Words you learned through D&D
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Thomas Percy
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I've learned English language (as one can see not good enough) thanks to D&D.
When my first DM abandoned a game, he left me AD&D PHB, DMG, MM and FR's 'Dalelands' and 'Cormyr'. There was communist occupation in Poland still. I ran away from school to some restaurant with this books and English dictionary, because I didn't know this language. Generally I was disapoinnted with FR books, I discovered that most of thing I love in a game wewe created by DM, not by TSR. Because of this utill today I'm not WoTC's book mole, but I love D&D.
When my first DM abandoned a game, he left me AD&D PHB, DMG, MM and FR's 'Dalelands' and 'Cormyr'. There was communist occupation in Poland still. I ran away from school to some restaurant with this books and English dictionary, because I didn't know this language. Generally I was disapoinnted with FR books, I discovered that most of thing I love in a game wewe created by DM, not by TSR. Because of this utill today I'm not WoTC's book mole, but I love D&D.
Kyuss Knight
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I learned these words whe I got 2e PHB:
Ranseur
Guisarme
Fauchard
Man was I obsessed with weapons back then!
Ranseur
Guisarme
Fauchard
Man was I obsessed with weapons back then!
Shieldhaven
Explorer
I learned "necromancy," among other things, and from it derived "necropolis." I'm still a little unclear on what exactly a "fane" might be, aside from a great place to go adventuring.
"Codex," "libram," "somatic," "sepia" (I remember being surprised when this came up in a school vocabulary exercise some years later - thank you, sepia snake sigil!), a bunch of the alternate names for clerics listed in the 2e PH, "phylactery," "periapt," possibly "petrification," "myrmidon," "arquebus,"... and a whole bunch of medieval occpations, among other things. Then there's all the words I learned from reading Sep's Tales of Wyre (even if "viridity" and "saizhan" are questionable, there's still "metagnostic"). Some of my other geeky hobbies are even worse - "psychopomp" first came from reading Sandman, though I didn't grok its meaning at the time, but it later came up in one of the LARPs I play, so I actually learned it.
Haven
Further Proof that Gaming Is Good For You!
"Codex," "libram," "somatic," "sepia" (I remember being surprised when this came up in a school vocabulary exercise some years later - thank you, sepia snake sigil!), a bunch of the alternate names for clerics listed in the 2e PH, "phylactery," "periapt," possibly "petrification," "myrmidon," "arquebus,"... and a whole bunch of medieval occpations, among other things. Then there's all the words I learned from reading Sep's Tales of Wyre (even if "viridity" and "saizhan" are questionable, there's still "metagnostic"). Some of my other geeky hobbies are even worse - "psychopomp" first came from reading Sandman, though I didn't grok its meaning at the time, but it later came up in one of the LARPs I play, so I actually learned it.
Haven
Further Proof that Gaming Is Good For You!
Gentlegamer
Adventurer
The point is not lost on those who endeavored to become Gentle Gamers.Eridanis said:We, the Gentle Readers, became the beneficiaries of that vocabulary, and have it now to pass on to later generations.
Rereading that last paragraph, I think I proved my point...
rbingham2000
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Constitution in the sense of something other than a body of laws for running a government or nation.
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