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Angband Acronyms

General

AFAICT
As Far As I Can Tell
AFAIK
As Far As I Know
AI
Artificial Intelligence
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (often used to refer to pure text mode)
BTW
By The Way
compo
competition
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
FYI
For Your Information
HAND
Have A Nice Day
HTH
Hope That Helps
IIRC
If I Recall Correctly
IMHO
In My Humble Opinion
IMO
In My Opinion
LOL
Laughing Out Loud
newbie
newcomer, beginner
OTOH
On The Other Hand
ROFL / ROTFL
Rolling On (The) Floor Laughing
spoiler
Information about the game which "spoils" the fun, general name used about help files which are not distributed with the game
TIA
Thanks In Advance
Tk
Tool Kit (programming package for user interfaces and graphics)

Angband specific

Borg
Automatic (computer controlled) player
DSM
Dragon Scale Mail
FA
Free Action
GoI
Globe of Invulnerability
HA
Holy Avenger
OoD
Orb of Draining
PDSM
Power Dragon Scale Mail
Phial
Phial of Galadriel
RGRA / r.g.r.a
rec.games.roguelike.angband
RLL
Potion of Restore Life Levels
RNG
Random Number Generator / Random Number God
RoS
Ring of Speed
WoR
Word of Recall
YAAD
Yet Another Annoying Death
YACD
Yet Another Character Dump
YAFM
Yet Another Funny Message
YASD
Yet Another Stupid Death / Yet Another Silly Death
YASM
Yet Another Stupid Move / Yet Another Strange Message / Yet Another Silly Message
YAWP
Yet Another Winner Post

Variants

The acronyms for variants are often used in the subject of a message enclosed in squared brackets (for example [Z]) to define what variant the poster is talking about (so a [Z] in the subject-line means that the post is about ZAngband).
CatH
CatHAngband
Cth
CthAngband
Dr
DrAngband
Ey
EyAngband
GSN
GSNAngband
GW
GWAngband
K
KAngband
Kam
KAmband
M
MAngband
O
OAngband
Pern
PernAngband
Psi
PsiAngband
Pzi
PziAngband
R
RAngband
V
Vanilla Angband, the good old standard Angband
Z
ZAngband
ZTk
ZAngbandTk

People

APW
Andrew P. White
DvE
Dennis van Es
GSN
Gwidon S. Naskrent
LM
Leon Marick
RAK
Robert Alan Koeneke
RML
Ross Morgan-Linial
RR / rr9
Robert Ruehlmann
TY
Topi Ylinen

Interesting links

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