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Harvey Randall

Avowed's in-dialogue glossary isn't that new, really—it's just somehow not industry-standard yet, though it could solve the 'amnesiac/prisoner RPG protagonist' problem forever

Avowed.

Words cannot describe how much I love Avowed's glossary of, well, words. In case you've not been playing Obsidian's excellent little RPG yet, the game has a "dialogue history and lore" option you can pull up whenever someone's not actively yapping, which'll not only let you skim through previous dialogue. It'll also pull up a glossary of terms used in the conversation itself. This includes important organisations, figures, and fantasy terms like "Claviger". Here's an example:

(Image credit: Obsidian)
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