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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Smerg" data-source="post: 3931846" data-attributes="member: 57427">Could I tell from the words Red Mages or Mages of Thay that I would want to put tattoos on my butt?Yet, if either of those terms replaced the Golden Wyverns would you be having this same concern?The arguement on the usage of the name relating to the actual rule mechanics has not been in vogue in the gaming industry for almost two decades when games like Vampire started to appear and give names to Disciplines and Geas that often had little direct linkage to the ability.Proof, I pulled my 1996 copy of Vampire Dark Ages off the self (could not be bothered going into the boxes to dig out copies of vampire and werewolf).  Here are the names of groups Assamite, Brujah, and Cappadocians which are now pretty much house hold words in the gaming community but back then were as alien as Golden Wyvern or Red Mages of Thay.  Here are some other names taken from the book 'Howling Lunacy', 'Fear of the Void Below', 'Ride the Wild Mind', and 'Reveler's Memory'.I could get similar phrases from Arcana Unearthed, 2003, 'Mojh', 'Runechildren', and 'Iron Witch'.All of these have the words, groups, and abilities as part of the material and it has not affected the customer interest.  Oppositely, it increased the customer interest to have these lexicons of words and phrases.WotC is actually behind the trend of the industry when it comes to incorporating names for things in their books.</blockquote>

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