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Krusk: (n) A player who sticks with classes that don't require as those he is not used to, yet still manages to mess up on his sheet. Also, used to refer to someone who is high or drunk at the table.

The term spawned from one of my bestfriends who couldn't ever think of another name and always messed up with his math when he rages.
 

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Bob: Generic name for any mook/red-shirt NPC. Came from the old days of WWF (Wrestling not Wildlife), we noticed that there was a pattern of big-name wrestlers paired against nobodys, and the king of the nobodys was Bob Backland. Therefore, any NPC who temporarily joined our cause became known as Bob, because we knew he wouldn't live long enough to get a real name.

Buying Apples in the Marketplace: Focusing on mundane activities in-game, especially when there is more important work to be done. Coined when our party spent nearly an entire month in the city doing shopping and other relatively unimportant things when the Lich King was on schedule to destroy the entire region and ascend to godhood.

Magical Duel: A lame and/or off-the-cuff explanation for something as given by the DM, indicitive of the fact that he has no clue. Coined when a certain DM was asked why there were cactii in the middle of a temperate zone, and he sputtered out something about it being the site of a magical duel between two wizards centuries ago. In reality, he just screwed up his own map and didn't want to admit it.
 

In my play-by-chat game, "[character name] is being grappled by a toddler." Said by the spouse of a suddenly unresponsive player who has lost his or her ability to get at the keyboard effectively due to clingy offspring. Also sometimes said when a string of nonesense characters is sent by a player known to be on baby duty.
 

And boots -- A DM mistake that tips off the players to something that should be inobvious. alt A statement from the DM to indicates the players have missed something obvious. origin From a game where the DM was listing equipment for a deceased foe and included the magic boots.

xxx character -- A character that inherently stirs up intraparty conflict. origin A player by the name of xxx who always played a character of this type.

Zot -- The act of the DM killing a PC without ceremony due to aggregious behavior on the part of the player. Usually used as a semi-humorous threat, "Eating the last brownie might get you zotted."

Thumb of God -- See "Zot".

Sits down -- to be knocked to zero hit points exactly or otherwise be rendering disabled. "The dragon sits down."

Gack -- to kill.

Wanna f**k? -- 1. When a player chokes on roleplaying a charismatic character. 2. A botched diplomacy (etc.) check. origin A foppish swashbuckler and a player having an off night.

Licks and throbs -- 1. Lycanthropes. 2. Response to the DM grossly mispronouncing or slurring a word. origin A player misheard me say "lycanthropes".

Roll for armor class -- An experienced player asking something stupid. origin A five-year member of my game asking this specific question.
 

Clickystick: Cure Light Wounds wand. I'm not sure of the derivation. I've also heard pixie stick (from the candy), but not happystick.

Buff/Nerf/Tank/Meat Shield/etc.: The usually MMORPG/tabletop crossover terms are all in effect.

"Whatever you say, Gary": Said to a GM who has just killed a PC. Named after a previous GM in the group (one of my favorites, actually) who was known for running extremely lethal campaigns.

Elevator: Any really bad idea or dangerous location. Commemorating a session of Champions in which the superheroic PCs managed to score a TPK without ever interacting with a villain or, indeed, any NPCs at all; an elevator and Champions' lethal falling damage were key to the event.

"You Magnificent Bastard, I read Your Book": An exclamation used whenever a player or GM does something particularly dastardly or which screws over another player. From a line in the movie Patton (Patton says it after defeating Rommel's forces in North Africa), although its usage is actually the opposite of the original phrase's. Sometimes shortened to one half of the phrase or the other.

Temp: A PC whose player doesn't want to stick around for the campaign; killed off or abandoned by the end of the session. Slang for 'temporary worker.'

Dungeon Fever: What PCs contract when their players can't make a session. A virulent, incurable, chronic disease, often afflicting as much as half the party. Some tragic PCs have been incapacitated for months at a time; others appear to have died from the condition (the player either brought in a new character closer to the party's level, or the campaign ended before the player returned).

"I find the ground": Rolling a 1 on a Spot or Search check.

Pulling a Sterling: A PC's creative and accidental suicide. Named for a player whose PC, when told to 'drop the alchemist's fire,' did so - all twelve vials he was wearing on his belt. The other characters declined to raise him.

"I reach into my coat for a potion": Another term for a PC's creative and accidental suicide. The last words ever spoken by a PC (well, his player's last words with that character, anyway) who, after having survived domination by a psionic dragon (only by rolling a natural 20), the explosion of his own stash of explosives, a massive battle against dozens of enemy soldiers and capture by the enemy leader (who had a grudge against him) - only to die while parachuting from an airship because he announced the quoted action while a dozen elite troopers on the ground were under orders to shoot him if he did anything suspicious. Reaching into his coat (him being famously laden with grenades) qualified.
 
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Crackstick, alt: Crackwand. Any wand of healing, especially cure light wounds.

Elf (verb). To search for secret doors, as in: "I elf the room." Usually used by players of elven PCs.

Fireball formation. Any PC formation that puts all PCs within 10' of a central point. Alt: Lightning Bolt formation, with all PCs in a line.

Bodak in a Bag. What you get when you put the corpse of an NPC slain by a bodak in a bag of holding and forget about it for 24+ hours.

Flurry of misses. Any sequence of attacks performed by a monk against a target with reasonable AC.
 
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"Bane in a Box" - Any cursed magic item, especially one that resembles a box. Named after a certain Forgotten Realms DM device to keep Bane "alive" after the Time of Troubles, and of course WE had to find it... visualize a jack-in-the-box that plays "Pop Goes the Weasel"... and something dramatically different instead of the "pop"...
 

Playing With Dolls: originally used for Warhammer or other minis games, as coined by the gamer's fiancee. The phrase used to drive him crazy. Now he calls up and says "Do you want to play with dolls this weekend?"

To Rogue the Hallway: to move silently and sneakily down the auspicious corridor, checking for obvious danger. Also used for empty rooms and other suspicious areas.
 

"Bonk!"

Term used to describe anyone hit with a cure spell from a wand or other magic item.

"I'm gonna bonk Regdar and Mialee."
 

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