Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

splatbook

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: splat-book
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of a series of books for a roleplaying game, oriented towards players, each of which covers a specific group with further options for player characters in that group.

Example Sentences

"Speaking of redoing the splatbooks, soes^([sic]) anyone think there's a chance in hell that they're going to redo the werewolf tribebooks?"
"Even GURPS has put out splatbooks."
"2003, Stephenls, Devil-Tigers: Any Good??, alt.games.whitewolf I own all the Vampire revised splatbooks and all the Mage Revised splatbooks that have been published."

Etymology

From splat + book, from the tendency for all the books in the series to be named uniformly, with only the name of the group varying. See splat (“asterisk”), a symbol used as a wildcard in computing.

Inflected Forms

splatbooks (plural)

Questions

What does splatbook mean?: One of a series of books for a roleplaying game, oriented towards players, each of which covers a specific group with further options for player characters in that group.
Where does splatbook come from?: From splat + book, from the tendency for all the books in the series to be named uniformly, with only the name of the group varying. See splat (“asterisk”), a symbol used as a wildcard in computing.

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