Gaming catchphrases, expressions, and idioms--what are yours?

[Castellan]

"I swing my weapon heroically!"
Said by any player who misses on his/her attack roll: "I step up to the Orc Chieftain and... (die roll) ... swing my weapon heroically."

"Waist-high one-eye"
As part of the back-story for one of the characters in my campaign, one of the players gave his dwarf fighter a huge head-scar from a severe axe-strike, resulting in blindness in one eye. He randomly rolled up his height, and ended up being pretty short. Everyone in the party refers to him as waist-high one-eye.

Vallejo fish
A PC named Vallejo, in a particular encounter, jumped into an underground pool to look for some goodies at the bottom. He ended up being captured by nixies, and the other party members began calling him Vallejo fish (i.e. fillet-o'-fish).

 

[Sulimo]

"Whats the weather like?"

In an old MERP game, we had a large party (about 12 PC's) and we were travelling through the countryside when one of the rangers asked "Whats the weather like?" Anyway the GM proceeded to determine weather randomly and proceeded to make a huge open-ended high roll (400+) - we got a cyclone so immense it hadn't been seen in Middle Earth for many an age. The party got totally scattered - hit by fly trolls, trees, lightning...

Since then its been a common phrase whenever a party goes out into the wilderness - and it follows by people hiding under the table in fear of the result.

 

[freedoms_edge]

There's a guy in our group (Spider_Jerusalem) who seems to have a habit of coming up with quotes for his characters that get copied by books/films/games etc about a year after he said them. Example:

His Star Wars character:
"They didn't teach us that at the academy!"
Appeared on an Young Jedi Knight card about two years later (one of the bravo fighters)

"He did not know who he was f@ck?ng with!!!"
Another SW character, a trandosh jedi who had just literally snapped a dark jedi's neck. Quoted by Blade in Blade II, about 6 months after the guy said it.

Those are just two of many...

 

[Ganelon]

"We can take these bears"

Originally said by my character to the PC I was sharing watch with. The point was the Mages needed their sleep to get their spells back, so I said "Don't wake the others, we can take these bears." This was rapidly proved incorrect.

It is now regularly used when we're speculating about a fight we don't think we can win.

Oh, and while this one isn't a recurring phrase, I just thought I'd share with you the daftest thing I've ever heard a player say:

"Using simple sign language, I tell them my friend has gone to question their houseplant."

 

[wolff96]

Well. Some of these are fantastic. Here's my contribution.

I was playing an archer who was pretty well designed around archery. On a particular roll, I scored a 43 once all the buffs and attack modifiers were factored in.

So I asked "Does a 43 hit?"

The DM replied: "Yeah, a 43 hits..." then he added, under his breath "Jesus Christ".

Of course, we immediately strung that together into a single sentence.

Thus, Jesus Christ has an AC of 43.

So now, if anyone mentions his name, the answer is 43.

Likewise, if anyone rolls a check of 43, all the players will immediately chorus "Jesus Christ".

 

[Spider_Jerusalem]

"He did not know who he was f@ck?ng with!!!"

Yeah, I was stunned when it cropped up in the film. Scared the bejesus outta me.

But you gotta understand that my jedi said this in a moment of utter... uh... rage... it doesn't happen all the time... honest... he's not blatantly going darkside!... why won't you believe me?... uh... I'll shut up now.

Spider

 

[Piratecat]

So I asked "Does a 43 hit?"

Something similar happened in Sagiro's game.

"Do I hit the orc with a 36? That's..." roll roll "40 points of damage from the sneak attack."

"Ummm.... you just killed his family, too."

 

[Jeremy]

We've got a summoner in our game and one of the house rules he scrounged up to try and make his celestial badgers more useful was that instead of just the monsters on the list, he could summon any equally templated version of a given creature provided it was the same CR.

For instance instead of a celestial dog, an earth dog. Or instead of a fiendish dire ape, an air dire ape. Well, unforseen by me was the utility of a creature with Fly 100 ft. (perfect) and as much strength as a dire ape.

Soon, any time there was a chasm to cross or a cliff to climb. Poof. There's the air ape. Then, *groan* they began asking the summoner for it.

"Can you ape me across?"

"Can you ape me up there, I want to check something out."

Besides many evil looks, I also started saying if they kept this up the FedEx Gorilla was going to start scanning and charging them for these deliveries.

 

[njorgard]

The Good Ol' Days...

I remember when I used to play with a couple of friends back in Puerto Rico we used to come up with all sorts of colorful phrases we turned into running jokes. Some of these loose their comedic value in the translation from Spanish. Nevertheless here are some of the ones I remember...

1. Eatin' Popcorn - Used when a player is doing absolutely nothing in the game session because his/her character has been taken out of comission or is out of the picture. "Hey guys, I'm seriously eatin' some popcorn here!!! Come get my character!!!"

2. Toweling (Toallazo!!! in Spanish) - When the DM saves a character from certain doom by grace alone. Derived from the boxing term "throwing in the towel".

3. When a character is not contributing to the action in the game we say that he/she was looking at his/her genitals (kinda rough and obscene).

4. The Hammer Drop (el "marronazo" in Spanish) - When the DM begins to rail the characters into certain situations by fudging dice rolls and manipulating the outcome of events. "Hey...I know I made that save vs. paralization! I'm feeling the hammer drop on me dude!!!"

 

[Lilith]

Gamer's Famous Last Words

There are many, and here are the ones my gamer friends have coined...

I loot the body.

I punch the demon.

Oops, my bad. (said by my character the Explosive Ordinance Disposal Specialist. You can guess what happened from there)

We can take him. (a common catchphrase when presented with a very high-powered NPC/monster.)