Wilden Name Poll! -- Forked Thread: PH3 Playtest Race: Wilden

[Klaus]

I voted for Wilden because it is the current name and I haven't seen anything that sounds any better. I can say that I definitely don't like Killoren, since it is hard to mentally work around the fact that it includes "kill".

However, where does the name Woodwose come from? It isn't something I have ever ran into before.

Woodwose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[doctorhook]

I don't mind Wilden, but I don't think it's great. I have no attachment to the other suggestions here, and while Wose is kinda cool, it's still a "dubbleyu" so I'm not sure it's much better. We've already got so many W's!

Mostly joking: Oakfolk? Or some play on the word, "Yggdrasil"?

 

[Nai_Calus]

Arborean
Klyltarn
Verdal
Lermat
Pfluzyx
Zqrxplt (zi-KIR-ix-plt)

Yes, yes I am just randomly throwing sounds together.

 

[rounser]

Perhaps WotC will listen and amend the draft versions of the PHB3?

Not as easy to trademark as a made up word, maybe?

 

[Elphilm]

Not as easy to trademark as a made up word, maybe?

Yes; I don't think it's unfair to say that brandification plays an important part in the naming conventions of 4E.

 

[arscott]

I'm definitely a Killoren fan.

Wilden just isn't unique enough. I'd be as though we were calling Goliaths "Stonelings", Orcs "Monstroids", and Dragonborn "Dragonborn"

Wood Wose, while it draws upon folkloric roots (pun intended), just sounds too "monster manual" for a player race. Besides, I connect the term specifically with elderly male tree-people (indeed, wose means "wise man"). Having young female wood woses is as wierd as having old male nymphs.

Killoren, is to the best of my knowledge a made-up name, but to me it sounds like something lifted from a book of Irish fey. Name seems right for a PC race, and no gender or age connotations.

 

[Henrix]

I'm not fond of either killoren or wilden - both sounds like just weird made-up names to me. Wildren or wildling sounds marginally better to me.

Wose is pretty good, although it seems to me to have been applied to a rather larger wild man than the race previewed.

I could do with a purely descriptive name in clear english. (But, please, not another badwrong doublename.)

Or perhaps something connected to shee, as they are evidently fairies of some ilk. (Please don't use the irish spelling sidhe, people can't pronounce it.)
Sheevra, perhaps?

 

[Hawke]

This is for classes and races combined including Eberron & Forgotten Realms

A 2 **
B 2 **
D 5 *****
E 2 **
F 1 *
G 3 ***
H 4 ****
I 1 *
P 1 *
R 2 **
S 4 ****
T 1 *
W 5 *****

Hmmmm... do we need another W?

 

[Dausuul]

One here for "woodwose" or "wose."

Hmmmm... do we need another W?

In Wizards-land, "war" is its own letter:

 A  2 **
 B  2 **
 D  5 *****
 E  2 **
 F  1 *
 G  3 ***
 H  4 ****
 I  1 *
 P  1 *
 R  2 **
 S  4 ****
 T  1 *
 W  1 *
WAR 4 ****

So a regular "W" race would actually be just fine.

 

[Atlatl Jones]

I don't like Wilden at all, or killoren. Wildren is better than Wilden.

Woodwose is good for its folkloric roots, but may sound a little silly.