow the thread of the campaign adventure. [2]
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.
The Battle for Wesnoth, a hex grid based computer game. A hex map, hex board, or hex grid is a game board design commonly used in simulation games of all scales, including wargames, role-playing games, and strategy games in both board games and video games. A hex map is subdivided into a hexagonal tiling, small regular hexagons of identical size.
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]