Keep your WOW TALK out of my D&D

[Griego]

Yeah, I've known this for a while, but I've always hated the term. I never got into MUDs. So, when I started playing EQ and all of these people were calling the monsters "MOBs", I got really confused. When it was explained to me, I said, "But those aren't the same things at all...a MOB is a programming term in MUDs, it's a way to use objects to program a monster. It shouldn't refer to the monster itself."

But, it was so wide spread that it is pretty much now the most common way to refer to monsters in games. Even though it appears nearly 90% of the people who use it don't even know what it means. It may be technically true for all MMORPGs, but it isn't a true or accurate term for monsters in D&D games. Which is why it annoys me.

Even so, "mob" is short and concise, especially to those who program MUDs. As to why players adopted the term, well, people will do anything to save a syllable, whether in speaking or writing.

 

[Griego]

lol failnoob. L2p. Wat u need iz 2 aggro dump dont go above tank's tps cuz ded dont dps lolz but u can go wit aoe tank cuz tey aggro awl an u be fyne unless ur heelz aggroz ten ur ded lolz

That's a 50 DKP minus!

 

[Vocenoctum]

lol failnoob. L2p. Wat u need iz 2 aggro dump dont go above tank's tps cuz ded dont dps lolz but u can go wit aoe tank cuz tey aggro awl an u be fyne unless ur heelz aggroz ten ur ded lolz

Just to be clear, in WoW, this speech would mark you as an idiot and I'd never group with you...

Like the one signature quote "If you say 'plz' instead of 'please because it's shorter, I'll say 'no' instead of 'yes' for the same reason."

I can't see Pali being WoWism, but if they said retadin (retribution/ damage paladin) or huntard (hunter-idiot) or locktard (warlock idiot)....

 

[Vocenoctum]

LOL always sucks when heals go OOM. Your fighter needs to spec PROT to get more AGGRO.

QQ much?

(GG=Great Game, generally sarcastic. I could see this used in some of the threads here... "The druid doesn't have animal shapes? GG Wiz!")

 

[jdrakeh]

We called them "bricks"

Yep, I've heard that term, too — but usually applied to characters who were only impossible to damage (not those that could also inflict lots of damage, hence the emphasis on the "also" in my earlier post).

 

[Shroomy]

I think everyone in my current game, other than myself, is into MMOs and console gaming (occassionally, I play Halo 3 on our company's Xbox 360 at lunch with our marketing department, we call it "bandwidth testing") and they sometimes lapse into MMO jargon, but the majority of it I understood from playing tabletop RPGs. DPS was something that had no corollary until I started saying DPR; in terms of number crunching, I find DPS/DPR to be a useful metric and I use I've started using it frequently.

 

[maddman75]

Just the other night we were throwing some dice and getting ready to face down the evil warlord, so I got everyone pumped up for the fight and said 'ffs don't pull aggro off the MT or the mob will nuke us with DOTs and make sure the dps stay buffed. l2p nubs'. It was the most moving speech of my rpg career.

 

[Shroomy]

Just the other night we were throwing some dice and getting ready to face down the evil warlord, so I got everyone pumped up for the fight and said 'ffs don't pull aggro off the MT or the mob will nuke us with DOTs and make sure the dps stay buffed. l2p nubs'. It was the most moving speech of my rpg career.

Yep, that's right up there with the St Crispin's Day speech,

 

[thedungeondelver]

If anyone at my table talks like that, I'll throw lye on them.

ZOMG AGGRO'D DM, G2G HOSPITAL GET HEALS BRB LOL

 

[Fifth Element]

as to why players adopted the term, well, people will do anything to save a syllable, whether in speaking or writing.

qft