Your own personal gaming terms...

[bouncyhead]

DeadDead - a PC that has gone past -CON (as opposed to just 'Dead' meaning 'down').

Gross - Uber-powerful/unbalanced.

Mr President - Generic term for the clerics in our 3x games that would be kept out of the remotest danger by a curtain of melee types.

 

[Thunderfoot]

"I FOUND MY SHOE!!!!" - declared in a happy exalted voice, means the player has utterly and completely failed a spot or search check, usually by means of a 1.

 

[billd91]

Delayed Blast Wish - usually used to indicate something very fishy is going on.

Origin: in a 1e game, one character had a ring with 3 wishes with one left. As the part was being thoroughly trashed by some Drow (multiple character down and in negatives), she attempted to use it to heal us up. I didn't work because it had been switched for a normal ring by a pranking gnome. She had to rifle through the unconscious gnome's (for better use of the term) stuff to find the real one and issue the real wish, a few rounds later.

Going Ranger - character going berserk or nuts on a target, graphically

Origin: one ranger PC in the campaign utterly savaged an enemy until it was just pulp and bits of flesh (as described by the player) in revenge for his murdered wife

 

[Crazy Jerome]

"We search for irregularities" -- used when all ideas have been exhausted. This is done to spite me for trying to teach the group old school 24 years ago, and when they couldn't decide what to do, suggesting that perhaps checking if something was "irregular" about a stone wall. They always smirk when they say it, too.

"I got a rock" - from the Charlie Brown Halloween special, where CB gets a rock instead of candy. Used when the treasure gets handed out, and the player gets nothing (or worse).

"Horizontal Fighting Technique" - Surrendering to the effects of the environment in order to do something productive with your actions. Coined by one of our players who seems to always play heavily armored characters that can't stay balanced. Clicked firmly when his cleric spent a whole fight sliding prone on ice an antartic region against a tough white dragon, but managed to keep all but one party member alive. He was prone under the dragon when the wizards' last fireball put it down.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Save the horses!: to expend party resources on or to act in such a way as to prioritize pets/NPCs above party members. Came from a party recue mission/attack on a slaver caravan in which my PC was chained and a pair of griffins wandered into the fray. One PC, instead of attacking slavers or griffins, adopted a defensive post near the party's steeds. When one horse actually got attacked, he DID fend it off...and healed it with a potion.

Nevermind that there were several PCs injured in the fray.

Those horses got a second dose of potions later on in the session, and from that point on, "Save the horses!" (and variants) has become a mocking battle cry uttered on occasion...

 

[Hussar]

Just remembered a few more:

"We wrap him in the Sheet of Smallness" - used when a player cannot make a session. The group had a Sheet of Smallness which shrinks whatever is put inside and IIRC, turns it into a little figurine. Not supposed to work on living stuff, but, meh.

"Boxed" - used in our World's Largest Dungeon campaign. Whenever a player could not make a session, a mystical chest would leap out of the wall, devour the PC and vanish. It would reappear and ... deposit... said PC back to the party when the player made the next session. The PC would invariably be covered in slime. The Box also removed PC's who's players dropped out of the group by simply eating them.

 

[cattoy]

Cleric + Tank = Clank. I played several clerics under 3.x that had the party's best AC.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

On the dais, on the dais...: it's still new to us, but for the past couple of months, any DM's use of the word "dais" gets multiple players singing "On the dais, on the dais, on the dais..." to the tune of the chorus of "Rock me Amadeus.". Depending on the situation, it may go in for a while.

Not surprisingly, platform, plinth, riser and other synonyms are becoming more en vogue.

The God Between Wednesden and Friden: how we now refer to Tharizdun, ever since 2 PCs became affected by some powerful curse in Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil that would knock them out and give them visions if they said his name.

 

[RigaMortus2]

Pincer Maneuver or Pincer Tactic

This is when you have a character be a lure or decoy, usually appearing to be by themselves, to draw an opponent out towards them. You then have 1 or more stealthed characters hidding in wait. When the opponents engage the decoy, the stealthed characters spring out and flank from behind. Best to do in narrow spaces, like a 5 or 10 foot wide hallway.

I had a character attempt to plan this maneuver with the rest of the party, but they weren't having it. As the game night went on, I would continuously bring up how they should have done the Pincer Maneuver/Tactic during the past encounter. Now, in our new campaigns, when the situation presents itself, this tactic is often brought up

 

[RigaMortus2]

Bahamadan (pronounced: bah*ha*ma*don)

The religious holiday for worshipers of Bahamat, similiar to the real-world muslim holiday of ramadan.

This originated duing one of our first 4e games. Had a Dragonborn Paladin in the party, and one of the other players asked if he celebrated Bahamadan. We laughed for awhile on that one.