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A core component of many hacks (especially of role-playing video games) is editing data such as character, item, and enemy properties. This is usually done either "by hand" (with a hex editor) if the location and structure of the data is known, or with a game-specific editor that has this functionality.
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.
As of October 28, 2013, Hex was the 11th most-funded video game on Kickstarter. [3] The game was officially released on January 26, 2016, and was playable on Windows, OS X and iOS. Hex: Shards of Fate started Closed Alpha testing on October 8, 2013. In April 2014, the game went into Closed Beta, which included all Kickstarter backers as well as ...
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]
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]
Play-by-post role-playing games or PBP RPGs refer to another type of text-based gaming. Rather than following gameplay in real-time, such as in MUDs, players post messages on such media as bulletin boards , online forums, Chatrooms (such as like AOL , hangouts and Yahoo chat) and mailing lists to which their fellow players will post role-played ...
Role-playing games often use polyhedral dice to resolve game actions. The set of rules of a role-playing game is known as its game system; the rules themselves are known as game mechanics. Although there are game systems which are shared by many games, for example, the d20 system, many games have their own, custom rules system. Game rules ...
Fiend is a term used in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game to refer to any malicious otherworldly creatures within the Dungeons & Dragons universe. These include various races of demons and devils that are of an evil alignment and hail from the Lower Planes. All fiends are extraplanar outsiders. Fiends have been considered among ...