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What is (are?) “RNG” in the above paragraph? Rock ‘N Growl? Random Naked Girls? I always feel stupid when I come across a UA (Unfamiliar Acronym). Am I the only gamer who doesn’t know RNG? Isn’t that the sound that phones use to make? No, that was RING. I feel even more dumb when I waste time fruitlessly scanning the article for the acronym definition. Thanks, though, for defining AC (armor class) earlier in the piece. I already knew that one, though.
Hello Buck,
Thanks for your comment. We apologise for any confusion. Here is a link that should hopefully clear up any confusion on the meaning: https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/random_number_generator. Perhaps Wikipedia's entry might be more interesting? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generation. The term has become more common over the years in gaming, notably in DnD.
However, we have edited the page to make it clearer what it means. Thanks for your input!
I found a definition of RNG on Board Game Geek: "...Apparently it's become very trendy to say "RNG" in some semantically and syntactically overgeneralized way as a noun (sometimes as a mass noun with no article), or verb, or adjective, meaning almost anything at all somehow related to randomness..."
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What is (are?) “RNG” in the above paragraph? Rock ‘N Growl? Random Naked Girls? I always feel stupid when I come across a UA (Unfamiliar Acronym). Am I the only gamer who doesn’t know RNG? Isn’t that the sound that phones use to make? No, that was RING. I feel even more dumb when I waste time fruitlessly scanning the article for the acronym definition. Thanks, though, for defining AC (armor class) earlier in the piece. I already knew that one, though.
Hi Friala, Thanks a lot for your comment and clarification!
Hello Buck,
Thanks for your comment. We apologise for any confusion. Here is a link that should hopefully clear up any confusion on the meaning: https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/random_number_generator. Perhaps Wikipedia's entry might be more interesting? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generation. The term has become more common over the years in gaming, notably in DnD.
However, we have edited the page to make it clearer what it means. Thanks for your input!
I found a definition of RNG on Board Game Geek: "...Apparently it's become very trendy to say "RNG" in some semantically and syntactically overgeneralized way as a noun (sometimes as a mass noun with no article), or verb, or adjective, meaning almost anything at all somehow related to randomness..."