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			;Fake Geek Girl:
			:Originally, a '''Queen Bee''' or a '''Booth Babe''' (q.v.) or a derogatory term for a female cosplayer. Now more commonly used as an attack on the stereotypical view that women in general do not participate in nerdy hobbies or do so with ulterior motives. (In other words, people do not usually directly call others fake geek girls; they accuse others of calling people fake geek girls, as a way to indicate that they are wrong to do so.)


	;Fanon: Common fan assumptions about a particular fictional work. The line between fanon and canon is heavily blurred in an RPG, which often causes the [[metaplot]] to trample the unique combination of assumptions and play experiences which builds each individual GM's campaign world.		;Fanon: Common fan assumptions about a particular fictional work. The line between fanon and canon is heavily blurred in an RPG, which often causes the [[metaplot]] to trample the unique combination of assumptions and play experiences which builds each individual GM's campaign world.

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	;Farnsworth Combat: Any combat system where injury does not cause accumulated negative effects until zero or fewer life counters (such as hit points) remain, at which point the stricken character falls over dead (or badly injured and bleeding). Derived from the ''Futurama'' episode '''When Aliens Attack''', during which Prof. Hubert Farnsworth utters the line, "Cough, then fall over dead."		;Farnsworth Combat: Any combat system where injury does not cause accumulated negative effects until zero or fewer life counters (such as hit points) remain, at which point the stricken character falls over dead (or badly injured and bleeding). Derived from the ''Futurama'' episode '''When Aliens Attack''', during which Prof. Hubert Farnsworth utters the line, "Cough, then fall over dead." Also called '''Critical Existence Failure.'''

108.213.69.196: Replaced old outdated links under Deus-Ex-DMing with new up to date ones. Cheers

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	;Deus-Ex-DMing: A situation where the [[Game Master]] screws over the [[player]]s by pulling some arbitrary element the players "forgot to consider" out of his ass. Can be extended to any situation where the GM complicates the [[PC]]s' lives with something arbitrary that they haven't had to deal with until now.		;Deus-Ex-DMing: A situation where the [[Game Master]] screws over the [[player]]s by pulling some arbitrary element the players "forgot to consider" out of his ass. Can be extended to any situation where the GM complicates the [[PC]]s' lives with something arbitrary that they haven't had to deal with until now.
	:Origin: [http://~~archive~~.~~gamespy~~.com/~~comics/nodwick/ffn/ffn087.htm~~ A particular episode] of the webcomic [http://~~archive~~.~~gamespy~~.com/~~comics/nodwick/ffn/ffn.htm~~ "Full Frontal Nerdity"], by Aaron Williams.		:Origin: [http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=96 A particular episode] of the webcomic [http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=6 "Full Frontal Nerdity"], by Aaron Williams.

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	;D20: A twenty-sided die; also a generic roleplaying system controlled by [[Wizards of the Coast]]. The [[d20 system]] is a customizable generic system based on a twenty-sided [[dice]] (hence the name), and reusable freely by authors under certain terms and conditions. These terms and conditions include the need to seek explicit approval to refer to the game as supporting "d20" (a controlled trademark), and the provision that certain key rules must be omitted from third-party games, thus forcing [[player]]s to purchase books produced by [[Wizards of the Coast]] in order to obtain them. The impact of the d20 system on the hobby has been considerable, and players are divided as to whether the strong adoption of a common system for games has simplified and streamlined the hobby, or whether it has harmed the hobby by reducing diversity and forcing games to be written with a system which does have documented flaws and is not necessarily ideal for every [[setting]].		;D20: A twenty-sided die; also a generic roleplaying system controlled by [[Wizards of the Coast]]. The [[d20 system]] is a customizable generic system based on a twenty-sided [[dice]] (hence the name), and reusable freely by authors under certain terms and conditions. These terms and conditions include the need to seek explicit approval to refer to the game as supporting "d20" (a controlled trademark), and the provision that certain key rules must be omitted from third-party games, thus forcing [[player]]s to purchase books produced by [[Wizards of the Coast]] in order to obtain them. The impact of the d20 system on the hobby has been considerable, and players are divided as to whether the strong adoption of a common system for games has simplified and streamlined the hobby, or whether it has harmed the hobby by reducing diversity and forcing games to be written with a system which does have documented flaws and is not necessarily ideal for every [[setting]].

	;D66 ~~like~~ the D100 case but using six side dice, and therefore has only 36(6*6) possible results.		;D66: Like the D100 case but using six side dice, and therefore has only 36(6*6) possible results.

	;D666: An apparent example of the d- notation, but in fact a special case; there is no such thing as a 666-sided die. The d666 system was used in the game ''[[In Nomine]]'', in which [[player]]s take the roles of either demons or angels. To "roll a d666", the player rolls 3d6, allocating two of the dice to be added together to indicate whether they have succeeded or failed at a task, and the one remaining die to be read alone to indicate the magnitude of the success or failure. A roll of 6-6-6 is a critical if the player is playing a demon, or a fumble if the player is playing an angel; a roll of 1-1-1 is vice versa.		;D666: An apparent example of the d- notation, but in fact a special case; there is no such thing as a 666-sided die. The d666 system was used in the game ''[[In Nomine]]'', in which [[player]]s take the roles of either demons or angels. To "roll a d666", the player rolls 3d6, allocating two of the dice to be added together to indicate whether they have succeeded or failed at a task, and the one remaining die to be read alone to indicate the magnitude of the success or failure. A roll of 6-6-6 is a critical if the player is playing a demon, or a fumble if the player is playing an angel; a roll of 1-1-1 is vice versa.

24.20.45.222: added the Maid the RPG use of d666 (should the D66 case be in here?)

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added the Maid the RPG use of d666 (should the D66 case be in here?)

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	;D20: A twenty-sided die; also a generic roleplaying system controlled by [[Wizards of the Coast]]. The [[d20 system]] is a customizable generic system based on a twenty-sided [[dice]] (hence the name), and reusable freely by authors under certain terms and conditions. These terms and conditions include the need to seek explicit approval to refer to the game as supporting "d20" (a controlled trademark), and the provision that certain key rules must be omitted from third-party games, thus forcing [[player]]s to purchase books produced by [[Wizards of the Coast]] in order to obtain them. The impact of the d20 system on the hobby has been considerable, and players are divided as to whether the strong adoption of a common system for games has simplified and streamlined the hobby, or whether it has harmed the hobby by reducing diversity and forcing games to be written with a system which does have documented flaws and is not necessarily ideal for every [[setting]].		;D20: A twenty-sided die; also a generic roleplaying system controlled by [[Wizards of the Coast]]. The [[d20 system]] is a customizable generic system based on a twenty-sided [[dice]] (hence the name), and reusable freely by authors under certain terms and conditions. These terms and conditions include the need to seek explicit approval to refer to the game as supporting "d20" (a controlled trademark), and the provision that certain key rules must be omitted from third-party games, thus forcing [[player]]s to purchase books produced by [[Wizards of the Coast]] in order to obtain them. The impact of the d20 system on the hobby has been considerable, and players are divided as to whether the strong adoption of a common system for games has simplified and streamlined the hobby, or whether it has harmed the hobby by reducing diversity and forcing games to be written with a system which does have documented flaws and is not necessarily ideal for every [[setting]].

			;D66 like the D100 case but using six side dice, and therefore has only 36(6*6) possible results.

	;D666: An apparent example of the d- notation, but in fact a special case; there is no such thing as a 666-sided die. The d666 system was used in the game ''[[In Nomine]]'', in which [[player]]s take the roles of either demons or angels. To "roll a d666", the player rolls 3d6, allocating two of the dice to be added together to indicate whether they have succeeded or failed at a task, and the one remaining die to be read alone to indicate the magnitude of the success or failure. A roll of 6-6-6 is a critical if the player is playing a demon, or a fumble if the player is playing an angel; a roll of 1-1-1 is vice versa.		;D666: An apparent example of the d- notation, but in fact a special case; there is no such thing as a 666-sided die. The d666 system was used in the game ''[[In Nomine]]'', in which [[player]]s take the roles of either demons or angels. To "roll a d666", the player rolls 3d6, allocating two of the dice to be added together to indicate whether they have succeeded or failed at a task, and the one remaining die to be read alone to indicate the magnitude of the success or failure. A roll of 6-6-6 is a critical if the player is playing a demon, or a fumble if the player is playing an angel; a roll of 1-1-1 is vice versa.
			This notation is also used in MaidTheRPG, a originally Japanese TRPG, but in Maid it is an extension of the D66 notation above and means rolling 3d6 treating one as the hundreds place, one as the the tens and one as the units, and so giving an even chance of producing each of the 216 possibilities. This is used only to chose an item from the item table.

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2009-04-02T21:27:04Z

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	#Term for a fan of furries in sense 1, whether a fan of artwork featuring furries, stories about furries, games involving furries, or just the "idea" of furries. Also '''furry fandom'''.		#Term for a fan of furries in sense 1, whether a fan of artwork featuring furries, stories about furries, games involving furries, or just the "idea" of furries. Also '''furry fandom'''.
	#A subculture of people who enjoy pretending to be anthropomorphic animals. Some of them wear "furry" suits to represent the fur of their animal alter ego; these people are also known as '''fursuiters'''. In gaming, it can also refer to a player who commonly plays anthropomorphic animal characters.		#A subculture of people who enjoy pretending to be anthropomorphic animals. Some of them wear "furry" suits to represent the fur of their animal alter ego; these people are also known as '''fursuiters'''. In gaming, it can also refer to a player who commonly plays anthropomorphic animal characters.
			:Furries are a somewhat controversial subject, primarily because of the media's focus on the more extreme fringe elements of furry fandom, such as the (''tiny'' minority) of people who believe themselves to be "animals trapped in human bodies", or those who have fetishized furry characters to ridiculous extremes. Due to the prevalence of the [[RPG_Lexica:GHI\|geek social fallacies]] in furry fandom, and the forthrightness and utter lack of pride of the aforementioned minority, these unsavory individuals are the primary public face of the furry fandom.
			:Much more information can be found at [http://furry.wikicities.com/ WikiFur], a relatively new community-built furry encyclopedia.


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	#Term for a fan of furries in sense 1, whether a fan of artwork featuring furries, stories about furries, games involving furries, or just the "idea" of furries. Also '''furry fandom'''.		#Term for a fan of furries in sense 1, whether a fan of artwork featuring furries, stories about furries, games involving furries, or just the "idea" of furries. Also '''furry fandom'''.
	#A subculture of people who enjoy pretending to be anthropomorphic animals. Some of them wear "furry" suits to represent the fur of their animal alter ego; these people are also known as '''fursuiters'''. In gaming, it can also refer to a player who commonly plays anthropomorphic animal characters.		#A subculture of people who enjoy pretending to be anthropomorphic animals. Some of them wear "furry" suits to represent the fur of their animal alter ego; these people are also known as '''fursuiters'''. In gaming, it can also refer to a player who commonly plays anthropomorphic animal characters.
	:Furries are a somewhat controversial subject, primarily because of the media's focus on the more extreme fringe elements of furry fandom, such as the (''tiny'' minority) of people who believe themselves to be "animals trapped in human bodies", or those who have fetishized furry characters to ridiculous extremes. Due to the prevalence of the [[RPG_Lexica:GHI\|geek social fallacies]] in furry fandom, and the forthrightness and utter lack of pride of the aforementioned minority, these unsavory individuals are the primary public face of the furry fandom.
	~~:Much more information can be found at [http://furry.wikicities.com/ WikiFur], a relatively new community-built furry encyclopedia.~~


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+;D:  Abbreviation for ''[[dice]]'', either upper or lower case.  Because dice are used so frequently in [[role-playing game|role-playing]] and other forms of games, an abbreviated notation is used for describing dice types, consisting of two numbers separated by a letter 'd'.  The number before the 'd' indicates how many dice are referred to (often omitted if only one), and the number after indicates how many sides are on the dice.  The common cubic dice is a [[d6]] (six-sided), but other dice shapes designed for gaming include the [[d4]], [[d8]], [[d10]], [[d12]], and [[d20]].  For example, 5d6 indicates "5 six-sided dice".  This can be further extended with mathematical symbols, indicating a math operation should be applied to the result shown on the dice after they are rolled: 5d6+3 indicates "roll 5 six-sided dice, add them up (the default way of calculating the result of multiple dice), then add 3 to the result".  A further extension, not so popularly used, adds the letter "k" (for "keep") to indicate that having rolled the dice, not all of the dice should be added up; the number after the "k" indicates how many dice results should be added.  For example, "4d6k3" means that 4 six-sided dice should be rolled, then 3 of those results (usually the highest) selected and added together to give the final result.
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 #Term for a fan of furries in sense 1, whether a fan of artwork featuring furries, stories about furries, games involving furries, or just the "idea" of furries.  Also '''furry fandom'''.
 #A subculture of people who enjoy pretending to be anthropomorphic animals.  Some of them wear "furry" suits to represent the fur of their animal alter ego; these people are also known as '''fursuiters'''.  In gaming, it can also refer to a player who commonly plays anthropomorphic animal characters.
-:Furries are a somewhat controversial subject, primarily because of the media's focus on the more extreme fringe elements of furry fandom, such as the (''tiny'' minority) of people who believe themselves to be "animals trapped in human bodies", or those who have fetis
+:Furries are a somewhat controversial subject, primarily because of the media's focus on the more extreme fringe elements of furry fandom, such as the (''tiny'' minority) of people who believe themselves to be "animals trapped in human bodies", or those who have fetishized furry characters to ridiculous extremes.  Due to the prevalence of the [[RPG_Lexica:GHI|geek social fallacies]] in furry fandom, and the forthrightness and utter lack of pride of the aforementioned minority, these unsavory individuals are the primary public face of the furry fandom.

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	;EDO: An acronym for "Elf Dwarf Orc", a label for games or [[setting]]s which wallow in the stereotypes of high fantasy established by the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien and the game ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. Specifically refers to the tendency of these games to always feature these three races as primary elements, even if there is no compelling reason to do so.


	;~~Exploding Dice: The term for [[RPG_Lexica:MNO\|open-ended]] rolls that may potentially give very high results~~; more often, a specific roll that does so. So named because the results of these die rolls are generally low, with a few slightly higher... and then a very few that are ''ridiculously'' high, usually resulting in extreme results. (see [[RPG_Lexica:ABC\|critical hit]], and multiply it.)
	:An exploding dice result at the right time can change a game (or even a gameworld) radically. The best ones are right at the climax of an [[adventure]], to do things like destroy the villain and his plans utterly; unfortunately, Murphy's Law says you're probably going to see them at either unimportant rolls (like a simple Vision Check to spot a light on a panel), or at times when an extreme result would be bad (such as trying to knock out someone ''without'' killing them). Murphy's Law also says your opposition will get them at the absolute worst time.

	==F==		==F==

65.33.75.109 at 19:29, 28 June 2008

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	#Term for a fan of furries in sense 1, whether a fan of artwork featuring furries, stories about furries, games involving furries, or just the "idea" of furries. Also '''furry fandom'''.		#Term for a fan of furries in sense 1, whether a fan of artwork featuring furries, stories about furries, games involving furries, or just the "idea" of furries. Also '''furry fandom'''.
	#A subculture of people who enjoy pretending to be anthropomorphic animals. Some of them wear "furry" suits to represent the fur of their animal alter ego; these people are also known as '''fursuiters'''. In gaming, it can also refer to a player who commonly plays anthropomorphic animal characters.		#A subculture of people who enjoy pretending to be anthropomorphic animals. Some of them wear "furry" suits to represent the fur of their animal alter ego; these people are also known as '''fursuiters'''. In gaming, it can also refer to a player who commonly plays anthropomorphic animal characters.
	:Furries are a somewhat controversial subject, primarily because of the media's focus on the more extreme fringe elements of furry fandom, such as the (''tiny'' minority) of people who believe themselves to be "animals trapped in human bodies", or those who have fetishized furry characters to ridiculous extremes. Due to the prevalence of the [[RPG_Lexica:GHI\|geek social fallacies]] in furry fandom, and the forthrightness and utter lack of pride of the aforementioned minority, these unsavory individuals are the primary public face of the furry fandom.		:Furries are a somewhat controversial subject, primarily because of the media's focus on the more extreme fringe elements of furry fandom, such as the (''tiny'' minority) of people who believe themselves to be "animals trapped in human bodies", or those who have fetis
	~~:Much more information can be found at [http://furry.wikicities.com/ WikiFur], a relatively new community-built furry encyclopedia.~~


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