What fake gaming terminology does your group use?

[Water Bob]

Oh! Remembered another one!

Chargen. "Care-jen". It's short for character generation.

I started using it for the Traveller rpg (not unlike using "nish" for Inititiave, except it caught on in the Traveller community).

 

[Scott DeWar]

HA! I say Char Jen at first and was wondering who was Jen and what she did to get charred?!

 

[BraveSirKevin]

Oh! Remembered another one!

Chargen. "Care-jen". It's short for character generation.

I started using it for the Traveller rpg (not unlike using "nish" for Inititiave, except it caught on in the Traveller community).

HA! I say Char Jen at first and was wondering who was Jen and what she did to get charred?!

In our group we say chargen and charsheet, pronounced char-jen and char-sheet. Think it goes back to Quest for Glory, where to save precious screen space, they shortened character sheet down to char sheet, and not realising at first that it was an abbreviation I'd taken to reading it as written.

 

[Aramax]

we have 2
Danny-My nephews name is a verb that means to do something stupid or to give the DM(me)an idea he would not have thought of
Penguins-My mother is a fanatic Christian republican and thinks D&D is evil,so we are playing Klingons and they are fightins Space Penguins and the situation is not pretty...(Interestingly enuf is the fact that I am also a fanatic Christian republican,just not enuf for her)

 

[Janx]

"learn by death" referring to how once the game rules were basically explained to the a newcomer, the rest would become learned through play and by dying in the game (as each death usually revealed a rule that the player hadn't understood).

"showing initiative" a derogatory to a player show takes unwelcome action in the game. usually used when a player does something unwise or hasty, when caution would be better.

"floor dice" dice that fall on the floor as a roll.

"Cocked dice and floor dice don't count" refers to dice rolls that don't lie flat on the table don't count. usually only the offending die is required to be rerolled.

 

[coyote6]

"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

We call that one "wyvernized".

The PCs once had a fight where one of the foes was Wyvern, one of the classic Champions mook villains. Throughout the fight, the PC heroes kept knocking Wyvern out, but to just -7 or -8, so he'd recover on his next action, or they'd get him to -11 at the end of a turn, and he had a Rec high enough to just wake back up.

It was a huge fight that lasted a while, so it kept happening (might've happened in an earlier fight, too). The players got really annoyed (I think I actually showed 'em the damage tracking sheet, as evidence I wasn't cheating) and finally snapped. The next time Wyvern went down, they piled it on, pummeling him into the negative triple digits.

Thereafter, when a tough opponent went down, they would declare, "We wyvernize him". Or the GM would note that a foe had been wyvernized. It continued into other games, as short for "defeated with extreme overkill".

(Intentional wyvernizations dropped off when a villain woke up from his months long coma even mire powerful, and out for revenge. I think someone started recruiting and healing the afflicted, too.)



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[Starfox]

First game turn surprise rule - more properly a wargaming term, this refers to a player's reading of a rule conflicting with how the rule is interpreted at the table, or a player being penalized for not knowing a rule.

An example would be a player unaware of Opportunity Attacks that tries to run trough a band of orcs to melee the orc leader at the rear, not realizing this will hurt.

 

[Dracorat]

I had a wizard character in my games once that referred to 4E Minions as "rice crispies".

 

[TarionzCousin]

"'Sploded!"

A DM used to say this when a monster that only had a few hit points left got hit for large damage.

Can you guess what 'sploded?

 

[RandomCitizenX]

Friend Folder- The name given to the Fiend Folio by the player of our recurring fighter with a long sword. It has stuck ever since.