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At the beginning/end of one's own wall of text it's used to show where a summary of the post can be found, although it's usually written as "TLDR version".

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And let's be clear:

Posting a huge wall of text, and then including a "tl;dr version" at the bottom as a summary of your own stuff is courteous and perfectly fine to do.

Beginning your response to someone's post with "tl;dr" because you thought they wrote too much is very rude. Don't do it here, and you really shouldn't do it anywhere.

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Wouldn't it be better to just put "In summary" or "To sum up" or something? "Too long, Didn't Read" implies that you suppose the reader is impatient at least, IMO.

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Looked for the first 5-6 pages and didn't see these:

GURPS - Generic Universal RolePlaying System
GCA - GURPS Character Assisstant
GCB - GURPS Character Builder
GVB - GURPS Vehicle Builder

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The first one is rather redundant, but the other three I'm adding.

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This probably isn't the right place for an obscure in-joke.

I'd suggest separate entries-
LT
LTC
CCoI

Also, for the sake of updating the list-
SS 1-8 for the Spaceships series
MH for Monster Hunters

Any other recent notables?

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"Handwavium" is a term you guys use a lot. I've worked out what it means (it's not unobvious) but you might wanna stick it in here anyway.

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WARNING: TV tropes link.

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I think this thread should retain its focus on abbreviations. "Handwavium" isn't an abbreviation.

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ok, well it's a term that's used a lot and it would save newbies asking "what does X mean?" you know, i'm only trying to help.

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When IQ!, HT!, DX! and ST! are used? In what context. I thought it interesting.

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Those are already in the first post.

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But the only place where I saw it was in the first post!

I wanted more details.

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Try Improving basic attributes cheaply: ST!, DX!, IQ!, HT!

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Thanks! It has the information I wanted!

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Is there anything official/unofficial for Tactical Shooting yet? TS is taken already (for Transhuman Space).

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Yes: GURPS Tactical Shooting
:)
I thought people were using THS for Transhuman Space. This of course is the reason why 4th edition doesn't have official abbreviations.

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Ok, I searched but couldn't find this one. What is an MIB?

From the context of when its used I'm thinking its some kind of promoter for local games?

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A member of the Men In Black (not necessarily male, nor necessarily wearing black, mind you), the SJ Games volunteer demo team.

That should definitely be in the abbreviation list. I'd say under the miscellaneous ones.

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What does PU2 refer to?

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Thanks for the help.

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Thanks. Very helpful for a newb.

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One abbreviation I keep seeing and am not entirely sure of: RPM, usually in regards to Monster Hunters threads. It appears to be a magic system, but I don't know the abbreviation. (It doesn't help that my brain tends to hate acronyms/abbreviations as it is.)

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Ritual Path Magic, a magic system published in Monster Hunters 1.

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One that isn't listed and I have yet to see but one that I like is: DIIK. Pronounced "Dye-ich" and it means Damn if I know.

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Praise be to Kromm I found this!

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BBEG- big bad evil dude.

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I don't see CF in the master list. Seems to apply to costs or comparisons of modifiers. Did I miss it?

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Big bad evil guy actually; same difference. And the meaning is the main recurring antagonist of a campaign, not just a bad guy who is big and evil.

That's because it's from the books rather than being online slang; it means Cost Factor. Basically you add all the Cost Factors up and multiply an item's GURPS $ price by the result so CF+1 means doubling a price, CF+2 means tripling the price, and a total CF of +3 means quadrupling the price whether achieved through three +1s, a +1 and a +2, or a single +3.

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Is there an official abbreviation for 4e books? The official page seems to have only a couple of the 4e books.

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The official line is other the basic set 4e does NOT use abbreviations for book references to avoid confusion

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Funny "behind the scenes" story... Even with non-abbreviated titles, we try to be careful to avoid collisions. (One of the things I help with as Project Manager is to doing what I can to make sure titles make sense, are evocative, don't cause problems, etc.)

Thus something like Transhuman Space: Martial Arts 2100 might have been called Transhuman Space: Martial Arts, but then how do you refer to it in an abbreviated fashion?

• "For weapons a bioroid warrior might use, see pp. 212-232 of Martial Arts and pp. 32-34 of Martial Arts 2100." -- reads pretty well.
  
• "For weapons a bioroid warrior might use, see pp. 212-232 of GURPS Martial Arts and pp. 32-34 of Transhuman Space: Martial Arts." -- accurate (if that were the book's name), but clunkier.
  
• "For weapons a bioroid warrior might use, see pp. 212-232 of Martial Arts and pp. 32-34 of Martial Arts." -- Uh-oh... we have a problem.

Speaking as a fan, I remember the tail end of the Third Edition era, and occasionally running into arcane abbreviations that took me out of the book as my brain tried to decipher what they were cross-referencing with. It may take up a smidge more room, but the current system is much friendlier (IMO).

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From a recent query about Bio-Tech quirks and meta-traits:

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I believe I've also seen an "[M]" in a book of the same vintage for Mental traits; I forget how they handled Paranormal traits, though, if they had any in books of that vintage.

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Maybe you could/should add:
RAI: Rules as intended; as opposed to RAW.

The idea of the rule, which may not actually same as the rule effect the game?

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What about PU for Power-Ups?

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I've seen KYOS (Know Your Own Strength) enough times that it might be justified to add it.

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Where can I find a list of EQUIPMENT abbreviations?