Editing Asterisk (section)

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*Certain categories of character types in [[role-playing game]]s are called '''splats''', and the game supplements describing them are called '''[[splatbook]]s'''. This usage originated with the shorthand "*book" for this type of supplement to various [[World of Darkness]] games, such as ''Clanbook: Ventrue'' (for ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'') or ''Tribebook: Black Furies'' (for ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]''), and this usage has spread to other games with similar character-type supplements. For example, ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' Third Edition has had several lines of splatbooks: the "X & Y" series including ''Sword & Fist'' and ''Tome & Blood'' prior to the "3.5" revision, the "Complete X" series including ''Complete Warrior'' and ''Complete Divine'', and the "Races of X" series including ''Races of Stone'' and ''Races of the Wild''.
*In [[Magic: The Gathering]], an asterisk is used on a creature's power and/or toughness when it's a variable amount.
*In many [[Multi-user dungeon|MUD]]s and [[MOO]]s, as well as "male", "female", and other more esoteric genders, there is a gender called "splat", which uses an asterisk to replace the letters that differ in standard English gender pronouns. For example, ''h*'' is used rather than ''him'' or ''her''. Also, asterisks are used to signify doing an action, for example, "*''action''*".
*[[Game show]] producer [[Mark Goodson]] used a six-pointed asterisk as his trademark. It is featured prominently on many set pieces from ''[[The Price Is Right (U.S. game show)|The Price Is Right]].''
*[[Scrabble]] players put an asterisk after a word to indicate that an illegal play was made.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tucsonscrabble.com/articles/glossary.html|title=Scrabble Glossary|publisher=Tucson Scrabble Club|access-date=2012-02-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830073348/http://www.tucsonscrabble.com/articles/glossary.html|archive-date=2011-08-30|url-status=dead}}</ref>