Words you learned through D&D

[tahsin]

comeliness
crampon
beguile

 

[Henry]

Too many to count, including a large number of those from above. Milieu sticks out, having NEVER heard that word in any other venue than a Gygax discussion.

 

[amazingshafeman]

arquebus

 

[amethal]

fecund - as in "Orcs are fecund" from the half-orc description in the AD&D 1st edition players handbook.

I'd include eldritch, but I'm still not completely sure what it means

wormhole - from the Immortal Rules

axiomatic - 3.5 DMG

draconian - looked it up in the dictionary after playing a Dragonlance adventure

ichor - from one of the AD&D 1st edition monster mauals, I think

I also learned a lot of American spellings, such as gray, center, etc.

 

[Aaron L]

Dweomer
Milieu
Eldritch
Incorporeal
Melee
Codex
Phylactery
Brazier
Cantrip

Also, the list of latin abbreviations in the back of the 1E DMG was the first time I had ever seen what those things meant!

The fact that I learned these through D&D (1E PHB in particular) is probably due to not reading widely in the genre before I started gaming. (I was more of a sci-fi kid.) Now these are fairly commonplace words for me (well, as commonplace as they can get in normal conversation). I was caught off guard the other day when I used "incorporeal" in a conversation with my mother (a fairly intelligent woman) and she didnt know what it meant. Likewise, I used "melee" in a discussion with a friend of mine a few years ago (another intelligent woman) and I was suprised when she didnt know what it meant.


Just goes to show that we use really weird words, I guess!

 

[Kestrel]

Too many to count.

What does c.f. mean?

 

[Agent Oracle]

Bodice
Wrath
Vorpal
Polymorph
Miasma

 

[Chaldfont]

So many, but I'll stick to the three: quaff, doff/don, and the use of former and latter. I'd heard of the latter but not the former.

D&D is singlehandedly responsible for my dominance in scrabble, boggle and the like. Hey! There's another one: "the like".

D&D also taught me rapid simple calculations, percentages, statistics, simple cryptography, creative writing, public speaking, leadership, dealing with difficult people, using reference books, how to pull an all-nighter, and much more.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

What does c.f. mean?

It's another Latin abbreviation. It means "compare to." IIRC, the Lain word is "confero."

 

[Shade]

My D&D vocabulary has also gotten me in trouble with Scrabble. While playing with non-RPG members of my family, I was absolutely certain "scry" would be in the dictionary, and quickly lost that round.