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balance

  1. noun How many charging units you have left. Q: "What's your balance?" A: "Oh, I'm good for another 30 minutes".
  2. noun The quality of being well-tuned. Often used as a verb. New additions to the game are assessed in terms of balance, to decide whether or not they are a Good Thing. "Don't add anything to the dwarfs, that whole area is really well balanced". The term is sometimes negated, eg. "If you add MUD1's wand to MUD2, you'll imbalance the whole magic system". See imbalance.

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