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[Vermillion]

I saw someone made a post with all of the 'official' terminology (so like programming) and it made me think.

There are certain terms I've found myself using/thinking while playing. I think that's common to any endeavor where people are trying to learn something in solitude without a lot of guidance.

What are some of the terms you've developed?

Here are a few of mine:

"Taking a breather." Whenever it's greening time and we're acquiring provinces/colonies, if the other player skips a turn without gaining a province, I think of him as 'taking a breather.' This is often a chance to either catch up or get ahead.

"Chocking" When a deck loses its purchasing power because of too much green or too many terminal cards.

A "flat" kingdom. No extra actions.

"Lost in the shuffle." When a player loses not because of bad choices but because of how his hands were drawn.

[RD]

"Chocking" When a deck loses its purchasing power because of too much green or too many terminal cards.

Is that supposed to be "choking"? If so, it should probably be standard terminology (and on the official list) if it isn't already.

[markusin]

Around my circle of IRL players, we'd always refer to our coin resource as "buying power", as in "With a buying power of 5, I get a laboratory".

[Eran of Arcadia]

Well, we have a tendency to refer to Ironmonger as "whoremonger", does that count?

[SirPeebles]

Well, we have a tendency to refer to Ironmonger as "whoremonger", does that count?

It is pretty awesome when it finds a Harem.

[() | (_) ^/]

Around my circle of IRL players, we'd always refer to our coin resource as "buying power", as in "With a buying power of 5, I get a laboratory".

My family does the exact same thing. 

[StrongRhino]

A lot of times my family will say gold instead of coins, and that just gets confusing. I just say "I have 17 and 2 buys to spend, I'll get 2 scouts"

Also my little brother calls gokoins "owls"

[() | (_) ^/]

A lot of times my family will say gold instead of coins, and that just gets confusing. I just say "I have 17 and 2 buys to spend, I'll get 2 scouts"
...

Same for me, at least at first.  I purposely work hard against people's tendency to do this when I teach Dominion now... people think I'm being a little anal, but I tell them it really helps sort things out.  Coin vs. Treasure vs. Gold -- all terms that people want to use interchangeably, but have very distinct meanings in this game. =)

[Titandrake]

When saying how much I have to spend, I only say the number. If I have to refer to it in some way (i.e. choice for Minion or Pawn) then I use money and coins interchangeably.

Piledrive = to buy many cards from a pile quickly.

Sneak ending = to end the game in a 3-pile when the opponent didn't seem to see it coming.

(Small off-topic point: It is just, so incredibly important to watch for 3 piles. The ability to manipulate when the game is going to end is so useful, that I think it's the most important thing you can learn to get better at Dominion. If you know how to end or prolong a game, you know how to end with an advantage or prolong a game for a comeback.)

Steal the win = to end the game quickly in a win, where if the game had gone on for more turns I would have almost certainly lost. Usually happens from 3-piles.

[Julle]

My friends know the Base and Intrigue pretty well, but don't always remember all the newest cards. So if I play Goons, Followers etc. I just tell them to commit Militia. Urchin is "half-militia"  . Scrying Pool is spy and if I play Noble Brigand I tell them to reveal cards just like against Thief. Of course effect is not same.

[elahrairah13]

the +coins on actions are "monies" (both singular and plural)

"Festival gives me two monies"
"I'm going to play this pawn and choose one card and one monies"

[PitzerMike]

I say "Silberling" instead of Silber all the time.
Sometimes even "Kupferling" although that's not really a thing.

[Stealth Tomato]

Around my circle of IRL players, we'd always refer to our coin resource as "buying power", as in "With a buying power of 5, I get a laboratory".

I typically use it to refer to the available money in a player's full deck, assuming everything provides its max money, e.g. Pawn is worth $1, Steward $2, and Throne Room the highest cash output of any of the opponent's Action cards.

e.g. "I didn't expect you to get 2 Provinces this turn with $17 total buying power in 23 cards"

[Drab Emordnilap]

Coins are "bucks". "I play a torturer" is "TORTURE TORTURE TORTURE".

[Awaclus]

If I ever get the basic cards with the illustrations, I'm going to start quoting a certain poem by Edgar Allan Poe every time a cursing attack is played.

[Vermillion]

the +coins on actions are "monies" (both singular and plural)

"Festival gives me two monies"
"I'm going to play this pawn and choose one card and one monies"

Ah.

I call the coin you accumulate from non-treasure cards in a term 'paper money.'

[NoMoreFun]

Back on isotropic, whenever I played with my friend, and an attack was played, some sort of comment had to be made.

Often it was just as simple as "MARRRRRRRGRAAAAAAAVE!". My favourite was for Ambassador "Hey, have you heard of "Estate"?  Have a free sample".

[Eggplantation]

This one was coined in a game at our house today:
The Bank-Spank: When a player plays a bank effectively, playing it after many treasures, or playing many copies one after the other, gaining immense amounts of coin.

[Kuildeous]

This one was coined in a game at our house today:
The Bank-Spank: When a player plays a bank effectively, playing it after many treasures, or playing many copies one after the other, gaining immense amounts of coin.

What do you call it if the person then only has one Buy to spend 40+ coins on?

Bank-Spank-Tank?
Bank-Spank-Prank?
Bank-Spank-Wank?

Please let it be the third one.

[Asper]

We sometimes make fun of the cards names.
These only work in german, but i'll translate them nonetheless.

"Eisenhütte" (Ironworks) is "Eisenhüte" (Iron Hats).
"Komplott" (Scheme) is "Kompott" (Compote) or "Kompost" (Compost)
"Bauerndorf" (Farming Village) is "Bauerndoof" (Farming Stupid)

I recognize we are very childish...

[Robz888]

When you play Masquerade you have to exclaim: "Masquerade! Painted faces on parade. Masquerade!"

[Watno]

We sometimes make fun of the cards names.
These only work in german, but i'll translate them nonetheless.

"Eisenhütte" (Ironworks) is "Eisenhüte" (Iron Hats).
"Komplott" (Scheme) is "Kompott" (Compote) or "Kompost" (Compost)
"Bauerndorf" (Farming Village) is "Bauerndoof" (Farming Stupid)

I recognize we are very childish...

When playing with my father, we always call "Gewölbe" (Vault) "Gewölle" (hairball)

[Asper]

When you play Masquerade you have to exclaim: "Masquerade! Painted faces on parade. Masquerade!"

Its not strictly a term, but when we play Masquerade we usually sing a short part of this.
Similar, you can guess the sound of Sea Hag, can you?

Edit: We really are childish beyond help.

[mail-mi]

Whenever you play/buy a Ghost ship, you must say "Oooh it's the ghooooooost ship ooooooooooh!" in a creepy voice.

[Vermillion]

Whenever you play/buy a Ghost ship, you must say "Oooh it's the ghooooooost ship ooooooooooh!" in a creepy voice.

Back in Iso days, when I played a torturer and it said 'waiting while X is tortured,' I always did a 'YeEEEEEAARRRGGGGGHHHH'

[AdamH]

When you play Masquerade you have to exclaim: "Masquerade! Painted faces on parade. Masquerade!"

I so this, but with my nose plugged. It's gained a reputation as one of the more annoying things I've ever done. 

[GeoLib]

Every time I play festival. I start singing that part of "I wish..." from into the woods.

[Sidsel]

the +coins on actions are "monies" (both singular and plural)

"Festival gives me two monies"
"I'm going to play this pawn and choose one card and one monies"

Ah.

I call the coin you accumulate from non-treasure cards in a term 'paper money.'

We say "I have 3 'on the table' " about the money derived from actions.

[Warfreak2]

That suggests you might not be playing your Treasure cards onto the table, which is something a lot of new players seem to do; some don't bother to show their hand, and just say how much $ they have.

[microman]

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Whenever I play to with my brother he refers to chancellor as "ballsack chin".  Now I know that sounds crude, but look at chancellor's chin closely, then you decide.  He also refers to harem as "whores".

[flies]

Where does this "buying power" thing come from?  The phrase was used in my first game of dominion, and I use it all the time. 

The only other non-standard phrase that I and my friends commonly use is that when playing Goons, it's pretty common to elongate the oo with a bit of the e sound.  "Gooooons!"

[ConMan]

Where does this "buying power" thing come from?  The phrase was used in my first game of dominion, and I use it all the time.

I think it comes from trying to explain what "coins" actually are, especially when people make the assumption that the +$1 on, for example, a Market, means actually taking a Copper from the supply to play. Although we tend to use "Moneys", as in "I have 5 Moneys, I will buy a Duchy" (sometimes pronounced "dooky", sometimes "dutchy", sometimes "ducky").

Also, I always refer to the Steward by his given name, Stuart.

[Jacob marley]

When we cannot top deck our Alchemists, we call it "putting them to bed."

[Ace539]

We refer to junk dealer as drug dealer.  When we play pirate ship we say "argh! Matey ! Attack!" or "monies", the term village idiot is also used a lot  I like to dance around when playing wandering minstrel, and the best is when you get an effective poor house engine running I dance around shouting "rocking the poor house!"  We are very passionate and immature when we play..

[terminalCopper]

We say that we "push-start" a drawing card if we play a village before, e.g. "I push-start my Smithy with a Working Village"
(original german version: "die Schmiede mit dem Arbeiterdorf anschieben").

[Qvist]

We sometimes make fun of the cards names.
These only work in german, but i'll translate them nonetheless.

"Eisenhütte" (Ironworks) is "Eisenhüte" (Iron Hats).
"Komplott" (Scheme) is "Kompott" (Compote) or "Kompost" (Compost)
"Bauerndorf" (Farming Village) is "Bauerndoof" (Farming Stupid)

I recognize we are very childish...

When playing with my father, we always call "Gewölbe" (Vault) "Gewölle" (hairball)

A friend of mine misread the german card Bureaucrat (Bürokrat) as "Office worker" (Bürokraft). Since then I call this card like that.
Similar story goes for someone misreading Militia (Miliz) as "Melt/Spleen" (Milz). This ruined another card.
Also I like to call Farmland (Fruchtbares Land) as "Awful Land" (Furchtbares Land).
And when I play with younger people I call Altar (Altar) as "Dude" (Alter). ... Ok I admit, I like to call it that way whenever I play.

[jamespotter]

I have taken to calling coins gained from action cards "invisible money" to avoid confusion with new players. I find they find the fact that +$2 is not "take two copper or a silver" much easier to understand that way.

[Asper]

We sometimes make fun of the cards names.
These only work in german, but i'll translate them nonetheless.

"Eisenhütte" (Ironworks) is "Eisenhüte" (Iron Hats).
"Komplott" (Scheme) is "Kompott" (Compote) or "Kompost" (Compost)
"Bauerndorf" (Farming Village) is "Bauerndoof" (Farming Stupid)

I recognize we are very childish...

When playing with my father, we always call "Gewölbe" (Vault) "Gewölle" (hairball)

A friend of mine misread the german card Bureaucrat (Bürokrat) as "Office worker" (Bürokraft). Since then I call this card like that.
Similar story goes for someone misreading Militia (Miliz) as "Melt/Spleen" (Milz). This ruined another card.
Also I like to call Farmland (Fruchtbares Land) as "Awful Land" (Furchtbares Land).
And when I play with younger people I call Altar (Altar) as "Dude" (Alter). ... Ok I admit, I like to call it that way whenever I play.

To continue this, we recently acquired Guilds. "Berater" (Advisor) is now "Brater" (a person frying something).
My friend also thinks that Baker resembles Candace from the show Phineas & Ferb and always calls her that...

[Teproc]

For money, we usually just say "I have X", but if we do refer to it we say "boursouf" which is an obscure slang term for money in French, so obscure that I have never heard it used outside of a Dominion context actually. Sometimes we also use "fric", another slang term, but a very common one (kind of an equivalent to "bucks" in English).

If you play Rats (which is already source for hilarity/awesomeness), you say "C'est les rats !" (It's the rats!) which is a verse from an old traditional French song, and also sounds like "scélérat" (rascal).
If you play Pirate Ship you're also supposed to say "Pirates !" which is a reference to a commercial for tabbouleh, of all things.

I won't delve into them but there also a few sex jokes to be had with Bandit Camp (Camp de Bandits in French) and taking Gold (works well if you know a girl named Laure).

Also I like to call Farmland (Fruchtbares Land) as "Awful Land" (Furchtbares Land).

Gah, furchtbar and fruchtbar, how I hate these words. They sound way too much alike for antonyms.

[Asper]

Gah, furchtbar and fruchtbar, how I hate these words. They sound way too much alike for antonyms.

Yeah, they are arfwool.

[Asper]

Whenever somebody takes a coin token, we say "Ka-Ching!". We even started calling the tokens themselves ka-chings (though "I get two ka-chings" probably sounds pretty stupid in english)...

[mail-mi]

In my gaming group at lunch, we're usually very vocal about waht's in our hands, and when one of us complains of terminal collision, we usually say "Can we have a terminal collision, folks?"

[AdamH]

I usually say something like "My Mountebanks are BFFs" when this kind of thing happens. Apparently people find this amusing.