Vocabulary

Certain terms used within the Shadowbane community are recognized across the entire MMO genre. For those that aren't, common Shadowbane-only vocabulary words are listed and defined in this article.

MMO Terms

• OOM or OOS: Acronym for "I am out of mana" or "I am out of stamina." When a player says this, they usually want you to know why they have suddenly stopped casting spells or running. If your healer is out of mana, then they won't be able to heal you and are asking you to back off or stop pulling mobs.
• Gimp: A gimp/gimped character is one that has a flaw in its character build that is impossible to fix in any way other than creating a new character or expensive refinement. This term is often used as an insult.
• GL or NL: Acronyms which stand for guild leader or nation leader.

Shadowbane-Only Terms

• ARAC: an acronym for All Races, All Classes. On a loreplay server, only certain race and classes combinations may join certain guilds. On a "normal" server, or ARAC server, all races and all classes can join all guilds.
• BH: is an acronym that can stand for one of two discipline runes, usually based on context. Blood Horn is a Minotaur-only rune or Bounty Hunter (most common reference) is a rune that grants the tracking ability.
• BM: is an acronym that can stand for one of three discipline runes, usually based on context. They are Battle Magus, a rune used by spell casters; Black Mask, a rune used by rogues; and Blade Master, a rune used by a specific type of meele weapon fighter.
• Errant: When a player has no guild or nation, they are considered Errant, a potential enemy to anyone. The crest symbols will appear gray and the player may suffer 50% of normal experience gain from monsters and no experience gain from other players. Errant characters are not bound to a city and will spawn at Sea Dog's Rest any time they enter the world, recall, or die.
• Errant Guild: A guild that has not yet acquired a city or pledged fealty to a nation is know as an errant guild, their nation crest will appear gray, while their sub-crest will bear their coat of arms. This can also occur if the guild looses their city in a bane, or is kicked out of a nation without a city of there own.
• Gold or Golding used as a verb is the act of adding as many trains as possible into a focus skill or to take a stat to the current possible maximum. This is referred to as "golding" because when at maximum trains, the skill or stat amount will display in gold color in your skills or stats window.
• Tagged, or Tag is a slang verb or noun which means to add someone to a guild or to describe someone's guild crest. E.G. "Please tag me to your guild", or "I like your tags".
• Tunnel is a noun that refers to the loading screen that appears when teleporting anywhere, or after death. It is called so because it used to display an actual tunnel when these things occured.
• WoO stands for window of opportunity. This refers to the window in which banes or mines can be set to become vulnerable.