Glossary: P
From SSDC, Inc.
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- Para-Artificial Intelligence (pAI or para-AI) - An independent computer Operating System capable of free thought and decision making abilities that has been given boundaries to their control over functions, abilities, and communications.
- Para-Artificial Intelligence Action (A) - The number of simultaneous actions that can be executed by a pAI in a single round.
- Parry (P) - The ability to ward off a weapon's stroke, thrust, or blow. A Parry Number is the percentage chance for a weapon to parry an attack.
- Pascians
- Perimeter Anti-personnel Defense Systems (PADS) - A series of automatic perimeter defenses designed to protect a team's camp at night. Larger units can protect installations.
- Personal Computing Device (PCD) - The all encompassing term for every style of 23rd Century computer.
- Persuasion (PER) - A Secondary Statistic. Measures a character's ability to influence people.
- Player Character (PC) - YOU!
- Percentile Dice - Take two ten sided dice. State which is the tens and which is the ones. The tens are called "high". The ones are called "low". The high die is read first. When both dice are zero, then the result is 100. e.g. Red is called high, leaving the green as low. The result is red 6 and green 3. This is shouted out as, "Sixty-Three!" We use d100, as it provides more variety than the typical d20 based game.
- Phentari
- Pirates
- Poison Survival Matrix Roll - A character's chance to avoid the effects of poisons, which can be ingested, insinuative, inhaled, or touched. A specific variety of Chemical Survival Matrix Roll.
- Power Points (PP) - A measure of the amount of psycho-kinetic energy that a character can generate per standard day.
- Priest - Nickname for Jezzadeic.
- Python Lizard
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