4th & Dragon : Dungeons and Dragons...and stuff

Here is the sectioned list. If you cannot find something, the alphabetical list is below that. Thanks. If I got something wrong or missed something please feel free to add. e

Local Acronyms
BBEG: Big Bad Evil Guy
IIRC: If I Recall Correctly
IRL: In Real Life
RAW: Rules as Written
IDHTBIFOM (RN): I don’t have the books in front of me (right now)
IDHTBIFOM(RN)BIIRC:I don’t have the books in front of me (right now) but if I recall correctly
IHMBIFOM: I have my books in front of me
MAD: Multiple Ability Dependancy
IDOTB: I don’t own the book
RV, RBBEG: Recurring Villain
FLGS: Friendly Local Gaming Store

D&D 4e
PHB: Player’s Handbook
DMG: Dungeon Master’s Guide
MM: Monster Manual
KotS: Keep on the Shadowfell H1 Adventure
AV: Adventurer’s Vault
FR:CG: Forgotten Realms: Campaign Guide
FR:PG: Forgotten Realms: Player’s Guide
MP: Martial Power
MotP: Manual of the Planes
PP: Paragon Path
OA: Opportunity Attack

D&D 3.5
OGC: open gaming content
PHB: Player’s Handbook
DMG: Dungeon Master’s Guide
MM: Monster Manual
DMG2: Dungeon Master’s Guide
MM2: Monster Manual 2
MM3: Monster Manual 3
PHB2: Player’s Handbook 2
XPH: Expanded Psionics Handbook
FF: Fiend Folio
DCN: Draconimicon
LM: Libris Mortis
LoM: Lords of Madness
OA: Oriental Adventures
ECS: Eberron Campaign Setting
PGtF: Player’s Guide to Faerun
PGtE: Players Guide to Eberron
SCoT: Sharn: City of Towers
PlH: Planar Handbook
DR ###: Dragon Magazine Issue ###
UA: Unearthed Arcana
ToM: Tome of Magic
ToB, Bo9S: Tomb of Battle: Book of Nine Swords
HoH: Heroes of Horror
HoB: Heroes of Battle
CoR: Champions of Ruin
CoV: Champions of Valor
SC: Spell Compendium

RoD, RoDe: Races of Destiny
RoS: Races of Stone
RoW: Races of the Wild
RotD: Races of the Dragon
RoF: Races of Faerun
RoE: Races of Eberron

CD: Complete Divine
CA, CAr: Complete Arcane
CW: Complete Warrior
CAd, Cadv, CV: Complete Adventurer
CP: Complete Psionic

D&D 3.0
S&S, SaS: Song & Silence
TB: Tome & Blood
DoF: Defenders of Faith
SF: Sword & Fist
MotW: Masters of the Wild

AEG: Arms & Equipment Guide
SS: Savage Species
EH: Epic Handbook
BOVD: Book of Vile Deeds
BOED: Book of Exalted Deeds

Alphabetical [includes all above]
AEG: Arms & Equipment Guide
AV: Adventurer’s Vault
AoO: Attack of Opportunity
BBEG: Big Bad Evil Guy
BOED: Book of Exalted Deeds
BOVD: Book of Vile Deeds
CA, CAr: Complete Arcane
CAd, Cadv, CV: Complete Adventurer
CD: Complete Divine
CoR: Champions of Ruin
CoV: Champions of Valor
CP: Complete Psionic
CW: Complete Warrior
DCN: Draconimicon
DMG: Dungeon Master’s Guide
DMG2: Dungeon Master’s Guide
DoF: Defenders of Faith
DR ###: Dragon Magazine Issue ###
ECS: Eberron Campaign Setting
EH: Epic Handbook
FF: Fiend Folio
FLGS: Friendly Local Gaming Store
Fr: Frostburn
FR:CG: Forgotten Realms: Campaign Guide
FR:PG: Forgotten Realms: Player’s Guide
HoB: Heroes of Battle
HoH: Heroes of Horror
IDHTBIFOM (RN): I don’t have the books in front of me (right now)
IDHTBIFOM(RN)BIIRC:I don’t have the books in front of me (right now) but if I recall correctly
IDOTB: I don’t own the book
IHMBIFOM: I have my books in front of me
IIRC: If I Recall Correctly
IRL: In Real Life
KotS: Keep on the Shadowfell H1 Adventure
LM: Libris Mortis
LoM: Lords of Madness
MAD: Multiple Ability Dependancy
MM: Monster Manual
MM2: Monster Manual 2
MM3: Monster Manual 3
MotP: Manual of the Planes
MotW: Masters of the Wild
MP: Martial Power
OA: Oriental Adventures
OA: Opportunity Attack
OGC: open gaming content
PGtE: Players Guide to Eberron
PGtF: Player’s Guide to Faerun
PHB: Player’s Handbook
PHB2: Player’s Handbook 2
PlH: Planar Handbook
PP: Paragon Path
RAW: Rules as Written
RoD: Races of Destiny
RotD: Races of the Dragon
RoE: Races of Eberron
RoF: Races of Faerun
RoS: Races of Stone
RoW: Races of the Wild
RV, RBBEG: Recurring Villain, Recurring Big Bad Evil Guy
S&S, SaS: Song & Silence
Sa: Sandstorm
SC: Spell Compendium
SCoT: Sharn: City of Towers
SF: Sword & Fist
SS: Savage Species
Sto: Stormwrack
TB: Tome & Blood
ToB, Bo9S: Tomb of Battle: Book of Nine Swords
ToM: Tome of Magic
UA: Unearthed Arcana
XPH: Expanded Psionics Handbook

Thanks to akiko for the early form of this list.

edited by Michael Sigler - Thanks for posting this. Just made it sticky and altered the formatting a bit.

last edit 9/25/08: added 4e support

I’m pretty sure RotD is Races of the Dragon, with RoD being Races of Destiny. At least now I won’t have to type out the entire title on a post, thanks for bringing this stuff over.

Thanks, I will edit it. Anything else that needs to be changed/added?

Nice.  Chibbs and I are looking into a way to automatically show acronyms for newbies.  Stay tuned.

Oooh. Very awesome, Jim.

You know what would be really cool, is if the acronyms that refer to actual books (and other products) could create the appropriate amazon.com pop-up (like was happening on some keywords during the testing phase).

We really should work on getting more abbreviations out there.

BTW, what happened to the PMAMT (=Power Munchkin’s Anti-Magic Troll)?

Rothe - 28 September 2007 09:36 AM

We really should work on getting more abbreviations out there.

BTW, what happened to the PMAMT (=Power Munchkin’s Anti-Magic Troll)?

Youngin’ these days. They also don’t know about TBPP (Thalantor’s Black Pudding Paladin).

If PMAMT goes on the list then so should TBPP (Thally’s Black Pudding Paladin).

JK beat me to it.

Nice list guys!

What’s the acronym for Tome of Battle/Book of Nine Swords?  I could see that one getting ugly, but then again I despise most acronyms.  Online Mafia taught me to loathe them all the more.

I’ve seen both ToB and BoNS.  Personally I use ToB.

I’ve seen Bo9S used quite a bit as well.

Bo9S is the most common one I’ve seen at Wizards.  It’s also my preference.

I always thought BBEG stood for Big Bad Evil Genius, though I suppose not all “boss” fights are with geniuses so the less inclusive “guy” is probably more proper.

Added Bo9S support. Anything else I (or akiko) may have missed?