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<blockquote data-quote="Epic Meepo" data-source="post: 9475593" data-attributes="member: 57073">That's helpful for people who are reading the rules or who are playing by post (assuming anyone who's visually impaired has a screen reader which somehow calls out capitalized words; I don't use screen readers, so I don't actually know if that's a thing or not).But when I'm communicating to my players in person, I can't audibly capitalize the words I'm speaking. The words &quot;pub&quot; and &quot;Pub&quot; are pronounced identically. On those odd occasions where I have to distinguish between the two, I have to awkwardly indicated that I mean &quot;Pub with a capital P&quot; or &quot;pub with a lower-case p.&quot;I think Bastions would have benefited from the 4e monster naming convention, wherein individual monster stat blocks were rarely called by a single name. Many stat blocks were identified with a pair of compound words that would probably never come up in any in-character conversation except when talking specifically about that one monster with that one stat block. Whenever someone started speaking in clunky compound words when referring to a monster, that was a verbal cue that they were referencing something that lined up with a specific rules element of the same name.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Epic Meepo, post: 9475593, member: 57073"] That's helpful for people who are reading the rules or who are playing by post (assuming anyone who's visually impaired has a screen reader which somehow calls out capitalized words; I don't use screen readers, so I don't actually know if that's a thing or not). But when I'm communicating to my players in person, I can't audibly capitalize the words I'm speaking. The words "pub" and "Pub" are pronounced identically. On those odd occasions where I have to distinguish between the two, I have to awkwardly indicated that I mean "Pub with a capital P" or "pub with a lower-case p." I think Bastions would have benefited from the 4e monster naming convention, wherein individual monster stat blocks were rarely called by a single name. Many stat blocks were identified with a pair of compound words that would probably never come up in any in-character conversation except when talking specifically about that one monster with that one stat block. Whenever someone started speaking in clunky compound words when referring to a monster, that was a verbal cue that they were referencing something that lined up with a specific rules element of the same name. [/QUOTE]

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