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The value that determines how many events can take place in a character's turn in pure turn based combat as well as in the modern Fallout franchise.
Action RPG (Action Role-Playing Game), also known as ARPG, refers to RPGs (role-playing games) that use direct, real-time, reflex-oriented, action combat systems, instead of the more abstract turn-based or menu-based battle systems.
Attributes are a numerical representation of a character's abilities who have their roots in RPGs. Today, attributes have spilled over to a wide range of game genres.
Classes are different archetypes and playstyles that players can choose to play their game with.
Character Creation refers to characters created by players themselves, rather than developers.
Some games let players customize their character (or characters). Degree of customization may vary, with some games simply allowing to choose between different types of clothes, while others provide more detailed tinkering of features such as the distance between a character's eyes or hair color.
D20 is a rule system used in several modern RPGs like Knights of the old republic and Neverwinter Nights.
Experience Points are part of a character advancement system commonly found in RPGs. These points are generally gained by defeating an enemy or completing a task.
This is an external application usually officially packaged with preorders or as a demo to promote soon-to-be-released games.
Would an experience point by any other name level up your character as sweet?
The ability for players to recover all their used talent/skill points and significantly modify their character's attributes while still maintaining their level.
A Role-Playing Shooter (RPS) is a game that rolls both Shooting and Role-Playing elements together.
Game mechanics traditionally found in role-playing games that are incorporated into a non-RPG title.
A set of skills and abilities displayed in a branching path. Skills in the tree open up after completing required prerequisites.
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