Words Every Game Master Should Know

[anthony Valente]

I recently purchased the GMG and I really like p.55 of the book. A dictionary and thesaurus are a big part of my resources when getting an adventure ready. So inspired, I'm inclined to share and add some words from my own personal GM glossary:

Admixture, aegis, alderman, apocryphal, backwater, cadre, canton, enclave, magus, mettle, motte, punitive, sedulous, slough, stalwart, sundries, tincture, viceroy, warder

Feel free to add words you think a GM should know.

[moon glum]

anthony Valente wrote:

I recently purchased the GMG and I really like p.55 of the book. A dictionary and thesaurus are a big part of my resources when getting an adventure ready. So inspired, I'm inclined to share and add some words from my own personal GM glossary:

Admixture, aegis, alderman, apocryphal, backwater, cadre, canton, enclave, magus, mettle, motte, punitive, sedulous, slough, stalwart, sundries, tincture, viceroy, warder

Feel free to add words you think a GM should know.

I loved page 55. More words: eschatology, imperious, numinous, ontology, sycophant, taciturn (good for dwarves)...

[Ravingdork]

anthony Valente wrote:

I recently purchased the GMG and I really like p.55 of the book. A dictionary and thesaurus are a big part of my resources when getting an adventure ready. So inspired, I'm inclined to share and add some words from my own personal GM glossary:

Admixture, aegis, alderman, apocryphal, backwater, cadre, canton, enclave, magus, mettle, motte, punitive, sedulous, slough, stalwart, sundries, tincture, viceroy, warder

Feel free to add words you think a GM should know.

Didn't we have a thread JUST LIKE THIS about a week ago?

[pachristian]

Words every GM should know?

How about: "That's it exactly, I didn't think you'd figure out this complicated plot. Good work! You get <insert number here> bonus experience points."

and "Well drat, I thought that <insert monster of choice here> was sure to kill at least one of you."

and "Oh, you've read this module? Cool! I'm making you my co-GM for this run. You get to play all of the NPC's the other players are going to encounter."

Anybody have any others?

[Shuriken Nekogami]

a word that all DM's should say, but they ususally end up saying the opposite

"Yes, i will gladly allow that. just bring me a copy of the source material or at least a printout of the page. if it is still on the wrong power level, we can adapt it together until it fits."

[James Thomas]

"Guys, your characters just don't know why ... you're just going to have to trust me."

"DC?!" [my gamers are notorious for not telling me the DC when they cast their spells]

"So, what do you do?"

"...." [they are also notorious for just sitting there and doing nothing ... i'm always having to light fires under them]

"No, John, that was 2nd edition."

"It says that in the PFCRB? Are you sure? Show me."

"Next... NEXT!" [my players somehow never seem to know when it's their initiative and get bogged down deciding what to do rather than watching the action and deciding while it's someone else's turn]

Is it just me, or can any of you relate?

[Spahrep]

James Thomas wrote:

"Guys, your characters just don't know why ... you're just going to have to trust me."

"DC?!" [my gamers are notorious for not telling me the DC when they cast their spells]

"So, what do you do?"

"...." [they are also notorious for just sitting there and doing nothing ... i'm always having to light fires under them]

"No, John, that was 2nd edition."

"It says that in the PFCRB? Are you sure? Show me."

"Next... NEXT!" [my players somehow never seem to know when it's their initiative and get bogged down deciding what to do rather than watching the action and deciding while it's someone else's turn]

Is it just me, or can any of you relate?

I bought a copy of the GM guide too, if i used those words, I'd then have to supply the players with dictionaries also...

[moon glum]

And overlooking the garden, on a small hill, is a gazebo.
(...)
A gazebo! A couple of fireballs coming on line! Burn baby burn!
(...)
So what's the gazebo doing now?!?! Running or attacking?

[BenignFacist]

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Top 10 words and phrases

No

You can certainly try

Panache

Yes, and by yes I mean 'No'

Verily

It's certainly true for a given value of true

Rotund

That's my mother you're talking about

Undulating

Panache

[ProfessorCirno]

"Sure"

[Gorbacz]

"Are you sure you want to do that ?"

Followed by:

"Roll initiative"

and coming up next:

"Sure, I'll print new character sheets for you guys in a moment"

[golden pony]

I totally relate to that last one. Except that it's more like
"You guys go suicide charge 24/7 and you ALSO expect me to print out your new sheets every single time!? That's it asm rolling INITIATIVE"

[Majuba]

"Necrotic" (have just about every other necro word in the GMG, but you can't miss out on "feeding on his own necrotic intestines").

"No."

[W E Ray]

Moon Glum wins the Thread.

[Francis Kunkel]

For W E Ray and Moon Glum

spoiler:

Moon Glum just likes his KODT (Knights of the Dinner Table). Nice quote BTW, one of my favorite! :-)

[Reptilian]

anthony Valente wrote:

I recently purchased the GMG and I really like p.55 of the book. A dictionary and thesaurus are a big part of my resources when getting an adventure ready. So inspired, I'm inclined to share and add some words from my own personal GM glossary:

Admixture, aegis, alderman, apocryphal, backwater, cadre, canton, enclave, magus, mettle, motte, punitive, sedulous, slough, stalwart, sundries, tincture, viceroy, warder

Feel free to add words you think a GM should know.

Personally, I'm just curious to know who put 'phallus' on that list.

[Zaister]

Don't forget these words every GM should know:

tureen, marzipan, propensity, ziggurat, proboscis.

[Drejk]

"No!"
"You don't know it"
(when player wants to obtain information with certain divinatory powers - my fellow players already understand this as request for being precise while using such powers) "Ask your question"

Also, nonverbal communication is also important GM should be able to smile in a variety of ways: threatening, contemptous and mysterious.