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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)

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