Words for gamers

[martin goddard]

Some words are in everyday use by gamers (often meaning different things) but not common in every day language. A restricted set of words helps raise status.
table (a thing with four legs to put your breakfast on)
chart ( top 10 hits)
saving rolls (keeping the bread until later)
stands (put cakes on it)
band (rubber thing if you have long hair)
15mm (A distance designers find hard to measure)
modifier (car gets an upgrade)
push back (reaction when Donald comes by)
QRS (Quick response service)
Average dice ( cheap dice from Poundland)
Fumble (young people!)
Fast play(sports people on steroids)
Easy to play hard to master (nonsense to make winning player into a genius)
Faction ( people who cannot spell fraction or have no idea what a faction is)
Serious wargamer ( bore/the rest are just mucking about in a childish manner)





Others


martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

"Rule designer": someone who creates long bits of wood with regular marks on them
"Sculptor": shapes things on churches made of stone that last for centuries
"Umpire": someone who sits on a high chair and gets shouted at by ill-mannered adults hitting rubber balls at each other

[Leman (Andy)]

"Mat" - something that should be on the floor, not the table.
"Friction" - can be eased with some 3in1
"Shaker" - religious sect
"Dice" - Jamie Oliver preparing carrots
"Unit" - you foolish fellow

[Colonel Kilgore]

"Terrain builder": a landscape gardener
"Scenery maker": someone who works behind the stage in a theatre
"Dice Tower" - a building just around the corner from Mr Trump's place
"Base" - associated with blokes hitting a small round leather sphere with a big stick
"Element" - a fundamental building block of matter

[martin goddard]

"Tactical genius"= I roll high.
"Serious wargamer"= dull
"unlucky gamer"= got t get better at judging situations