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

[Sammael]

I use Session all the time, and i'm not even speaking english when I use it.

Ditto. I use both "session" and "sesija" (Serbian word with the exact same meaning) interchangeably.

 

[Greylock]

Please consider removing "Cinematic" from the gaming lexicon. Please. It has gone from infesting WotC ad blurbs to players and dm's vocabularies.

Make it go away, I beg of you...

 

[Jesus_marley]

Shameless Hijack.... with apologies

What's wrong with Harry Potter? Besides being quite well-written for its audience, those books have done more for getting children worldwide to read than any series you can think of for the last ten years. As a teacher, I want a lot more Harry Potter!

Gah!! I am sick of Harry Potter! HP this and HP that. Where are all the GOOD books? As a kid I read authors like Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury, and Tolkien... Today I shake my head at the rampant illiteracy around me. I see grade three students bragging that they can read Hop on Pop. Ok, that was an exaggeration but not by much. Admittedly, the HP novels are larger than most fare, yet they still lack substance and that saddens me greatly.


Ok, I am done ranting now... Back to your regularly schedule thread.

 

[Darren]

Please consider removing "Cinematic" from the gaming lexicon. Please. It has gone from infesting WotC ad blurbs to players and dm's vocabularies.

Make it go away, I beg of you...

Seconded.

And "build" when applied to character progression - i.e. my monk build, my warlock build, my fighter/cleric/disciple/radiant munchkin of cheesiness build, etc.

 

[Sejs]

Gah!! I am sick of Harry Potter! HP this and HP that. Where are all the GOOD books? As a kid I read authors like Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury, and Tolkien... Today I shake my head at the rampant illiteracy around me.

So you're surrounded by illiterate people who've read and crow about Harry Potter all the time? Man, life on Bizarro World sounds rough.

Anyway, that aside - Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury, Tolkien you say. All good authors, granted, but they all speak to a comparably narrow audience, whereas the HP books are widely recieved. You can't deny that more people reading is a good thing, even if you don't care for, or are sick of, what it is they read. Besides, someone who enjoys reading Harry Potter now is that much more likely to be interested in picking up something by one of those other authors you mention later on, than someone who never got into reading in the first place.

 

[Vigilance]

My overused words for the past year would be four words:

grim
tales
mutants
masterminds



I think if I started a thread about what was good on toast, I would be asked to consider these products as the best thing for toast since fire.

Chuck

 

[Harold as a Verb]

Verisimilitude I'm torn on. I do understand what it means when it comes from gaming circles. But it's a hijacked word. In the real world, it's a synonym for "realistic."

That's imprecise. An example, perhaps, of the mistaken use of a word, because it seems more fancy or clever, in place of a common or plain one, when there are actually subtle but important differences in meaning between the fancy and the plain. 'Verisimilitude' is one of those words that is increasingly used with scant regard for precision or appropriate context. In that sense, it is certainly overused.

</nitpick>

 

[The Shaman]

Please consider removing "Cinematic" from the gaming lexicon. Please.

Yes, please.

"Cheese," which has "cinematic" as one of its synonyms, also belongs on the overused list.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

"Cinematic" has definitely worn out it's welcome. As well as "pulp."

I do hope "milieu" makes a comeback though!

 

[ivocaliban]

Session - I don't know why this word bugs me (it really does) when descibing DnD get-togethers. A session is something you have with your therapist when you can't ignore the voices. I call them "gatherings".

We must remember that for some gamers the difference between a "session," as you describe it, and a "gathering" is very slim indeed.