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<blockquote data-quote="Lurch" data-source="post: 950392" data-attributes="member: 4961"><p>1. "Dibs on the armor!"</p><p></p><p>In the early days of my gaming group, I had a player who ran a typically sticky-fingered rogue. In their first adventure, the party joined forces with a very elderly knight on his last quest. Keep in mind I had already informed the party repeatedly (in response to repeated questioning) that the knight's gear was extremely old, battered and rusty, and had about as much life left in it as the knight himself. At the end of the adventure the heroes confronted the main bad guy, and in the course of the battle the old knight delivered the final blow at the cost of his own life. As I described the villain's last desperate sword swing landing with such force that the knight's helmet was knocked off and the old man crumpled, the rogue, sensing the knight's demise, yells "dibs on the armor!" before the guy could even finish hitting the ground. Since then the term has applied to any party member prematurely grabbing for fallen "loot," or making a grab for any obviously worthless item.</p><p></p><p>2. "meat shield": any character being used as cover by another character, whether intentional or not. Also used as a reference to hostage-taking ("meat shields up!").</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lurch, post: 950392, member: 4961"] 1. "Dibs on the armor!" In the early days of my gaming group, I had a player who ran a typically sticky-fingered rogue. In their first adventure, the party joined forces with a very elderly knight on his last quest. Keep in mind I had already informed the party repeatedly (in response to repeated questioning) that the knight's gear was extremely old, battered and rusty, and had about as much life left in it as the knight himself. At the end of the adventure the heroes confronted the main bad guy, and in the course of the battle the old knight delivered the final blow at the cost of his own life. As I described the villain's last desperate sword swing landing with such force that the knight's helmet was knocked off and the old man crumpled, the rogue, sensing the knight's demise, yells "dibs on the armor!" before the guy could even finish hitting the ground. Since then the term has applied to any party member prematurely grabbing for fallen "loot," or making a grab for any obviously worthless item. 2. "meat shield": any character being used as cover by another character, whether intentional or not. Also used as a reference to hostage-taking ("meat shields up!"). [/QUOTE]
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