It's part of the gaming vernacular.
It is?
It seems no one knows that but you.
I googled it, and it's not on the first page. Or the second.
So I googled "Nish definition" (without the quotes) and it wasn't on the first page. Or the second.
So I googled "Nish RPG" (without the quotes) and guess what came up?
This thread.
Also "nish thought" (started by you) and "stealing the nish" (also started by you).
So then I went to urban dictionary.com. They have lots of crazy definitions and slang terms.
Urban Dictionary: nish
1. short for Anishnabe, a Native American
2. Polite way of being rude.
3. is used to say something is extremely awesome!!!!!!
4. Means, Best, Awesome, Super, Sexy, man. Derived from early arabic.
5. a sufferer of a rare syndrome that affects 1 in 6.7 billion children. ***
6. Cool, leet, awesome
7. An aboriginal Canadian, a short form derived from anishnabe
8. "Nish" comes from
Anishinaabe, the tribe more widely known as the
Ojibwe.
9. Ethnic term for the vagina. Prominent in Jewish households.
10. Sadly in agreement; or unwillingly admitting something you are bad at doing.
***(By #5 we're pretty clearly getting into made up definitions. There aren't even that many children.)
Urban dictionary also lists the following definitions (at the first definition for the word):
Crit: An abbreviation for 'critical hit', a term used in dice-based role playing games which indicates the best possible damage result in combat.
Thac0: To Hit Armor Class Zero.
Dex (this was definition
#3 1 and 2 were Dextromethorphan): Short for dexterity, skill or adroitness in using the hands or body
I'm not judging you or your group for using it. Lord knows, my group has its idiosyncrasies and foibles. I do judge the term as silly as heck, used pretty much solely by you, and not as useful as the more common "init" (same number of letters).
Man, it cracks me up how much that word irks people on this forum.
I'm not so sure it irks people so much as they reject it. I don't like the sound of it, I've seen "init" used everywhere, and find it a more helpful term, and it frankly seems kinda silly to me (YMMV). Does it bother me? Not really.
Does having a made up term being promoted bother me? Not really.
Does having it excessively promoted bother me? Yeah, probably at that point.
Use it if you want, I honestly don't care. However, in terms of utility, you'll likely have to explain the term every time you use it, which renders it a less than useful term.
Which begs the question..."why use it"? I mean, the community seems to understand "init". I wonder why you have three separate threads on "Nish" (is it that important of a concept/topic to you?). Finally, my last, and very direct, question is:
"Are you intentionally trying to get this term accepted into gamer vernacular?"
