Acronyms/abbreviations

[kilgore]

Recently started playing again and am completely lost to all the different abbreviations people are using. Is there a list on site or somewhere else that has a list of commonly used abbreviations/acronyms?

[Tshern]

Recently started playing again and am completely lost to all the different abbreviations people are using. Is there a list on site or somewhere else that has a list of commonly used abbreviations/acronyms?

Not far as I know, but quite a few handbooks explain the acronyms they use. Most of the acronyms refer to various books, so getting reacquianted with the full names of those can help quite a bit. SpC refers to Spell Compendium and pretty much all the acronyms starting with a C refer to a book of the Complete series, for example. I typed down a brief list of book acronyms to the spoiler below, hopefully that'll give you an idea how the system works in general.

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• PHB=Player's Handbook
• PHB II=Player's Handbook II
• MM I-V=Monster Manual I-V
• CAdv/Arc/C/Div/M/P/W=Complete Adventurer/Arcane/Champion/Divine/Mage/Psionic/Warrior
• BoED=Book of Exalted Deeds
• DMG=Dungeon Master's Guide
• MIC=Magic Item Compendium
• SS=Savage Species
• ToB=Tome of Battle
• UA=Unearthed Arcana

[sirpercival]

This should help.  There's some stuff in there that doesn't see common usage on this board, but it's pretty complete.

[kilgore]

Cool. Thanks for the quick replies.

[Tshern]

This should help.  There's some stuff in there that doesn't see common usage on this board, but it's pretty complete.

Damn, that's a good resource, although the writer apparently does not know what Core means.

[Monotremeancer]

I don't know if it includes something not mentioned in the one at GitP, but This was composed when the old boards still reigned

[Maat Mons]

SS=Savage Species

I'm going to take this opportunity to talk about why “SS” is my least favorite acronym. 

Books

• Sandstorm
• Savage Species
• Secrets of Sarlona
• Shining South
• Song and Silence

Base Classes

• Spirit shaman
• Swordsage

Prestige Classes

• Sand Shaper
• Seeker of the song
• Serpent slayer
• Shadow scout
• Shadow sentinel
• Shadowbane stalker
• Shadowsmith
• Shadowspy
• Shadowstriker
• Shapeshifter
• Silverstar
• Sovereign speaker
• Spellcarved soldier
• Spellguard of Silverymoon
• Spellsinger
• Spellsword
• Spellwarp sniper
• Storm sentry
• Stormsinger

It's ambiguous, is what I'm saying.