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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PerryParker" data-source="post: 2002631" data-attributes="member: 28372">Khayman and I were Gaming last night, enjoying a good Planescape game, and all of us were discussing our "slang" we use, and so I thought I would post a few more goodies: "I'm actively probing it."- Term used to denote a thief checking for traps, but not actually touching anything. Origin: I had a hobbit thief in a Middle Earth RPG waaaay back in the day, and checking for traps was a little more invasive than it is now. So, when the GM asked what I was checking and how, I used about three different phrases about how I was touching the chest by NOT touching it. This last phrase has still stuck around. "Send in the 5th level fighter! He HAS to do it!"- Term used when the players know something horrible is about to happen, and they want to send someone else in. Origin: I'm a little ashamed of this one, but it makes people giggle now. Waaaay back in the day, when I was a mere lad of thirteen in the early 80's, my buddies and I were playing Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits. We were all high level charactes, and one of us had a Deck of Many Things. So, for whatever reason, we pull a couple of cards, and one of us gets "Gain the Services of a 5th level Fighter." Cool, we think. So, we're in some kind of tower or something (memory kind of fuzzy here), and we KNOW there are traps ahead, so we use the 5th level fighter as a "bomb detector." Well, as you might suspect, a 5th level fighter didn't last too long in a high level module. And for several years afterwards, whenever someone didn't want to endanger their character, they'd say the phrase "Send in the 5th level fighter! He HAS to do it!" Yeah, juvenlie, but heck, we were 13! (heh-heh).</blockquote>

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