Adding another log. Lightning Panther Strike.

[Mathew_Freeman]

Brilliant! It's like Mad Libs.

Cool Adjective, Cool Animal Name, Cool Verb.

Awesome Donkey Bash!

Shimmering Werehog Slam!

Mystical Monkey Grapple!

Burning Sphinx Eyegouge!

Leaping Aardvark Kick!
Confused Kangaroo Strike!
Sideways Camel Uppercut!

I could do this game all day...

 

[Shortman McLeod]

Grog the barbarian like Lightning Panther Strike. He also like Dragon Tail Cut and Golden Wyvern Adept. Sometime Grog like Sunset Beach Walk and Candle Dinner Eat. Particularly with a nice Emerald Frost.

Goddamn it. Someone stop this madness. Sometimes a ham sandwich is a friggen ham sandwich. Not a Black Forest Ham On a Whole Wheat Roll. Time for an open letter.

Dear Wizards,

I hope those names are placeholders. Stop sucking.

Sincerely,
Concerned Golden Dragon Azure Power Super Puma Reader

Out of curiosity, is "goddamn it" acceptable language on Enworld, while " it" is not? Just curious. I thought profanity got a pretty heavy-handed response around here. I'm not offended or anything, just curious.

More to the point, I agree 100% with your post, Simplicity. Add my name to the list.

 

[Someone]

I wonder why the adjective of "lightning" is needed. You need "great" for "great cleave" after all - to distinguish it from the regular "cleave". Is it another easter egg? There may be several "panther strikes", divided into regular, lightning and yellow. Perhaps it's the same with the Emerald Frost, and there are several other frosts (or wyverns) of different colors.

 

[Simplicity]

Out of curiosity, is "goddamn it" acceptable language on Enworld, while " it" is not? Just curious. I thought profanity got a pretty heavy-handed response around here. I'm not offended or anything, just curious.

More to the point, I agree 100% with your post, Simplicity. Add my name to the list.

Hmmm... I'm not even sure I consider that word profanity. Other than in perhaps a more ancient meaning of the word "profanity". My bad, I guess. It wasn't my intention to escape any filters with my post though. Then again, "gosh darn it" sure is a pretty lame replacement.

I can edit the post, if you like. Though it's been quoted more than a few times.

Profanity filters are funny, funny things. When I started playing Lord of the Rings Online, you could spend all day running through Bree listening to people complaining about other people's sexual inclinations. Virtually nothing would get caught by the filter... But the funny part is what WOULD get could by the filter. Misogynist, for example. What kind of profanity filter blocks misogynist but not a certain f-word refering to a gay man?

 

[Shortman McLeod]

Hmmm... I'm not even sure I consider that word profanity. Other than in perhaps a more ancient meaning of the word "profanity". My bad, I guess. It wasn't my intention to escape any filters with my post though. Then again, "gosh darn it" sure is a pretty lame replacement.

I can edit the post, if you like. Though it's been quoted more than a few times.

Don't get me wrong; I wasn't offended or anything. I was just surprised to see the "goshdarnit" term unfiltered. I'm so used to the smiley faces that for a second I thought I was back on RPGnet (the "wild west" forum, as I think of it).

Hmmmm. I wonder what other "harsh" words are unblocked on enworld? Let's try one: bitch

EDIT: Yep, I guess "bitch" and "goddamnit" are okay. May have to make a list.

 

[Simia Saturnalia]

I'll take any one of those examples over the Golden Shower Adept or Greyhawk Steamer line of 4e naming. These 4e names reach new nerdly highs in lameness. The old names at least had the advantage of being somewhat descriptive of what something did while avoiding florid overreaching. The old names may not have been "cool" as you put it but they did not purposely wallow in silliness like these 4e purple prose adjective fests. These 4e names are redolent of mom's basement, lack of sunlight, and Cheeto stains.

Older editions saved wallowing in overreaching prose for the entirety of the rules. After the 3e phone books a little color is due, IMO.

And the dorkass names are half the fun.

 

[Shortman McLeod]

Older editions saved wallowing in overreaching prose for the entirety of the rules. After the 3e phone books a little color is due, IMO.

And the dorkass names are half the fun.

I'm torn. I agree with you about the 3e phone books, and when I read my AD&D 1e Dungeon Master's Guide (which was basically the *real* rulebook of 1e; the Player's Handbook was just classes and spells, pretty much) I delight in the Gygaxian prose.

OTOH, I dread the thought of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" style fluff in the core 4e books. I think the wuxia thing is more the fear (at least for me).

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

WRONG!

The book clearly states, and I quote, Conan THE Barbarian. He is the standard by which all barbarians are too be judged by.

Weapon Focus (definite article)

 

[Art]

Conan did attack by biting by the way:

"They had rolled beyond the circle of light, and it was in utter blackness that the Cimmerian battled. Once he sank his teeth, beast-like, into the flabby substance of his foe, revolting as the stuff writhed and squirmed like living rubber from between his iron jaws."
The Slithering Shadow, R E Howard

 

[BASHMAN]

Lightning panther strike blasts your enemy with lightning while making the sky rain panthers, who then devour his ashy corpse. And that is what the fast, furious, fierce rpg that is 4e is all about. Take THAT Exalted and WoW.