RPG/D&D terms and phrases that are no longer clever or amusing.

[LGodamus]

smackdown...I just dont like the term...no real reason , I just dont

 

[Nightfall]

RPG term I don't like Broken. I mean it's not like someone used a tire iron or something.

 

[pogre]

I second fluff and crunch.

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

RPG term I don't like Broken. I mean it's not like someone used a tire iron or something.

In case anyone doesn't know where this came from it spawned much the same way crunch and fluff did. It is from a poem that described a good deal of what was "wrong" in 3e.

Other than that, I second most of the terms - although I have never heard "Priests of the Coast" or "poke-whatever" before.

And "nerf" has to go. Seriously.

I have heard "newbie" used more often in a non-degrading manner than I have in a degrading manner, however.

You know what really is irratating? The **** terms like WOTC = Wizards of the Coast; FRCS = Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting; BoVD = Book of Vile Darkness; BoEF = Book of Erotic Fantasy; barb = barbarian, paly = paladin; etc. Can't people just type the name? But what really gets me is when the gamers that I play with say "Hand me the BOED, would you? I need to look up something for my paly - and I need the FRCS to look up something for his barb...." YOU'RE NOT TYPING!!!!!!! SAY THE **** WORD ALREADY!!!!!!

*ahem*

Sorry about that.

 

[hong]

SAY THE **** WORD ALREADY!!!!!!

Oh dear.

*ahem*

Sorry about that.

Too late!

 

[Raging Barbarian]

"Priests of the Coast" and to a lesser degree "Clerics of the Coast", as best as I can tell, was created by gamers who thought that Wizards of the Coast (happy GFA? ) was making clerics too much like wizards with the inclusion of domain spells in 3rd ed. Most of the domain spells were originally arcane to begin with. The people/person who created the term argued that cleric were too powerful, and there was no incentive to play a wizard anymore.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I need to look up something for my paly - and I need the FRCS to look up something for his barb...." YOU'RE NOT TYPING!!!!!!! SAY THE **** WORD ALREADY!!!!!!

Gotta admit, "FRCS" is much easier to say than "For-got-ten-Realms-Cam-paign-Set-ting".

Which annoys you more, "FRCS", or "Realms book"?

-Hyp.

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

"Priests of the Coast" and to a lesser degree "Clerics of the Coast", as best as I can tell, was created by gamers who thought that Wizards of the Coast (happy GFA? ).

Yes. I am.

(Funny, but being called GFA has never bothered me in my 8+ years of using this screen name.)

Gotta admit, "FRCS" is much easier to say than "For-got-ten-Realms-Cam-paign-Set-ting".

Which annoys you more, "FRCS", or "Realms book"?

-Hyp.

I'd rather it be called "Realms book". I tend to refer to it as "Realms main book".



By the way, sorry all for my rant, my newbie munchkin of a nephew had actually used that phrase I quoted above shortly before I finished reading this thread and I had to get it off my chest.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I'd rather it be called "Realms book". I tend to refer to it as "Realms main book".

So it's not shortening the title that bothers you; it's specifically the use of an acronym?

Do you refer to PCs, NPCs, DM, the DMG?

-Hyp.

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

So it's not shortening the title that bothers you; it's specifically the use of an acronym?

Do you refer to PCs, NPCs, DM, the DMG?

-Hyp.

Yep.

I think that those don't bother me because when I started gaming (way back when) those terms (and PHB) were used often - and I had no clue what they were referring to, so I used them as well, and now tend to think in those terms instead of "Player Characters" "Non-player Characters" "Dungeon Master's Guide" etc. Those terms were "grandfathered-in" my way of thinking of D&D. The newer terms are not (since I started gaming before TSR went out of business - and I still have no idea what TSR stands for ).

And no, I have no clue why the acronym bothers me but the shortening of the book's name does not.