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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormtalon" data-source="post: 4833018" data-attributes="member: 5541">Oftentimes, it seems that when discussing rules, actions, powers and suchlike one finds they need to have some sort of generic -- shall we say -- target upon which to demonstrate.  Usually, it's done in a very general fashion and names and the such don't get used.  This can, however, become mired in a confusion of him/her/it and other indefinite articles of indeterminate use.  On another board I had occasion to describe a bit of house-ruling I use, and rather than go with some nameless "it," I decided to give my hapless rules-victims names.  To wit, I present unto you all:The crash-test-orcs, Reg (a normal member of his species) and his boss Nigel the Ferocious-yet-Well-Coiffed, an Elite orc.  You may imagine them as your typical orc with one particular exception -- they are dressed in the garb and wigs of pre-revolution French Nobility.Do unto them as you wish, as it is their lot in life.  By way of example I will present a slightly edited version of their introduction to the bounteous tortures which I am sure await them here.</blockquote>