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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6789488" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Remathilis covered most of my responses, so I'm only going to add a couple things.First: I noticed that you completely ignored the Barbarian, which was intentionally one of my centerpiece classes. That specifically entails being "uncivilized," and is still used as an insult in modern times ("their treatment of prisoners is barbaric!") It also doesn't have any specific association with anything the Barbarian does, because "not civilized" has nothing to do with "gets super angry" nor "contacts supernatural beings for aid." And the primary alternative--Berserker--is only the former, and very narrowly Norse to boot (coming from the plural berserkr).Second: If a connotation of authority is a problem, you should have just as many issues with Cleric (the most common English translation of the Arabic word imam, religious authorities in Islam), Druid (religious authorities of the pagan religions of Britain), Bard (social/religious authorities in pre-Roman Britain), Monk (absolutely an authority of some kind on religious matters, typically Christian or Buddhist), and especially Paladin (one of Charlemagne's twelve peers). Particularly since "Druid" has nothing to do with summoning plants or turning into animals, "Bard" has nothing to do with being a performer, and "Paladin" has no special association with religion...oh, except because of D&D, in EVERY case. (Monk is something of an edge case.*)The fact that "Warlord" (dude who leads an army, often in a lawless/anarchic region) is only somewhat related to the concept (dude who leads/advises a 'squad' of combatants) isn't anything new in D&D terms. It is, in fact, not particularly unusual. Hence why I said what you quoted: in time, I suspect this will blow over as people get used to it. Just like people will get used to dragonborn and tieflings. Will some cantankerous animosity remain? Undoubtedly. But I think the major anger/vehemence will pass, and it will become like "Barbarian"--a name that leaves many uncomfortable, but which sticks around (in part because it's familiar, in part because better alternatives are hard to come by). The concept has already been lodged enough in the general gamer psyche for it to be imitated in other systems; that's enough proof to me that it's gonna stick around.*The vast majority of the time, when a Westerner speaks of a "monk," they mean a Christian monk, who is almost nothing like the D&D Monk. However, "monk" IS also used to refer to male ordained Buddhists, of which an extremely small subset are of the Shaolin sect and thus trained in martial arts. I still think it's hard to argue that the Shaolin link was enough to justify the name when alternatives existed. Like the FF choice: "Black Belt."</blockquote>

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