Rename Thievery to Roguery

[Fallen Seraph]

Just because some major skill is Thievery doesn't mean it should be called a Thief, hell if D&D wanted to they could have called it Larceny and it would have the same meaning. I doubt you would want the rogue to then become Larcenist.

 

[DreamChaser]

But give us the theif.

And thank goodness we don't have to watch people attempt to massacre "legerdemain" and "skulduggery."

DC

 

[Ranger REG]

But give us the theif.

Sighs. I remembered a time when D&D helped our vocabulary. A young friend of mine owed his education to D&D when he had to spell "dexterity" in a surprise spelling quiz.

Sad what this Generation [Text] has come to. Pitifully sad.

 

[Khuxan]

Sighs. I remembered a time when D&D helped our vocabulary. A young friend of mine owed his education to D&D when he had to spell "dexterity" in a surprise spelling quiz.

Sad what this Generation [Text] has come to. Pitifully sad.

Dex-ter-i-ty. You can just spell the word out. As part of the "Text Generation", I'm unimpressed.

 

[Voss]

I'd rather rename the rogue to thief.

Technically, I'd call this a 'Thieving Bladesman'. It covers pretty much every aspect of the class.

 

[Gundark]

much rather have Thievery over Roguery

 

[hong]

"Manual Finesse" or something would probably make more sense, but they're probably trying to be as obvious as possible.

So I guess "Manual Finesse IYKWIM" is out, then....

 

[Ranger REG]

Dex-ter-i-ty. You can just spell the word out. As part of the "Text Generation", I'm unimpressed.

Oh, sure, many can spell "dexterity" but many effed up "rogue." :\

The way I see it, if you can't spell it, don't play it.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Sighs. I remembered a time when D&D helped our vocabulary. A young friend of mine owed his education to D&D when he had to spell "dexterity" in a surprise spelling quiz.

Sad what this Generation [Text] has come to. Pitifully sad.

My native tongue is German - I think I owe a lot of my current English vocabulary to D&D (and non-dubbed movies and series I am watching these days. Though the latter probably mostly improves my understanding of the spoken word...). I just need to find a media where I can train my spoken English...

Don't know if that has anything to do with Generation [Text] (whatever that means). I know that many people are "lazy" when writing on the web. But let's face it, before there was the web (or cell phone messages), people didn't need to write that much. And if they did, it was either a very personal letter (to a friend) that few people would read (and thus criticize), or it was a formal letter for business or work-related stuff, where you always take extra care (and often you even had a specialist doing it).
Not saying that I like bad orthography, but I just don't think that quality has changed...

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[Dausuul]

The skill should absolutely not have the same name as the class. If opening locks and picking pockets is Roguery, that implies it's the whole and exclusive purpose of the rogue, which is not true at all.

I'm okay with Thievery, although I have to admit I'd probably like Skulduggery better.