As a new member of the community, I often have difficulties to figure out the meaning of abbreviations used here and on IRC.
So I had the idea of creating a glossary of the acronyms I could understand. I would be happy to complete this list (or correct it if I gave a wrong interpretation) with any useful addition or comment you may think of.
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AA Arcane Archer
AB Attack Bonus
AC Armour Class
AK Anointed Knight
AM Archmage
AoE Area of Effect
As Assassin
ASoC Arcane Scholar of Candlekeep
AT Arcane Trickster
BAB Base Attack Bonus
BG (Class) Black Guard
BG (Lore) Baldur's Gate
BGPD Baldur's Gate Palace District
BGTSCC Baldur's Gate: the Sword Coast Chronicles
BM Blood Mage
C/C Clairaudience/Clairvoyance (spell)
CGU Create Greater Undead
CK Candlekeep
CL Caster Level
CR Challenge Rating
DA Doron Amar
DC Difficulty Check
DD (Class) Dragon Disciple
DD (Class) Dwarven Defender
DD (Skill) Disable Device
DM Dungeon Master
DM (Skill) Divine Might
DS Divine Shield
DP Dread Pirate
DW Dragon Warrior
EA Elemental Archer
EB Enhancement Bonus
ECL Equivalent Caster Level
EDE En Dharasha Everae (Guild & Place in the northlands)
EDM Enhanced Divine Might
EK Eldritch Knight
EW Expose Weakness
FAI Friendly Arm Inn
FB Frenzied Berzerker
FF Flaming Fist
FI Fighter
FoM Freedom of Movement
FR Forgotten Realms
FS Favored Soul
GFK Ghost Faced Killer
GMW Greater Magic Weapon
GTWF Greater Two-Weapon Fighting
HD Hit Dice
HiPS Hide in Plain Sight
HP Hit Point
IB Invisible Blade
IC In Character
ICE Improved Combat Expertise
IGMS Isaac's Greater Missile Storm
IMA Improved Mage Armour
ITWF Improved Two-Weapon Fighting
KH Kraak Helzak (Guild & Mine)
KoS Kill on Sight
MoE Mastery of Elements
MoS Mastery of Shaping
MoTB Mask of The Betrayer
MTA Melee Touch Attack
MS Move Silently
NPC Non Player Character
NWN Neverwinter Nights
OOBI Order of the Bow Initiate
OOC Out of Character
OSR Order of the Silver Rose (Guild & Hall)
PC Player Character
PM Pale Master
PrC Prestige Class
PTWF Perfect Two-Weapon Fighting
PvE Player versus Environment
PvM Player versus Monster
PvP Player versus Player
Ra Ranger
RCR Recreation
RDD Red Dragon Disciple
RH Radiant Heart (Guild & Hall)
RP Role Play
RS Roaring Shore
RTA Ranged Touch Attack
RW Red Wizard
SB Swashbuckler
SD Shadowdancer
SoZ Storm of Zehir
SR Spell Resistance
SS (Class) Spirit Shaman
SS (Guild) Silver Shield
ToT Time of Troubles
TU Turn Undead
TWF Two-Weapon Fighting
UB Ulgoth's Beard
UD Underdark
UMD Use Magic Device
WD Whirling Dervish
WM Weapon Master
WMT White Mask Theater (Guild and Place in the BGPD)
WoD Warrior of Darkness
WS Wilderness Stalker
WW Whistling Wanderess
XP eXPerience
