Dragon's Tail Cut?

[Klaus]

I think the strike described could easily be called Dragon Tail with no additional qualifier. These maneuvers tend to be created by professional warriors, who dedicate their lives to combat, and tend to be less poetic and more to the point.

Some options:
- Dragon Tail
- Tail Sweep
- Crescent Blow
- Low Circle
- Leg Strike
- Prayer Maker (because you make your opponents kneel down)

 

[WhatGravitas]

I beg to differ:
Any colorful name translated to your native language sounds stupid. (Because the German names for the ability I suggested sounded pretty stupid to me! But German is my native language...)

Maybe it's a general thing. Your own language can never be as cool as a foreign one.
Another example: Accents and Regional Dialects - In English, they sound interesting, cool, unique, flavourful. In German, it just hurts hearing a Bavarian or someone from Dresden speak his dialect. (I can live with Plattdeutsch, but I grew up with that, and I take pride in knowing that it's not a dialect, but its own language )

However, I think the English language has a somewhat higher tolerance to colourful sounding names. In German, pretty much everything sounds pretentious, if it even tries to be 'evocative'. But then, my experience is, that English is a much more onomatopoeic language... and a melange of dozens of borrowed phrases.

Still, Dragon's Tail Cut even sounded for me, a non-native speaker, pretty.. errrrr!

Cheers, LT.

 

[Gwathlas]

Agreed.

I also think it gets uncomfortably close into the realm of wuxia, which is definitely not what I think of when I'm playing D&D, especially at 1st level.

Edit: I guess it could be a good name for a monk power.

This is the primary reason I won't spend a penny on 4e. IT"S NOT D&D! IT's wuxi-starwars!

 

[heirodule]

I forgot about that! Possibly the best name for a "fumble" I've ever heard. Of course, it works well in the genre of Tim Powers + Quentin Tarantino Modern Day Occult RPG's. Probably not so well with a fantasy RPG.

I still think there should be a power called "Give 'em the Business". I think it was Conan of Cimmeria who once said, "I'm in the business of givin' people the business and business is good."

and "I'm all out of gum"

 

[hazel monday]

There should totally be a manuever called "Givin' em the Business" in 4.0.

 

[olshanski]

We are talking about hairstyles, right?

The dragon's tail cut is sort of like a combination of a mohawk and a mullet?

 

[Plane Sailing]

This is the primary reason I won't spend a penny on 4e. IT"S NOT D&D! IT's wuxi-starwars!

Moderator/

Gwathlas, I've checked out your last dozen or so posts, and they are all anti-4e threadcrapping.

We get it. You don't like it.

Don't post in this 4e forum again; restrict yourself to the various 3e and earlier forums we have in abundance.

Do email me if you want to discuss this, my email address is found in the meta forum

 

[Nebulous]

Alright, that would be awesome. As long as they include the cards with the core books, and don't sell them in randomized booster packs.

Nah, you can just buy the commons for cheap on Ebay. It's all good.

 

[Merlin the Tuna]

I know Dragon's Tail Cut got the boot, but we never got word of its replacement, did we? In honor of Noonan's latest blog, I submit Chinese Take-Out In The Dark as the new name.

 

[Fifth Element]

Nah, you can just buy the commons for cheap on Ebay. It's all good.

Yeah, but they'd make all the really cool ones Rare. You know they would.