What fake gaming terminology does your group use?

[WayneLigon]

"Aunt May's Discretion"

A bit of background. In Champions, there is a stat called Recovery. It governs how often you get back Stun points among other things. Being reduced to negative Stun means you don't get that recovery every phase; it might be once a turn, once a minute, whatever.

The last line is -30, which reads 'GM's Discretion'.

I was running a Champions game set in the Marvel Universe. We started having characters knocked unconsious into the -40, -60, even -80 range from combined attacks, etc.

Somehow, that phrase came into being. No-one now remembers who started it. It means you're so far into the negatives that not even the GM can give you permission to wake up. You have to call up Spider-Man's kindly old Aunt May to get permission.

Kind old soul that she is, she will immediately grant it. Being a fictional character, though, means it's imposslble to get her on the phone. So you never were going to wake up. Might as well go get extra pizza.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Deaded-self explanitory

 

[Water Bob]

What unofficial jargon does your group use?

Nish: When we're talking about "initiaive", we call it "nish".

Toon: A character can be a "toon".

"Runnin'" a character: If you play a (insert type of character), we'll say, "I was runnin' a thief in John's game, and...".

Bricked the roll: If you fail a dice roll, usually in a bad way, we say you "bricked" it.

Roll/Throw: We use these interchangeably. My roll was a 16. Your throw was a 16.

Lubeing my stick: If you have Oil of Impact, or some other like magical stuff, you lube your stick (quarterstaff...whatever) before you go into combat.

up: If a character dies, he went " up".

There may be more, but that's all I can think of right now.

"Free Shot" - Attacks of Opportunity take almost as long to say as they do to resolve. We say Free Shot. That says it all.

Sometimes, we call this a "Free Attack To The Back, Jack". It's not any shorter. I don't know how this got started in my group. Kinda dumb, huh?

 

[invokethehojo]

this might seem a little tangential but in highschool our gaming sessions usually involved party favors. I was still living in my mom's basement at the time and would have to hide my stash of party favors. We never had much of a stash, being broke kids, so I usually rolled up my baggie and stashed it in a chewbaca pez dispenser. So when we would get together someone would ask if anyone had any party favors and I got into the habit of saying "I got a wookie's worth", which would be enough for everyone for a marathon overnight session, which we all had the time for since we were teenagers.

Now we are all responsible adults with jobs and families and so no longer use party favors beyond a few beers. So whoever decides to bring the beer/food that week just tells everyone esle he's got a wookie's worth.

 

[Ktulu]

up: If a character dies, he went " up".

Four smiley-faces up? OH, I'm totally stealing that.

 

[Water Bob]

Four smiley-faces up? OH, I'm totally stealing that.

I can't believe he censoring system blocked that. It's not bad. You'd hear it on TV. Like saying, "Damn."

It's T-i-t-s Up.

 

[WizarDru]

We called it a 'cracked die', too.

'Torch Issue' = any in-game issue that we handwave or isn't worth the time to track because it's not fun for us. Originated with 'who's carrying the torch this time?'. 'Oh, he and I will just cast light.' Eventually we just declared all handwaved details as 'torch issues' and moved on.

"Are you planning on taking a level of alienist?" question asked that became a running gag; refers to asking questions or investigating mysteries best not thought about. From our story hour:

Scorch: "What a minute. You mean the Shadow King is Tharizdun's SHADOW? What light source is casting that shadow?"
Me: "Are you planning on taking level of Alienist?"
Scorch: "No, why?"
Me: "Because asking questions like those is how you get them."
Scorch: .....

 

[Scott DeWar]

Scorch: "What a minute. You mean the Shadow King is Tharizdun's SHADOW? What light source is casting that shadow?"
Me: "Are you planning on taking level of Alienist?"
Scorch: "No, why?"
Me: "Because asking questions like those is how you get them."
Scorch: .....

it is anti photons! like anti helium 6!!

 

[TarionzCousin]

Named for a player who lied so often in games that nobody ever trusted any of his characters ever again... and never allied with him...and never believed anything he said--so much so that he was often incredibly angry during games--we coined the term "Denis-ized." When you have "Denis-ized" yourself, you have gone too far.

 

[Aloïsius]

TGCM is a frequent answer to the players protesting about something (rules, monsters attack, monster ecology etc.) they think is not realistic. It stands for "Ta Gueule C'est Magique !", which could be translated by "shut the **** up it's magic".