Pathfinder 2E Paizo drops use of the word phylactery

[darjr]

Cage?
Google give me phulake
Pneuma phulake

pneumlake?
pneulak?

just spitballing

 

[Morrus]

Cage?
Google give me phulake
Pneuma phulake

pneumlake?
pneulak?

just spitballing

I guess just spitballing words is how Gygax etc, came up with 'phylactery' in the first place. When I Google 'phulake' I get "guard, watch" from the NAS New Testament Greek Lexicon.

I feel like 'soul cage' and 'soul vessel' are appropriately safe terms. We'll get used to them, and in a few years if somebody tries to change it from them, we'll be so used to them that that will bother us. The funny thing about language is what your're used to sounds right, and what you're not used to doesn't. Also see: dialects, accents, regionalisms.

We'll get used to it and it will sound right to us.

 

[darjr]

I guess just spitballing words is how Gygax etc, came up with 'phylactery' in the first place. When I Google 'phulake' I get "guard, watch" from the NAS New Testament Greek Lexicon.

I feel like 'soul cage' and 'soul vessel' are appropriately safe terms. We'll get used to them, and in a few years if somebody tries to change it from them, we'll be so used to them that that will bother us. The funny thing about language is what your're used to sounds right, and what you're not used to doesn't. Also see: dialects, accents, regionalisms.

We'll get used to it and it will sound right to us.

I reject your sensible commentary for my own silly nonsense.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Good luck having any words left for your fantasy anything if you follow this course to its logical conclusion.

 

[GMMichael]

First thought reading the headline: Paizo has a cool, new use of the word "phylactery," and they're sharing it with the public. Since that's apparently what "drops" means now.

I was wrong.

Next thought: um, Paizo? You'd better drop the use of "god," "cleric," and "miracle" too. Those words are pretty popular in real-world religions.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Good luck having any words left for your fantasy anything if you follow this course to its logical conclusion.

Isn't the logical conclusion actually exactly what folks are doing: reflection and revision? It'd not like there will ever be a point where folks say "Now everything is perfect!" Language, and the use of language, changed over time.

As Maya Angelou puts it:

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

 

[darjr]

First thought reading the headline: Paizo has a cool, new use of the word "phylactery," and they're sharing it with the public. Since that's apparently what "drops" means now.

I was wrong.

Next thought: um, Paizo? You'd better drop the use of "god," "cleric," and "miracle" too. Those words are pretty popular in real-world religions.

Except this word was used for an evil thing exclusively. When the religious term is anything but.

 

[Teemu]

Soul canister? Soul bucket? Can?

 

[Morrus]

Soul bucket?

I mean. I know I shouldn't like but. But I like that.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Isn't the logical conclusion actually exactly what folks are doing: reflection and revision? It'd not like there will ever be a point where folks say "Now everything is perfect!" Language, and the use of language, changed over time.

I think they're just trying to score points on something fairly inconsequential to their game system, so that they have cover to not change anything anyone is actually invested in.