Do you like the title 'Paragon'?

[Najo]

I feel paragon doesn't roll off the tongue. It lacks a certain elegance and feel of D&D's heroes.

It goes: Heroic > Paragon > Epic

Paragon means in perfect form or exemplary state. Paragon sounds more of a higher being state than Epic, but Epic is already the highest levels of the game. Why not replace Paragon with something that flows better and feels like a word tied to heroic tales of sword and sorcery?

What can you suggest? I personally like Mythic and then Legendary over Paragon.

Heroic > Mythic > Epic , that progression makes the most sense to me.

What do you think?

 

[WhatGravitas]

I voted for the second option (mythic sounds better, and keeps in line with hero-ic, myth-ic, ep-ic)... but I don't really mind.

If I'd be name-honcho at WotC, I'd take mythic. But paragon doesn't bother me at all.

Cheers, LT.

 

[RandomCitizenX]

I am noting a trend of not including some sort of apathetic choice in polls like this. I didn't pick one because I would need something along the lines of "Paragon is fine, but I wouldn't mind another name like Mythic". It seems like a good chunk of the poll makers are only taking into account the more extreme views and not accomedating the moderates.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

There should be an option for I don't give a flying fiddler's curse what it is called.

Really it is a term of art for designers and marketing people so that the punter knows that the module or whatever is aimed a characters of a certain level. No-one is going to use the term in character, my grief about warlord if that i have always felt that class names would be used in character as terms among the adventuring community. Much as wheelman, hitman and so forth are used in the criminal community.

With regard to heroic, paragon etc. I really do not care, sa long as the term are used consistently.

 

[Rechan]

There should be an option for I don't give a flying fiddler's curse what it is called.

This.

 

[Fifth Element]

There should be an option for I don't give a flying fiddler's curse what it is called.

Precisely. Do we really need a poll about every new term that WotC comes up with?

Of course, this isn't a new term, since it was used in BECMI as one path to immortality. One of the others was Epic Hero, so I guess all three tiers can be derived from there, and their ordering is therefore arbitrary and thus an assertion that Paragon should be higher than Epic is mere opinion, or disregards the history of D&D.

 

[Fifth Element]

And judging by the results thus far (80% for "leave it alone"), Paragon is fine the way it is.

 

[Stogoe]

I'd actually prefer if they renamed 'Epic' as Mythic. Paragon is fine for 11-20, and Mythic seems better for 21-30.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

I'd actually prefer if they renamed 'Epic' as Mythic. Paragon is fine for 11-20, and Mythic seems better for 21-30.

This.

 

[TwinBahamut]

If you ask me, Mythic and Epic are essentially the same thing. If you want a literary figure of Epic power, you look at old Epics, Myths, and Sagas. I wouldn't want Mythic to be a step below Epic.

Paragon works fine.