Overused DnD words for 2005 (it's that time again) [merged]

[SemperJase]

Verisimilitude should be banned. It's a pretentious word. Just say "realism" and be done with it.

Good one! Has anyone actually used that word during a gaming session? "Gee Jack, your campaign setting certainly is 'verisimiltudinous'."

 

[GMSkarka]

I'm finding myself quite unable to get worked up over the opinions of a committee from that bastion of higher education, Lake Superior State.

 

[GMSkarka]

Verisimilitude should be banned. It's a pretentious word. Just say "realism" and be done with it.

Well, OK, but I should expect to be laughed at, then, since they don't mean the same thing.

At what point did being educated and using correct vocabulary become "pretentious?"

 

[Piratecat]

Truly, this word would embiggen any person who deemed to use it.

Using such a phrase would certainly be crepuscular.

 

[Torm]

Using such a phrase would certainly be crepuscular.

Yeah - it's important to know GOOD words, like fangoriously, gelatinous, and linebacker. And to use consomate 'v's.

 

[SemperJase]

Thanks for merging the thread Piratecat. It makes the board verisimilitudinous with less fluff-izzle and more crunchfishizzle.

 

[Piratecat]

W3rd!

 

[Umbran]

Keeping out of the more political aspects of some of these...

The problem with "blog" is that it is a darned ugly word.

 

[ydirbut]

"pwn", "pwned" and especially "pwnd".

What's wrong with PWNED?

 

[SemperJase]

Yeah - it's important to know GOOD words, like fangoriously, gelatinous, and linebacker. And to use consomate 'v's.

Speaking of gelatinous...wouldn't you like some meat Jell-O? The Gallery of Regrettable Food has the picture.