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;"You all meet in a tavern...": The "classic" (read: cliched) way to bring a [[party]] together in a fantasy game; often extended to other games as well. Very nearly as cliche as the literary equivalent, "It was a dark and stormy night..." | ;"You all meet in a tavern...": The "classic" (read: cliched) way to bring a [[party]] together in a fantasy game; often extended to other games as well. Very nearly as cliche as the literary equivalent, "It was a dark and stormy night..." | ||
− | + | ;"You notice a ceiling fan.". When a character fails an observation or perception roll it is often that they notice the most unimportant thing in the room. Ex: "GM: Ok, there's a small firearm near the badguy, roll to see if you notice it." "PC: Oh, I failed the roll and got a 1." "GM: You notice a ceiling fan." | |
− | ;"You notice a ceiling fan." | ||
==Z== | ==Z== | ||
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− | ;Zerg | + | ;Zerg:As a verb, to defeat an enemy by force of numbers. Taken from the name of the Zerg alien race in StarCraft who typically employ this strategy. |
+ | :In a similar vein, '''Zerg Rush''': To overwhelm an enemy with a mass of relatively weak attackers. | ||
==Numbers & Symbols== | ==Numbers & Symbols== | ||
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− | ;20-4 theory: "RPGs are twenty minutes of fun packed into four hours." | + | ;20-4 theory: "RPGs are twenty minutes of fun packed into four hours." An observation from a designer's blog hotly contested in the forum, but subject to some sympathy from a surprising number of players. |
− | ;404: Brain not found. A player (more rarely, a GM) caught daydreaming at an inopportune moment. Derived from the | + | ;404: Brain not found. A player (more rarely, a GM) caught daydreaming at an inopportune moment. Derived from the HTML 1.0-1.1 code returned when one attempts to load a web page which is not present on a given server. |