MANA

Spanish translation: maná

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00:55 Sep 30, 2020
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English term or phrase: MANA
Definition from Cyber Definitions:
MANA means Unit of Magical Power in an online gaming context. Used most often in the context of fantasy RPG (Role Playing Game), MANA (sometimes called MP) is common term for a unit of magical power. As a rule, the higher a player's MANA score, the more potent the player's spells.

Example sentence(s):
  • Much of the game mechanic revolves around managing and using mana wisely: casting spells often enough to achieve your goal, but not so often that you run out of mana early. The Appendix
  • The TCG Magic: The Gathering uses mana as the central game mechanic. Mana is typically produced by tapping card resources such as land, artifacts, or creatures. It’s used for summoning every item on the battlefield and for casting every spell, with a few rare exceptions. Geeky Domain
  • Still, it’s not an easy fix: mana systems are inherently meant to limit power, so how can you make having limited power fun? A good way to tackle this problem is to first take a look at a wider variety of games to see different approaches to this paradox. Omegathorion
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Spanish translation:maná
Definition:
El maná en los videojuegos se trata de una energía ficticia que se ha de consumir para poder realizar habilidades. Se trata de algo realmente importante entre los personajes mágicos y es muy usual su empleo en juegos de rol.
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5 +4maná
Santiago de Miguel
5Puntos de inteligencia
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maná


Definition from Geekno:
El maná en los videojuegos se trata de una energía ficticia que se ha de consumir para poder realizar habilidades. Se trata de algo realmente importante entre los personajes mágicos y es muy usual su empleo en juegos de rol.

Example sentence(s):
  • Le restituye a un héroe aliado 140 de salud y obtiene Desesperación durante 4 segundos. Desesperación aumenta el costo de maná de Súplica desesperada en 45 y se acumula hasta 3 veces. Costo de maná actual: 45 - Blizzard HotS  
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Puntos de inteligencia


Definition from Wikipedia:
"Algunos juegos basan la fuerza y cantidad de la magia de un personaje en estadística (juegos de rol) como "sabiduría" o "inteligencia". Estas estadísticas se utilizan porque son fáciles de perder de vista y desarrollar en los juegos de rol de lápiz y papel."

Strength and magic capacity are based on stadistics such as "wisdom" or "intelligence" stats in certain games. These stadistics are used because it is really easy to lose them or develop them in traditional rol games.

Example sentence(s):
  • La Inteligencia es un modificador para la mayoría de catalizadores, incrementa la eficacia de la mayoría de Hechizos. Todas los hechizos tienen un requisito de Inteligencia base. La Inteligencia es también un modificador de daño, lo que aumenta el daño de las armas que escalan en Inteligencia. Esto incluye ciertas armas únicas como el Espadón de luz de luna y el Estoque Velka, así como armas ascendidas en mágicas y encantadas. - Dark Souls Wiki  

Explanation:
Maná (or "Puntos de magia", "PM") is not a correct term in this case. "Maná" usually refers to the magic capacity that the player has. According to the definition from Cyber definitions, "the higher a player's MANA score, the more potent the player's spells".

Regarding the context of spells boost, games tend to use Intelligence stat points or Magic points (translated as "puntos de magia" or only "Magia", but never "Maná".
Vanessa Recio Cárdenas
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Local time: 10:47
Native speaker of: Spanish
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