JacktheRabbit
Explorer
What would you prefer be used?
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D&D 5E Pedantic pet peeves
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What would you prefer be used?
iserith
Magic Wordsmith
This is just me, but I try to avoid saying "You" at all when offering a description wherever possible. Same when narrating the outcome of an adventurer's action. "You" is better than "you guys..." in my opinion, when necessary.
Xaelvaen
Stuck in the 90s
This... this is not a post to which I should be responding. It is with great willpower that I present but one, gaming-specific answer:
Players speaking in-character using modern vernacular - the type of drivel they'd put in a 'tweet' or a 'text', spewing forth from their characters' mouths.
Luckily, I only experience this when running games for new groups down at the FLGS, and not at my home. I try, with great patience, to explain to them the goals behind immersing yourself into the mind of the character, affected appropriately by his or her surroundings. I certainly don't mean to sound mean, or rude with this particular pet peeve - I understand they are new players, so I treat it with dignity and the kindest of educational process I can offer. That does not stop me from wiping away the tears of pain when I get home after the game.
That is all, until my resolve falters and I'm forced to rant in ways I wish to not.
Players speaking in-character using modern vernacular - the type of drivel they'd put in a 'tweet' or a 'text', spewing forth from their characters' mouths.
Luckily, I only experience this when running games for new groups down at the FLGS, and not at my home. I try, with great patience, to explain to them the goals behind immersing yourself into the mind of the character, affected appropriately by his or her surroundings. I certainly don't mean to sound mean, or rude with this particular pet peeve - I understand they are new players, so I treat it with dignity and the kindest of educational process I can offer. That does not stop me from wiping away the tears of pain when I get home after the game.
That is all, until my resolve falters and I'm forced to rant in ways I wish to not.
Lanefan
Victoria Rules
My pet peeve: people who, when posting, write "player" when they mean "character".
Someone posts: "In my game today the party met a nasty dragon and two players died."
My immediate thought: "What city do you live in so I know which cops to call?"
Characters live (and die) in the game world. Players live (and hopefully don't die) in this one.
Lanefan
Someone posts: "In my game today the party met a nasty dragon and two players died."
My immediate thought: "What city do you live in so I know which cops to call?"
Characters live (and die) in the game world. Players live (and hopefully don't die) in this one.
Lanefan
Cyan Wisp
Explorer
It'd have to be players who don't know what's on their Character Sheet, or who don't mark things off, like spell slots, or who "forget" that they are suffering from a debilitating Condition, like poisoned or unconscious, or are already Concentrating on several spells at once. Grrrr!
I sometimes feel like I'm the table narc, because I'll call others out on their oversights, regardless of the benefit or detriment to the party. I guess I just like to play fair?
(Also, you really have to be careful posting on this particular thread; you may end up annoying someone with your written grammar! I'd hate to become someone's pet peeve.
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I sometimes feel like I'm the table narc, because I'll call others out on their oversights, regardless of the benefit or detriment to the party. I guess I just like to play fair?
(Also, you really have to be careful posting on this particular thread; you may end up annoying someone with your written grammar! I'd hate to become someone's pet peeve.
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JonnyP71
Explorer
Something I have to keep telling my group...
Stealth is NOT a verb
And we are Brits, therefore US pronunciations are not acceptable, especially Minotaur and Satyr.
Plus the list goes on:
- people pluralising Dwarf to Dwarves. It is Dwarfs.
- Dwarfs and Halflings being able to use magic - no, just no
- Playable monster races - no, just no
- "I grab it", "I take it", "I saw it first"
Stealth is NOT a verb
And we are Brits, therefore US pronunciations are not acceptable, especially Minotaur and Satyr.
Plus the list goes on:
- people pluralising Dwarf to Dwarves. It is Dwarfs.
- Dwarfs and Halflings being able to use magic - no, just no
- Playable monster races - no, just no
- "I grab it", "I take it", "I saw it first"
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That’s not even *old* English. It’s perfectly current.
JonnyP71
Explorer
My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen....
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