D&D 5E Pedantic pet peeves

[Immoralkickass]

I want to scream every time someone uses "dice" as a singular. "Roll one dice." No!

(I've never seen the rulebooks do this, thankfully, but players do it all the freakin' time.)

I heard someone use 'dices' not long ago, that really triggered something deep within me.

 

[Mouseferatu]

I heard someone use 'dices' not long ago, that really triggered something deep within me.

...

Were you gaming with Gollum?

 

[Mouseferatu]

For me, it's when I see people type "would of" or "could of" instead of "would've" or "could've". The former doesn't even make sense!

See, I thought we were talking gaming-specific peeves. If the topic is broader, then this would've been one of my first comments. I want to actually electrocute people who write "would of" or the like.

 

[Hussar]

Broader stuff? Using "clip" for magazine.

Using apostrophes to denote plurals.

 

[Sacrosanct]

But what if it bites you and it dies?

Congratulations! You’re poisonous!

 

[Sacrosanct]

Broader stuff? Using "clip" for magazine

As a military veteran, this bugs me to no end as well.

As a Blackhawk crew chief, it’s not a chopper. A chopper is a motorcycle. It’s either a helicopter. Or bird. Or aircraft. Or it’s actual designation or name. But not a chopper.

 

[Sacrosanct]

"Old English" spoken poorly. "Ye" as in "Ye Olde Pub" is pronounced "the." "Gaol" is pronounced "jail." "Blackguard" isn't "black guard," but "blaggard."

I used to be blissfully ignorant... and now neither are you

But is it the as in thee, or the as in thuh?

 

[Nevvur]

But what if it bites you and it dies?

Sounds poinemous to me.

I’m sorry, but this bothers me every time I see it, and it’s been this way since I can remember: mixing up poisonous and venomous. If they are accurate, a poisonous snake can bite you all day long and you’ll never be poisoned. But D&D always mixes these up.

Like the saying goes, “if it bites you and you die, it’s venomous. If you bite it and you die, it’s poisonous.”

I hate when people mash words together like portmanteau is or ever was innately humorous.

 

[Guest 6801328]

My pet peeve is pedantry.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

As a military veteran, this bugs me to no end as well.

As a Blackhawk crew chief, it’s not a chopper. A chopper is a motorcycle. It’s either a helicopter. Or bird. Or aircraft. Or it’s actual designation or name. But not a chopper.

Thank you for your service!

However, the use of "chopper" as American military slang for helicopter was documented at least as early as the Korean War (between 1950-53, depending on which historian you read).

The last one I checked was:
Arne Olofsson
American Speech
Vol. 65, No. 3 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 278-284
Published by: Duke University Press