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  2. Attribute (role-playing games) - Wikipedia

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    While a character rarely rolls a check using just an ability score, these scores, and the modifiers they create, affect nearly every aspect of a character's skills and abilities." [2] In some games, such as older versions of Dungeons & Dragons the attribute is used on its own to determine outcomes, whereas in many games, beginning with Bunnies ...

  3. Role-playing game terms - Wikipedia

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    Character class is an occupation, profession, or role assigned to a game character to highlight and differentiate their abilities and specializations. [9] Character sheet: A record of a player character in a role-playing game, including whatever details, notes, game statistics, and background information a player would need during a play session.

  4. Character class - Wikipedia

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    The career works like a class with abilities (known in WFRP as skills and talents) added to the character based on the chosen career. [9] However, as the player advances and gains more experience he or she may choose a new career according to a predefined career path or change to a completely different career. [9]

  5. Character class (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

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    A character class is a fundamental part of the identity and nature of characters in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.A character's capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses are largely defined by their class; choosing a class is one of the first steps a player takes to create a Dungeons & Dragons player character. [1]

  6. Statistic (role-playing games) - Wikipedia

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    A skill represents the learned knowledge and abilities of a character. Skills are known by various names, including proficiencies, abilities, powers, talents and knacks. During character creation, a player character's skills are generally chosen from a long list. A character may have a fixed number of starting skills, or they may be paid for ...

  7. Status effect - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Role-playing game - Wikipedia

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    A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, [1] [2] or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making regarding character ...

  9. Magic (game terminology) - Wikipedia

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    Magic or mana is an attribute assigned to characters within a role-playing or video game that indicates their power to use special magical abilities or "spells". Magic is usually measured in magic points or mana points, shortened as MP. Different abilities will use up different amounts of MP. [1]