Your own personal gaming terms...

[fafhrd]

Crushing Fist of Sprite: When a beverage is placed on the mat/table with enough force that the minis fall or move.

 

[ronin]

The "paragraph"- a spell that has had multiple meta magic feats applied to it that a character uses regularly.

"Yoink"- the sound the DM (NPC) made once the party's paladin shrunk his dire lion mount (in a 3e game) so that they could teleport away with it from a battle. The NPC's turn came up first so he grabbed the mount (which he was standing next to) and ran away with it. The look on the paladin's face was priceless.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Geek the Mage First!, from Shadowrun...it distills down to "kill the greatest threat first." It helps if you realize the troll with the assault cannon, or the frenzied berserker, counts as a mage.

Do a Matt, in reference to one player's horrifically bad multi-die rolls. "10d6, baby, and take...12 points of damage!"

Brad

 

[Blackrat]

[Wilson - Used when a die that has been rolled ends up in a position that makes it unreadable (such as leaning against a book) and it needs to be rerolled. Our buddy Mike Wilson would do this often. When others would do it, we would say "You pulled a Wilson." Eventually it just became "Wilson".

We use the word "Church" in this kind of situation. I actually have no idea where it came from, can't even remember when we started using it...

 

[Kelek72]

Evil Donkey

Our group thought they were being watched in the forest at night; as they looked about, everyone focused on an area near the donkey they had brought along. Finally someone said, "What's the donkey doing?"
I was DM and replied, "Watching you guys."
Everyone suspected the donkey was the source of their uneasyness after that!

Now the term is used for everything from someone under the effects of mind control to anyone worried about anyone seeing what they are doing.

"You hear something moving through the underbrush."
"I look around. Any donkey's? You know, EVIL ones? What are our mounts doing?"

 

[Elemental]

We have a few that we made up:

Blue Bubble: This is what happens to a PC whose player is absent from the game; he's treated as though in a "blue bubble" where he's essentially in stasis, doing nothing and nothing is done to him. I'm told this comes from a video game, though I have no idea what.

"Plot Hole" over here, as in "He's fallen down a plot hole and can't join you this session."

 

[Thomas Percy]

"Third Party Rule"
The encounter is interested when there are three sides involved:
- the PC
- their enemies
- third party, enviromental dificulcies, other dificulcies.

 

[Jeysie]

A few more popped into my head after our latest session...

"Pose": Describing your character's actions in full "theatrical" style. Also used in verb form as "posing" to warn everyone you're in the middle of typing said actions.

"It was nice knowing you": Standard response whenever someone fails a save badly or rolls a 1 on an attack roll. Though, ironically, we haven't had a PC die yet in two years of gaming (although we've come close several times).

"Can I have the 100-words-or-less summary?": Just what it sounds like, really. So formed after the standard wording on standardized essay tests and similar things. People will often try to keep their summaries under the limit, too, even IC, just to play along.

"Clanky McSlowspeed": Nickname for the cleric, or any other heavily-armored character.

"Degaussing": Rolling 100d20 or so after a string of bad rolls in an attempt to "clear out" the dice roller macro.

"Purple editing pen": I am the de facto secretary for my group; after every session I edit the OOC log to pull out funny quotes, and I edit the IC logs to make them flow more like a story.

So, whenever someone posts something at the wrong time, makes a typo, needs to redo an action, or otherwise messes up, I hear "Could you fix that in the logs?" a lot.

So I then wield my purple editing pen, colored in honor of the children's book Harold and the Purple Crayon.

Peace & Luv, Liz

 

[Dark Dragon]

Vierlingsflak (german, quadrupel anti-air gun in english): Term for our ranger when firing in rapid mode with his holy corrosive bow...

Awful stupid: paladin.

Sewing machine: Term for our TWF tempest (7 attacks per round, she fights with rapier & dagger).

"Has anyone a plan B?" Original plan has failed, group is in trouble....

 

[Ravellion]

Many of these are repeats, but in our group...

Your group seems like a barrel of laughs!