Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
Who in hells great idea was it to call universal general form of character abilities and tricks, "powers"
D&D 5E Avoidance to replace HP?
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FrogReaver
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Well when virtually every other term was already taken then they had to go with something not yet codified.
Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
I think that is the time to repurpose a term and go the opposite direction. My thought was to perhaps divide Feats into Active Feats and the more passive form Features. Then the cleave written up the same is again a feat. You then have casting any spell as something other than a ritual called a Feat of Magic.
Heck I might have gone with calling encounter ones ... Tricks.
FrogReaver
The most respectful and polite poster ever
Personally I think calling the caster's "powers" spells and the fighters "powers" maneuvers would have went a long way.
Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
The called them exploits and spells ... doesn't help if you want an overarching term.
DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
Wow...
I guess since people are on this tangent., just look at the different uses for the term "level" in D&D since the beginning...
I guess since people are on this tangent., just look at the different uses for the term "level" in D&D since the beginning...
Tony Vargas
Legend
"Exploits" instead of "manuevers," but yes, that's exactly what 4e did. Divine powers were "prayers," Primal, "invocations," and Psionic, IIRC (or I could be channeling 1e), "disciplines."
Only arcane classes cast spells.
Ironically, that is in stark contrast with 5e, in which every class uses actual, explicitly-magical spells in at least one sub-class. The Totem Barbarian, only as rituals, the Monk fueled by also-explicitly-magical Ki, but spells in both cases, shared with other spell-casting classes, or, I should simply say, classes.
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Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
You are right D&D is often not shy at all about doubling up on its uses though usually isn't level something you can context in? Or we can because of tribal knowledge
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