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All in Good Fun - "Portmanteau-ing" (Donkeyhorsing?) the Power Gamer
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<blockquote data-quote="innerdude" data-source="post: 5143848" data-attributes="member: 85870"><p>First of all, this really is just supposed to be all in good fun. The original "Donkeyhorse" thread left me stitches, with all of the funny ways people were combining portmanteaus for "Donkeyhorse" (i.e., the "Donkeyhorse-headed Donkeyhorse"). </p><p></p><p>And I thought a similar vein of humor might be eminently applicable to one of the most ubiquitous gaming phenomena of all time: The Power Gamer</p><p></p><p>Every single one of us has either played with one, been one, wrangled with one, insulted one, teased one, had our PC killed by one, had all the treasure/ale/whores stolen by one, watched a Barbarian half-orc dual-wielding Monkey-gripped Bastard-sword character deliver 200 points of damage on a single Crit---or all of the above. </p><p></p><p>For example, the brother of a friend who used to play in a 3.5 game with WAS the half-orc/Warforged monkey-grip king. If there was a way to break the fighter/barbarian's damage output beyond recognition, he found it. </p><p></p><p>So first of all----how can we Donkeyhorse the name "Power Gamer" to begin with? (By the way, as an English graduate instructor, the use of the word "Donkeyhorse" as a verb just brings my soul infinite amounts of glee.) </p><p></p><p>PowerStrike Fluffernutters? </p><p></p><p>Fun-Killer GM-Banes?</p><p></p><p>RuleSearcher Crit-Creeps?</p><p></p><p>Metagame MunchkinMunchers?</p><p></p><p>Splatbook Wankensteiners?</p><p></p><p>Pun-Pun Probability Practitioners?</p><p></p><p>Admittedly my examples suck, so I trust to the humor and good wit of ENWorld to provide much greater amusement....... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="innerdude, post: 5143848, member: 85870"] First of all, this really is just supposed to be all in good fun. The original "Donkeyhorse" thread left me stitches, with all of the funny ways people were combining portmanteaus for "Donkeyhorse" (i.e., the "Donkeyhorse-headed Donkeyhorse"). And I thought a similar vein of humor might be eminently applicable to one of the most ubiquitous gaming phenomena of all time: The Power Gamer Every single one of us has either played with one, been one, wrangled with one, insulted one, teased one, had our PC killed by one, had all the treasure/ale/whores stolen by one, watched a Barbarian half-orc dual-wielding Monkey-gripped Bastard-sword character deliver 200 points of damage on a single Crit---or all of the above. For example, the brother of a friend who used to play in a 3.5 game with WAS the half-orc/Warforged monkey-grip king. If there was a way to break the fighter/barbarian's damage output beyond recognition, he found it. So first of all----how can we Donkeyhorse the name "Power Gamer" to begin with? (By the way, as an English graduate instructor, the use of the word "Donkeyhorse" as a verb just brings my soul infinite amounts of glee.) PowerStrike Fluffernutters? Fun-Killer GM-Banes? RuleSearcher Crit-Creeps? Metagame MunchkinMunchers? Splatbook Wankensteiners? Pun-Pun Probability Practitioners? Admittedly my examples suck, so I trust to the humor and good wit of ENWorld to provide much greater amusement....... :) [/QUOTE]
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