D&D terminology pet peeves

[werk]

and its drizzt (like dri-ts) not drizzit!, ask the author if your confused.

If you are talking about Drizzt...out loud...with others...correct pronunciation is probably not your chief concern.

(Just kidding - I have a thing against celebrities. Elminster...don't get me started...)

 

[Silverleaf]

Do you correct people when they use a wrong term, or misuse a term?

No, none of that stuff really bugs me. In fact, I pronounce "melee" as "me-lee", even though I'm bilingual and spent much of my childhood in France. So long as I can understand what someone is referring to, I don't care how they say it. Maybe it's because I moved around a lot and experienced many different accents and dialects.

 

[Navar]

Well I thought I might make a new thread, but I will just post in here. One of my big ones is Enchant and Enhance. Even WOTC screws this up and it only sows confusion. My example is that in Eberron it says "Warforged can be enchanted just as armor can be." on page 23. The important thing is that most Enchantment spells don't work on suits of armor. Enchant is what a school of magic does to being's minds, not what you do to armor. Warforged can be Enchanted, but that is because they are living constructs. Warforged can also be Enchanted like suits of armor to gain enhancement bonuses to AC and what not.

I know that thinks like "Half" Races upset some people (and me somtimes) there are half elves and Half dwarves (though they have another name derro? maybe) but no half gnomes. And there is no half elf dwarf. I hope they fix this in future editions.

Prestige classes I just figure is a name though. You can call it "Super" Classes for all I care they would work the same and to me and my group Prestige doesn’t create any confusion.

 

[Faraer]

Dwarf–elf and dwarf–human crossbreeds exist in the Forgotten Realms, though they're not game-mechanically distinct from dwarves, and they don't have cutesipoo names like 'dwelves'.

The D&Dspeak I don't like is the insular jargon in general, including the videogame imports.

 

[Chaldfont]

I have no problems with people mispronouncing things in D&D. My friends and I taught ourselves how to play in the early 80's when we were all about ten years old. Most of these words we couldn't even find in a dictionary (dweomer, anyone?). We certainly didn't know any other gamers to teach us the proper way of saying the words. Heck, it took several years and a half-dozen libraries before we even knew what half of those polearms in the PHB looked like! Raise your hand if you thought the glaive was that magic spinning blade thing in the movie Krull...

 

[Zoatebix]

Yeah, I guess I don't like things like "buff" and "tank" like what faraer said.

 

[Crothian]

new one for me: that D&D is not D&D :\

 

[VirgilCaine]

3. Schematics are wonderful things ... straight lines for corridors, small polygrams for rooms ... nothing needs to be to scale ... it's so easy, there's no excuse not to do it.

Here's a new one for me: Polygon as "polygram."

 

[Templetroll]

People couldn't possibly be so rougish as to do that.

I don't mind melee (I pronounce it Mee-lee, myself, though I know better), and I don't mind "Coup de Grace" (Coo duh GRAHCE) One I do mind is "Attack of Opportunity", because some people say it like it's a proper title which must always be used, much like one must use Dionysius the Areopagite to distinguish from Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite. I prefer "free attack" or "Op-attack" or "AoO" because they roll off the tongue better than the concentration-breaking "Attack of Opportunity."

From Google

Results 1 - 10 of about 20,700 for Dionysius the Areopagite. (0.28 seconds)

Thanks, Henry! My mind is just boggled. I love ENWorld! I love Google! I had to look it up to find out why anyone would be a Pseudo-Areopagite. There were four apparently different Dionysius' in the first linked article.

I'll have to use a Pseudo-Somethinite as a character name.

 

[ThirdWizard]

new one for me: that D&D is not D&D :\

Obviously D&D isn't D&D. Why, if D&D were D&D, then D&D wouldn't be D&D, because then D&D would usurp the D&Dhood from D&D, leaving nothing left for D&D.