Pathfinder 2E Paizo drops use of the word phylactery

[Morrus]

Next thought: um, Paizo? You'd better drop the use of "god," "cleric," and "miracle" too. Those words are pretty popular in real-world religions.

But they're not from one particular religion, and then co-opted to mean something else. Antisemitism is a big problem in the world which hurts real people. People misusing the word 'miracle' is not. Context matters. These things are about real people, not about semantic logical point-scoring.

Also: slippery slope fallacy.

 

[darjr]

Soul canister? Soul bucket? Can?

Ghost Trap

 

[Zaukrie]

Interesting. How do we feel about Altar? Or Relic? Or Shrine? Like, I have a product "closeish" about those things, but I've really struggled with shrine and altar and how they are tied to real religion (which may be why there aren't rules for these in DnD.....).

edit: I think I'm ok with these words......

 

[Retreater]

Just being honest here, but I never remember how to spell the original term and not sure if I ever pronounce it correctly. So it's no real love lost for me, even if I don't find the new term particularly inspired.
But regardless of that, they made a decision and debating it now makes no difference.

 

[BookTenTiger]

I think they're just trying to score points on something fairly inconsequential to their game system, so that they have cover to not change anything anyone is actually invested in.

Whoa, people are giving out points now??? Who's giving out these points? How can I find my score? What are the prizes???

 

[Zaukrie]

Just being honest here, but I never remember how to spell the original term and not sure if I ever pronounce it correctly. So it's no real love lost for me, even if I don't find the new term particularly inspired.
But regardless of that, they made a decision and debating it now makes no difference.

Ya, I don't see how this hurts the game in any way. But it might make it more inclusive. I don't see how that could possibly be a bad thing.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Whoa, people are giving out points now??? Who's giving out these points? How can I find my score? What are the prizes???

Sadly points are worthless, but we live in a society obsessed with keeping score.

 

[Jack Daniel]

I wish there was a better name than “soul cage”

Pathfinder Drops Phylactery From In-Game Terminology

Paizo has discontinued the use of the word “phylactery” in its Pathfinder publications due to the word’s origins as an item used in real-world religious customs. In the most recent chapter of Strength of Thousands, Pathfinder 2E’s current Adventure Path, Paizo noted that it would use the phrase...

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"Soul cage" sounds pretty awesome to me. It's probably a reference to the 19th century Irish fairy tale, The Merrow and the Soul Cages.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Next thought: um, Paizo? You'd better drop the use of "god," "cleric," and "miracle" too. Those words are pretty popular in real-world religions.

Or perhaps "soul"?

 

[BookTenTiger]

Or perhaps "soul"?

The letter E is used a lot in religious texts, but I don't think Paizo will be dropping it from their games.

Although I do note the name Paizo doesn't have the letter E in it...