New D&D Terminology

[TarionzCousin]

"Radiant Mafia." Said by Budalic here.

 

[IronWolf]

We call it a suburban critical after someone took (humorous) offense to the term ghetto critical.

This conjures images up of someone getting run down by one of these:

 

[jimmifett]

Crit the Hard Way: Roll max damage, also Ghetto Crit.

Crit Rockets: Crit on a daily, also Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong.

Bag of Puppies: Temp Hit Points (the bag of puppies/kittens/etc takes the blow for you, also consider Ioun Stone like puppies circling your body).

Laser Cleric: Ranged radiant clerics.

Santa Clause Effect: Power that targets Enemies Only.

Gobos: Goblins.

Hobos: 2 goblins stacked on top of each other to form a hobgoblin.

+1 (or +2) on the table: RPGA Reward Card with conditions met.

Suicide Ranger: Melee Ranger.

Bob: NPCs whose name is too hard to pronounce or no one can remember.

T.A.R.D.I.S.: Create Campsite Ritual

 

[tuxgeo]

"Tap the Die" This one I've been told comes from the southern states (FL to be exact) during RPGA games. It means the PC knows the DC of the skill already and doesn't even need to roll it to make it ( ie Tumble checks or Concentration checks).

Why "tap"?

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Since nobody else has responded in two days, I was going to make a prurient reference to tap-and-die; but I had an attack of conscience, so I'll limit myself to this: My guess is that they lightly tap one finger on top of the d20 to demonstrate that they do know where their d20 is located, but aren't even going to bother to pick it up, much less to roll it.