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I like short curses of surprise, awe, and fear.
While a long oath like "By the sacred blade of the Inheritor," works when making a promise, I don't see a character shouting that if he hit his thumb with a hammer.
To that end, I've had characters use...
"Cayden's cup!"
"Desna's wings!"
"Shelyn's shiny tresses!"
"Gorum's fist!"
"Besmara's britches!"
Or, if you really want to get offensive...
I remember this one time, a player went:
and yes he was also playing a dwarf.
Okay, some fiend related ones:
-Noctycula's murderous cleavage!
-Abraxas lost grimoires!
-Cyth-v'sug's diarrhea!
-Kotschtchie's mother day!
-Pazuzu's broken wing!
-Charon's broken boat!
-Apollyon's pustules!
-Dispater's bureaucracy!
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Some general insults:
"Go **** Lamashtu. She loves filth like you."
"Why don't you ask Pharasma? She'll have the right answer. Don't worry, I'll wait."
"Pharasma's pointy Boneyard!"
"Even Calistria hasn't thought of what I want to do to you."
"Great idea. Take it to Galt and see how much of a head start they'll give you."
"You're the reason the Kalistocracy wears gloves."
"Go pray to Aroden."
"The Eagle Knights are here. They want to liberate your common sense from its torment."
"Zon-Kuthon wrote. He says he loved the way you butchered that line of reasoning."
"I hear Geb's hiring."
"I had some sympathy, but I lost it in the Eye of Abendego. Go see if you can find it."
"Was this meal made from Urgathoa's table scraps?"
"Chelish Tax-Collector!"
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"By the shapely rear of Shelyn..." ("So lovely..." Usually with a sexual bend)
"The fingers of Pharasma touch you!" ("Go die!")
"Greedy enough to make a Drumish blush." (Greedy person)
"A Nethite situation." (Sort of like 'stuck between a rock and a hard place.')
"Better off setting siege on Absalom." (A difficult or impossible task)
"Temple walker!" (A pantheist, one who really distances themselves from having a favored faith)
"Heading to Katapesh for work." (Being enslaved)
"By wing and luck" (simple exclamation by worshipers of Desna)
"Get stung..." ("You'll get my vengeance...")
"And I passed the Test!" (Being sarcastic to someone making a bold claim)
"He drank enough to ascend!" (Drank a lot)
"Get along as well as a Caydenite and a Asmodean..." (They argue/bicker a lot)
@Mystic_Snowfang: No prob! Anything to help n_n
I find the lack of short expletives demotivating. You can't put snowballs of frostgiant in everywhere.
Example of 'normal' speech.
"<beep> the <beep>ing <beep> was <beep>ing me, so I <beep> hit the <beep>ing <beep> and <beep> the <beep> kept <beep>ing out."
Here something to scream, when you accidentally hammer your thump.
"My lord." if you are evil cultist.
Hate of <name of god>
ORRRCUSh!
ZU-RRRAAAh!
WAAAGHH! (no matter of game, it still fits)
To say someone.
"You ogre!"
"Go <beep> a troll (and get a child)."
"Stop orcing me (or I <violent act> you)!"
"Nirmathi politician"
A leader whose more interested in picking fights than compromising.
I'm guessing that references to sex, body parts, bodily functions and the like are somewhat universalI find the lack of short expletives demotivating. You can't put snowballs of frostgiant in everywhere.
"Gob-dongs."
I'm guessing that references to sex, body parts, bodily functions and the like are somewhat universalI find the lack of short expletives demotivating. You can't put snowballs of frostgiant in everywhere.
And references, usually distasteful ones, of the targets ancestors.
'Poxy whoreson' should be fairly universal.
I'm also partial to using 'Baphomet's bullocks!'
There are only a few that have come up in games I've been in.
"Wings!" Used by a Desnan in place of crap,dang-it,etc.
"Slag." Waste, low-quality, weak. Can be used for people or things.
"Goblin Grade" Can be positive or negative. Negative, piece-of-crap. Positive, jury-rigged(Or it's less PC cousin) in a surprisingly effective way out of things that just shouldn't work.
I've been running Carrion Crown, and one of the things I've been doing is giving Ustalavic peasants an extremely black gallows sense of humor.
A few that have manifested:
"Tombwives" is a term for those women whose husbands have been turned into undead.
"Hide-wearing Primitives." This is a generic slur that most outsiders don't immediately realize is universally directed at Ustalav's Kellid minority, alternately regarded as backwards barbarians or sources of frightening, Noble-Savage type wisdom.
(The notion of the Varisians - themselves an elsewhere discriminated against people - as being equally cruel to the Kellids in their adopted homeland is really thematically interesting and useful for atmosphere and character conflicts, so I play it up.)
"Pure-Bred or Kitchen-mutt, teeth is teeth." This is a phrase common to the peasantry of The Palatinates. It references the fact that in the opinion of many, the revolution exchanged Nobles who callously abused the people for a mercantile upper class that callously abuses the people.
"Furrowbred" a phrase that's started to come into use referencing The Furrows, mocking the phrase "thoroughbred" and referencing someone whose the antithesis of the latter while still claiming it. Also used to reference someone who comes from the ass-end of society.
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I've been running Carrion Crown, and one of the things I've been doing is giving Ustalavic peasants an extremely black gallows sense of humor.
A few that have manifested:
"Tombwives" is a term for those women whose husbands have been turned into undead.
That concept gives me lots of ideas. Like an order of Pharasma/Shellyn widoll followers, trying to give everlasting peace to their undead husbands.
Dotted for later
May Zon-Kuthon bless you.
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In mine Kingmaker campaign I had Brevic prisoner bandit NPCs swear upon their 3 major venerated gods (Abadar, Gorum and Pharasma) when asking mercy for their redemption:
"I swear it by the Gold, the Red and the Black"
Erastilian Ranger PC added: "now swear it by the Green too!"