Wesnoth Acronyms and Slang

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Use the following list to demystify the various (mostly wesnoth specific) acronyms you may run into at the forum.

Official Campaigns

• EI - "The Eastern Invasion" (campaign name)
• HttT - "Heir to the Throne" (campaign name)
  • BoP - "Bay of Pearls" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
  • DD - "Dwarven Doors" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
  • HotNE - "Home of the North Elves" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
  • IotD - "Isle of the Damned" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
  • RtW - "Return to Wesnoth" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
  • SoE - "Siege of Elensefar" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
  • SoF - "Scepter of Fire" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
  • TotC - "Test of the Clans" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
  • VoD - "Valley of Death" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
• TSG - "The South Guard" (campaign name)
• TRoW - "The Rise of Wesnoth" (campaign name)
• TB - "A Tale of Two Brothers" (campaign name)
• UtBS - "Under the Burning Suns" (campaign name)
• SoF - "Scepter of Fire (campaign name)
• DiD - "Descent into Darkness" (campaign name)
• NR - "Northern Rebirth" (campaign name)
• SotBE - "Son of the Black Eye" (campaign name)

Unofficial Campaigns

• FtF - "Flight to Freedom" (campaign name)
• IftU - "Invasion from the Unknown" (campaign name)
• LoW - "Legends of Wesmere" (campaign name)
• SE - "Saving Elensefar" (campaign name)

Forum Language

• AMLA - After Maximum Level Advancement
• AoH - Age of Heroes
• BfW - Battle for Wesnoth (the name of the game)
• BWH - Been suggested before. We think it's a good idea. Hope to add it eventually.
• CABD - Can Already Be Done. eg. You can create a unit ability yourself via WML.
• CtH - Chance to Hit (also C2H)
• CtBH - Chance to Be Hit (also C2BH)
• CtK - Chance to Kill (also C2K)
• CtBK - Chance to Be Killed (also C2BK)
• DA - Dark Adept (a unit from the Undead faction)
• EP - Elvish Pillager, moderator and great man :) at forum
• FoW - Fog of War (i.e. fog)
• FFA - Free For All (playing a map with >2 players without teams)
• FPI - Frequently Posted Idea (read the Post from the Ideas Forum)
• HANE—EtH - Hexes Are Not Evil - Embrace the Hex
• HAPMA - Hexes Are Possibly Miles Across - http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1882
• HI - Heavy Infantryman (a unit from the Loyalist faction)
• HP - Hit points
• IIRWIIR - It Is Ready When It Is Ready
• KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid: Applies to coding, not game rules (although indirectly it does): see WesnothPhilosophy
• MP - Movement Points
• MP - Multiplayer
• MoL - Mage of Light
• N3T - No 3-Teams; A belief stating that contests between three equal and opposing forces are inherently unbalanced
• OAB - Options Are Bad; In reference to gameplay, not user interface options. Mostly used by Turin. See also FrequentlyProposedIdeas (idea #1)
• OFWRA - Old Flame War Revival Alert; In other words, we have discussed this before and have no interest in discussing it again, especially if it got ugly
• OOS - Out Of Synch - an error generated by Wesnoth. OOS errors occur when game data for one player is different/incompatible from the others
• OT - Off Topic: can refer to either the forum (http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=11) or spam
• RiPLIB - Reduction in Power when Levelling Is Bad: means that when a unit upgrades, at least one of its options should be strictly superior to the original unit. Reference 1 / Reference 2
• RNG - Random Number Generator : used by Wesnoth to determine whether attacks are successful or not
• RPG - Role Playing Game - 1) Wesnoth's experience system. 2) An "RPG-style" game on the MP server means the primary focus will be walking your leader-units through a scripted storyline involving map exploration and lots of WML.
• RtFM - Read the Manual
• RTS - Real Time Strategy Game - not Wesnoth
• SP - Single Player (Campaigns)
• SVN - Term for up-to-date Wesnoth WesnothSVN (What_Is_SVN)
• TBS - Turn Based Strategy Game - Wesnoth
• ToD - Time of Day
• TWP - The Wesnoth Philosophy: WesnothPhilosophy
• UMC - User Made Campaign (any campaign not packaged with Wesnoth)
• WC - Walking Corpses
• WICOT - WML is capable of this (the requested feature is already possible to script, so no need to hard-code it in C++)
• WINR - Wesnoth Is Not Realistic
• WIN_ - Wesnoth Is Not... (Warcraft, Lord of the Rings, medieval Europe, an RPG, a wargame, a war simulation, etc.)
• WML - Wesnoth Markup Language: ReferenceWML
• XP - Experience
• ZoC - Zone of Control

General Acronyms

• AFaICT - As Far as I Can Tell (A statement with a disclaimer on truthfulness)
• AFaIK - As Far as I Know (A statement with a disclaimer on truthfulness)
• AfK - Away from the Keyboard
• ASaP - As Soon as Possible
• BRB - Be Right Back
• BtW - By the Way (A statement with a disclaimer on relevance)
• EV - Expected Value
• FYI - For Your Information
• GtG - Got to Go
• IIRC - If I Recall Correctly (A statement with a disclaimer on truthfulness)
• IMHO - In My Humble Opinion (A statement with a disclaimer on objectiveness)
• IMO - In My Opinion (A statement with a disclaimer on objectiveness)
• LTNS - Long Time No See
• OMG - Oh My God
• OtOH - On the Other Hand (A contrast)
• RotFL - Rolling on the Floor Laughing; also RoFL
• RNG - Random Number Generator
• NYSPoS - No, You Stupid Piece of **** (An impolite refutation hidden in an acronym)

See Also

• Wesnoth Acronyms (alphabetic) - common wesnothian acronyms explained