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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeffh" data-source="post: 2002786" data-attributes="member: 2642">To "Go for a ladder" is for a plan to go disastrously wrong. This started when someone in a Traveller game literally went to get a ladder during a firefight, and by a chain of events I'm not sure of, this resulted in the deaths of two other PCs. I wasn't in that game (well, for one session I was, but it wasn't that one) but most of my players at the time were participants in it, including the GM of that game, the player who went for the ladder, my sister and my then-girlfriend. So naturally the phrase spilled over to my group."That's only three for each of us!" is used as a putdown whenever someone expresses willingness to do something that it's obvious to everyone else would constitute going for a ladder. This one is my fault; it was the line I uttered in a D&D game I was playing in that convinced a party of first and second level characters to as good as charge into something like twelve skeletons and six zombies; there was only one survivor. (Of course, it didn't help that the other five players all thoguht getting a wall behind us was somehow a good idea; even in the stupidity that had apparently gripped me, I knew enough to fight that part of it, but I lost.)Another one that migrated over from a game I wasn't in was "But there's fish!". This is mainly used one one character (not necessarily player) doesn't want to do something because of trivial dangers or because it involves something gross. It started with a fairy character in a Rifts game refusing to dive into a river to retrieve something. The character was so small a fish might swallow her; this would do her no harm whatsoever, as the character had megadamage capacity (if you're not familiar with Palladium mechanics think of it as DR 100 / Tank shells), but ewww.</blockquote>

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