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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4816433" data-attributes="member: 2067">Not really what I mean. More like this:&quot;An floating sac of unreality approaches your party flailing tentacles.&quot;&quot;Sweet! What is it?&quot; *roll monster lore*&quot;It's called a Fell Taint...&quot;From that point forward:&quot;The taint attacks you.&quot;&quot;You pierce the taint with your sword.&quot;&quot;The taint hovers tantalizingly just out of reach.&quot;&quot;Hey, we fought some taints in the dungeon.&quot;&quot;Sing the ballad of our glorious fight against the taints!&quot;&quot;Oh no! This was just the first wave of taints!&quot;&quot;The taint is killing me!&quot;&quot;What did you fight?&quot; &quot;We fought some taints!&quot;...you can perhaps see the problem when every instance of the word &quot;taint&quot; has an unfortunate double-meaning. That's what the creatures are called. That's ALSO what a part of your anatomy is called.Unless you're WotC and that's a job offer that pays better than my current job, I'm afraid I'll have to turn down that little game. It's not worth my time or effort, really, and it's not my job. It's theirs.If you don't agree and think &quot;Fell Taint&quot; is a fantastic name that couldn't possibly be better, that's fine. You're allowed to have a different opinion than me. I have no real interest in convincing you otherwise. I don't really care what you think. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I do have an interest in voicing my own reaction to the name, which is: &quot;I'm sure the world's best game designers can do better than this.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 4816433, member: 2067"] Not really what I mean. More like this: "An floating sac of unreality approaches your party flailing tentacles." "Sweet! What is it?" *roll monster lore* "It's called a Fell Taint..." From that point forward: "The taint attacks you." "You pierce the taint with your sword." "The taint hovers tantalizingly just out of reach." "Hey, we fought some taints in the dungeon." "Sing the ballad of our glorious fight against the taints!" "Oh no! This was just the first wave of taints!" "The taint is killing me!" "What did you fight?" "We fought some taints!" ...you can perhaps see the problem when every instance of the word "taint" has an unfortunate double-meaning. That's what the creatures are called. That's ALSO what a part of your anatomy is called. Unless you're WotC and that's a job offer that pays better than my current job, I'm afraid I'll have to turn down that little game. It's not worth my time or effort, really, and it's not my job. It's theirs. If you don't agree and think "Fell Taint" is a fantastic name that couldn't possibly be better, that's fine. You're allowed to have a different opinion than me. I have no real interest in convincing you otherwise. I don't really care what you think. ;) I do have an interest in voicing my own reaction to the name, which is: "I'm sure the world's best game designers can do better than this." [/QUOTE]

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