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Use the following list to demystify the various (mostly wesnoth specific) acronyms you may run into at the forum.
Contents
Names of Mainline Campaigns and Scenarios
- AoI - "An Orcish Incursion"
- DiD - "Descent into Darkness"
- EI - "The Eastern Invasion"
- HttT - "Heir to the Throne"
- BoP - "Bay of Pearls"
- DD - "Dwarven Doors"
- HotNE - "Home of the North Elves"
- IotD - "Isle of the Damned"
- RtW - "Return to Wesnoth"
- SoE - "Siege of Elensefar"
- SoF - "Scepter of Fire"
- TotC - "Test of the Clans"
- VoD - "Valley of Death"
- NR - "Northern Rebirth"
- SoF - "Sceptre of Fire"
- SotBE - "Son of the Black Eye"
- TB - "A Tale of Two Brothers"
- THoT - "The Hammer of Thurgasan"
- TRoW - "The Rise of Wesnoth"
- TSG - "The South Guard"
- UtBS - "Under the Burning Suns"
Unofficial Campaigns
- FtF - "Flight to Freedom" (campaign name)
- IftU - "Invasion from the Unknown" (campaign name)
- LoW - "Legend of Wesmere" (campaign name)
- SE - "Saving Elensefar" (campaign name)
Unit Names
- bird - usually Gryphon Rider/Master (knaglans), or occasionally a Falcon or Eagle Rider from the Extended Era Aragwaith and Kalifa factions.
- DA - Dark Adept (undead)
- fish - Merman (loyalists or rebels) or Naga Fighter (northerners)
- gunner - Dwarvish Thunderer/Thunderguard/Dragonguard (knaglans)
- HI - Heavy Infantryman (loyalists)
- MoL - Mage of Light (loyalists or rebels)
- Ulf - Dwarvish Ulfserker (knaglans)
- WC - Walking Corpse (undead)
- zombie - Walking Corpse
Other, Wesnoth-specific
- 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, e.g., you can already create custom unit abilities 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
- 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 - Multiplayer or Movement Points
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- SP - Single Player (Campaigns)
- ToD - Time of Day
- TWP - The Wesnoth Philosophy: WesnothPhilosophy
- UMC - User Made Campaign or User Made Content (any add-on 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
- LTNS - Long Time No See
- OMG - Oh My God
- OT - Off Topic: can refer either to the forum category (http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=11) or to spam
- OtOH - On the Other Hand (A contrast)
- RotFL - Rolling on the Floor Laughing; also RoFL
- RNG - Random Number Generator
- RtFM - Read the F***ing Manual
- RTS - Real Time Strategy Game - as opposed to a turn-based game like Wesnoth
- SVN - Subversion -- the bleeding-edge up-to-the-minute current version of Wesnoth WesnothSVN (What_Is_SVN)
- TBS - Turn Based Strategy Game, like Wesnoth