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  2. Experience point - Wikipedia

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    Arneson introduced a level-up system while playing a modification of Chainmail, for which Gygax was a co-author. [2] Dungeons & Dragons needed an abbreviation for "experience point", but EP was already in use for "electrum pieces", part of the currency system. One of TSR's first hires, Lawrence Schick, suggested the abbreviation to XP, to help ...

  3. Spawning (video games) - Wikipedia

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    In MMORPGs, it is typical for monsters or mobs of monsters to continually respawn to allow all players a chance to fight. Some of these games implement instances , which create a temporary copy of the game world and its characters, reserved for a subset of players; this allows each subset the chance to experience that part of the game without ...

  4. Old School RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.

  5. Bryophyte - Wikipedia

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    The term "Bryophyta" was first suggested by Braun in 1864. [18] As early as 1879, the term Bryophyta was used by German bryologist Wilhelm Schimper to describe a group containing all three bryophyte clades (though at the time, hornworts were considered part of the liverworts). [19] [8] G.M. Smith placed this group between Algae and Pteridophyta ...

  6. Buxbaumia - Wikipedia

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    Buxbaumia (bug moss, bug-on-a-stick, humpbacked elves, or elf-cap moss) [2] is a genus of twelve species of moss (Bryophyta). It was first named in 1742 by Albrecht von Haller and later brought into modern botanical nomenclature in 1801 by Johann Hedwig [3] to commemorate Johann Christian Buxbaum, a German physician and botanist who discovered the moss in 1712 at the mouth of the Volga River. [2]

  7. RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    The developers rewrote the game engine, producing a new version of the game with entirely three-dimensional graphics called RuneScape 2. A beta version of RuneScape 2 was released to paying members for a testing period beginning on 1 December 2003, and ending in March 2004. [62] Upon its official release, RuneScape 2 was renamed simply ...

  8. Ditrichaceae - Wikipedia

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    Bryophyta: Class: Bryopsida: Subclass: Dicranidae: Order: Ditrichales: Family: Ditrichaceae Limpr. Genera See text Ditrichaceae is a family of haplolepideous mosses ...

  9. Physcomitrella patens - Wikipedia

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    Physcomitrella patens is a synonym of Physcomitrium patens, [2] [3] the spreading earthmoss. [4] It is a moss , a bryophyte used as a model organism for studies on plant evolution, development, and physiology.