legacy

noun

end result
bequest

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈlɛɡəsi/ / /ˈleɪɡəsi/ / /ˈleɡəsi/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English legacie, from Old French legacie and Medieval Latin lēgātia, from Latin lēgātum. The boardgame sense was coined by game designer Rob Daviau in 2011 with the game Risk Legacy.

Left over from the past; old and no longer current.
“They have no idea what occurs in the network or its topology, and all of the services remain dependent on it — a very legacy approach to creating services in the optical network.”
“However, pre-relational DBMS are legacy.”
Belonging to a class of boardgame where permanent changes are made to game elements such as the board, cards and rules over multiple play sessions.
“Risk Legacy, in 2011, was the first game to give visibility to the idea of progressive and irreversible discovery in the board gaming hobby, 2 and it did so by applying it to the well-known game Risk.”
“Over the course of the years that Daviau worked on Seafall, the first legacy game that was not based on a previously existing product, the mechanic became one of the hotter things in game design”

noun

Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.
“John Muir left as his legacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.”
“During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on.”
The descendant of an alumnus, given preference in academic admissions.
“Because she was a legacy, her mother's sorority rushed her.”