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<blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6093119" data-attributes="member: 92305">&quot;Nish&quot; is a term I've used, and I've heard used, for decades. It comes from the phonetic pronounciation of eee-nish-ah-tive. It's gamer-speak, not unlike the term &quot;chargen&quot; (which means character generation), or speaking &quot;Thay-coe&quot; for the AD&amp;D acronym THACO...or even using the abbrievated form of character attributes, like DEX. &quot;He failed his DEX check!&quot;I've used it in the past, and some people on this forum have taken offense to the term, for some reason. Some have never heard it used--it's new to them. People say, in a game, &quot;Make your Fort save.&quot; You know what is needed--your character's Fortitude save. Nish is the same. &quot;Roll nish.&quot; Or, referring to a character's initiative count, &quot;What's his nish?&quot; This means, &quot;When is the character going to act in the initiative line-up?&quot;A GM may say, &quot;Feddar is acting on nish 9.&quot;EDIT: @<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=18701" target="_blank">Oryan77</a> I don't think &quot;nish&quot; developed through text. Like &quot;chargen&quot;, it's more of a spoken thing.And, believe it or not, I have heard people actually say &quot;El-bees&quot; when describing something. &quot;Damn, my books weigh fourteen el-bees!&quot; Again, more of a speech thing than it is something you're likely to see in writing.But, with all the texting shortcuts that people use today....who knows. R U OK?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Water Bob, post: 6093119, member: 92305"] "Nish" is a term I've used, and I've heard used, for decades. It comes from the phonetic pronounciation of eee-[U][B]nish[/B][/U]-ah-tive. It's gamer-speak, not unlike the term "chargen" (which means character generation), or speaking "Thay-coe" for the AD&D acronym THACO...or even using the abbrievated form of character attributes, like DEX. "He failed his DEX check!" I've used it in the past, and some people on this forum have taken offense to the term, for some reason. Some have never heard it used--it's new to them. People say, in a game, "Make your Fort save." You know what is needed--your character's Fortitude save. Nish is the same. "Roll nish." Or, referring to a character's initiative count, "What's his nish?" This means, "When is the character going to act in the initiative line-up?" A GM may say, "Feddar is acting on nish 9." EDIT: @[I][B][U][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=18701"]Oryan77[/URL][/U][/B][/I] I don't think "nish" developed through text. Like "chargen", it's more of a spoken thing. And, believe it or not, I have heard people actually say "El-bees" when describing something. "Damn, my books weigh fourteen el-bees!" Again, more of a speech thing than it is something you're likely to see in writing. But, with all the texting shortcuts that people use today....who knows. R U OK? [/QUOTE]

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