One of the main problems people have with understanding role-playing is that the players can seem to be talking a totally different language. To aid in the understanding of the role-player in their natural habitat (confused, set up, and about to die) the following short dictionary of role-playing terms is provided. Unfortunately, this won't help with the truly fanatical role-players who claim to be able to speak Klingon or Elvish.
| BFOG: | Big F*** Off Gun. A bigger
gun than anyone else. Therefore, Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum is a BFOG, just so
long as everyone else has .38s. On the other hand, if you just happen to have a
6 barrel 7.62mm M134 Vulcan Minigun, capable of a rate of fire of 6,000 rounds
a minute, then you're the one with the BFOG. **** STOP PRESS **** Apparently this
has now been replaced as the ultimate BFOG by something called Metal Storm,
capable of 1,000,000 rounds a minute. Now all you need is 1,000,000 targets.
Overkill anyone? |
| d: | Usually sandwiched between two numbers,
stands for so-many dice with so-many sides |
| D&D: | Dungeons & Dragons, or Dunces &
Dunderheads. |
| DI: | Divine Intervention, or usually Daft
Idea. |
| Dice: | Odd shaped bits of plastic that have a
strange effect on role-players. They tend to have sets that they believe will
only roll the numbers they want (ie. high or low rollers). |
| FUBAR: | F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition. |
| GM: | Games Master. The person who represents
all that you encounter in your journeys, both the good and the bad, and the ever
steady hand of fate. Strange how fate is susceptible to milk chocolate Hob-Nobs.
There are many different names for the GM - Keeper, DM (Dungeon Master),
Storyteller, SaBWAP, etc. |
| Gribbly: | Usually prefixed by 'Horrible'.
Quite often live in Shittsville and are usually seen wielding a large number of
surplus paddles. See RNC. |
| JABToF: | Juuuust A Bit Too Far. |
| JABToS: | Juuuust A Bit Too Short. |
| NPC: | Non Player Character. A character who is
controlled by the GM. Sometimes stands for Normally Pretty Crummy. When you come
across an NPC you can talk to, listen to, kill, or ignore it. You can always
tell who the most important NPCs are, because the PCs will either ignore or try
to kill them. |
| Oh Shit: | A common party greeting to the
inhabitants of Shittsville. |
| Paddle: | An essential, but strangely absent
piece of equipment. |
| PC: | Personal Computer or Piece of Crap, and
sometimes a Player Character. |
| Plan: | Something that players never seem to
have, and when they do it all goes horribly wrong. |
| Role-Players: | People who attempt to take on
the personality and attributes of another person and attempt to act as they
would in certain situations, often in a different environment to everyday life. |
| Roll-Players: | A bunch of (dice) tossers. |
| RNC: | Roll New Character. |
| RNCF: | Roll New Cannon Fodder. |
| SaBWAP: | Sadistic Bastard With an Attitude
Problem (see GM). |
| Shit Creek: | The site of the biggest and most
inexplicable paddle shortage ever reported. |
| Shittsville : | A common destination for PCs,
located on the shores of Shit Creek. |
| SNAFU: | Situation Normal, All F***ed Up. |
| TSR: | Tragically Silly Rules. |