Gameisms...

[coyote6]

"Aunt May's Discretion" -- Champions has a level of being unconscious called 'GM's Discretion'; you're so unconcious that you're not going to recover until the GM says so, regardless of how much healing or regeneration or anything you have. Having seen characters knocked into the negative triple digits, somehow the above phrase came into use.

We call this condition "Wyvernized". This comes from a fight with the Champions villain Wyvern -- the PCs kept barely knocking him out, so he kept reviving, and reattacking. After several iterations, all of the PCs coordinated their attacks, and hit him. Then they did it again, and again. And maybe again. Negative triple digits. After that, "I Wyvernize him" became popular -- standard shorthand of saying "hit him until he stops getting up", amongst other things.

Still used, too -- I think mention was made of a troll being "wyvernized" in a D&D game last week.

Another phrase: "You see a jungle" -- for any really low skill roll, but especially a Spot or Listen check. Comes from an adventure where the party was stuck deep in a jungle, with plenty of hostile wildlife & the like. Thus, Spot rolls were a fairly common occurence; alas, one PC, a halfling with minimal Spot skill, kept rolling low on the Spot checks. So I'd ask for Spot rolls, get totals, and say something like, "Wizard, you see something moving behind some leafy plants ahead of you; ranger, you see a pair of humanoids hiding behind some ferns at about one o'clock; halfling, you see a jungle."

Now, even the PCs use it (once, while attempting to turn undead, the GM asked for my results -- I said, "I think I see the jungle.").

"You hear bogs darking" -- late one night, I mangled the phrase "You hear dogs barking". I now use it as all-purpose nonsense filler, as an answer to an out-of-left-field question ("What kind of clothes is the kobold wearing?" "Uh, you hear bogs darking."), or occasionally to trip up people who aren't paying attention ("...and then you hear the bogs darking").

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

"OH MY GOD, THEY HAVE ARCHERS!"

Kesho's post reminded me of this...

Back in the days of 2e, we had an ranger character that was probably about 13th level, and god with a bow - and had the ego that you would expect. The group was a mix of several levels and classes, and we had just picked up several new players.

Quick note - 2e natural 1 on the die. Our DM had a custom fumble chart where when you roll a nat 1, you then roll percentile to see what happened. One result was "Hit nearest Ally".

We as a group were fighting a Deepspawn (which are pretty nasty, if you are familiar with them - they can spit out copies of anything that they have eaten). The Deepspawn had ambushed us, and was currently hiding in the water where we couldn't reach it and sending out drow, duegrar (sp?), etc. So far, all of them were wielding melee weapons. So far, we were fighting a losing battle.

The ranger decided to fire at one of the drow we were facing. He rolled a natural 1 on the die and hit one of the low-level PC's we had just picked up. Hit him in the temple, knocked him out cold, darn near killed him. No one saw who shot the arrow, as we were all facing away, etc. One of the new PCs, however, happened to look up just as the low-level PC fell. First things out of his mouth: "OH MY GOD, THEY HAVE ARCHERS!"

At which point, the ranger piped up: "Don't worry, I'll take care of them!" And proceeded to run off to the side of the battlefield the felled PC was on.

Ever since then, when a PC fumbles or otherwise screws up big-time where the rest of the PC's can't see it, someone shouts out "OH MY GOD, THEY'VE GOT ARCHERS!"

 

[Ravellion]

Frank & Andrew: Quicknames for two generic guards, tavern patrons etc. As soon as I say that their names are frank & andrew, they know not to make friends with the chracters It is like Guard 1 & Guard 2.

They were the names of two henchmen a party once brought along. I couldn't think of any names within 5 seconds, so one of my layers dubbed them frank & andrew.

Rav

 

[Mark Chance]

Not really a gameism, but still funny. Party has captured goblin. Fred's character sets to the interrogation.

Fred: Where are you going? [no response] Who sent you? [no response] What's your name?

Ben: Who's your daddy?

Me: Is he rich like me?

Bah-dum-ching!

 

[FoxWander]

"I kick the halfling!"

This first came up when the fighter in my old group found a pair of boots that detected as magic, but we didn't have an Identify spell. So he used his characters suddenly encyclopedical knowledge of magic items to start testing everything. It went like this...

Kurt (the fighter's player): I try to run really fast
DM: Nope. No faster than normal.
Kurt: I start jumping around.
DM: Nope, still normal.
Kurt: I jump of the table and try not to fall.
DM (laughing): Nope you still fall.
Kurt: I try to sneak across the room.
DM: Still not quiet.
Kurt: Well crap! Wait! I kick the halfling.
Me (playing the halfling): Hey!
DM: You seem to kick much harder than usual- he sails across the room, taking... (rolls) 13 points of damage.
Me: HEY!!!
Kurt: Woohoo! Slippers of kicking!

After that "Kick the Halfling" came to mean trying something off the wall in a desperate last chance effort- although it was no longer literally acted on.

 

[jollyninja]

after convincing the noncom officers of an army that their superiors and king were in league with devils (they were) and watching them kill said superiors and turn home to fix their troubled nation's problems. a couple hours of roleplayingwas wasted by chris, a fellow player running up and telling them what we had just done. i now reffer to anything that kills a plan after it has allready been completed as "christening"

"constabulating" a halfling rogue given the position of constable within a police force's reply to the question "what are you doing?" from a prominent citizen. we now use it as the generic "i'm doing my job stop being a jerk" reply.

"going bolin" dwarf named bolin minimum height for a 2e mtn dwarf, maximum weight. something like 3'6" 190lbs as i recall but in a fight with a skeletal warrior, he had no magical weapon so he decided to fling himself at the creature in hopes of knocking it down. he hit it 10 times and never knocked it down. going bolin refers to being irrationally cheated by the mechanics of the game.

 

[Rel]

This thread has been a source of much amusement to me the last couple days. Of the latest batch of replies, I especially liked "kick the halfling" ("Hey!" ) and the "what's your name? - who's your daddy? - is he rich like me?" exchange. Hilarious.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Probably not terribly original, but:

Ping - used by whoever is playing the paladin in the group, for who detects as evil. Lately it has grown to encompass all detect spells.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

69- Masturbating during an autopsy is considered bad form

ROFLMAO!

 

[Cybern]

Ping! We use that one, but in the Ping / Pong (ping reply X seconds) internet sense.

When a player isn't listening and it's his turn/cue, the DM pings him. This ping/pong has made it in our everyday vocabulary.