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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 1282590" data-attributes="member: 15538">&quot;Buffing&quot; is not any worse than the terms it replaced, namely spell up or boost.&nbsp; Big Bad, when used outside a Buffy context, annoys the @#$#^%@ piss out of me.&nbsp; I don't like Buffy, I don't like cutesy Buffy talk, and I certainly don't want to hear about the Big Bad in a Forgotten Realms module.&nbsp; It's not even a proper use of the (inspid) term, which self-consciously refers to the serial nature of the clash between good and evil on the show.&quot;Florentine axes.&quot;&nbsp; Florentine is a style of fencing or stick-fighting.&nbsp; It doesn't make you sound erudite, it tells me you gained your knowledge of fighting styles through the process of osmosis from willfully uneducated SCAdians.&nbsp; Just, for goodness sake, say Two Weapon Fighting.&nbsp; Or paired X, if you use paired weapons.&nbsp; Or sword and axe.&nbsp; Or whatever.&nbsp; &quot;Rollplaying&quot; is a term coined by people who don't know the significance of the phrases Brown Box, Blue Book, and Red Box.&nbsp; For that matter, how about a nod to the fine folks at White Wolf, who not only coined the term Storytelling but helped it flourish, as an approach to roleplaying games?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 1282590, member: 15538"] "Buffing" is not any worse than the terms it replaced, namely spell up or boost. Big Bad, when used outside a Buffy context, annoys the @#$#^%@ piss out of me. I don't like Buffy, I don't like cutesy Buffy talk, and I certainly don't want to hear about the Big Bad in a Forgotten Realms module. It's not even a proper use of the (inspid) term, which self-consciously refers to the serial nature of the clash between good and evil on the show. "Florentine axes." Florentine is a style of fencing or stick-fighting. It doesn't make you sound erudite, it tells me you gained your knowledge of fighting styles through the process of osmosis from willfully uneducated SCAdians. Just, for goodness sake, say Two Weapon Fighting. Or paired X, if you use paired weapons. Or sword and axe. Or whatever. "Rollplaying" is a term coined by people who don't know the significance of the phrases Brown Box, Blue Book, and Red Box. For that matter, how about a nod to the fine folks at White Wolf, who not only coined the term Storytelling but helped it flourish, as an approach to roleplaying games? [/QUOTE]

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