A Rather Odd Dilemma...

[demiurge1138]

I just got my hands on a copy of the great 2e Planescape book Faces of Evil. I read it cover to cover, got a dozen campaign ideas... and then found myself speaking in Plane's-cant. What's a blood to do?

I'm doing it again, aren't I?

Has this happened to anyone else? Or am I absolutely insane?
Demiurge out.

 

[NiTessine]

Yeah, I did it too, back when I was playing Planescape: Torment. It wore off. However, I am now plotting a Planescape game, and am slipping back into the cant...

 

[I'm A Banana]

It ain't bad 'till ye start makin' up words on the fly, berk. That's when ye know the barmy's in yer brain-case, and yer bone-box is turned Cager.

Also, this thread will royally irk those who hated the cant....hehehehe.

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Be very careful!

You have just been had an encounter with the "rule of threes":

1) You read a Planescape book

2) You are speaking/thinking/writing in cant

3) You are posting about your PS experiences on a messageboard!

If you are not careful, you will become a hardcore PS fan like me!

I own every PS book, and even bought 4 copies of the planeswalker handbook, but the campaign I sterted several years ago fizelled after just a few games - It was my fault too: These particular guys had not played D&D in many years, and I think I blew their minds by dropping them in the Abyss to start out the campaign. Just way too foreign from their Greyhawk 1E backgrounds.

 

[Bloodstone Mage]

This happened to a friend of mine. He got heavily into Planescape and would reference factions and cant all of the time. He got over it once he got into Dark Sun.

Cheers!

 

[ph34r]

What's a blood to do?

Quit while you're ahead...gangs are bad!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[SteelDraco]

This happened to me for a while as well. I stopped when I got tired of being stared at. ;-) It wasn't an easy two weeks, let me tell you. I still occasionally use jink (money) and kip (home), but my friends have apparently accepted these as minor quirks.

It also seemed to help when I recently played a Planescape game, in which I played a very strict, monastery-trained githzerai. He was one of the only people in the group who didn't use cant, so I got used to not using it, even when it's going on around me.

 

[herald]

I recommend a Monty Python or Mel Brooks Movie. Early vintage is best.

 

[Piratecat]

Berk berk berk berk berk.

 

[Henry]

The problem, Berk, is that ye just want to hear your bone-box rattle fer its own jollies, savvy? So before a blood winds up pennin' ye inta the dead-book, ye'd best ken to the Dark o'things quick-like, and put the nix on the Speak!

(No offense meant, I couldn't help it. )

My friends and I back in the early 90's used to over-use the Shadowrun slang - a LOT. We'd talk of "geeking" those who didn't agree with the way we ran things, we'd use the term "wetwork" like we'd actually done some of it, and we'd we'd refer to our SSN's as SINs. God, we were annoying. So I know what it's like to be a Cant-junkie.

My suggestion is to pick up a new foreign language. It helps in things besides RPG's, and you've got something to swear in when you're frustrated.