Words you learned through D&D

[DerHauptman]

verisimilitude (don't remember probably 1eDMG)

antipathy (1ePHB race relations)

Myrmidon (1ePHB Tittle for level 6 fighter)


I will add the third word later...

DerHauptman-Out!

 

[stevelabny]

I never realized exactly how much playin d&d and reading fantasy expanded my word knowledge until I was telling a lot of my friends this joke....

A vulture got on a plane carrying two dead animals, and the stewardess sais "Sorry, only one carrion per person"

and NOBODY understood it.

 

[RisnDevil]

Not from a book, per se, and kind of embarrasing, but the first time I played AD&D (1e) as I was building my first character, a druid, I was selecting a weapon. My DM recommended a scimitar, explained the advantage to me, and when I agreed told me to write Scimitar and scabbard on my sheet, along with the damage info for the scimitar. Not know what a scabbard was, he had a slight laugh at my expense when I asked how much damage the scabbard did, not knowing that is was sheath.....

scabbard

 

[Rabelais]

Ok Steve, that was pretty funny.

one carrion... *chortle*

hmmm

Thaumaturgy
Asmodeus
Charisma
Chaotic

 

[Aikuchi]

Phylactery
Obtenebration
Sorcerer


Then again, english is not my native language

 

[the Jester]

Milieu
Portcullis
Acolyte

"Milieu" from some Gygaxian writing or other- either Dragon magazine back in the day (c. no. 74), the Basic set (? if the term was used in the old "red book") or the 1e DMG.

"Portcullis" was prolly in Keep on the Borderlands, and if not, then I first encountered it in The Secret of Bone Hill. iirc KotB had a glossary in it, and I believe that portcullis was in there.

"Acolyte," of course, was the 1e level title for a 1st-level cleric.

 

[Cabled]

Paralyzation

Second grade spelling bee winner! Whoohoo!

Damn that was a long time ago.

 

[Davelozzi]

I learned tons of words from D&D, but the two that sprang to mind most readily were portcullis and crenellations.

The word portcullis by itself became an ongoing joke in my junior high/high school years because of something that happened involving one in an old campaign. Alas, the details are too hazy now for me to remember what exactly made it so funny.

As for crenellations, a few years back I was walking by a church in Boston with my wife and a friend and I commented that it was interesting that the church had crenellations. My wife and friend looked at me like I had three heads and I had to explain what they were, whereupon we prompty wrote a silly tune on the subject that resulted in a lot of ridiculous laughter.

 

[BOZ]

i probably learned at least as many words from D&D as i did from school - and i still am learning words from D&D.

in fact, it might be hard to pick apart which ones i learned from where!

 

[Thunderfoot]

I would say that a great deal of my delving into the English language apart from everyday common usage and slang came from D&D. Anything doing with the medieval and middle-ages, whether directly or indirectly were all a result of D&D and then of course there were the neat words like melee, charisma, dexterity, etc that were the hallmark words of the rules. Of course, I learned most of the wrong at first and then correctly later, but oh well, when you're a hick kid from an area where the hardest words usually pronounced are govenment and supplements, well you get the picture.