RPG Scramble

"The corrupted hellion shook his crown and stepped away from the soon to be arriving crime scene before he continued on. As he ignited through the landscape, an unwelcome essence wafted into his paper thins."
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Above is a segment of a post from the RPG game I've been messing with. You'll notice the writer obfuscated their text, making it almost impossible to understand. Using "audits" and "projectiles" in place of "ears", using "oculars", "orbs", "lookers" and more in place of "eyes", using "columns" instead of "legs" and "ignited" instead of "ran". Apparently it's a common practice in a role-playing game to do things like that. Why? Everybody else is doing it.

It makes no sense to me. Why disguise what you're saying with a word that means something different, or with a word that has become obsolete in the english language? It doesn't show you're smart, it doesn't show you're cultured or elegant; it simply puts stress on the reader and decreases the quality of the person's work. People don't read to translate, they read to read. They don't want to have to stop and try to figure out what half the words in a paragraph are supposed to mean because the author used obsolete, obscure, or unrelated words. It's comparable to doing this to this paragraph:

It generates no perception to me. Why envelop what you're speaking with an affirmation that balances something discrepant, or with a pledge that has become antediluvian in the English phraseology? It doesn't manifest that you're impertinent, it doesn't display you're chivalrous or opulent; it unpretentiously puts accentuation on the bibliomaniac and condenses the endowment of the individuality's work.

It means absolute gibberish to anyone with a proper education and understanding of the greater portion of the English language. And I'm actually incapable of reading it without translating it first.

Strangely enough, it would appear I'm the only one who has trouble reading it.