What's a toon?

[GreatLemur]

I just got a email from someone for a D&D game, who " ...can't wait to roll a toon out.".

Well, now I want to kill myself and everyone else on Earth. Thanks.

 

[blargney the second]

Yeah, it's a slang term from MMOs. Everything gets abbreviated in online games, so as to save keystrokes. It kind of makes sense in that context, and WoW's cartoony feeling makes it a bit stronger. That said, I much prefer 'character', and would probably laugh at someone if they called a D&D character a toon, especially outside the internet.
-blarg

 

[thismric]

lol i remember being asked to roll a toon with someone and i thought it meant that they wanted me to pick a cartoon character to pretend to be.

ahh the good old days.

 

[shilsen]

It's not a term I use, but I learned what it meant recently when a player used it in an email. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I'm an Indian who was, today, teaching a play written in Greek and translated into English by a Frenchman to Americans. I learned a long time ago that language is simultaneously fascinating, arbitrary and amusing.

 

[danbuter1]

I just hope to god it's in the PHB and DMG. I will laugh my ass off.

 

[Reynard]

We picked up the term long before MMO's were around. http://www.sjgames.com/toon/

I think you forgot a smiley or something.

I hope.

BTW -- I did have one player in a 3E game that used the term who was a self admitted WoW addict. I have never heard the term used (for that meaning) anywhere else.

 

[Tewligan]

I just got a email from someone for a D&D game, who " ...can't wait to roll a toon out.".

Ugh! It sounds like a bathroom euphemism: "Dude, I'm gonna be in the bathroom for a few minutes - we just had lunch at Taco Bell, and I gotta roll a serious toon out!"

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Ugh! It sounds like a bathroom euphemism: "Dude, I'm gonna be in the bathroom for a few minutes - we just had lunch at Taco Bell, and I gotta roll a serious toon out!"

In this case wouldn't it be 'tune'?

 

[Asmor]

In this case wouldn't it be 'tune'?

I wonder what the enhancement bonus on beans, being a magical fruit after all, is.

 

[Tequila Sunrise]

I think I'm going to make a book of ugly and annoying slang gamer words. 'Toon' will #2, right under 'gish'.

TS