What fake gaming terminology does your group use?

Dannyalcatraz · Apr 23, 2011

turning a card sideways to indicate that it's used up is always called "tapping"

Just wait until someone plays a donkey card...hilarity will ensue.

BraveSirKevin · Apr 24, 2011

Also, when someone rolls triple 1s on 3d6, we call that "Koeberg Snake Eyes". Koeberg being the location of South Africa's one and only nuclear power plant.

MarkB · Apr 24, 2011

CherubKid said:
"Playing" - No one in my gaming group ever says "Are we playing Dungeons & Dragons this weekend?" It's always "are we playing?" This got me into trouble once when a customer at the comic book store I worked for asked "Do you play?" Of course I said "yes" and to my embarrassment he followed up with "What instrument?"

For us, the term we use is always "gaming", rather than just "playing a game".

One I picked up from a previous ENWorld thread, which has gained real traction with our 4e group, is "ghetto critical", for when you roll an ordinary hit, but then roll maximum on the damage dice.

We've also extended that metaphor, and when a player scores a critical hit with a magic weapon and then rolls maximum on all his bonus damage dice, that is now a "penthouse critical".

Fifth Element · Apr 24, 2011

As DM I use the term "Is there someone else I can talk to?". It's used in situations where a PC is involved in a conversation with an NPC and is being difficult or frustrating (from the NPC's perspective). I arose from a campaign when a particular PC made a habit of this and I had several NPCs use that very line several times. It became a running joke.

chitzk0i · Apr 24, 2011

"We Greyhawk the bodies.": We search the bodies for any and all valuable material, but you don't need to tell us how much it is right now. Comes from Living Greyhawk, where there was almost every adventure had way more gold in it than you were allowed to keep afterwards.

Pinchy: A Resourceful Warlord with the Infernal Strategist paragon path. Named for the Infernal Strategist feature, 'Pincer Maneuver' that gives tasty damage bonuses while flanking. Made memorable by my Infernal Strategist who often teamed up with my friend's two-weapon Fighter. The DM didn't realize that 3/4 of the damage bonuses were coming from the warlord, so he kept nerfing the fighter, but we never realized his mistake til the campaign ended.

Stoat · Apr 24, 2011

Dork: a verb that means, "to lose one's turn by taking too long to act." A player who dithers around when his turn comes up risks "dorking." A DM who wants to move the game along instructs slow-moving players to "move or dork."

The term comes from the Dork Ring, a magic item from the original Bard's Tale game that took turn to activate but did nothing.

TheAuldGrump · Apr 24, 2011

Three different usages for the term 'Lemming'.

1. To have all the PCs attempt the same task. 'We lemming the search roll'.
2. A player who mimics another player's actions. Player 1: 'I search the room.' Player 2: 'So do I!'
3. TPK because of the part acting together. Player 1: 'I attack the dragon!' Everyone Else: 'Charge!

Mice - Miniatures.

To Norton - a verb, reading the first paragraph of a rule, but ignoring the second paragraph because that is where the bad stuff happens. A form of cheating.

Eat the clue - to destroy the source of information before learning what it had to say. From a Vampire game.

The Auld Grump

NiTessine · Apr 24, 2011

chitzk0i said:
"We Greyhawk the bodies.": We search the bodies for any and all valuable material, but you don't need to tell us how much it is right now. Comes from Living Greyhawk, where there was almost every adventure had way more gold in it than you were allowed to keep afterwards.

Ah, yes, we used this as well. After we moved to Pathfinder Society, the expression became "poluttaa" (or "we path the bodies").

Also, there's "Code Urho 1", allegedly the Finnish military code for calling an artillery strike in your own position as a last-ditch effort when you can no longer prevent being overrun. In our gaming context, it means an AoE attack delivered where a party member is, usually because it'll hurt him less than full attacks from whatever he's fighting.