Do your characters swear?

[ph0rk]

No! No swearing for my characters. I have a time maintaining a medieval verisimilitude when charaters are using 20th century American swear words.

Since most gamers don't take the trouble to brush up on their middle or old english; I don't really see the point.


Swearing is not the most eloquent method for getting one's point across; but then anyone who would discount what you say solely by the count of obscenities is even -more- obtuse.

It isn't as if we're having wardrobe malfunctions.

Well, out of character anyway.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

"By the bristling balls of Heironeious!"

Consider that STOLEN!!

 

[Panthanas]

I swear alot in real life, but the closest my characters get is, "Firk, ding, blast!"

 

[Imhotepthewise]

I've always borrowed heavily from Kenneth Bulmer's Dray Prescot:

gems:

By the disgusting, diseased entrails of Makki-Grodno!

By the Glass Eye and Brass Sword of Beng Thrax!

etc

 

[thundershot]

Ever since watching Farscape, the characters DO say "Frell" a lot. It's becoming a common expletive in my campagin world. "Bloody frell!" "What the frell?" "Who the frell is that?!"


Chris

 

[Steverooo]

I don't. None of my characters do. I wouldn't be comfortable with it, but it happens.

 

[Quicken]

My group swears out of character far more than in character. I try and make my latest character, a half-orc, swear quite a lot. Nothing too modern though, just a lot of bloody and bastard references. I had one character I was quite fond of who once exclaimed "Where in the nine hells are we!?". He was shocked into silence when he got the polite response: "The ninth hell".

 

[the Jester]

We've used a few campaign specific curses...

"Dexter's Nadlies!" is a favorite. (Dexter Nadly is the Jesus figure in the campaign's main religion.)

Also, "Dexter's Eyes!" (He's blind.)
"By the Eye of Boccob!"

I'm sure there are more, but those are the ones that keep getting repeated over and over.

 

[Ogre Mage]

Swearing

My NG cleric, raised in a small town by kind, upright religious parents, almost never swears. She has once or twice when she was in big trouble.

My N rogue, who spent most of her youth in a street gang, is the verbal equivalent of a cesspool. If she lived today, she could have been the next Lil' Kim or Foxy Brown.

 

[robberbaron]

Swearing often depends upon the game.

When we played a Sci-Fi game (Starguild by Plane Sailing - plug, plug) we didn't use normal curses, instead we had to think of some new ones.
"Zark the ragging felk!" was one I remember with some fondness.

Star Wars presents some problems, 'cos no-one swears in Star Wars.

In D&D, well, we sometimes swear like sailors. Even Trajan (my Paladin), though he generally resorts to the God's Name - God's body part formula ("Asura's Arse!" or "God's Turban and Tutu" [thanks to the late Viv Stanshall for that one]).