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<blockquote data-quote="BraveSirKevin" data-source="post: 5538654" data-attributes="member: 84231">We have this thing called &quot;Stupid Tax&quot;. It's not a RPG thing really, it gets used whatever game we're playing. Basically, if you forget to use an ability, or roll an extra dice, or apply that modifier, or whatever and time passes and you remember halfway through the next person's turn, you don't get to rewind time and use the ability, roll the dice, apply the modifier or whatever. This is &quot;Stupid Tax&quot;. It's the price you pay for being stupid.(It has however come to mean the opposite of that. If the game is a little more casual, we all agree before the game that anyone can dodge &quot;stupid tax&quot; once. And when they person who screwed up claims&nbsp; his right to &quot;stupid tax&quot; evasion, he would generally do so by saying &quot;Stupid Tax!&quot; and consequently &quot;stupid tax&quot; now means &quot;rewinding time to allow someone to fit in their forgotten bonus&quot;)There is a also a tendency to mangle different terms from different games. Because we also play Mordheim and Warhammer, it's fairly common for someone to accidentally read 2(w) + I damage as &quot;Two Wounds plus Initiative&quot;, and call gold pieces &quot;Gold Crowns&quot;.Magic: the Gathering has also left a mark, even though we don't play it much anymore. A deck of cards is always called a &quot;Library&quot;, and a discard pile is always called a &quot;Graveyard&quot;, and turning a card sideways to indicate that it's used up is always called &quot;tapping&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BraveSirKevin, post: 5538654, member: 84231"] We have this thing called "Stupid Tax". It's not a RPG thing really, it gets used whatever game we're playing. Basically, if you forget to use an ability, or roll an extra dice, or apply that modifier, or whatever and time passes and you remember halfway through the next person's turn, you don't get to rewind time and use the ability, roll the dice, apply the modifier or whatever. This is "Stupid Tax". It's the price you pay for being stupid. (It has however come to mean the opposite of that. If the game is a little more casual, we all agree before the game that anyone can dodge "stupid tax" once. And when they person who screwed up claims his right to "stupid tax" evasion, he would generally do so by saying "Stupid Tax!" and consequently "stupid tax" now means "rewinding time to allow someone to fit in their forgotten bonus") There is a also a tendency to mangle different terms from different games. Because we also play Mordheim and Warhammer, it's fairly common for someone to accidentally read 2(w) + I damage as "Two Wounds plus Initiative", and call gold pieces "Gold Crowns". Magic: the Gathering has also left a mark, even though we don't play it much anymore. A deck of cards is always called a "Library", and a discard pile is always called a "Graveyard", and turning a card sideways to indicate that it's used up is always called "tapping". [/QUOTE]

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