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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 9246564" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>You seem to be missing the point of my criticism in order to dismiss it rather than engage with it or just scroll past. </p><p></p><p>Cleric is a bad name, because most people don’t know before coming to D&D what It means and it doesn’t directly describe something. Priest would be a good name, because everyone knows that a priest is an ordained person who intercedes between the divine and the mortal, so it describes the class. </p><p></p><p>What the hells is a Stitch? Genuinely, without reading the playbook description I’d be completely at a loss. It doesn’t describe a kind of person <em>in any existing context.</em> </p><p></p><p>That isn’t inconsistent, you’re just focused on something that isn’t a concern of the naming convention. Basically as if there were an alchemist and assassin and so you criticize the fact that the guardian doesn’t start with an “a”. </p><p></p><p>As above, cleric sucks because most people don’t know what it is. If it was Priest, it would be exactly the same type of name as Figter and Wizard, each of which are essentially “job titles”. </p><p></p><p>Stitch, or stuff like some games have basically an emotion as a class name, just isn’t…the name of an archetype or type of character or person. </p><p></p><p>It’s like “Face”, without the benefit of broad familiarity. And Face would be a bad name too, just not quite as bad. Both sound like excessively genre-savvy try hard speak.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 9246564, member: 6704184"] You seem to be missing the point of my criticism in order to dismiss it rather than engage with it or just scroll past. Cleric is a bad name, because most people don’t know before coming to D&D what It means and it doesn’t directly describe something. Priest would be a good name, because everyone knows that a priest is an ordained person who intercedes between the divine and the mortal, so it describes the class. What the hells is a Stitch? Genuinely, without reading the playbook description I’d be completely at a loss. It doesn’t describe a kind of person [I]in any existing context.[/I] That isn’t inconsistent, you’re just focused on something that isn’t a concern of the naming convention. Basically as if there were an alchemist and assassin and so you criticize the fact that the guardian doesn’t start with an “a”. As above, cleric sucks because most people don’t know what it is. If it was Priest, it would be exactly the same type of name as Figter and Wizard, each of which are essentially “job titles”. Stitch, or stuff like some games have basically an emotion as a class name, just isn’t…the name of an archetype or type of character or person. It’s like “Face”, without the benefit of broad familiarity. And Face would be a bad name too, just not quite as bad. Both sound like excessively genre-savvy try hard speak. [/QUOTE]
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