So let me preface this by saying that my group of players and I have known each other for 10-15 years and we have had some good fun with D&D in its various incarnations. We are also unable to play as often as we used to so when we do get together we tend to play till the wee hours. It is at this point that the nerdy sarcasm and irreverence begins to flow. Here are a couple of 'gems' tossed around during Burnt Offerings.
Refering to The Rusty Dragon as The Rusty Trombone, the Kaijitsus suddenly became the Daihatsus and they all drove three wheeled mini-wagons, Nualia was refered to as What's-her-nipples. As the evening progressed to the ultra late everyone in town began to take on pharmaceutical names Father Zantax etc.
What have your players blurted out whilst hopped up on too much caffeine? Or am I the only DM to be saddled with a troop of horsetoothed jackholes for players?
No, not at all. I believe it is a common complaint.
My lot currently take great delight in re-characterising any native Chelaxian as Chill-lax-ing. Apparently to chill-lax is a new fangled conjoined word meaning to chill out and relax.
Apparently.
They may just be yanking my chain. And any time I print out a picture of an NPC they deface it with horns and moustache and daft speech bubbles.
My lot currently take great delight in re-characterising any native Chelaxian as Chill-lax-ing. Apparently to chill-lax is a new fangled conjoined word meaning to chill out and relax.
My players have been making that exact joke. It has even spread to other games that have nothing to do with Pathfinder. I'm using "Chelish" for more stuff now.
My lot currently take great delight in re-characterising any native Chelaxian as Chill-lax-ing. Apparently to chill-lax is a new fangled conjoined word meaning to chill out and relax.
I've heard the term before, but (God be Praised!) my players haven't.
My players didn't inflict dumb names on the NPCs at first, but they're warming up to it. There was the horse they dubbed "Blood Muffin" for its goblin-slaying prowess; the bugbear they called "the towel goblin" after they surprised him without his armor; "Beer Man", the mercenary they drank a few beers with; and the "demon wench", Nualia.
My players didn't inflict dumb names on the NPCs at first, but they're warming up to it. There was the horse they dubbed "Blood Muffin" for its goblin-slaying prowess; the bugbear they called "the towel goblin" after they surprised him without his armor; "Beer Man", the mercenary they drank a few beers with; and the "demon wench", Nualia.
Those sound like in-character nicknames, and I have no issues with that. It makes sense to me that a group as close as PCs tend to be would come up with those sorts of things. It's when they start using anime names for NPCs and that sort of stuff that I feel frustrated.
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I've had players in my group do the same sort of thing, using pop-culture references and the like. It rarely goes over the top and becomes annoying or disruptive, though.
One example I can recall is a PC taking a piece of fruit from a bowl offered at a meal. The player stated that it was an apple, to which the DM replied that, no, it was not an apple because apples don't exist in this world. After a short discussion, a new type of fruit was born: The Apple-ish. The apple-ish has been a favorite treat of many of our adventurers since.
Not too many shenanigans at our first few Pathfinder games, despite the availability of beer and wine. Although one of the fighters with the cleave feat managed to hack through multiple goblins, so now everyone says he's from "Cleveland". I don't get it. The guy's originally from Oakland and now he lives in San Franciso...
Also, I always like to print out pictures of NPCs from the module. So my players freaked out when the saw the picture of the female goblin warchanter. She's just ugly. And they can't stop talking about Shalelu's ears. "Lookit those things, they're HUGE!"