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<blockquote data-quote="Zaruthustran" data-source="post: 4030623" data-attributes="member: 1457"><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>I'll repeat what I said before, which is that King is a title. King Midas. King Arthur. King Henry. Warlord is a descriptive term. It's improper to say "Warlord Bob". It is proper to say "Bob, who is a warlord." </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Also, King comes with necessary baggage (like a kingdom). If someone says "I'm a king" you can rightly ask "of what kingdom?"The dictionary definition mentions civil power, sure, but the word Warlord is not a title. If someone says "I'm a warlord" I suppose you could ask "and what region do you exercise civil power over?", but really it's not at all the same thing. And anyway, the warlord could rightly answer "this party/this battlefield". </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>I could bring up the dictionary definition of all the other classes, but honestly they're equally useless at describing the function of D&D classes. I mean, Cleric is "member of a the clergy". Great, real helpful there. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The important thing is not the definition in Webster's, but the definition in the PHB. I guess one can dislike the choice of name, but it doesn't make sense to claim that choice is <em>wrong</em>. The PHB authors could name the class "Zasdafd" if they wanted to.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Me, I would have preferred Captain. But it's Warlord. Oh well; no big deal.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Shouldn't be? It's all opinion; there is no objective right or wrong here. At the end of the day the designers had to come up with a name for a class that fit the archetype of combat leader. They could have called it captain, or sergeant... and people would complain those words are too strongly associated with a formal military. They could have called it knight... and people would complain that's too similar to paladin, or carry an implied code of honor and fealty. They could have called it marshal and even that would be decried as awful (I have no idea why; but judging by the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=4873" target="_blank">poll</a> most people don't like it). </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Anyway: they called the class "Warlord." It's not right. It's not wrong. It's just a name.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zaruthustran, post: 4030623, member: 1457"] [i] I'll repeat what I said before, which is that King is a title. King Midas. King Arthur. King Henry. Warlord is a descriptive term. It's improper to say "Warlord Bob". It is proper to say "Bob, who is a warlord." Also, King comes with necessary baggage (like a kingdom). If someone says "I'm a king" you can rightly ask "of what kingdom?"The dictionary definition mentions civil power, sure, but the word Warlord is not a title. If someone says "I'm a warlord" I suppose you could ask "and what region do you exercise civil power over?", but really it's not at all the same thing. And anyway, the warlord could rightly answer "this party/this battlefield". I could bring up the dictionary definition of all the other classes, but honestly they're equally useless at describing the function of D&D classes. I mean, Cleric is "member of a the clergy". Great, real helpful there. The important thing is not the definition in Webster's, but the definition in the PHB. I guess one can dislike the choice of name, but it doesn't make sense to claim that choice is [i]wrong[/i]. The PHB authors could name the class "Zasdafd" if they wanted to. Me, I would have preferred Captain. But it's Warlord. Oh well; no big deal. Shouldn't be? It's all opinion; there is no objective right or wrong here. At the end of the day the designers had to come up with a name for a class that fit the archetype of combat leader. They could have called it captain, or sergeant... and people would complain those words are too strongly associated with a formal military. They could have called it knight... and people would complain that's too similar to paladin, or carry an implied code of honor and fealty. They could have called it marshal and even that would be decried as awful (I have no idea why; but judging by the [URL=http://www.enworld.org/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=4873]poll[/URL] most people don't like it). Anyway: they called the class "Warlord." It's not right. It's not wrong. It's just a name.[/i] [/QUOTE]
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