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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Undrave" data-source="post: 8111807" data-attributes="member: 7015698">Well, when it comes to the Knacks, I think they should be treated like Fighting style. It makes way more sense if there's a short list to simply put it with the Class, but that if two Knacks do the same thing, they should be named the same thing. "Don't make two identical option when you could make one generic option' is actually a gamist concern. I think your Meta-aesthetic just include all three aesthetics: gamist, simulationist, narrativist. Those are meta aesthetic and have different goals and different individuals value them differently. Keywords can be pretty important if something happens all the time. I think Yu-gi-oh! might actually be a good exemple because it's 'keywords' system was developed over multiple sets as rule concepts became more and more prevalent. For exemple, early cards would say something like "target 1 card in your opponent's graveyard and remove it from play". These cards were very rare in the early days but became more and more common (and more and more important as the graveyard became like a second hand) until eventually "remove from play" was shortened to "banish". Another one is the concept of piercing damage where older cards would say "During battle between (???) and a Defense Position monster whose DEF is lower than the ATK of this card, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent." which was eventually shortened to "If (???) attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing battle damage to your opponent.". Piercing or 'trample' had been a fairly common jargon amongst fans to begin with. They also developed problem solving text which made this much more uniformed. For exemple, the cost to activate a card is ALWAYS placed before a colon, and effect of the card afterward. Costs and effect have different timing and interaction with rules so that these are always worded and presented the same way avoids complication. D&D already has keywords, such as 'saving throw' and 'ability check' and 'melee attack' or 'grapple' or 'fire damage'.</blockquote>

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