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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flynn" data-source="post: 3961890" data-attributes="member: 1836">Personally, I dislike the term "gish" and I tend to use words like "warmage", "spellsword", "blademage", and the elven "bladesinger" to describe that kind of concept. These make more sense to me, they are evocative and flavorful, they conjure specific images that I can utilize to aid players in getting into the game more, and the words don't sound like a child's sour candy advertisement.But then again, I realize that it's only my opinion, and as far as such things go, my opinion doesn't matter much to anyone else but me. (And I'm okay with that.)What I dislike more than the use of a term I feel sounds stupid is watching people verbally attack one another for using/not using it. I mean, of all the things we have to argue about, the use of the word "gish" is perhaps the silliest of them all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Let's face it, when you lie down next to your loved one at night after a frustrating day on the boards, it has to sound pretty darn silly to her (or him, as the case may be) when you start explaining why you're so pi$$y after being online. Of course, if you don't have anyone to lie down next to, you may have to substitute your own example here. (I imagine it would sound pretty strange to the lady on the other end of that webcam/chat room thing, too, if that's your cup of tea.)Just putting it all into perspective,Flynn</blockquote>

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