Words you learned through D&D

[The_Gneech]

milieu

Beat me by that much!

-The Gneech

 

[Zamtap]

ziggurat (but didn't know what it meant until recently )

suggests a new gazebo encounter to me...

 

[diaglo]

brazen strumpet
expensive doxy
haughty courtesan

Off the top of my head. 1edADnD DMG (1979 revised) page 192 Appendix C: Random Monster Encounters under the heading Harlot



my three words are comely. from G3 Hall of the Fire Giant King. the prisoner was described as comely

charisma from Booklet I Men and Magic
and dexterity also from Booklet I Men and Magic

 

[hafrogman]

charisma from Booklet I Men and Magic
and dexterity also from Booklet I Men and Magic

From ENWorld I have learned the word Grognard. . . does that count?

 

[Laslo Tremaine]

Phylactery!

 

[Gentlegamer]

milieu
bohemian ear-spoon
sans
constitution
charisma
bell curve
parenthetically
daemon
melee
paladin
vorpal
hippocampus
weal
beatific
astral
ethereal
aesetic
cloistered
enervation
prismatic
mnemonic
fighting-man
drakkar
retinue
proficiency
miscibility
avatar
eldritch
arcane

 

[Conaill]

Dweomer .... well, that's the only one for me, really. Then again, I do not suffer from the disadvantage of having english as my native tongue.


[Edit: Ok, after having read the other entries, I'll admit to "doxy" and "fane" as well.]

 

[Festivus]

Dias / Diadem
as someone else mentioned, ziggurrat
polyhedron
melee
vorpal

 

[Drew]

Hmmm...

D&D has probably given me hundreds of words, but I've been gaming for so long that its hard to pinpoint which came directly from the game. Recently, I was looking through a book someone left laying around called Vocab Rock. Vocab Rock is meant to serve as a study guide for the SAT and ACT tests. Glancing though it, I noticed that a number of the study words crop up all the time in gaming. For example:

Illusion, ignited, razed, incantation, resplendent, craven, comely, annihilate, labrynthine, decipher, esoteric, neophyte, infinite, loom, cosmos, dispel, faction, phoenix, toxin, traverse, colossal, panache, and thaumaturgicaly. That's just in the first half of the book.

A few that I can recall specifically looking up because I saw them in a gaming book:

Sepia (Player's Handbook)
Fane (various adventures)
Abjure (Player's Handbook)

 

[Menexenus]

That's funny! My gaming group and I were just talking a few days ago about "words we learned from Gary Gygax". Here are the ones that leap to mind for me. (Please keep in mind that I was 10 years old at the time.)

keep (as in "on the borderlands")
melee
dais
bas-relief
boon companion
pole arm
castellan
lycanthrope
retainer
carrion
man-at-arms

I'm sure there are others, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.