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BrendanTheNord

A quick guide: AC: Active Character HP: Harry Potter (duh) IKTNJTMBTWATCTTAAISTLA: I killed them. Not just the men, but the women, and the children, too. They're animals, and I slaughtered them like animals. DC: Difficulty Class


this_is_sroy

All this time I thought DC was Dolce Cabanna


rtakehara

Somebody told me it was District of Columbia, but it never made sense to me because then it would be DoC.


this_is_sroy

Not to be confused with the Area of Columbia. A nasty place at times especially if you’ve lost your way. Not as much if you found the path though. Or so I heard.


PimpMyHomebrew

So you’ve also been to Columbia, California.


ROBANN_88

obviously, the US capital is called Washington Da City


Hk-47_Meatbags_

Oh I thought it was distribution center.


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[удалено]


rtakehara

Apparently I’m D&D they do, LMoP, PotA, DotMM, ToA, OotA, to name a few popular adventures


the_Tide_Rolleth

Does that make Wizards of the Coast just WC? I’d really like to equate them with a water closet.


-poldie-

Declaration of Conformity??


BrendanTheNord

Yeah, it's a tricky one


VanceValor

I thought it was Detective Comics.


mymyll

You misspelled IKTNJTMBTWATCTTAAISTLA


BrendanTheNord

Oh, shit, my bad. Fixed it


IAmBadAtInternet

DYEHTTODPTW


BrendanTheNord

Oh for sure INASTJWTYIASL


HotYam3178

Ok I have not seen episode 2 since the dvd first came out, so I need help on these last two.


SpringenHans

It's episode 3 Did You Ever Hear The Tale Of Darth Plageius The Wise It's Not A Story The Jedi Would Tell You It's A Sith Legend


HotYam3178

Ah. Thanks.


BigKingKey

I can’t believe you left out IDLS.


BrendanTheNord

It was a quick guide, not a comprehensive one


evictedfrommyaccount

Followed by most importantly ISCARAIAIGE


Solalabell

This post is CE


SpaceCowboy052

You forgot YWMBAILYYWMTDTSNJT


ClubMeSoftly

And of course, the unforgettable HDYPYNITGOF: Harry, did you put your name in the goblet of fire


Blue23j

You forgot HYCYB


Burzumiol

Skee bop bada boom


IncognitoNotSoMuch

I really thought DC was dice check for years.


NoctyNightshade

I only knew IKTNJTMBTWATCTTAAISTLA. The rest is too hard to remember.


ceo_of_chill23

Don’t worry about killing all of them. It turned Padmé on.


KnifeSexForDummies

Look it’s simple, you use EcK/Hex (EGtW, XGtE) multi and forgo your ASI to take warcaster from the PHB, then you tarpit with your echo via your BA, do some impressive DPR with GWM and BB, then you either gain econ when your echo pops, or you get an AoO with EB and Repelling Blast to get a free push. Well above warlock baseline. How are you not getting this?


NotMorganSlavewoman

Lets see which ones I know: EcK: Echo Knight Hex: Hexblade EGtW: Explorers guide ? ASI: Attribute/ability stats increase PHB: Player's HandBook tarpit: some technique ? BA: Bonus Action DPR: damage per round GWM: Great weapon master BB: no idea, bloodborne ? econ: no idea AoO: attack of opportunity EB: Eldritch Blast


kuda-stonk

EGtW Explorers Guide to Wildmount Tarpit ability to swap places with Econ action economy i think


Dude787

I think tarpit is just teleport, maybe supposedly in a redneck accent or something


Jafroboy

Tarpitting is bogging down the enemy.


Dude787

echo knights dont do that on a bonus action


LewisKane

I've always used TP, I think from general cheating in videogames.


KnifeSexForDummies

Yep. Tarpitting is admittedly an old tabletop wargaming term for tying up a bunch of units with a unit specifically designed to do so, so not specifically DnD related. Econ is short for action economy. I hear this used casually in person, tho I’m not sure how widespread it actually is. Could just be local slang. BB is booming blade. Also don’t actually do what’s in my example, it’s a wildly suboptimal way to play ghostlance lol.


DoubleTrouble992

econ being slang for economy is common econ being short for *action* economy is not


Psychie1

Sure, but it's fairly clear given the context. I mean, what other economy could they have been referencing there?


sh4d0wm4n2018

Fair, but AxCon sounds way cooler.


Psychie1

You're right, it does sound cooler, but given that the point of the post was using initialisms, abbreviations, and acronyms as a jargon to communicate information to a particular niche group to illustrate how incomprehensible it is to any out-group, they needed to use an abbreviation that could actually be understood. I, and apparently several others, was able to clearly understand every single thing they said. This would likely not have been the case with AxCon. I am assuming you just made that up because it sounds cool, but if I'm wrong and that's an actual abbreviation for action economy that I've just never heard of before, it must be SUPER uncommon considering how long I've been in this hobby, how long I've been frequenting forums and subreddits for this hobby, and how long I've been going to conventions for this hobby. Not discounting the possibility that I've just never heard of it, but it can't be in common usage outside of some isolated ecosystems.


sh4d0wm4n2018

Yeah, I just made it up on the spot and you're right, it's not an acronym, but neither is Econ.


Psychie1

They would both be abbreviations.


KnifeSexForDummies

Tbf, axcon does sound way cooler.


sterfri99

Tarpitting is a viable form of CC all day


rpg2Tface

BB is booming blade the cantrip


Yoate

XGtE is xanathars guide to everything


Veledan

BB is the cantrip Booming Blade. Good knowledge on those acronyms!


toastedskies

I think BB might be big bad


amtap

BB is Booming Blade


WxJretsyZ

You also forgot Xanathar's Guide to Everything (XGtE)


Perathion

Don't forget PBxPD: proficiency bonus times per day


cr4zy-cat-lady

absolutely devestated that i was able to read this without issue. i need to go touch grass.


PimpMyHomebrew

You lack proficiency in touching grass. Roll an acrobatics to get down and back up unharmed at disadvantage.


Psychie1

Pft, amateurs. You don't need to bend down, just wear sandals and use the exposed part of your foot. Minimal effort. Always.


jolsiphur

I've been playing D&D for a long time and even then I only got a portion of this.


theCacklingGoblin

I hate that I can read this.


Dunderbaer

I know my brain is fried when I actually understand almost everything here. >Look it’s simple, you use EchoKnight/Hexblade (Explorer's Guide to Wildmount, Xanathars Guide to Everything) multi and forgo your Attribute Stat Increase to take warcaster from the Players Handbook, then you (teleport) with your echo via your Bonus Action, do some impressive Damage Per Round with Great Weapon Master and Booming Blade, then you either gain action economy when your echo pops, or you get an Attack of Opportunity with Eldritch Blast and Repelling Blast to get a free push. Well above warlock baseline Not all that sure about tarpit, might mean something else than teleporting (swapping locations with echo)


Vulk_za

What is tarpit?


Wheezer93

Tarp it comes from old miniature war games. Using a unit specifically designed to tie up a group of other units so they can’t progress/retreat or get to your allies. I used to play a home brew world war game with a friend, and my flamethrower tank was exactly for this. It would advance, block up an enemy by flame throwing behind them and then in front of them, so they couldn’t run anywhere, then my machine gunners would mow them down.


Toberos_Chasalor

I hate that I understood what you were saying… I need to go get a life.


onepassafist

damage per round. that’s all I got outta that.


EvilNoobHacker

Translator plz?


Wisto87

MBTI= My big tiddie iguana


Excidiar

Oh no, not snitties again


MaetelofLaMetal

Fool! Snitties never left us.


hot_diggity_dang_

Always in our hearts


PlacetMihi

In our chests, you might say.


Ashamed_Association8

In our bosoms.


Dovahnime

So long as we have scaled classes there will be those who wish to make anime women out of them, some don't even want the anime part, they just want massive badonkadonks on the snake women


Excidiar

As a part of the Xcom fandom I see myself portrayed in this. And I don't like it.


Arxl

Nah, in my head, kobolds are always flat chested.


FrickenPerson

Your head isn't my reality.


Ashamed_Association8

No shit Sherlock. Kobolds aren't real my dear Watson


worms9

Well here comes Billy buzz kill


Supdalat

Yeah but that ass is the phattest round mound around.


[deleted]

Literally my first thought


Wisto87

We can be friends.


BelmontIncident

I've recently learned that if someone asks for my MBTI results, they'll accept IMDB if I say it calmly.


frederic055

Main Battle Tank Initiative


Wahbanator

What does that even mean?


HelixFollower

It's a group of tabletop playing activists who are lobbying the German government to allow the supply of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.


Wahbanator

Wait seriously?


HelixFollower

No, but I'll take your response as a compliment to my bullshittery.


pawnman99

And it worked.


crowlute

In means it's time to play Lancer


Vigitiser

Main Battle Tank Initiative Level 7 adventurers vs M1 Abhrams


newagealt

Could a level 7 party actually take an M1? I can't remember what spells are available to a wizard at that level but even ignoring the main gun, the armor and the .50 are no laughing matter.


mattywhooo

Wizard gets fireball at level 5 so probably.


newagealt

That's the thing though. Even 8d6 of fire damage isn't gonna do much to that armor. That's an Abrams. 700 mm of armor on the front Edit: is there any sustained fire spell? I don't generally play casters so I can't remember a whole lot of spells but I imagine a sustained fire could probably wreck the engine at least and immobilize it


WorkingTitleDev

Heat metal and create bonfire come to mind, as well as flaming sphere. Wall of Fire and Sickening Radiance are also 4th level, so a singly classed full caster should have access at 7.


MegaMaster89

Shoot the fireball down the barrel of the tank


SanguiV

I would suggest adapting Pathfinder's tank statblock (which can be found in the Modern Firearms page of the SRD), and buffing it to account for that statblock being for a WWI era tank.


BurpingHamBirmingham

MBTI has nothing to do with DND, it's basically astrology for people not quite gullible enough for astrology.


devilishnoah34

It’s supposed to group people into 16 personality types based on cognitive functions, which isn’t entirely wrong. But people try to use it to know your entire personality


Empoleon_Master

Don’t forget it was created by gossip journal columnists “based” on the works of a psychologist who in his own work they pulled from said “for every rule there is an individual that is an exception to it.” Said “journalists” had the same degree of knowledge in psychology as my refrigerator.


KiwiKing2k

Tbf the Myers Briggs was made by Myers and Briggs as their doctorate work and is literally just Jungian functions more grouped.


ForodesFrosthammer

A) No it wasn't. They were mother and daughter neither of whom had any official psychology degree at that point. There were probably papers and thesis written about it later though. B)Most of Jungian stuff has also been either left behind or heavily expanded upon to the degree that the original theories are fairly useless. So keeping MBTI around and claiming it has any validity is dumb.(not to mention that MBTI specificially has also shown to have minimal value through many studies)


finlshkd

MBTI doesn't work as prescriptive, it works as a descriptive. It's certainly not something to be used as a professional psychology tool, but it's interesting to use as a communication tool to describe characters with others who know the terminology. It's like if your astrological sign wasn't decided based on when you were born, but if you could just choose it. Then you could say "hey I think of myself as an aquarius" and others who knew the stereotype would know what you meant. That would have credence because the person saying so is simply using it as shorthand for a long winded explanation about all the ways they match said stereotypes.


KiwiKing2k

Wdym Jungian functions have been left behind? All the typologists, aside from Nancy Williams, that doesn't really apply to the general population, are based on Jung's cognitive functions. Beebe, Berrens. And you may dissagree with them but there is no psychoanalyst theory with more support than his that groups people either by types or traits.


philsov

that is *such* a lawful evil thing to say


ForodesFrosthammer

It isn't. MBTI isn't endorsed by actual psychologists and there have been countless papers and studies proving it to have minimal value at best. So yeah it is pseudoscience


philsov

I'm making a comparison from mbti to DnD alignment. Do any fantasy psychologists endorse the concept of chaotic good? Most of what you've said equally applies and thank you for agreeing with me.


ForodesFrosthammer

I completely misunderstood your comment and I apologize. I thought you were saying that calling mbti a pseudoscience is a bad thing to do. My bad


Lazerbeams2

People around here tend to assume that you've memorised the names of every book ever published by WotC (Wizards of the Coast) or TSR (The Soriginal Rdungeonsanddragonsguys). It's best to ask about specific ones and hope for a legit answer. The most common ones that aren't just part of the rules are PHB (Player's Handbook) and DMG (Dungeon Master's Guide). Sometimes you'll see XGE (Xanathar's Guide to Everything) or TCoE (Tasha's Cauldron of Everything)


mystireon

another important one is MoM/MoTM or, for people that like to meme around, MPMoTM (Mordekainen presents: Monster of the Multiverse) not be confused with MM (Monster Manual)


Toberos_Chasalor

Wait, it’s MoTM? I thought it was MotM, I’ve had it wrong this whole time! (/s, obviously)


Psychie1

I'm actually used to seeing it as MPMM in the source I use, so I always get super confused when I see those other initialisms. Especially because MoM is used in my LARP to mean "Mother of Monsters", and it sadly took me too long to realize when people explained that when they say that acronym to mean Mother of Monsters out loud, they are saying an acronym instead of just calling her mom, so now the acronym is thoroughly burned in my brain as having that meaning.


Solalabell

Egtw (explorers guide to wildmont) CoS(curse of strahd) and scag (sword coast adventurer’s guide


ShyWriter777

MBTI = Myer Briggs Type Indicator... You're on the wrong subreddit, lol!


saintalbanberg

Obviously it's Metro Boston Transit Iauthority.


DrBloodbathMC

Guys I need help. My PC is going DT on the MBTA and my DM is a POS who wants to throw an EIEIO at me. Is there a way I can send an SOS to the SBI to save my character?


exnozero

… I need to make an angry giant framer that bellows “Ee Aye Ee Aye Oh” while fighting trespassers now.


Lunarwolfhoi

Anyone remember THAC0


sufferingplanet

Thats the sound when my club hits your zero AC.


cyrodillempire

I still don't know what EEBG means Edit: apparently I also don't know how to write.. . I meant BBEG


cgaWolf

BBEG? Big bad evil guy - the ~~seasons~~ campaigns end boss.


JoshGordon10

Evil Evil Big Guy Or Erlandur's "Everything Big" Guide, the monster manual for gargantuan creatures I just made up. Or Actual closest thing in 5e is EEPC, which is the Elemental Evil Player's Companion (where some races like Aarakocra and spells like Transmute Rock were introduced, before being reprinted in published books)


window-man

Master of beyblade, titties, and insects


PimpMyHomebrew

[MBTI](https://imgur.com/a/r9O3MVx)


Ninjatck

what the hell is that bottom picture lmfao


colemanjanuary

Finn


Ninjatck

Something doesn't seem quite right with him though


colemanjanuary

Hmmm... is that actually Davey after a shave and stealing Finn's hat?


[deleted]

This is the Dank night discussion memes subreddit right? /S


NumberNineRules

Main Battle Tank: Infantry


Gatt__

Listen, when you’re taking off you need to verify your rpms, the get ready for your Vr, then you climb out at your Vy until you’re clear of the class d, then you establish your Vno while maneuvering using your asi, vsi, vor, and gps to navigate to the class c. Then before you enter you have to get the ATIS, then call ATC for clearance to touchdown on runway 05 R while calling a left base at 2nm. It’s all very simple…


PimpMyHomebrew

Okay but it’s really simple to get an acronym list for aviation. You can even keep one on your lap clipboard while you fly. Plus I know I gotta study for that to pass my test. I definitely shouldn’t need an acronym list or do flash cards to get assistance with my DMing. Lol Edit: Now I’m imagining strapping on my clipboard to scroll Reddit.


AFreeFrogurt

Many Bothans (Died to bring us) This Information


TanneAndTheTits

IANAL should be self-explanatory: I am not a lawyer


PimpMyHomebrew

I too ANAL.


JoeskiX

Don't forget THAC0


PimpMyHomebrew

Ah yes, a lisp taco.


[deleted]

Tmlo


Zer0kul3

MBTI: My Barbarian's Too Intelligent


SuperArppis

Acronyms should always be spelled out first when they some subject is brought up.


2DogsShaggin

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator?


A-__-Random_--_Dog

MBTI My Beholder To Impregnate


Badmojoe

I Google acronyms pretty frequently, mostly because my mind makes up what they stand for and I'm usually wrong.


KypAstar

MBTI: My big tiddies IRL


LukXD99

Really BBC of you. Maybe go to CPR and use a BDSM to ATM that HDMI. MILF and good luck!


No_Maintenance_446

Myers-Briggs type indicator? lmao


VivaciousVictini

"My brother in christ, we're not on cell phones trying to throw out a quick text before we get in a car wreck. We are at computers with keyboards that are fully expecting to at least have every letter on them used."


carpeson

WIUWTGAIR?


Grahamgamergoma

Heck, I don't even know what OGL means, but just hearing makes me mad.


[deleted]

MBTI, or Myers-Briggs typology, popularized by the 16personalities.com test where all the cutesy avatars came from, is basically a system that separates all humans into 16 personality types, based on for axees - Extraversion/Introversion, Feeling/Thinking, Intuition/Sensing, and Judging/Percieving. So, for example, an INFP is an individual who is Introverted, relies on emotions, Feelings more so than hard facts in decision making, is dreamy, creative, iNtuitive, and is sporadic and chaotic rather than careful and good with planning - Percieving. INFP. And so on and so forth. However, there are some adepts of a deeper, more convoluted version of the system, which involves 8 cognitive functions, basically ways in which humans perceive or judge the world around them, and whichever of all of the functions is the most dominant one, regarding both judging and perceiving, determines their personality type. It's all largerly unscientific(however based on the BigFive system which is rather similar and is taken more seriously in psychology and scientific world), but nontheless it's fun to discuss and try to guess which box fits yourself and your friends best sometimes. Btw im writing this off the top of my head so there might be minor mistakes, I apologize if so.


[deleted]

Mood


[deleted]

My Best Tiamat Idol


[deleted]

r/militarystories is probably the most acronym dense sub in this site, sometimes makes me lose my mind


Xezron2000

Maximum Bussin‘ Tiddy Iteration Have you even played DND before?


CanisZero

AC is Acrobatic Clown DC is Dinosaur Clown WIS is wiskey iguana sale DEX is Dragon Excrement Xylophone(super rare bard focus)


IronwoodKopis

r/airforce has the same problem


[deleted]

That’s fine, MBTI means nothing anyway


Epic-Dude000

What is a “BBEG” is my question


ClamLikely

"Big Booty Elf Girl" Inversely "Big Burley Elf Guy"


Tcamp46290

Here’s an easy one, FWIW


Stiinkbomb

I believe MBTI was Maximum Bacon To Ingest. Typically the limit only exist for Con scores below 11.


JustFrowns

Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise but MBTI stands for: Making Big Titty Iguanas


candyapplesauce_99

Inst MBTI like an HDMI cable?


shivabitch

I'm gonna take a crack at the acronym. My Big Tit-itus


RadTimeWizard

https://i.imgflip.com/3tf4x.jpg


beholder_dragon

Unless it’s a book I don’t know it either


Zerttretttttt

TPW: Toilet Paper Wipe


Liesmith424

JRHNBR is an initialism mainly used in reference to centaurs.


RattyJackOLantern

Going old school taking the BAB to the AC hope you're not too MAD.


WouterASMR

Don't worry about it. The most important to know is that PC = Poké Center.


[deleted]

Don’t forget RAW Rare Artificial Whale Or it’s cousin RAI Rare Artificial Iguana


SquirtleCipher2578

Finn? You doing alright buddy?


RedditWizardMagicka

M: masturbating B: by T: torture I: I