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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5245457" data-attributes="member: 58197">Your concept of "modern-sounding" stretches pretty far. "Paralysis" and "phantasm" go back to the Middle Ages. "Hypnotism" is new but "hypnotic" is attested from 1620. Or do you think every Latinate word has sci-fi associations?Infravision, duo-dimension, ventriloquism, and ESP all got axed or renamed in 3E, and good riddance. "Polymorph" is just a Latin donkeyhorse (asinequus?). As Umbran has pointed out, there aren't really good alternatives to "teleport" and "telekinesis," and I would add "disintegrate" to that list.Now, does that leave some stuff that could stand a rename? Of course. But if we're going to drag up and debate every thematically dubious name in D&D, we'll still be arguing here when 5E is released.</blockquote>