what do you call the son of a duke?

[diaglo]

was the son born in or out of wedlock?

i think hand and halfer covers most offspring for dukes in our D&D campaign.

 

[ghrezdd]

a vaguley related question

Sir is the form of address for a male knight. Is there an equivalant form of address for a female knight?

 

[The_Universe]

Sir is the form of address for a male knight. Is there an equivalant form of address for a female knight?

Well, at the risk of angering someone with the sexism of the past, there weren't female knights. In modern times, they're referred to as "Dame Firstname Lastname"

 

[Agback]

Sir is the form of address for a male knight. Is there an equivalant form of address for a female knight?

As The_Universe says, now that there are women who hold knighthoods, 'Dame' is used in the same way as 'Sir'. But in mediaeval times women sometimes held the lands of a knight, but did not have the military training or go through the ceremonies, and were not considered knights.

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

On the other hand, Queen Isabella was technically a King. Masculine tense and everything.

 

[Agback]

On the other hand, Queen Isabella was technically a King. Masculine tense and everything.

Gender. Tense is a quality of verbs.

Living things have sexes, such as male, female, neuter, and hermaphrodite.

Nouns have genders, such as masculine, feminine, and neuter, or animate and inanimate.

Verbs and verbal phrases have tenses, such as past, present, future, past perfect, past imperfect, pluperfect, present continuous, present perfect….

 

[hong]

Tense is a quality of verbs.

I tranquilised my verbs and now I can only speak in the passive voice.

OH HO HO HA HA OH HELL IS THAT THE TIME

 

[Aesmael]

Not a goblin, just a really small ogre.

*now has Gummi Bears theme song stuck in head*

You had to go and mention the song. Sigh.
Maybe if I hum it will go away.

In related news, the Universe's system looks very useful. Not immediately so, but... ah, there it is. You have just provided the final piece of inspiration needed to turn a one-off D20 Future adventure into a full-blown campaign setting.

Thanks muchly (And now back to reading the thread)

 

[The_Universe]

You had to go and mention the song. Sigh.
Maybe if I hum it will go away.

In related news, the Universe's system looks very useful. Not immediately so, but... ah, there it is. You have just provided the final piece of inspiration needed to turn a one-off D20 Future adventure into a full-blown campaign setting.

Thanks muchly (And now back to reading the thread)

Glad you like it! It's been a boon to my own campaign!

 

[Tonguez]

I tranquilised my verbs and now I can only speak in the passive voice.

My verbs were tranquilised by me and now I can speak only in the passive voice.