What are the wierdest things you've learned gaming?

[Chacal]

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[Derren]

The inch/feet measurment system. Really weird.

 

[Ed Cha]

Lots of strange words from Gary Gygax.

 

[vulcan_idic]

You can run a thong behind someone's Achilles tendon. Doing so is an effective way of restraining them, but does not lead to permanent damage (barring infection).

Exactly this sort of permanent damage being the source of the name of Oedipus (meaning "Swollen Feet") after being abandoned by his parents due to the awful profecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother. It was a sin to murder though, so they hobbled him and left him in the wilderness for animals to kill. Not too long after a shepherd discovered the young child and rescued him taking him home to his wife to raise naming him for his damaged feet and never telling him they he was not their son...

 

[CarlZog]

I learned the complete breakdown of Roman military units.

 

[likuidice]

Actually robot is worker in Polish and Russian

actually, robot in polish is robot,
slave is niewolnik
worker is pracownik.

cant speak for russian.

(I'm british, but speak polish, and my girlfriend is native polish)

 

[Semah G Noj]

Oddly, I learned that if you can see the hinges on a door it opens toward you. I had one of those DMs that got a kick out of things that were only funny to him, and therefore spent far too many rounds throwing myself at the door before he let me make an intelligence check.



I also learned that if you refer to the antics of your Shadowrun character in the first person while in a public place, you may find yourself having to explain things in a hurry to strangers.