Request to LJ Gamers
I've got 23 years of experience playing RPGs, but highlander_ii's Harry Dresden game is the first LJ game I've joined. I'd like help getting a handle on the LiveJournal lingo, please? Some stuff I've heard and think I've got figured out -
Admin - The founder/operator of the comm, and the Game Master. They may act as a player in the game with PCs as well as operating the NPCs. They may have a number of other operators with moderator status who can make decisions under them like the Storyteller and Narrator structure in World of Darkness LARPs.
Mod - Someone given access to the moderator controls of the comm who can make game rulings in the Admin's place. They can play both NPCs and their own PCs.
Mun - A player in the game. Can anyone tell me where the term comes from? Admin and mod I get, but mun?
Pup - A player's character. I'm use to calling player characters PCs. I'm also curious about where pup is from.
Pan-fandom - A game allowing characters from any and all fandoms to mix and mingle.
Godmodding - Godmoderating, not godmodifying, I think. I'm use to godmodding being a term for superpowering a character that shouldn't be superpowered, godmodifying. I think in LJ games it's a term for exerting control over other players characters. I'm not sure if godmoderating is strictly doing it without permission, or if it applies anytime someone does it even if they've got approval from the other mun.
Twinking - I believe this is the LJ term for what I'm use to being referred to as godmodding. If it means something else please let me know?
canon-puncturing - At milliways bar (thanks to shellebelle93 for pointing me over there) it's defined as having a character from one canon tell a character from another that they're fictional. I don't know if it can also be used for a character in a one canon game, since milliways is pan-fandom, who does something they can't do in their canon.
Then there are the terms I know I'm not sure how they're meant when used in reference to an LJ game: free-form, threading, metagaming
Any help with what's what in LJ games would be much appreciated.
Admin - The founder/operator of the comm, and the Game Master. They may act as a player in the game with PCs as well as operating the NPCs. They may have a number of other operators with moderator status who can make decisions under them like the Storyteller and Narrator structure in World of Darkness LARPs.
Mod - Someone given access to the moderator controls of the comm who can make game rulings in the Admin's place. They can play both NPCs and their own PCs.
Mun - A player in the game. Can anyone tell me where the term comes from? Admin and mod I get, but mun?
Pup - A player's character. I'm use to calling player characters PCs. I'm also curious about where pup is from.
Pan-fandom - A game allowing characters from any and all fandoms to mix and mingle.
Godmodding - Godmoderating, not godmodifying, I think. I'm use to godmodding being a term for superpowering a character that shouldn't be superpowered, godmodifying. I think in LJ games it's a term for exerting control over other players characters. I'm not sure if godmoderating is strictly doing it without permission, or if it applies anytime someone does it even if they've got approval from the other mun.
Twinking - I believe this is the LJ term for what I'm use to being referred to as godmodding. If it means something else please let me know?
canon-puncturing - At milliways bar (thanks to shellebelle93 for pointing me over there) it's defined as having a character from one canon tell a character from another that they're fictional. I don't know if it can also be used for a character in a one canon game, since milliways is pan-fandom, who does something they can't do in their canon.
Then there are the terms I know I'm not sure how they're meant when used in reference to an LJ game: free-form, threading, metagaming
Any help with what's what in LJ games would be much appreciated.