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Bats, hammers, wrenches, maces, staves, or even brass knuckles. These are weapons intended for blunt trauma rather than cutting or slicing.
Body armor in games acts as additional protection. In most cases, when a player takes damage that would completely affect their health, their body armor reduces the damage taken or takes the damage instead.
Bosses are enemies that fight you at the end of a level or at a significant point in the story.
A boss fight is a culminating challenge that pits the player against one or more enemies representing a greater threat and/or difficulty than those previously faced. These scenarios typically feature unique antagonists.
Games that let you choose the path you take through the story-line.
The deliberate animation of breasts, meant to titillate as a means to conform to more realistic physics.
"There's only two things a noble will step aside for: Paragons and angry brontos." --Dwarven saying.
Broodmothers are grotesque mutations of women infected with the darkspawn taint in the Dragon Age universe. Broodmothers can produce thousands of darkspawn over a course of a lifetime.
A Concept mostly in MMORPGs. A Buff allows the player to increase their stats for a short period of time.
The act of living outdoors, usually in a tent. It is a common method of providing comfort while resting in forested areas or other regions away from established civilization.
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.
Games which feature characters who have an accessible character screen which might include their stats / abilites / inventory etc.
These big'uns would love to smash you into a pulp by charging full-speed in a perfectly straight line, but if you take two steps to the right you'll be safe and sound ... for a few seconds at least.
A chicken is a small, domesticated flightless bird that can be white, yellow, brown or black. A female is a hen, a male a rooster, and a baby a chick.
The new badass way to look, as seen on 90% of hit video game covers.
Cider a Windows compatibility layer optimized for gaming which is a proprietary extension of WINE that enables PC games to run on Intel powered Macs with little or no modification.
Video games that include a physical cloth or paper map in their packaging.
Limited editions of games that include extra "perks" like Making of DVDs and a nice and shiny tin with extra box art
A common concept in RPGs and MMOs, color-coded loot is a concept where the quality/rarity of loot items are defined by a series of colors.
The ability to combine different schools of magic or spells to create a new or enhanced effect. Sometimes this can be done with a partner.
Games which have served as the basis of a comic book or vice versa.
A notable time delay which ignores the character/player state (like having enough mana) and prevents an ability or action from being done. This concept is common in MMORPGs, but does occur in other genres.
Corrupted Spiders are giant arachnids which grow in the depths of the Deep Roads.
These games let players see the credits without needing to play the game first.
An attack that does more damage than usual, usually affected by random chance and some sort of modifier.
Currency has all forms in video games. It is used to buy characters, vehicles, weapons, and more.
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.
The evil horde of twisted beings that, under the leadership of an Archdemon, threaten all of Thedas once every few hundred years, in the form of a Blight. They are essentially generic fantasy orcs, goblins, and trolls, lumped together as one race and given different names.
DLC released the same day as the game.
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