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<blockquote data-quote="demiurge1138" data-source="post: 2016734" data-attributes="member: 7451">Actually, the &quot;rocks fall, you die&quot; is from a gaming-themed strip of the webcomic Something Positive. Unless, of course, it has arisen independantly (which is entirely possible).Truck of DM Cheese -- Equivalent to &quot;rocks fall, you die&quot;, this terrible truck is an implement of random death used to keep players in line.Origin: Long ago, back before I was DMing, my DM would occasionally threaten us with the dreaded Truck of DM Cheese. It actually fell from the sky once, as an even more overt threat. Of course, we spent a half-hour investigating this marvelous invention (and stealing all the cheese), so we didn't exactly get back on track.Ethereal Plane -- Where characters go when their players aren't at the game.Origin: Once I was DMing, the girl playing the cleric only attended every other game or so, so I declared she was following the party in the Ethereal Plane (so she'd be back in the right place when she returned). The term stuck, and characters are said to &quot;fall into the Ethereal Plane&quot; whenever their players are absent.Demiurge out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="demiurge1138, post: 2016734, member: 7451"] Actually, the "rocks fall, you die" is from a gaming-themed strip of the webcomic Something Positive. Unless, of course, it has arisen independantly (which is entirely possible). Truck of DM Cheese -- Equivalent to "rocks fall, you die", this terrible truck is an implement of random death used to keep players in line. Origin: Long ago, back before I was DMing, my DM would occasionally threaten us with the dreaded Truck of DM Cheese. It actually fell from the sky once, as an even more overt threat. Of course, we spent a half-hour investigating this marvelous invention (and stealing all the cheese), so we didn't exactly get back on track. Ethereal Plane -- Where characters go when their players aren't at the game. Origin: Once I was DMing, the girl playing the cleric only attended every other game or so, so I declared she was following the party in the Ethereal Plane (so she'd be back in the right place when she returned). The term stuck, and characters are said to "fall into the Ethereal Plane" whenever their players are absent. Demiurge out. [/QUOTE]

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