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A.03: Glossary
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ATK: Attack rating; measures how easy it is for a character to successfully 
land a melee attack on another character

Boost: Skills that are buffs

Buff: Any enhancement to a character's offensive or defensive stats or 
abilities

Debuff: Any penalty to a character's offensive or defensive stats or 
abilities

DEF: Defense rating; measures how hard it is for a character to be 
successfully hit by a melee attack

EP: Energy points

HP: Hit points or health

Mob: Any hostile character or characters

Skills: The variable abilities of all X-Men. Skills come in several types:
  * Ability: adds an ability to the character's repertoire (such as flying)
  * Beam: an instantaneous, straight-line projection of energy
  * Blast: an explosion of energy
  * Boost: enhances offensive/defensive capabilities
  * Charge: a special melee attack that covers a large distance
  * Debuff: penalizes enemies' abilities
  * Melee: an enhanced hand-to-hand attack
  * Passive: a skill that provides a continuous effect
  * Projectile: fires a "bullet" that moves at variable speeds, may also
                track the target, various damage types
  * Radial: creates an effect in a circle around the character
  * Special: Any skill that does not fall into one of the other categories
  * Trap: Creates an effect that damages enemies for a limited time without
          supervision from the character (e.g. Storm's Whirlwind or
          Iron Man's Auto Turret)
  * Xtreme: Skills that can only be used with Xtreme tokens

XP: Experience points