Dragon's Tail Cut?

[Doug McCrae]

guard of Wrath
Iron Gate

Those actually sound a bit anime.

 

[wayne62682]

I like it. But I also like anime and videogames.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Seriously. There is no need to get all poetic here; the attack knocks you down...so call it "Knockdown."

We've been calling it Trip Attack since 3.0 anyway.

 

[Piratecat]

No thanks. I prefer more descriptive (and simpler) names, please.

 

[Irda Ranger]

No thanks. I prefer more descriptive (and simpler) names, please.

Ditto. In the 7 years of 3.x I've NEVER heard anyone say "You know, 'Power Attack' and 'Trip' just aren't evocative enough."

This, for the first time, is "Change for change's sake."

And a bad one.

Time to resurrect the "Wotc, you suck at names" thread.

 

[Mouseferatu]

As I said elsewhere...

Don't we already know that dragons can knock people down/back with their tails? If that's indeed the case, Dragon's Tail Cut makes perfect sense--in character, without the need for anime or wuxia influences on the culture or setting--for an attack that knocks people down.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I'm waiting for powers like "Curb Stomp" and "Circle Boot" (or is that a teamwork benefit?).

 

[mhacdebhandia]

It would be better as "Dragon's Tail", perhaps, rather than "Dragon's Tail Cut", but I like the more evocative name. It ain't "anime" until the rules force you to yell out the name of the maneuver as you perform it.

"Wallop" is just tragic - as I said in another thread, it's what the Three Stooges do to each other, not what a D&D fighter does to her foe - and "Knockdown" is bland.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

After the talk from WoTC about "Attacks of Opportunity" being too many syllables, they take something that could be well-described as "Wallop" or "Leg Sweep" and name it something like Dragons Tail Cut?

Go ask a player in your group who hasn't read about this what they think "Dragons Tail Cut" means in game terms. I bet no one gets two answers the same.

 

[Droogie]

Italian terms:

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~hudson/saviolo/glossary.html

imbroccata: a thrust with the hand pronated (knuckles forward, palm outward) passing over the opponent's hand and downward; also foin

inquartata: a sideways or backwards step with the rear foot together with a lowering of the body underneath the incoming blade, dropping the left hand to the ground for support, followed by a counterattack with line; also passata sotto.

mandritta: a horizontal cut delivered with the palm upward and the knuckles leading, from right to left.....

Neat.

Naming conventions aside, I was still iffy about the prospect of fighter "powers". Thanks to Baduin's post, I am now sold.