Aasimar are now . . . Devas.

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I'm pronouncing it "hoh-ling". But anyway, it's now a moo point.

Engel I don't mind, but in Portuguese it sounds like "enguia", which is the word for "eel".

I'm still partial to dioskouri (sons of Zeus).

Interestingly, there is a bizarre connection between your misspelling and the later parts of your post. Greetings from Europa...

 

[The Little Raven]

WotC re-invents the modrons as transforming robots led by Optimus, the One and the Prime.

Where can I pre-order this?

 

[Vael]

WotC re-invents the modrons as transforming robots led by Optimus, the One and the Prime.

Oooh, want!

 

[Toras]

Yes, and there shall be much transforming and rolling out until someone realizes how much they'd have to pay for the license or heave to and prepared to be sued.

As for the Aasimar -> Deva change irritates me if only because it does the same thing Eladrin did. I don't mind if they change the name, but I hate when they take something elses name and use it too mean something else. I don't care if strong celestial bloods turn into what we understand as Deva after being on the Circle of Reincarnation long enough to turn into Buddhisavas for the like.

Would coming up with a new name really that hard?

 

[Set]

I'm indifferent. Both names are problematic ... I can just see someone asking to play a Diva, which I know is the wrong way to say it, but it amuses me.

Tell them, 'Sure, you can play a Bard following the Pop-Star epic path. Were you thinking Hannah Montana teen idol, or J.Lo booty-queen?'

 

[Set]

WotC re-invents the modrons as transforming robots led by Optimus, the One and the Prime.

See, you could do something cool with that.

Imagine a clicking shifting mechanical creature that, when damaged, flies apart into a swarm of smaller machines that attempt to 'disassemble' their attacker?

And then my Swordmage can get a Modriform set of Fullplate that can either follow alongside him as a small mechanical person, or fly apart and reassemble onto him and serve as armor. If he falls in combat, it flies up off of him and defends it's fallen wearer as a Small Golem!

 

[Green Knight]

Yes, and there shall be much transforming and rolling out until someone realizes how much they'd have to pay for the license or heave to and prepared to be sued.

Hate to be serious, but would WotC have to license Transformers to use them? Seeing as how both are owned by Hasbro. I've long wanted a Transformers RPG, so I always thought it was pretty strange that WotC, being owned by Hasbro, which also owns Transformers, never put 2 and 2 together and put out such a game.

 

[Estlor]

wotc re-invents the modrons as transforming robots led by optimus, the one and the prime.

do want

 

[Spatula]

Hm, how about using Latin (the language of the christian church in medieval Europe, fitting in with the race's divine nature) instead of German when looking for a word root:

caelestis? sublimis? diu? subnubilus? (may be too close to Snuffaluffagus)

Diuling. Diumen. Caelesten. Sublimen.

 

[The Little Raven]

Hm, how about using Latin (the language of the christian church in medieval Europe, fitting in with the race's divine nature) instead of German when looking for a word root:

Deva is not from a German root, and the root it does come from predates Christianity (as does the religion that it is used in).