L4W Discussion Thread III

[Lord Sessadore]

I suppose you could always do something like this:

|Hit=blah blah blah<br>
<b>Aftereffect:</b> blah blah blah

That should look the same on the resulting sheet, I think. As far as I know, all the template does is take whatever text is after the "|Field=" text and put it in the 'right' spot on the resulting wiki page.

 

[Oni]

That is basically what I ended up doing. Which really isn't any big deal, I just figured if there's a template it ought to cover all the bases.

 

[ryryguy]

On another subject...

How does one refer to a person or thing hailing from the Valley of Bone?

"Boner" is the obvious choice, but suffers from an obvious drawback.

For that matter, is someone from Daunton a Dauntonian, or what?

 

[renau1g]

I've always assumed Dauntonian. Not sure, maybe Bonite? (like Banite from FR)

 

[Lord Sessadore]

What would the Aztec for "Valley of Bone" be? That would make for a colorful derivative, though "Bonite" could work.

 

[Oni]

On another subject...

How does one refer to a person or thing hailing from the Valley of Bone?

"Boner" is the obvious choice, but suffers from an obvious drawback.

How about Magar, or Magari. Given that's their language it makes a certain amount of sense.

 

[Mal Malenkirk]

Well, apparently, the language of the direct descendants of the Aztec is called Nahuatl, spoken by about 1,5 million people.

I found an online dictionary of Nahuatl to French

tepēihtic (Valley)
Omitl (Bone)

I also found :

mācēhualli (the People)

I think calling themselve 'The People' is fairly typical. Many cultures have done it.

 

[Stringbean2142]

Why not a combination of those suggestions? Link what name is used to who is using it, and under what circumstances. So, when they're talking about themselves or an outsider is being nice, they use either Magari if they're talking about current residents or Mācēhualli if they're talking about people of a more tribal descent. Sort of a distinction between the dwarven kingdoms and the aboriginals that you know are running around in there. IN addition, those attached to a particular kingdom will probably use that kingdom's name as well.

Outsiders can call them Bonites if they're being more vulgar in speech, and either Boneheads or even Boners if they're being derogatory. Heck, let boner mean the same think in L4W it does on Earth, and you've just invented a new way to call someone a wanker and tied it into the setting proper!

 

[garyh]

On a different note, EN World wished the L4W Facilitator account a happy birthday today. So, happy birthday to this community! We've come a long way in the past year.

 

[stonegod]

On a different note, EN World wished the L4W Facilitator account a happy birthday today. So, happy birthday to this community! We've come a long way in the past year.

Go me!

Err... go, L4W Facilitator!

I created the account, heehee