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<blockquote data-quote="Turtlejay" data-source="post: 5101258" data-attributes="member: 70267"><p>I've no problem with a mix, but I think in general we are kind of awash in less creative names anyhow.</p><p> </p><p>Sitting in my local Cold Stone the other night and looking at the names of ice cream, I was kind of wondering what it took to 'normalize' a name. Vanilla ice cream is named vanilla, and we know what that is and what it is referring to. If I were to create a new flavor of ice cream that kind of tasted like flowers and cinnamon, I could either name it Hargrabl ice cream, or more likely, name it something descriptive like Cinnamon Bloom or something.</p><p> </p><p>Go to a restaurant and look at your options. They are discriptive, and even if the word used is nominally new, it is most likely indicative of the dish being referenced. New names in 4e seem to be similarly constructed (see Penny Arcade's cartoon about the Shadowfell for illustration). I'd like to see some new classics. Things like Dragons, Illithids, and Drow all hold meaning to the average D&D player, and it would be cool to have more of those types of things, where the word was not at all indicative of what it refers to.</p><p> </p><p>That being said, I'm not sure I think the battlemind, shardmind, etc stuff isn't as horrible as it is being painted. Better than the ardent, certainly. . .</p><p> </p><p>Jay</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Turtlejay, post: 5101258, member: 70267"] I've no problem with a mix, but I think in general we are kind of awash in less creative names anyhow. Sitting in my local Cold Stone the other night and looking at the names of ice cream, I was kind of wondering what it took to 'normalize' a name. Vanilla ice cream is named vanilla, and we know what that is and what it is referring to. If I were to create a new flavor of ice cream that kind of tasted like flowers and cinnamon, I could either name it Hargrabl ice cream, or more likely, name it something descriptive like Cinnamon Bloom or something. Go to a restaurant and look at your options. They are discriptive, and even if the word used is nominally new, it is most likely indicative of the dish being referenced. New names in 4e seem to be similarly constructed (see Penny Arcade's cartoon about the Shadowfell for illustration). I'd like to see some new classics. Things like Dragons, Illithids, and Drow all hold meaning to the average D&D player, and it would be cool to have more of those types of things, where the word was not at all indicative of what it refers to. That being said, I'm not sure I think the battlemind, shardmind, etc stuff isn't as horrible as it is being painted. Better than the ardent, certainly. . . Jay [/QUOTE]
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