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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 301081" data-attributes="member: 172">It originated in WW WoD stuff. In white wolf, the various games had character groups called things like "clans", "tribes" and "traditions". They put out books targeted at characters of these groups, like "clanbook tremere" or "tribebook garou" or some such.Now in computer parlance, a "wild card" is a character that acts as universal moniker representing any term you want to put in. On the PC (and most other platforms), the wildcard is an asterisk; if I am looking for any file of type pdf, I could type in *.pdf as a search term. The asterisk is known as a "splat", so for those computer saavy folks who wanted to comment about all clanbooks, tribe books, or tradition books, they referred to them as "*books", or (spoken) "splatbooks."Through mingling, this term got used to refer to any of a series of books targeted at different character types in RPGs.</blockquote>