Libramarian
Adventurer
e.g. shadowfell, feywild, macetails, bloodspikes, etc.
James Wyatt believes fantasy should be written in "Anglish"*, which is English that only uses Anglo-Saxon (i.e. Old English) words.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglish
I like some Anglish words: birdlore instead of ornithology, worldken instead of physics.
But some are pretty disgusting: wordstock instead of vocabulary.
This is in stark opposition to 1-3e-style fantasy diction, which taking after Jack Vance is generally MORE Latinized than regular English rather than less. e.g. "Alacritous Cogitation".
This is an important battleground for the future of D&D. You must take a side.
Should D&D fantasy stuff be written in classic fantasy Olde English, or science-fantasy hyperlatinized English?
*I don't think he actually believes this, but the correspondence is interesting.
James Wyatt believes fantasy should be written in "Anglish"*, which is English that only uses Anglo-Saxon (i.e. Old English) words.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglish
I like some Anglish words: birdlore instead of ornithology, worldken instead of physics.
But some are pretty disgusting: wordstock instead of vocabulary.
This is in stark opposition to 1-3e-style fantasy diction, which taking after Jack Vance is generally MORE Latinized than regular English rather than less. e.g. "Alacritous Cogitation".
This is an important battleground for the future of D&D. You must take a side.
Should D&D fantasy stuff be written in classic fantasy Olde English, or science-fantasy hyperlatinized English?
*I don't think he actually believes this, but the correspondence is interesting.