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Adventure: A brief story formed of connected plot points that can be played through within one or two sessions. You can obtain pre-written adventures for many role-playing game systems. A longer story, sometimes comprised of many adventures, is called a campaign.
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Campaign: A long-term, overarching story that takes place over numerous sessions. Notoriously difficult to finish in a satisfactory manner.
CCG: Stands for Collectible Card Game. Examples include Magic: The Gathering. CCGs are played using specially designed sets of cards that allow for specific strategies.
Class: A class-based system divides up player character choices into specific, separate archetypes. A player's choice of character class quite often determines your combat abilities, skills and may impose other restrictions.
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Dungeon: A location that contains both danger and reward for player characters. Though traditionally a subterranean structure, anything can be a dungeon: a laboratory, an office block, an abandoned spaceship, the fossilised intestines of some long-dead primordial god. As long as there is something worth venturing in for, and something in there protecting it, it can be considered a dungeon.
Dungeon crawl: A type of adventure where the party has to navigate their way through a dungeon, avoiding or overcoming all obstacles in their way. Despite being fairly simplistic, they can still be enjoyable.
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Miniature: A small model of a character, creature or vehicle. They are typically made from plastic or pewter, and can either come painted or unpainted. Some wargames involve painting and putting together miniatures that go on to become your army, making it as much of an artistic hobby as a nerdy one.
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Owlbear: Owl up front, bear in the back, ready to party.
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Party: A group of player characters, usually working together toward a common goal.
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Splatbook: A supplementary book for a role-playing game, most often covering one particular subject. Their contents can vary in terms of quality and quantity. Too many splatbooks for one system can turn the game unstable.
