What fake gaming terminology does your group use?

[TheUltramark]

apparently math isn't the strong suit of many at our game. We ran 3.25 characters for such a long time near, at, and beyond epic it became common place to replace the full roll of attack with all modifiers to simply "over 20" which 95% of the time was good enough to hit whatever beastie was before us.

When it became necessary to get higher than 20 for tougher AC's, it was also about the time the attack bonuses became such that "over 30" came into vogue

so much so that anything 'cool' IRL gets called "over 20" and really awesome stuff (anything from an awesome scene in a movie to last second TD catch, to a particularly attractive lady walking past) as "over 30"

 

[godfear]

We use TENT as shorthand for the 4E duration "''Til the End of Next Turn"

 

[Rel]

so much so that anything 'cool' IRL gets called "over 20" and really awesome stuff (anything from an awesome scene in a movie to last second TD catch, to a particularly attractive lady walking past) as "over 30"

Careful! You might someday get slapped by a hot 20-something girl walking by who overhears you refer to her as "over 30".

 

[PulpCruciFiction]

The only one I can think of is:

Glick - A verb meaning to reduce someone from full hit points to dead in one shot. "I got glicked by that dragon's breath weapon."

EDIT: We also used FART for Find and Remove Traps in the 2e days, and our fighters would often declare "Hassan CHOP" prior to attacking, but I've seen those pop up in this thread or one of the others like it.

 

[Rugsrat]

I think the personal favorite in my group is the joint battle-cry: "Butter!"

Which stems from our first 4e warlord shouting "boo-rah!" And all of us mis-hearing. It really doesn't matter what game we play now, whenever we charge, we shout "Butter!"

And: "I'm almost bloodied" has become shorthand for "You're being a stupid whiner, shut up." Stemming from our original 4e cleric that didn't understand that she could do more than Basic Melee Attacks, took 3 at-wills (as an eladrin) and 3 encounters (at 3rd level), and then would complain when we ask for heals, since she "was almost bloodied" herself (after being barely nicked once.). We no longer game with her.

 

[TheUltramark]

another d&d-ism we use is
"The Pencil"
whoever of us is dm-ing is said to be "holding the pencil" or when a dm is finished with his adventure, he "passes the pencil"

 

[Serin_Marst]

/de-lurk

A few of our "better" ones:

Burrito Plan:

From Shadowrun, A well thought out infiltration plan with no exit strategy based on the assumption that "we'll never get this far without getting caught and having to shoot our way out anyway"

i.e. "Quiet in, loud out"



Pirate Plan:

A plan with a clever beginning, sketchy middle, a couple missing steps, and... no real defined objective. Named after a PC that went by "the Dread Pirate" and defaulted to this general strategy when left to his own devices.



"When did you become 1st level?":

Re-check your math. From an epic level campaign I ran where one player was having trouble hitting anything despite numerous buffs, high strength and weapon enchantments. I (the DM) mentally did the math and realized that he'd been omitting his base attack bonus all night. That is how I chose to inform him.

/re-lurk

 

[Rel]

I forgot about BOHICA.

We picked that up from...I think it was Cyberpunk. Often uttered by the players, it stands for Bend Over Here It Comes Again.

 

[falcarrion]

Monk box = when a player doesn't show up "there in the monk box".

Fern goes boom = When a charter gets blown up. Base on a druid ranger of my thhat had 16 fire trapped oil flasks and was swallowed by a Behir. The dm tells me that I'm being crushed as it is swallowing me. So I ask do my oil flasks break? So the dm rolls and says they do break how many did you have?
16..... he rolls the damage and says" You see smoke coming out of it's mouth and suddenly the neck bellows out and boom it explodes." The rest of the group looks at me and I say " Fern goes boom!"

 

[NiTessine]

Glick - A verb meaning to reduce someone from full hit points to dead in one shot. "I got glicked by that dragon's breath weapon."

Ah, over here, we call that "instagib" (I understand the term originates with FPS games like Quake). Also, someone who dies to such an attack is said to "fall from straight legs" ("kaatua suorilta jaloilta" in Finnish - translates rather badly, actually).

Also, someone with one hit point left is said to be in a "cliché state". I have no idea how that expression came to be. It originated in another gaming group whose players then introduced it to mine.