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Slang and Lingo
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As I have been browsing RPG communities on Lemmy, Facebook, and Reddit, I have noticed some of the slang that I used to hear is not present much in these discussions. Now I know over time, slang and lingo do change, and I want to know more about your experiences in it. One of the terms I used to hear was "fish-malk", referring to players that take on a character to be goofy, silly, and "random". They were usually useless and made playing the game for the rest of the players rather difficult. So what lingo or slang terms are you using in your groups, or terms you just don't hear anymore?
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As I have been browsing RPG communities on Lemmy, Facebook, and Reddit, I have noticed some of the slang that I used to hear is not present much in these discussions. Now I know over time, slang and lingo do change, and I want to know more about your experiences in it. One of the terms I used to hear was "fish-malk", referring to players that take on a character to be goofy, silly, and "random". They were usually useless and made playing the game for the rest of the players rather difficult. So what lingo or slang terms are you using in your groups, or terms you just don't hear anymore?I have never heard fish-malk. o.o
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I have never heard fish-malk. o.o
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As I have been browsing RPG communities on Lemmy, Facebook, and Reddit, I have noticed some of the slang that I used to hear is not present much in these discussions. Now I know over time, slang and lingo do change, and I want to know more about your experiences in it. One of the terms I used to hear was "fish-malk", referring to players that take on a character to be goofy, silly, and "random". They were usually useless and made playing the game for the rest of the players rather difficult. So what lingo or slang terms are you using in your groups, or terms you just don't hear anymore?I bet "grognard" is only used by grognards now For the uninitiated, a grognard is a person who likes older style wargaming. The usage suggests a person who is older, set in their ways, and somewhat curmudgeonly. Often preferring how things used to be in the systems they grew up playing. Generally speaking, they prefer a crunchy game with high mortality and grit, as opposed to a looser system with a narrative or character-driven focus. For a term in more active use, I submit "crunchy" since I just used it. A game's crunchiness describes how complex the rules are - essentially how much number-crunching players have to do in order to play.
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As I have been browsing RPG communities on Lemmy, Facebook, and Reddit, I have noticed some of the slang that I used to hear is not present much in these discussions. Now I know over time, slang and lingo do change, and I want to know more about your experiences in it. One of the terms I used to hear was "fish-malk", referring to players that take on a character to be goofy, silly, and "random". They were usually useless and made playing the game for the rest of the players rather difficult. So what lingo or slang terms are you using in your groups, or terms you just don't hear anymore?I use the following term from LARP into table-top *Bleed* to talk about how *in game drama* impacts your emotion, it's usually positive, but need clear discussion to not end-up in horror stories *Black box* for flashback/workshop where you roleplay something happening before the actual game. It can be used either to clarify link between characters (especially in one shot) or be used in games like *Blades in the Dark* to have PC jumping to action directly and doing the preparation latter Then the obvious IC/OOC to clarify what happens. And some game-term which I export everywher like talking about the Malkavian or the lawful good
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As I have been browsing RPG communities on Lemmy, Facebook, and Reddit, I have noticed some of the slang that I used to hear is not present much in these discussions. Now I know over time, slang and lingo do change, and I want to know more about your experiences in it. One of the terms I used to hear was "fish-malk", referring to players that take on a character to be goofy, silly, and "random". They were usually useless and made playing the game for the rest of the players rather difficult. So what lingo or slang terms are you using in your groups, or terms you just don't hear anymore?
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I use the following term from LARP into table-top *Bleed* to talk about how *in game drama* impacts your emotion, it's usually positive, but need clear discussion to not end-up in horror stories *Black box* for flashback/workshop where you roleplay something happening before the actual game. It can be used either to clarify link between characters (especially in one shot) or be used in games like *Blades in the Dark* to have PC jumping to action directly and doing the preparation latter Then the obvious IC/OOC to clarify what happens. And some game-term which I export everywher like talking about the Malkavian or the lawful goodI've heard of Bleed, but maybe in the context of a horror story. A player's character was cursed so they couldn't play music anymore without some unknown bad stuff happening. They were going to play anyway, since music was everything to them. The other player characters intervened, and took away their instruments. The cursed player had their character sneak back, break into the cleric's chest, and steal their instruments back. We were all like "Wow this is such good drama and tension!" But then the cursed player got really mad and upset at us in real life, and was like "Of course I'm upset! You wouldn't let me play music and stole my instruments!" We were all like, "..in the game, right?" They were like, "No! I'm really upset at you all! Don't you feel bad when you watch a movie and bad things happen to the characters?" We were like, "Well, sometimes, yeah, but it's not like.. the same as it happening for real." They calmed down eventually, but left a few sessions later in a similar blow up. So whenever I think of bleed, i think of that player just yelling at us in real life for stuff that was happening to their character.
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It comes from Vampire: TM, describing the kind of player that plays a Malkavian's "insanity" as dumb shit like slapping people with a fish (a la Monty Python).I think there was an illustration in one of the Vampire books that had a malk kissing a fish. I'd known the term, and then forgotten it, but recently was reminded of it. I was complaining about how some players just always want to be zany and wacky, instead of just playing to the premise. Like, you pitch a gritty game about hunting vampires in 1980s new york city, and they want to play a talking horse. or three kids in a trenchcoat. or a dead man's seeing eye dog. Just stuff that could kind of work, maybe, but is going to take a lot of work and take a lot of spotlight constantly. Instead of playing, I don't know... An investigative journalist who's been looking into mysterious deaths, a nurse at the hospital who's seen some shit, a business man who just can't get promoted (maybe because the owners are vampires). Some of this is subjective, I guess, but I feel like some players are just not on my wavelength about what fits into a theme.
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I think there was an illustration in one of the Vampire books that had a malk kissing a fish. I'd known the term, and then forgotten it, but recently was reminded of it. I was complaining about how some players just always want to be zany and wacky, instead of just playing to the premise. Like, you pitch a gritty game about hunting vampires in 1980s new york city, and they want to play a talking horse. or three kids in a trenchcoat. or a dead man's seeing eye dog. Just stuff that could kind of work, maybe, but is going to take a lot of work and take a lot of spotlight constantly. Instead of playing, I don't know... An investigative journalist who's been looking into mysterious deaths, a nurse at the hospital who's seen some shit, a business man who just can't get promoted (maybe because the owners are vampires). Some of this is subjective, I guess, but I feel like some players are just not on my wavelength about what fits into a theme.
This also relates to my mention elsewhere in this discussion of what used to be called "special snowflakes" (before the birdsite ruined the word "snowflake"). Some people want novelty and creativity above all in their RP, and that doesn't always come with a sense for how to balance that with intended theme or tone. And as you point out, if *no one* is playing things remotely straight, things can become farcical, or at least like an "Oops! All Foils" situation with no requisite normal.
