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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackFalconKY" data-source="post: 2026668" data-attributes="member: 1890">Red Line: "Can we just red line there?"  Used anytime the party travels from one position to another in the game and we do not play out the actual travel.Origin: It comes from Indiana Jones.  Every time he travels, he gets on a plane and you see a red line on a map moving along.  One of us read the term in a gaming magazine or something a while back, and it stuck.Davin: "I'm going to Darvin this round."  Used instead of the word Delay.Origin: We had a player whose rogue character was named Darvin.  He got in a habit of delaying almost every round, so people started calling it "pulling a Darvin", which got shortened to just his name.  Chosen One: A character who has a bad string of failed dice rolls, especially if they are natural 1s.Origin: One player had a paladin who was notorious for failing numerous saving throws and attack rolls by rolling natural 1s for weeks on end.  As a holy character, they dubbed him the "Chosen One".  In theory, his rolling ones helped prevent it happening from the others, because 1s have to happen to somebody!  Searing Flame Strike: To cast either flame strike or searing light.Origin: One of our clerics always said flame strike when he meant searing light and vice versa.  Thus, he got to the point of just calling them both searing flame strike.  Harm and destroy it!: Used when a player is having trouble deciding what to do and is starting to feel the pressure to act to speed up play.Origin:: Once, while fighting a pair of undead famine spirits, the wizard hit one with a great disintegrate attack.  Trying to make a decisive finish, the cleric followed up by casting a quickened harm on the creature.  To his horror, it healed it of all damage!  In an effort to "make things right" for such a stupid mistake, he immediately followed with a destruction spell, which the undead was immune to.  After which, he simply lifted up his Player's Handbook, closed it with both hands and walked away from the table.  Charles Plemons</blockquote>

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