What fake gaming terminology does your group use?

[TheUltramark]

if someone hits for a lot of damage, a popular taunt is "what does he(the victim) do...besides B.O.G.

of course B.O.G. = bleed on ground

 

[TheUltramark]

another one that's always a hit, whenever you want to try to use magic on a party member thats hesitant...usually because he is a dwarf or barbarian or any reason why he might have second thoughts, the guy who thinks up the plan will say "drink the milk" in reference to Mr.T in the A-Team when they wanted him to fly somewhere.

 

[NiTessine]

"Cracked Die" - Whenever the die roll gets snagged in the tablecloth, or lands leaning against the PHB it's a "cracked die" (and of course an automatic re-roll). Don't know who started this or how it began. Is this even a real thing?

Over here, that's "kirkko" ("church"), "mökki" ("cabin") or "Kyrkslätt-Vandaforsen" (Swedish proper names of a couple of cities, no idea how this got started).

Since my gaming group has mostly consisted of Finns, our jargon has evolved into this unholy Finnish-based mixture of Finnish, English and Swedish, with smatterings of German (because everything is funnier in German) and French.

For instance, in my current campaign, where the primary antagonists are serpentfolk, there's a meme about "die unglaubliche magische Serpentvolk!" ("the incredible magical serpentfolk", or something).

Also, thanks to the stone giant leader Mokmurian in a Pathfinder adventure, the language of giants now all sounds like "Mok mok MUR MUR!", spoken with a rising intensity and volume.

We also speak of "being left home to cry with Valeros", meaning that a character is mechanically too weak to perform his primary duty in the party. Comes from the Pathfinder iconic fighter Valeros, who... could've been statted more efficiently.

Obsolete terms, because the guy is no longer playing with me (or anyone else for that matter - I think he was eaten by EVE Online), are "to pull a Mikko" (skip the game without telling about it) and "to Mikko" (to start explaining a joke or a concept that everybody got already).

Also, any NPC who is suddenly lifted out of anonymity by an improvising player is called Pena (or, in English, Bob).

 

[Hassassin]

Just "playing" refers to playing the current RPG and campaign.

Any unnamed NPC can be reasonably assumed to be named Bob.

The floor doesn't count: Dice that drop to the floor/ground are always rerolled regardless of whether they're cocked. Even if you are playing from/on the floor you have to roll on a table.

Bards are referred to as roaming bars.

 

[RangerWickett]

we 'elf' the room despite the fact that elves aren't usually the ones searching.

In 2e we'd "Rub the elf on the walls" to search for secret doors.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

there's a meme about "die unglaubliche magische Serpentvolk!"

that almost sounds like someone is a fan of Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage album...

the language of giants now all sounds like "Mok mok MUR MUR!"

We do something like that on occasion for certain critters, except for us, we either use the speech of the Martians from Mars Attacks or the Kinitawowi from Red Dwarf.

In 2e we'd "Rub the elf on the walls" to search for secret doors.

Awesome!

 

[Lanefan]

There's a few here:

"Quasi-Player Character (QPC)" - a character being played when its player is not present e.g. missed a session, left the game, whatever; but the character is for whatever reason still active in the field.

Many years ago my character kind of wrote the book on field-testing magic items to see what they do; he'd go to some pretty ridiculous lengths sometimes if an item intrigued him. Eventually, to "do a Lanefan" on an item came to mean "run this whole great battery of tests on it and see what happens".

We've developed a Necromancer area-effect damage spell "Necrotizing Fasciitis (sp.?)", it's the Latin for flesh-eating disease. Well, its name pretty quickly got shortened to "Nasty Fascists" by those who couldn't pronounce or spell the real name; so now whenever the spell gets cast the caster calls out a warning "Nazis <direction>!" so the party members know what area to avoid.

Lan-"for lightning resistance - field testing not recommended"-efan

 

[steeldragons]

Almost there...

Woah! Whoops.

Wrong thread.

Sorry.

Nothin' to see here...carry on.

--SD

 

[BraveSirKevin]

We have this thing called "Stupid Tax". It's not a RPG thing really, it gets used whatever game we're playing.

Basically, if you forget to use an ability, or roll an extra dice, or apply that modifier, or whatever and time passes and you remember halfway through the next person's turn, you don't get to rewind time and use the ability, roll the dice, apply the modifier or whatever. This is "Stupid Tax". It's the price you pay for being stupid.

(It has however come to mean the opposite of that. If the game is a little more casual, we all agree before the game that anyone can dodge "stupid tax" once. And when they person who screwed up claims his right to "stupid tax" evasion, he would generally do so by saying "Stupid Tax!" and consequently "stupid tax" now means "rewinding time to allow someone to fit in their forgotten bonus")

There is a also a tendency to mangle different terms from different games. Because we also play Mordheim and Warhammer, it's fairly common for someone to accidentally read 2(w) + I damage as "Two Wounds plus Initiative", and call gold pieces "Gold Crowns".

Magic: the Gathering has also left a mark, even though we don't play it much anymore. A deck of cards is always called a "Library", and a discard pile is always called a "Graveyard", and turning a card sideways to indicate that it's used up is always called "tapping".

 

[TarionzCousin]

I've said this here before, but in my groups when you do maximum damage on your die roll(s), it's a "ghetto crit."