Storyteller01
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'PARTY TIME!!!':
In 2e, this was our Wild Mage's warning beafore casting a spell.
In 2e, this was our Wild Mage's warning beafore casting a spell.
New In-Game Slang Based On Your Games
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Stone Angel
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"Don't Joe me like that" -Due to the fact that I can subtely manipulate other characters, and in real life it has a different meaning. And my first name is Joe
"Blarghed"-when you take an egridgous amount of damage
"Teleporting Sea Serpent"-Anything that has an unfair advantage, due to a DM error. Once while on a ship the DM said that the lookout in the Crow's nest said that a lookout had spotted a sea serpent making right for us. When asked about the distance, he says about two miles out. We run to the edge and cast buff spells. Draw range weapons ect. Then the Serpent is miraculously within melee range and swallows our sorcerer whole. There was no way it could have that much movement. So anything we think unfair is a teleporting sea serpent.
"Ever growing Dire Elk" Our dm states that we see an elk on a hillock, we are in the wild and don't reall have much food, so two of us go to kill it. The plan was to pepper it with arrows, give chase if it ran, or set spears vs. charge if it charged us. It charged and stopped about 20' feat away to attack, this was no mere elk but a gargantuan Dire Elk. Like we wouldn't have been able to tell it that large. lol
"Calibration time" Whenever dice are rolling crap they get thrown at a wall or the floor really hard in order to set them in proper sequence.
The Seraph of Earth and Stone
"Blarghed"-when you take an egridgous amount of damage
"Teleporting Sea Serpent"-Anything that has an unfair advantage, due to a DM error. Once while on a ship the DM said that the lookout in the Crow's nest said that a lookout had spotted a sea serpent making right for us. When asked about the distance, he says about two miles out. We run to the edge and cast buff spells. Draw range weapons ect. Then the Serpent is miraculously within melee range and swallows our sorcerer whole. There was no way it could have that much movement. So anything we think unfair is a teleporting sea serpent.
"Ever growing Dire Elk" Our dm states that we see an elk on a hillock, we are in the wild and don't reall have much food, so two of us go to kill it. The plan was to pepper it with arrows, give chase if it ran, or set spears vs. charge if it charged us. It charged and stopped about 20' feat away to attack, this was no mere elk but a gargantuan Dire Elk. Like we wouldn't have been able to tell it that large. lol
"Calibration time" Whenever dice are rolling crap they get thrown at a wall or the floor really hard in order to set them in proper sequence.
The Seraph of Earth and Stone
Testament
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Here's some more!
"ZING!!"
Our term for magic missile
"Yargableblebleble!!"
Horror and disbelief.
"Passing Breeze"
Anything that looks like a TPK waiting to happen. Refers to a Living Greyhawk module called "Every Passing Breeze", now retired, where the last encounter was an almost guaranteed TPK. 8th level characters fighting a Hezrou in a dimension locked area, on the Abyss. 'Nuff said.
"CORPSE QUARTERED!"
Cry of frustration after large numbers of incoporeal undead. Refers to Nishanpur, in the Arcanis setting, where a visit to the Corpse Quarter will lead to the automatic fall of night, guaranteeing that you'll fight undead. And Kimberly Wajer-Scott and her fellow writers love incoporeal undead.
"ZING!!"
Our term for magic missile
"Yargableblebleble!!"
Horror and disbelief.
"Passing Breeze"
Anything that looks like a TPK waiting to happen. Refers to a Living Greyhawk module called "Every Passing Breeze", now retired, where the last encounter was an almost guaranteed TPK. 8th level characters fighting a Hezrou in a dimension locked area, on the Abyss. 'Nuff said.
"CORPSE QUARTERED!"
Cry of frustration after large numbers of incoporeal undead. Refers to Nishanpur, in the Arcanis setting, where a visit to the Corpse Quarter will lead to the automatic fall of night, guaranteeing that you'll fight undead. And Kimberly Wajer-Scott and her fellow writers love incoporeal undead.
RodneyThompson
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Gnarlo said:
God, I love a good fart joke. My favorite one so far.
I just remembered another of my favorites:
Hit the Morphine Button: Indicating that a certain player needs to stop talking about an already-decided matter and get on with the game.
Origins: From our very first Star Wars RPG campaign as a group (the same campaign that brought us Going to Coruscant from DarthQueeg's first post). One of the characters had suffered grievous wounds, and was receiving long-term care in a medical bay. His player would not stop talking about something that the rest of the party was done talking about, so one of the players declared that he was going to hit the morphine-release button to knock that character out and make the player stop talking. Now, "hit the morphine button" is used to get someone to shut the heck up!
TheAuldGrump
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Term: Eating the Clue
Usage: 'Wow, they really ate the clue on that one.'
Meaning: To destroy the clue or MacGuffin needed for an adventure.
Source: A vampire game where they needed to talk to the victim off a magical attack, and instead of interrogating the wounded NPC... ate him. I ran across the term being used online once - attributed to 'some guy in Maine'. I was so proud.
Term: Blow Mighty Dodge
Usage: 'And now to use my Blow Mighty Dodge skill!'
Meaning: To be hit against all the odds of probability, or to miss, again against all the odds of probability.
Source: A Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game, where one player commented that his Dodge Blow and Mighty Blow skill had combined to form Blow Mighty Dodge...
Term: Spot Obvious
Usage: 'I blew my spot obvious roll!'
Meaning: A player (not a character) has failed to notice something out in the open. Best example - player lifting his Player's Handbook to look under it, while asking 'has anybody seen my Player's Handbook?'
Source: Pulling the book from his hands and giving it back saying 'I make my Spot Obvious roll!' Spot Hidden was a skill in just about every game by Chaosium, Spot Obvious is be extension its evil twin.
Term: The Mighty Forces of Choas!
Usage: 'You must face The Mighty Forces of Choas!'
Meaning: To mispell or mispronounce something in a dramatic fashion. Alternately to dramatically introduce something that does not actually work well in play.
Source: A Warhammer 40,000, where one of the armies was The Mighty Forces of Choas! Complete with exclamation point. The player then managed to lose every single battle he was in... After the spelling error was pointed out to him he pronounced it the way he had spelled it, and was a very good sport about his losses. He managed to lose against an Imperial Guard player who's average roll was 2 (when rolling a D6).
Term: He's doing it again!
Usage: 'He's doing it again!
Meaning: To do something really stupid, repeatedly.
Source: A call of Cthulhu game set in the 1600s, where the player who ran the captain of the ship would always close to hailing range, no matter what the mission at hand was. The result was three ships in a row being sunk out from under the party... He really hated the term, and eventually picked up on the fact that he was doing something dumb.
Term: I Bring the Metal Detector
Usage: 'You guys get ready for combat, I'll be along later with the metal detector.
Meaning: Can't you guys do something without screwing up at least once?
Source: A Modern Call of Cthulhu game, where I followed up after several confrontations with the cultists with a metal detector, picking up spent brass and getting rid of the bodies that the rest of the party had 'hidden' in some stupid fashion (like up in the branches of a tree.) It caused an encounter with a policeman in real life once, as I harrangued one of the other players with 'I can't believe you guys didn't wear rubber gloves while loading your guns!' while sitting at a table in a fast food restaurant, about 10 feet away from the policeman in question... My character had an amazing ability to be nowhere near where the combat was taking place, because I was always careful to not let combat happen if I could help it, and the other characters would get into gunfights when I wasn't around. (Healing in CoC takes a good long time, and it is easy to get dead.)
The Auld Grump
Usage: 'Wow, they really ate the clue on that one.'
Meaning: To destroy the clue or MacGuffin needed for an adventure.
Source: A vampire game where they needed to talk to the victim off a magical attack, and instead of interrogating the wounded NPC... ate him. I ran across the term being used online once - attributed to 'some guy in Maine'. I was so proud.
Term: Blow Mighty Dodge
Usage: 'And now to use my Blow Mighty Dodge skill!'
Meaning: To be hit against all the odds of probability, or to miss, again against all the odds of probability.
Source: A Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game, where one player commented that his Dodge Blow and Mighty Blow skill had combined to form Blow Mighty Dodge...
Term: Spot Obvious
Usage: 'I blew my spot obvious roll!'
Meaning: A player (not a character) has failed to notice something out in the open. Best example - player lifting his Player's Handbook to look under it, while asking 'has anybody seen my Player's Handbook?'
Source: Pulling the book from his hands and giving it back saying 'I make my Spot Obvious roll!' Spot Hidden was a skill in just about every game by Chaosium, Spot Obvious is be extension its evil twin.
Term: The Mighty Forces of Choas!
Usage: 'You must face The Mighty Forces of Choas!'
Meaning: To mispell or mispronounce something in a dramatic fashion. Alternately to dramatically introduce something that does not actually work well in play.
Source: A Warhammer 40,000, where one of the armies was The Mighty Forces of Choas! Complete with exclamation point. The player then managed to lose every single battle he was in... After the spelling error was pointed out to him he pronounced it the way he had spelled it, and was a very good sport about his losses. He managed to lose against an Imperial Guard player who's average roll was 2 (when rolling a D6).
Term: He's doing it again!
Usage: 'He's doing it again!
Meaning: To do something really stupid, repeatedly.
Source: A call of Cthulhu game set in the 1600s, where the player who ran the captain of the ship would always close to hailing range, no matter what the mission at hand was. The result was three ships in a row being sunk out from under the party... He really hated the term, and eventually picked up on the fact that he was doing something dumb.
Term: I Bring the Metal Detector
Usage: 'You guys get ready for combat, I'll be along later with the metal detector.
Meaning: Can't you guys do something without screwing up at least once?
Source: A Modern Call of Cthulhu game, where I followed up after several confrontations with the cultists with a metal detector, picking up spent brass and getting rid of the bodies that the rest of the party had 'hidden' in some stupid fashion (like up in the branches of a tree.) It caused an encounter with a policeman in real life once, as I harrangued one of the other players with 'I can't believe you guys didn't wear rubber gloves while loading your guns!' while sitting at a table in a fast food restaurant, about 10 feet away from the policeman in question... My character had an amazing ability to be nowhere near where the combat was taking place, because I was always careful to not let combat happen if I could help it, and the other characters would get into gunfights when I wasn't around. (Healing in CoC takes a good long time, and it is easy to get dead.)
The Auld Grump
1"confetti": When one has died to such an amount of explosive force, that describing it as evisceration will not do. Usually a somewhat gory situation.
Origin- Started in the first campaign, I played in. Our DM was trying to tell us how badly a monster had been killed. He finally decided he confettied.
2."You split the atom": 1. An annoyed response to when a player MUST roll for damage eventhough he has been told that the enemy is felled. 2. When a player rolls lots of dice for damage, as per min/maxed weapon damage or nasty spells, and rolls near max.
Origin - I believe I came up with this in response to a player wanting to roll damage for his monk's unarmed attack. He had already killed the enemy. His minimum damage felled it. But he rolled and confirmed a critical hit, so he MUST roll damage. The first definition is used much more than the second.
3. "CLANG!": When a melee hit misses by one, hitting off the armor, OR when a heavily armored tank-fighter, falls to the ground.
Origin: The metal pig/cow things from .Hack\\Sign video game. The first one I think.
Origin- Started in the first campaign, I played in. Our DM was trying to tell us how badly a monster had been killed. He finally decided he confettied.
2."You split the atom": 1. An annoyed response to when a player MUST roll for damage eventhough he has been told that the enemy is felled. 2. When a player rolls lots of dice for damage, as per min/maxed weapon damage or nasty spells, and rolls near max.
Origin - I believe I came up with this in response to a player wanting to roll damage for his monk's unarmed attack. He had already killed the enemy. His minimum damage felled it. But he rolled and confirmed a critical hit, so he MUST roll damage. The first definition is used much more than the second.
3. "CLANG!": When a melee hit misses by one, hitting off the armor, OR when a heavily armored tank-fighter, falls to the ground.
Origin: The metal pig/cow things from .Hack\\Sign video game. The first one I think.
Mr Vergee
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'Yes, Charles' when someone starts analyzing every possible and impossible angle to a situation, especially when making hypotheses on what might be going on.
Based on a character Charles Goodfellow who used to do just that: Okay, there are three possibilities; firstly ...
'Somewhere between three and five', if you want to say four (or insert any other numbers you want, always using one more and one less).
Based on a former DM, who answered the question 'How many are there?' with 'somewhere between three and five'. The players' obvious respons was: 'You mean four, Eric.'
'Are you okay?' A question that is asked eveytime a PC has something unpleasant happen to him. It was first used in our last campaign. One of the PCs had been looking for his lost love all campaign long (we're speaking five years of playing time here) and finally found her in the last adventure, only to find out she was getting married to some bad guy. When the PC went in to talk to her and came back from a very emotional confrontation, the question was launched, some twenty times or so. Now it has become somewhat of an icon question in our group.
Based on a character Charles Goodfellow who used to do just that: Okay, there are three possibilities; firstly ...
'Somewhere between three and five', if you want to say four (or insert any other numbers you want, always using one more and one less).
Based on a former DM, who answered the question 'How many are there?' with 'somewhere between three and five'. The players' obvious respons was: 'You mean four, Eric.'
'Are you okay?' A question that is asked eveytime a PC has something unpleasant happen to him. It was first used in our last campaign. One of the PCs had been looking for his lost love all campaign long (we're speaking five years of playing time here) and finally found her in the last adventure, only to find out she was getting married to some bad guy. When the PC went in to talk to her and came back from a very emotional confrontation, the question was launched, some twenty times or so. Now it has become somewhat of an icon question in our group.
