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Dark Lambo wrote:

This whole topic has me snickering and laughing. Hilarious. *wipes away tear*

I love how 20th century the character is and how he appears to be 'keeping it real' with his 20 century slang. As opposed to, you know, the rap of the 15th century and earlier which would be more thematically appropriate.

...of course, the whole setting is very much low budget Hollywood fantasy where the medieval period is basically now but with fancy dress and swords, so eh.

In that context, I agree. Clearly he's adventuring for street cred. :D

Well, you have to keep in mind that he's creating a D&D character, and so it's not likely that the other 21st-century players at the table would understand 15th-century slang.

It's not uncommon to update slang in translation. For example, read any modern translation of a play by Aristophanes. In fact, you could almost call "The Birds" an ancient rap battle itself. All the slang from that era in the novel you're reading will be updated to modern slang, just so it makes sense. Here's a good example of such translation from "Clouds." It's a translation of "The Clouds" that's true, but uses words that hadn't been invented yet as of Aristophanes's time. (The four-letter s-word comes to mind, and that word is used in pretty much every translation of Aristophanes's plays I read in college.)