D&D 5E (2024) WotC renaming Charisma in 2024 books

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Oxford's got 'Rizz': Slang named Oxford University Press' word of 2023

The word beat out the competing words like "Swiftie," "beige flag" and "situationship."

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Vaalingrade]

My favorite part is that in the article I read, they could only speculate that rizz was derived from charisma and credited it to a random Youtuber who says they didn't base it on Charisma.

That said, rizz is one of the better new words. Gen-X managed to evade the Generation Wars, but they will be punished for 'blog' and its bastard child, 'vlog'.

 

[aco175]

I don't think they have the stit to do that.

 

[GMMichael]

Wouldn't surprise me. The name isn't very inclusive.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

 

[Leatherhead]

All this time I thought "Rizz" was just the contemporary form of "Ritz."

 

[BookTenTiger]

Working in a 5th Grade classroom this year, "slay" is a big term. What's interesting is that a group of kids decided to come up with a rival phrase and somehow landed on "Steve Jobs" as a kind of "good job" alternative. So now whenever anyone does anything good, the class erupts in a bunch of "slays" and "Steve Jobs." It's neat to see culture generate right before your eyes.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Lit.

When Derek's bard comes through drippin', he got mad riz.

 

[Reynard]

The new alignments are Lit, Low Key and Sus.

 

[DEFCON 1]

To be fair... I would have no issue with renaming Charisma OR Constitution so that we could have six different initial letters for the ability scores.

That's one of my little pet peeves and something I always try and slightly force my players to go along with... no one's allowed to come up with character names whose initial letter is the same as anyone else's. If I'm writing down initiative order and such, I just want to be able to use a single letter for each PC for ease-of-use and recognition.