D&D terminology pet peeves

[loki44]

"You are attacked by a gang of my nads."

LOL!
Haven't had a chuckle like that in a while!

 

[Henry]

For the life of me, I still can't figure out what's with the propensity of "rouge" vs "rogue" mistakes online. I'm starting to think that people know better but continue to mispell it to grate on the nerves of those who try to correct them.

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."

 

[threshel]

Barbarians. Now I can't refer to the "nomadic folk who live in the north outside the city walls" without my entire table thinking it's a civilization made up solely of berserkers.

J

 

[francisca]

Amazingly, considering that I have about a zillion other pet peeves, I don't think I have any in this area. I'm heard some amusing alternate pronunciations, though, and sometimes teased the speaker about them, but they didn't really bother me. One kid I knew use to say "buh-STAARD sword" and "skim-i-TAR," for instance.

Actually, come to think of it, I almost have this as an anti-pet peeve ... it annoys me when people get all hyper-spazzed about someone using a term in its English-language sense. For instance, I just shake my head when people insist that you can't "enchant" a weapon, or that a weapon can't be "enchanted." This often from the same hyper-technical people have no problem with seven different official D&D meanings for the word "level."

What he said.

 

[focallength]

we were playin RTTTOEE and we were attacked by some (dms words) mine o taurs, here I was sitting racking my brains trying to think of some underground subrace of the minotaur, until one player pointed out (after the Dm had said it 5-6 times) that it was pronounced minotaur. Then it all made sense. Ive been attacked by minitaurs and minnowtaurs but that was my first incounter with a mineotaur.

 

[focallength]

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

 

[Orius]

my pet peeves:

when they call d02 : 3ed.

we all know 3edD&D was the revised Holmes edition of Basic.

Nitpicking again, diaglo? You know very well it's really AD&D 3e, but that WotC dropped "Advanced", because there are no longer seperate game lines.

 

[nute]

and its drizzt (like dri-ts) not drizzit!, ask the author if your confused.
Salvatore can't pronounce "drow" correctly. I don't think he's an authority.

Actually, I thought it was Drizzt, just like it's spelled; if people can say "fizz", they should be able to say Drizzt.

 

[focallength]

this is true...

 

[Gentlegamer]

Nitpicking again, diaglo? You know very well it's really AD&D 3e, but that WotC dropped "Advanced", because there are no longer seperate game lines.

Actually, WotC dropped the Dungeons & Dragons game from the "Dungeons & Dragons" name.