D&D Goes International

G'day, sports.

I am an Australian roleplayer. Therefore, according to popular culture, the following must be accurate:

Role-players in Australia enjoy the game as their international counterparts do, with some minor differences.

1. Gaming lingo is different. "Dice" are called "Dingidangalongs", "Manuals" are called "Coonajazzawazzas" and "a DM's screen" is called a "Finajindabonglebinglebagawozza."
2. The D&D classes have different names here, ie:
US = Barbarian
Aussie = "Big Bastard"
US - Bard
Aussie = "Whinging poofter"
US = Cleric
Aussie = "Preaching poofter"
US = Druid
Aussie = "Hippy poofter"
US = Fighter
Aussie = "Mad Max"
US = Monk
Aussie = "Nancy Boy Poofter"
US = Paladin
Aussie = "Tight-arsed Poofter"
US = Ranger
Aussie = "Croc Hunter"
US = Rogue
Aussie = "Founding Father"
US = Sorcerer
Aussie = "Smarmy Poofter"
US = Wizard
Aussie = "Smart-arse Poofter."
3. We play in blue singlets, with hats on with little dangly corks.
4. We have to stop every five minutes to ride our kangaroos around the city.
5. Going to your next-door-neighbour's house for a "quick dungeon crawl" takes three days.
6. We only play outdoors on the beach.
7. Unless we're having a BBQ.
8. In every campaign, one PC marries another PC and then both leave the campaign and their players try to make it big as pop stars. (WARNING: Gratuitous Soap Opera Bashing)

All of the above must be true because that's what it's on TV. And TV doesn't lie.
I now invite you to describe, in detail, how D&D is played in YOUR homeland if you believe what you see and hear in pop culture.

Roflmao

Mate; I'll be over your place next wedensday for some beer, cheap as dirty shielas, surfboards and in-depth vampire. Keep the stables ready for me croc, it's got Dumb Tourist disease. It keeps breaking out in Dumb bloody tourists.

cheers.

We call the DM "Hauptchef"
Villain is "Pälzer"
Taverns don't offer Ale and Stew, but Ur-Pils and Schales/Debbelabbes
Instead of Pizza, gamers eat Schwenker.
All characters have to buy Common with skill ranks, since normally, we cannot speak it.

STARP_JVP, do the toilets *really* flush counter-clockwise in your country? Huh, DO THEY!?

der_kluge said:

STARP_JVP, do the toilets *really* flush counter-clockwise in your country? Huh, DO THEY!?

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in his country.. the toilets flush you

diaglo said:

in his country.. the toilets flush you

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Thank you Yakov. Now back to Branson with you.

How's it going, eh? I'm from Canada, so our games work a little different.

1. All Iron Rations replaced with Maple Syrup.
2. Mordakainen's Magnificent Mansion replaced with Iggliv's Infamous Igloo
3. Everyone says, "eh" after every sentence, failure to do so gives you -5 on diplomacy checks
4. At least one PC must speak with a French accent to keep up the minimum Canadian content
5. National sport of all nations in the game is hockey
6. Everyone gets an automatic +5 to all bluff and diplomacy checks, everyone trusts a Canadian
7. All games take place in either Toronto or Vancouver, the rest of Canada doesn't actually exist except in legends
8. We play all games completely drunk (although as a side note, this appears to be an Aussie thing, while I was there, my friends there were baffled that I didn't drink while playing)
9. Can't play with miniatures as it is hard to pick them up with gloves on
10. Sometimes play for a month straight as the sun stays up that long
11. Everyone at the table has the rules from Frostburn memorized

Majoru Oakheart said:

How's it going, eh? I'm from Canada, so our games work a little different.

1. All Iron Rations replaced with Maple Syrup.
2. Mordakainen's Magnificent Mansion replaced with Iggliv's Infamous Igloo
3. Everyone says, "eh" after every sentence, failure to do so gives you -5 on diplomacy checks
4. At least one PC must speak with a French accent to keep up the minimum Canadian content
5. National sport of all nations in the game is hockey
6. Everyone gets an automatic +5 to all bluff and diplomacy checks, everyone trusts a Canadian
7. All games take place in either Toronto or Vancouver, the rest of Canada doesn't actually exist except in legends
8. We play all games completely drunk (although as a side note, this appears to be an Aussie thing, while I was there, my friends there were baffled that I didn't drink while playing)
9. Can't play with miniatures as it is hard to pick them up with gloves on
10. Sometimes play for a month straight as the sun stays up that long
11. Everyone at the table has the rules from Frostburn memorized

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You forgot 12. All cities in your campaign double as cities in the US on film.