A group or character classification in many Tabletop Games. The most well known splats are the typical 'fighter-mage-thief-cleric' classes, common to games such as Dungeons & Dragons, though racial splats are common as well.
The term comes from White Wolf games. Practically all of their Storytelling System games have a variety of character types, with a variety of names for these character types, [...] [tvtropes.org]