Anyone who has ever played D&D will tell you it is NOT a board game. There is no standard “board” for D&D as there is for, say, Monopoly or Scrabble. DMs or Dungeon Masters create a “world” that the players inhabit. Sometimes it exists on mere graph paper and sometimes it exists in premade “modules” that the less creative can buy off the shelf, but mostly it exists in the players imaginations.
Ladygwyneth:
May 6th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
How egregious of me to have left the apostrophe out of “players'”. I need to proofread more carefully!
aspkicker:
April 14th, 2013 at 4:24 am
is there any link to the term ‘codswallop’
Kristin:
April 1st, 2017 at 3:29 pm
I’m not sure that there is any hope of being answered here, but I do see that someone else waited five years between comments, so I’ll try.
Is cod as a fish used to represent other fish, ever? Like the white fish used in imitation crab?
‘Cod’ is more interesting than you imply. It has an invariant plural and can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or even an adverb. It can therefore be used to construct sentences of any length all composed of the same word ‘cod’. See https://bevrowe.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/assertress-2/ for details.
Leave a comment
Search us!
Search The Word Detective and our family of websites:
This is the easiest way to find a column on a particular word or phrase.
To search for a specific phrase, put it between quotation marks. (note: JavaScript must be turned on in your browser to view results.)
Ask a Question!
Puzzled by Posh?
Confounded by Cattycorner?
Baffled by Balderdash?
Flummoxed by Flabbergast?
Perplexed by Pandemonium?
Nonplussed by... Nonplussed?
Annoyed by Alliteration?
Ladygwyneth:
May 6th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Anyone who has ever played D&D will tell you it is NOT a board game. There is no standard “board” for D&D as there is for, say, Monopoly or Scrabble. DMs or Dungeon Masters create a “world” that the players inhabit. Sometimes it exists on mere graph paper and sometimes it exists in premade “modules” that the less creative can buy off the shelf, but mostly it exists in the players imaginations.
Ladygwyneth:
May 6th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
How egregious of me to have left the apostrophe out of “players'”. I need to proofread more carefully!
aspkicker:
April 14th, 2013 at 4:24 am
is there any link to the term ‘codswallop’
Kristin:
April 1st, 2017 at 3:29 pm
I’m not sure that there is any hope of being answered here, but I do see that someone else waited five years between comments, so I’ll try.
Is cod as a fish used to represent other fish, ever? Like the white fish used in imitation crab?
Anonymous:
August 20th, 2019 at 4:30 pm
Peter Pan called hook an old codfish
Beverley Charles Rowe:
June 9th, 2020 at 10:14 am
‘Cod’ is more interesting than you imply. It has an invariant plural and can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or even an adverb. It can therefore be used to construct sentences of any length all composed of the same word ‘cod’. See https://bevrowe.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/assertress-2/ for details.