Unusual gaming terms and phrases

[Bendris Noulg]

Sorcerous Memorization: Our sorcerers don't spontaneously sprout magical abilities but instead must learn a spell as a Wizard. Granted, it's faster, easier, and permenant, but it has thrown a few new members off when they first hear it.

Aptitude Cap: The "ceiling" Rank of a Skill is based on the Ability Score that modifies it (an 18 Intelligence means that any Intelligence-based Skills can't be raised above 18 Ranks).

 

[RangerWickett]

You know ph paper? Litmus paper? Well, whenever the group wants the PHB, they ask for the litmus.

 

[Vanye]

My girlfriend brought FART to our group when she joined us: Find and Remove Traps.

 

[Hjorimir]

Back when the Unearthed Arcana came out with such powerful classes as the Barbarian, Cavalier, Paladin-Cavalier, and Thief-Acrobat we started to refer to the PHB as the Joke Book (because if you made a character from that book he was a Joke).

 

[takyris]

Honging. Sometimes we get a player who just hongs like nobody's business, and we say that he's honging.

 

[Thresher]

WoTC has been re-named to Clerics of The Coast by our group since 3.5, mostly because playing a wizard just sucks arse 90% of the time and clerics dont seem to die despite how much gold you can drop on one. (hmmm sort of like my gold visa card that owes a lot of its current violated state to the above company...)
Anyone using the word 'broken' more than twice in one night in regards to the rules gets punched in the face a few times, we like to call this balance.
Anyone who harps on about balance gets thrown down the lift well, we call this broken.
Anyone who inadvertantly crocks their character during creation gets the +10 Munchkin Bonus to everything.
Doing a Welv named after a certain high level sorc in our epic games that has a tendancy to just do stupid (really stupid!) stuff and die like a b**ch.
Pulled a James Wyatt out of his arse anything with more than one template on it for no particular reason other than the DM thought it would be 'kewl' and he's out of ideas for a story line.

 

[demiurge1138]

"Pulling a Bowen" has come to mean to do something stupid, named after the player whose pride of the Run feat and low Spot modifier meant he ended up dashing straight into a gelatinous cube.

Our group (sometimes) practices the "Moose Rule", where an out-of-game comment is prefaced with a hand to the brow in an antler shape (stolen from Monty Python).

And, for whatever reason, the word "archer" is never, ever said without a "twink" immediately before it.

Demiurge out.

 

[tburdett]

Does your gaming group use any unual terms for their gaming gear or activities? Terms that either would confuse someone outside of your gaming group or even your own players have forgotten the meaning behind the term?

Whenever the party has to decide upon a course of action, and no one can make that decision, they say, "I open the window." This stems from the antics of a player in the group who would get bored at times and take seemingly random actions. This habit ended when his actions resulted in the deaths of three party members when he opened a window and set off a trap.

 

[Remathilis]

A one-ski or a demon number is a natural 1.
A twenski is a natural 20.

The Guidebooks got renamed as follows:

Sword and Fist: Sword-chucks (a 8-bit theatre homage)
Defenders of the Faith: Pray for Me or Oh God Make it Stop
Tome and Blood: Abu-dabi or Abbracadabbra
Song and Silence: Turn that Noise Down!
Masters of the Wild: Get off my Lawn or Warriors of the Wind (the latter was what one stupid person asked for in a gaming store)

 

[Breakstone]

When the paladin rolls really, really well on his diplomacy check, we say that he's so diplomatic that babies' heads explode.

We use a "last comment!" rule for out of game conversations, where one person, when he wants the conversation to stop will shout "last comment!" and shout his comment.

We have an NPC commoner who follows the group around and gets ignored all the time. If a player's character is being ignored, he becomes the new "Joshua."

"Crow Spheres" are the dice that he druid's player used as miniatures for huge numbers of crows.

I constantly use "Rule Zero!" to declare players dumb, or characters blind or ineffective. Example:

Paladin: "I rolled a natural 20 on my Diplomacy Check. That means the red dragon now will dance into the bag of devouring."

DM (me): "Rule Zero! Paladins are dumb!"