Do your characters swear?

[Phineas Crow]

The closest I get is shouting "rust and corruption" whenever my dwarven PC carelessly sets off a trap.

 

[Pants]

It's distateful to swear during a game. I like, or would prefer, the characters in my games to be as close to characters in novels as possible...

You've obviously never read George Martin.

I swear a good bit IRL and a bit less in game.

 

[Herpes Cineplex]

I swear quite a bit, so most of my characters do, too. (My mom was a registered nurse, so I probably heard more profanity growing up than the kids of a Marine Corps Drill Instructor. ) They're just very useful words to me, words that express a range of sentiments in one or two syllables that it would take a handful of sentences to convey otherwise.

And honestly, f-ck verisimilitude. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, an invented mock swear word just sounds stupid; I'll just use the word I actually mean to use, and we'll all just pretend that when translated into the language of the game setting it comes out to something equally offensive. We're already assuming my 21st-century American English is actually Shelzari or Basic or German or whatever, we may as well assume that the obscene phrase I just said (and which everyone understood immediately and fit the context of what we were talking about) would be translated to its nearest language-appropriate analogue.


In stark contrast to my incessantly foul mouth is my friend's wife, who won't even swear when she's playing a videogame; she just starts making up elaborate and meaningless sound-alike words, which is always funny.

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particularly if you put the two of us in front of the same console
ryan

 

[AGGEMAM]

really. that comes from having a grandmother who was Danish.

Anyone in the family still?

It might be of interest to you that HRH the Crown Prince of Denmark is getting married next friday to an australian girl. I'll start a thread in OffTopic about it thursday or friday. Loads of pictures I promise

 

[MacMathan]

Most of my in game swearing comes in the form of dwarven oathes in character. Of course there is some out of character swearing when the rolls go particularly badly on some nights or when the DM is being particularly Rat Bastardly.

 

[Conaill]

You've obviously never read George Martin.

Nor Glen Cook. I don't remember any characters that really stood out for swearing, but the Black Company series is generally so grim and gritty that a potty-mouth would fit right in.

 

[aurance]

Those of you worried about verisimilitude, do you speak in middle English/early modern English during gaming? I certainly couldn't pull it off.

Otherwise, all modern gaming dialogs are modern vernacular translations of older speech patterns... Modern cursing would fit right in, no problem.

 

[Kalen_Darkstar]

my characters tend to swear loudly right as they realize that something bad is going to happen or right after it does

example: current character lost hand and first thing said was "BLOODY HELL!!!"

 

[JacktheRabbit]

On the other hand if I play a Paladin, then I would not swear, possibly even frown on people that does.

Sorry you must have gotten things mixed up here. This is the do you swear while gaming thread. No the why does everyone hate paladins thread. ;-)

As to whether I swear while gaming. Yes I do, my current character curses all the time. Some of the cursing is more effective than others since my current character is a 10th level Hexblade. ;-)

 

[AGGEMAM]

Sorry you must have gotten things mixed up here. This is the do you swear while gaming thread. No the why does everyone hate paladins thread.

Funny enough all the other players in my group hated my paladin for that. I loved it though. It's still a standing joke in my games: "If Shanglar was here I couldn't say this, but ... "