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Extra images:

This picture was released some time ago in an announcement. Summer of 2005, to be exact.



All the information in the Battle System profile is here

A summary of often discussed topics by Mr. Noire (Quite an interesting read)

The game's pageTo view
The old thread: To view
Druki's Anime Expo report: To view
Qixter's Journal:To view
Fleep's Journal: To view
The video: To view
The second video: To view
The screenshot: To view
A discussion thread in Gaia Gaming Discussion: To View
Fanime 2k6 thread: To view
Jakobo's latest update: To view
The other thread in GCD: To view
The SF thread about probably mistakes: To view
A YouTube Battle Sytem Video - Otakon 2007: To view

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Mikle's Post in the BST
I Attack with my Mighty Keyboard!!! *Keystroke* Whoosh! *Head falls to the ground*

-That's supposed to be a mockery of the pen being mightier than the sword
-Prepare for some heavy Traffic!
-Attempt to make the new banner part of his siggy.
-Think about first post and how to communicate preferable behaviour.
-Thanks Dri for making this a Sticky.

ROLEPLAYING TERMS

Classes- Different hero adventurer 'jobs' Typically, different classes would include 'fighter', 'mage', 'thief' From what we've heard, Gaia will have far more interesting and advanced classes than these basics.
Droppables- non equippable inventory items. May be synthesized or used as ingredients for weapon advancements or maybe as ingredients in building a set of back wings.
Experience- A numerical value that designates how much real life fighting experience a character has had. Once enough has been gained (eg it takes 1000 experience to reach level 2) a character can raise their abilities.
Flee- To retreat from a battle, gain no exp, rewards but get out alive.
Level- A abstract ranking of the power of a character. Begins at 1 and rises from their from gaining of experience or advancement through other means.
Race- The physical race of the character, be it elf, undead, orc, dwarf or whatever. Given the limits of Gaia, it's unlikely race will come into play.
Statistics (stats)- Personality traits used for adventuring. These are normally raised in roleplaying when a level up is gained. Some commonly known stats in most role plays are:
STR- Strength, brute force.
CHA- Charisma, beauty, strength of personality on others.
SPIRIT- Measure of one's soul. Used in some rpg's to defend from magic.
CON- Constitution. Physical hardiness. Can be used for HP.
VIT- Vitality. Life force of character. Can be used for HP.
WIS- Wisdom. Being wise. Can also be used to see details others miss.
DEX- Dexterity. Physical Agility. Flexibility.
MAGIC- Level of magic in somebody. Can be used to determine strength of spells, amount of spells known and MP.
INT- Intelligence. Being smart. Can sometimes be used to determine strength of spells, amount of spells known and MP.
INITIATIVE- The 'stat' the determines who moves first in battle. Dungeons and Dragons uses this methiod to randomly determine who reacts first to a battle situation.
Rock, Paper Scissors- The quick name for a system of battle where one element is built to defeat one enemy easily, and suffer against a different type of enemy. For instance, Fire defeat grass, while grass defeats water, and water defeats fire.
Stacking- When items give bonuses, if the attributes and bonuses to stats are added upon one another, this is known as stacking. EG. A helmets that adds 12 fire damage to your attack, and a amulet that adds 5 fire to your attack are equipped. With the bonuses 'stack' the fire damage added to your attack would be 17. If bonuses do not 'stack' it would be 12 fire damage added.
Templates- A set of statistic factors that can be added to a character. For instance, an undead template applied to a character may raise str and dex, but makes the character damaged by curative magic. Is usually linked with race.
Beardy, Munchking- The term given to users that completely engineer their character player to be as powerful as possible. Beardy players throw style, coherency and theme out of the window to build something as unreasonably strong as possible.
Isometric-A view point to the battle which is third person, looking down upon the battlefield from an angle. Normally grid based.
RP - Short for "roleplaying." This is what we do here. Roleplaying is the act of creating a character and writing out the actions of that person in the game world, reacting to situations and the actions of others. RP is used to refer to both the act of roleplaying ("I RPed really well last night!" wink and the result. ("Jerry wrote some nice RP last night!" wink Note that this is different from an RPG, (short for "roleplaying game" wink which usually involves more statistics, rules, and systems governing what you can and cannot do. NWC is a "free-form roleplaying" messageboard, which means that usually our players are free to have their characters do what they want.
Rushing- The tactic of quickly charging to your opponent and using basic and physical tactics to kill them before they can react.
OOC - Short for "out of character," the opposite of IC. This refers to anytime when you are speaking as yourself and not as your character. Speaking in the Chat section is usually OOC, for example. Also often used to refer to anything happening in real life or the real world when it is unclear whether you're talking about the game or reality. (i.e. "I got beaten up OOC today." as opposed to "I got beaten up today." which might refer to your character's losing a match or something terrible happening in real life.)
PC- Well, it can mean "personal computer," but more likely, if you see it here, it means "player character." This is a shorthand way of referring to the characters that players create and RP as.
NPC - The opposite of a PC: a "non-player character." NPCs are anyone besides the main characters that players create and RP as. They are the inhabitants of the world around the PCs, such as bartenders, passers-by, family members, etc.
Newbie-someone who is new to role playing. Sometimes used as a derogatory statement.
Example>>((YOU ARE SUCH A NEWBIE! ::slaps him with ignore ray smile
N00b- Always used as a derogatory statement, it's an insult meaning that the person acts as if he knows not of the rules and/or behaviour he should have in the game/community. A N00b might not be a newbie.
Synthesis- To combine useless items into another item, that could be used eg. 5 Red Herbs -> Red Potion. Usually done by a Non-Player Character
Metagame -Refers to all aspects of play that cannot be represented in terms of the game world, eg. game balance, plot, relationships between players.
Firewalling -Keeping a player's knowledge, separate from their character's knowledge, so that the character's behaviour cannot be seen to be influenced by information that they should not have.
Status effects- These are factors affecting your character for either a positive or negative effect. Some of the more cliched ststus moves include:
Negative: Poison (hp slowly drains away), Blind (character misses all attacks), Level drain (character is taken to lower levels of development) and Silence (spells cannot be cast) Positive status effects include: Barrier (shield of energy protects characters from physical harm) Shell (same as barrier, but protects against spells) Regen (regeneration; hp slowly refills)

If you have more terms that I've foolishly left out, pm me, and I'll add them ASAP. Thanks for everyone who adds terms! heart

In other news, if anyone has saved the pictures of the gaia admins bashing each other with fun noodles, could you please PM me the links? Thanks loads!

You're fine. I'll start looking at this and see what you got.

Sorry if things have been confusing, I been running back and forth both here and IRL.

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