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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tinner" data-source="post: 2015870" data-attributes="member: 19667">Our group literally has a notebook full of these. We have one player who has been keeping this journal of our slang for over 10 years. I don't have a copy on me, but here are some I remember off hand.10 extra boxes: NPC's, Henchmen, etc. accompanying the group for the sole purpose of soaking up damage. Synonomous with a "Red Shirt" from Star Trek.Usage: "Alright, the samurai can come with us. We can always use 10 extra boxes."Origin: Shadowrun - Since the condition monitor in Shadowrun is made up of 10 boxes, this one was obvious. It really became part of our slang when a player wanted to bring a known incompetant PC into our game. He was christened 10 extra boxes, and the name stuck. The term has even migrated into other games.Put him in the Meat Drive: To messily dispose of any characterUsage: "What do we do with the prisoner?" "Put him in the Meat Drive."Origin: Star Wars(WEG) Our little band of smugglers was so down on our luck, we were forced to outfit our ship with a fossil fuel burning drive system. Our GM made the mistake of telling us that this system would run on any organic matter. "So it's a Meat Drive?" we asked, and he jokingly agreed. We never worried about where to dispose of any compromising corpses after that. It also made a great threat to use on crew members. "Do you want to work in the Meat Drive?" Now in any game if we want to messily dispose of anyone, we "put them in the meat drive."I don't have any skin!: Exclaimed as a last ditch effort to avoid any unpleasant efect the DM throws at you.Usage: GM: "You fail your save, and take 33 damage from the fireball." Player: "But I don't have any skin!"Origin: D&D1e - Isle of Dread. I was running a group through the Isle of Dread. Many of the players were first time players, so I was trying to be especially descriptive and dramatic. In the underground caverns with the boiling mud pits one of the newer players was randomly splashed by boiling mud doing maximum damage. This would have killed his PC, and he was desperate to find any way to avoid the damage. I described the damage to him by saying "You are doused in boiling hot mud, it sears away your skin doing xx damage." The player was trying to whine and say that since he was heavily armored, he had no exposed skin, and should not take the damage. However in his frantic whining, all that came out was "But I don't have any skin!" This ridiculous and blatant whine is now common usage among players who want to try to whine away any unpleasant effect.I'll have to see if I can get ahold of that notebook sometime and post the rest of our slang as well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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