Shadowdark General Thread [+]

[Reynard]

I don't actually agree with your parsing of the word, but that's not super important. Sentinels don't have to be passive observers, and if they aren't passive then what are they doing? Probably something that sounds like investigating with a soupcon of doing so to protect someone or something. You get guardian of or defender against as easily as watcher out of Sentinel, and both the former describe the class really well. Can you call a Witchunter a sentinel against the rot of chaos? I think it fits, and they wouldn't be much bloody use if all they did was watch. Anyway, that was my thinking.

You can call a hat a sock, too, if you wear it on your foot instead of your head.

 

[Fenris-77]

You can call a hat a sock, too, if you wear it on your foot instead of your head.

Hey, I'm not the one who jumped with questionable english parsing to tell someone their class is named the wrong thing. That bit of exquisite nerdery is on you. Anythewho, I don't really have any interest in this kind of pedantry so I'm going to move on...

 

[Xenolith234]

To which I shrug (no offense). I wanted something that really wasn't thief-indexed and watcher works fine for me. Honestly, I stole the name from Swords of the Serpentine that has a similar class called the same thing. I don't have any cognitive dissonance there, but its interesting that you do. I'll ask some of my customers if I get the chance.

As one of your customers, I don't mind it. It actually makes me think of the Warcraft 3 Sentinels, which IIRC often used bows.