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MUD terminology

  • Experience pointGary Gygax and Dave Arneson introduced the term experience point during the creation of Dungeons & Dragons in the 1970s.
  • Non-player characterIn the dim light of a 1970s basement, a group of friends gathered around a wooden table covered in polyhedral dice. The gamemaster held a stack of index…
  • Player characterIn 1979, TSR Hobbies published Understanding Dungeons & Dragons. That book described a player character as a fictional body controlled by a human rather than…