Abbreviations

Common Abbreviations

• AB – Action Boy
• AC – Armor Class
• AFK – Away From Keyboard
• AG – Agility
• AP – Action Point, or Armor Piercing
• APA – Advanced Power Armor
• APK – Anti Player-Killer, the opposite of PK
• AR – Assault Rifle, or Adrenaline Rush
• Ares – Ares Rocket Silo
• BC – Better Criticals
• BG – Big Guns
• BH – Broken Hills
• BRD – Bonus Ranged Damage
• BRoF – Bonus Rate of Fire
• CA – Combat Armor
• CA2 – Combat Armor Mark II
• CC – Crowd Control, or Close Combat (HtH)
• CH/CHA – Charisma
• Char – Character
• CLJ – Combat Leather Jacket
• CW/CWC – Carry Weight (Capacity)
• DCA – Desert Combat Armor
• DR – Damage Resistance
• DT – Damage Threshold
• EMC – Even More Criticals
• EN/END – Endurance
• EW – Energy Weapons
• FA – First Aid
• FCC – Fuel Cell Controller
• FEV – Forced Evolutionary Virus
• FLC – Friendly Lending Company, the bank located in some towns
• FoV – Field of View
• GR – Gunrunners
• HC – Hardcore
• HH – Heavy Handed
• HP – Hit Points
• HPA – Hardened Power Armor
• HR – Healing Rate
• HtG – Hit the Gaps
• HtH – Hand-to-Hand aka Close Combat
• IL – Iron Limbs
• IN/INT – Intelligence
• IRL – In Real Life
• IYF – In Your Face!
• LA – Living Anatomy, or Los Angeles area aka Boneyard
• LG – Lifegiver
• LK – Luck
• LP – Lockpick skill
• LR – Laser Rifle
• MA – Metal Armor
• MA2 – Metal Armor Mark II
• MC – More Criticals
• MoS – Man of Steel
• MPF – Mega Power Fist
• MRD – More Ranged Damage
• NCR – New California Republic but commonly refers to Shady Sands
• NPC – Non-Player Character
• NR – New Reno
• NRA – New Reno Arms, a guns store in New Reno
• OD – Outdoorsman skill
• OoC – Out of Character, as in text chat in brown color via /O, one of the In-Game Chat options
• PA – Power Armor
• PC – Player Character. Not the player, but any one of a player's in-game characters.
• PE – Perception
• PK – Player-Killer, those who murder others (as opposed to APK, or Anti Player-Killer)
• PP – Party Points
• PvE – Player versus Environment
• PvP – Player versus Player
• Pyro – Pyromaniac
• QP – Quick Pockets
• QR – Quick Recovery
• RBtE – Right Between the Eyes
• RL – Rocket Launcher, or Real Life (IRL above)
• RoF – Rate of Fire
• RP – Role-Play
• RR – Radiation Resistance
• RT(C) – Real-Time (Combat), the opposite of TB(C) (Turn-Based [Combat])
• SAD – Sierra Army Depot
• SF – San Francisco
• SG – Small Guns
• SPECIAL – Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, and Luck.
• SR – Silent Running
• SS – Super Stimpak
• ST/STR – Strength
• TB – Turn-Based (mode), as opposed to RT above
• TC – Town Control
• TH – Treasure Hunter
• TP – Teleport (=TransPort instantly)
• TPR – Turbo Plasma Rifle
• VC – Vault City
• WH – Warehouse or sometimes Weapon Handling
• WW – Waterworks