Nicknames for RPG books

***TechnoViking*** · Mar 13th, '03, 08:48 AM

Can anyone think of any other RPG books that have commonly used nicknames oe terms of endearment similar to BBB (Champions 4th) and FREd (Hero System 5th)?

My gaming group has always called the Dungeon Master Guide (all editions) the DMG. But I can not think of any others.

Mike

**TheEmerged** · Mar 13th, '03, 11:32 AM

PlayHB vs PsiHB for the Player's Handbook and Psionic's Handbook under 3D&D are two you'll run into, especially among the psionics community among 3D&D.

***Thag13*** · Mar 13th, '03, 02:56 PM

I used to call my BBB book Mommy a lot, but then I went to a hospital that keep me there for a while and I got all better.

So when I started to call the 5th book FRED, boy was I in trouble......

Those Thorzine Enimeas are really nasty....

**Toadmaster** · Mar 13th, '03, 03:43 PM

Twilight 2000 has the BYB (Big Yellow Book) which is the 2nd edition, first edition was two magazine like books one was the players book the other for the GM. So when 2nd ed came out with one large yellow book I guess the name was obvious.

Traveller has the LBB's (Little Black Books) these are the original 5.5x8.5" books. This distinguishes the original traveller from the later 2300 (Traveller 2300AD), TNG (The New Era) and 4th editions of Traveller which all use standard size 8.5x11" books.

Thats all I can think of right now.

**Greenstar** · Mar 13th, '03, 06:45 PM

Aside from the obvious (DMG = Dungeon Master's Guide, C&S = Chivalry & Sorcery, TFT = The Fantasy Trip) we always called Runequest "Goonsearch" for some reason. Not that we didn't like the game, it was just amusing to us.

And of course there were the LBB's. I'd forgotten about them almost!

**JohnTaber** · Mar 14th, '03, 08:28 AM

My gang pronounces the DMG NOT "D-M-G" but "Dumb-Ga". Kinda funny.

***archermoo*** · Mar 19th, '03, 09:19 PM

We always called Rolemaster "Chart Law". We figured that since ICE decided to break tradition (always naming their books <Fill in the blank> Law), we'd fix it for them. And with the preponderance of charts, it just made sense...

**Jhamin** · Mar 19th, '03, 09:29 PM

The current version of Star Fleet Battles (not really a RPG, but still) is officially known as "the Doomsday Edition".

It was so long delayed that that's what the fan community started calling it, as it "when will the new edition be out?" - Doomsday."

The name stuck.

**TheImperialKhan** · Mar 21st, '03, 02:24 AM

Everyone I know has just called them by their names or at most their initials. That may be why the nickname for 5E seemes so silly to me.

**TheEmerged** · Mar 21st, '03, 05:36 PM

TIK: It's *supposed* to be silly

**TheImperialKhan** · Mar 21st, '03, 07:07 PM

Then it succeeds quite well.

**Law Dog** · Mar 22nd, '03, 11:44 AM

I think I may own one of the only copies in this area of a 1st edition AD&D Oriental Adventure hardbound that is still in one piece and that may have been because I left it in the car during an Arizona summer day and the glue remelted the binding pretty thourougly. You can see the glue on the inside of both covers. Everybody else in our groups books fell apart and we started refering to it as the "Loose leaf book".

**Lisa Nadazdy** · Mar 29th, '03, 01:23 AM

I've always suspected that West End Game's Torg was a sly acronym for The Other Roleplaying Game (a tongue-in-cheek stab at D&D), but I've never been able to prove my suspicions...

**Catacomb** · Mar 29th, '03, 01:41 AM

How about P.O.S. for Marvel Super Heroes by TSR...

**Law Dog** · Mar 29th, '03, 09:34 PM

Originally posted by Catacomb
How about P.O.S. for Marvel Super Heroes by TSR...

Perhaps for the SAGA system or the newest one, but I think the original actually catured the feel of comic book combat. The Karma system actually allowed you to simulate the "Do or Die" that is common in the genre. This is actually the weak point of the HERO system. Nothing sucks more for players or acts so contrary to the genre as a big fat 18 on a roll that something really important hinged on.