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  2. Powergaming - Wikipedia

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    Powergaming in roleplaying games can take several forms. One form is the deliberate creation of optimal player characters (PCs), with the aim of maximizing the power the player wields in the game world. This is known as min-maxing, due to the practice of maximizing desirable or "powerful" traits while minimizing underpowered or less useful ...

  3. Role-playing game terms - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Metagame - Wikipedia

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    The word metagame is composed of the Greek-derived prefix meta– (from μετά, meta, meaning "beyond") and the noun game. [4] The shorthand meta has been backronymed as "Most Effective Tactics Available" to tersely explain the concept.

  5. Role-playing video game - Wikipedia

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    A role-playing video game, role-playing game (RPG) or computer role-playing game (CRPG) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) that will undergo some form of character development by way of recording statistics.

  6. Bartle taxonomy of player types - Wikipedia

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    Killers, well-suited as "Clubs" (♣️), are, more than other player types, motivated by powergaming and eclipsing others. [28] They want to achieve first rank on the high score board or beat another speedrunner's time record. [29] [30]

  7. Category:Role-playing game terminology - Wikipedia

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  8. Massively multiplayer online role-playing game - Wikipedia

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    A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game.. As in role-playing games (RPGs), the player assumes the role of a character (often in a fantasy world or science-fiction world) and takes control over many of that character's actions.

  9. James Desborough (game designer) - Wikipedia

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    James Desborough wrote The Munchkin's Guide to Powergaming in 2000/2001, [2] winning an Origins Award for that work along with his co-authors Steve Mortimer and Phil Masters. [3] Desborough was a co-author of CS1: Cannibal Sector One he also briefly worked as the line editor for SLA Industries. [4] Desborough is also the owner of Postmortem ...