What fake gaming terminology does your group use?

[TarionzCousin]

"You see a chest..."
"I fart on it."

Ye gods, I hadn't heard that term in years - our thieves used to FART (we capitalized it) too.

This is too much realism for my games.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Back in 2e, we always had our rogue fart all over everything... as in, Find And Remove Traps.

"You see a chest..."
"I fart on it."

I am sad to admit that I never thought of that. I may have to make up for lost time...

 

[Jemal]

whenever someone starts speaking a language that others may not understand, we just say the name of the language a few times. "So the big green guy comes up to you and asks "Orcity orc orc, orcy orc?"

We also use the 'call' rule to keep people in character, as we can sometimes go a bit overboard with the OOC jokes. If someone is speaking and at least two other players say "Call", the original speaker was talking in character. This has led to some very interesting situations. *Evil dm grin*

While deciding what to say to the king..
"yeah, or maybe we should just kidnap the princess and be on our merry way." *call* *Call*
"... Uh.. hehe.. HI sir, did I just say that out loud? Sorry, Medeival Tourettes.."

 

[Richards]

We refer to the paladin's "laying on hands" special ability as "touching himself in that special way."

Johnathan

 

[TheUltramark]

we have several jokes for 20'1 and 1's

most often when someone rolls a 20 they just say "yatzi"
though some other, stranger shout outs include "party", "nuts", and "Elmo"

1's are just as odd, and usually draw a more ... illicit response such as a four letter word slang for fecal matter, or in a really big situation a word that starts with f and ends in k that isn't firetruck. However, the people that don't roll the single, usually yell out "fumble" while laughing at and mocking the roller. Which stems from a rule we used to use " a roll of a 1 in combat results in the dropping of your weapon"

 

[Scott DeWar]

I think that just means you speak English.

Would that be Her Majesty's English, or what we colonists speak: 'merican lingish?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Would that be Her Majesty's English, or what we colonists speak: 'merican lingish?

Or as we sometimes say:

"The King's English or The Kang's English?"

(complete with curled lip)

 

[Super Pony]

Herbo; "HER-bow" (adj; sometimes a noun; even a verb once or twice?)
*A term we use to describe a cheesy flogging of loopholes in a game system's rules (ie "Jake is the most herbo power gamer I have ever seen")
*A semi-derogatory term applied to a player who always seems to have the necessary skills/items/feats/gold for anything in-game and cannot be trusted to retain possession of character sheets even 10 years after the campaign has ended (ie. "Jake you are such a herbo man. You have a fine silver needle? Really? All I saw on your character sheet last night was 'sword, armor'")
*A poorly used verb describing the act of achieving the points mentioned above (ie. "Jake is herboing the crap out of his character over here").

 

[OnlineDM]

My brother is trying to make "darf" an all-purpose word (similar to the way the Smurfs use "smurf") in gaming, usually in the context of something bad ("I totally darfed that skill check," "That minion darfed his attack," etc.).

This comes from playing the board game Atlantic Star, whose rules are in German (though we have an English translation downloaded from the internet). Every player has a card in front of them that describes the various actions available to them on each turn, one of which is clearing away the cards that are currently available to purchase, getting new cards in their place. The rules card explains in German that "Man darf..." do this, which means "one may..."

My brother decided he wanted to clear away the cards, so he said he'd "darf" them. We were amused by this and decided to keep using it in other games.

 

[VictorC]

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."

As does my group. Small world