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powercreep

powercreep is the alternative form of power creep.

Meaning of power creep

Noun

power creep (usually uncountable, plural power creeps)

  1. (usually, collectible games, roleplaying games) The situation where successive updates or expansions to a game introduce more powerful units or abilities, leaving the older ones underpowered.
    • It does seem that over time the base damage a starting characted^([sic]) can do has inflated, but a good GM can usual put an end to the munchkin power creep.1992 May 8, Donald A Bachman <donald@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>, “Re: SRUN: MAges, what to do? (Was Cyberware &...)”, in rec.games.frp (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 25 Mar...

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Forms of powercreep

Noun
pluralpowercreeps
Verb
third-person singular presentpowercreeps
present participlepowercreeping
past participlepowercrept
pastpowercrept
past participlepowercreeped
pastpowercreeped

Questions about powercreep

What is powercreep the alternative form of?
Powercreep is the alternative form of power creep.

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