Do you like the name "Golden Wyvern Adept"?

[Rechan]

I'm betting the name is a red herring. They saw the reaction to "Dragon's Tail Cut" and decided to have a little fun with the Internets by floating a goofy, completely non-descriptive name for a feat.

Go back to the second Design and Developments article: The Wizard. Golden Wyvern along with other names like Iron Sigil and Serpent Eye was mentioned.

 

[withak]

Go back to the second Design and Developments article: The Wizard. Golden Wyvern along with other names like Iron Sigil and Serpent Eye was mentioned.

Crap. There goes that theory.

 

[TroyXavier]

I'm still not getting why they want to give all these feats and abilities such exotic names. Try and explain that to newcomers to the game. It was hard enough trying to explain things like Mobility which gave you an idea what it did, much less something like Golden Wyvern Adept which sounds more like a religion.

 

[Cadfan]

I'm fine with it.

Its the sort of addition/change to the game that affects me in exactly zero ways.

 

[Mad Mac]

I'm still not getting why they want to give all these feats and abilities such exotic names. Try and explain that to newcomers to the game. It was hard enough trying to explain things like Mobility which gave you an idea what it did, much less something like Golden Wyvern Adept which sounds more like a religion.

It's not that hard. Reminds me of the Druid orders in the Eberron campaign setting. eg,
take the "Child of Winter" feat to represent you are a member of that paticular order and get a benefit that matches the fluff of that organization. Once you've taken the "gateway" feat, you get access to other order feats like "Vermin Companion" and "Vermin Shape".

If you know that the Golden Wyvern organization is all about advanced metamagic and spell-sculpting, then it's not difficult to remember what the feat does. And as they are using an organizational system, what else can they call it really? The "Spell-sculpting and by the way congrats on joining the hallowed ranks of the sacred order of the Golden Wyvern" feat?

The feat describes what it is. If you don't want to use the Golden Wyvern organization as is, then you'll have to rename the whole feat tree regardless. In which case it really doesn't matter what it was named to begin with. But the feat name accomplishes it's purpose.

 

[WayneLigon]

I don't mind such names for schools of magic and the like but I'd greatly prefer a feat that told me what it did. Such names in Bo9S were OK since that was part of the flavor.

 

[Kintara]

I wonder if this is part of a Paragon "path"? Sort of a prestige feat tree?

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

I did not vote because the options available don't really encompass my feelings towards the name, which are pretty neutral. It's not a name I would've created, but that doesn't make it bad.

 

[DreamChaser]

I'm fine with it.

Its the sort of addition/change to the game that affects me in exactly zero ways.

Thank you! QFT

Honestly, the complaints about the fluff seem....reactionary and premature.

3e used functional names far more often than not and still ended up with feats that were confusing and left questions as to what they do (my players have never gotten their heads around Extend Spell (duration), Enlarge Spell (range), and Widen Spell (AoE, which affects range for cones)).

DC

 

[Rechan]

Honestly, the complaints about the fluff seem....reactionary and premature.

You want to see premature reactions, check out the response to Quest cards.