Game title abbreviations

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Overview

This is a guide to the many abbreviations for game books and game lines that you may encounter on the RPG.net forums.

Numbers at the end of an abbreviation usually indicate the edition. UA2 or UA2E, for example, would mean 'Unknown armies second edition'.

A very useful resource for publication histories and brief descriptions of these games (and many others) is the online Encyclopedia of Role-Playing Games: Encyclopedia of Role-Playing Games

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Ah Sarah! I have read your name several times and have nocteid your books out and about on the internet. But, I assumed that you had been around for a while. I am thrilled to find out that we started our journey at about the same time. I published my first novel, Life is But a Dream, during the last week of January 2011 probably just a few weeks behind you. I would not have even published it then if it was not for an unwanted 2010 Christmas present from my husband a Kindle. I was planning on going the traditional route. But that unwanted Kindle has changed my life! Thanks so much for sharing your journey with us. I will have to stop by often to see how things are going. Best of luck to you! This Indie thing is a whirlwind, isn't it? And so much fun! I love meeting other writers and hearing from so many readers.

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Let's run down the list here:The Breakfast Club could potentially work as the sort of drama you find on The CW. I mean, *I* wodlun't watch it, ever, but as a premise it fits the network.Back to the Future could be really cool if done right. They would have to not lose sight of the light comedic elements and introducing long arcs would be a mistake. It would work much better as almost a sort of Quantum Leap Situation Of The Week show. If the tongue ever pulls too far away from the cheek, though, it would fall apart. Stick it on the USA Network following Psych and you've got an instant cable hit as long as the casting is good.Red Dawn has entirely too much potential to get so serious it's melodrama and thus unintentionally hilarious . Don't get me wrong, I'm all about Dystopian futures and whatnot, but Red Dawn was a product of it's time, and would be difficult to update well.Aliens just doesn't have enough of a premise to go on. At it's heart, it's a monster movie, and that's only going to get you so far.Lethal Weapon could work as a cop drama formula show with a sort of Castle bent to it.RoboCop has been done, but poorly. The problem here is that RoboCop himself simply isn't an interesting enough character to base a series around.Blade Runner gives us more dystopia than we can shake a stick at, and I think it offers more than Red Dawn would. It wodlun't be cheap to produce, though.Return to Oz is an intriguing thought, but you run into a problem right off the bat with your protagonist. Dorothy can't stay 8 for an entire series.In the end, give me some Back to the Future!

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