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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 4164143" data-attributes="member: 2525">Uh...they all did.  All, as in the game designers.  They messed that one up bad.  Monte Cook said it was a joke how many times someone had to re-edit something to change it from one to the other in 3.0. Do you just have a very clinical personality, or are you kidding?  At first glance, they look like nearly identical words.  Of course they don't mean the same thing, but when writing and reading them, in the context of rules that repeat them both often, they are easily confused with each other unless you are being particularly careful.  It's best to not infuse the game with that sort of stuff.I gave you examples of how it works, and works well.  Rather than erase it and try and talk about this in obscure disjointed terms, why don't we talk about what we already established.  You tell me why the examples given don't work.  Tell me why the White Raven example, or the Muse example, don't function well.And, not to repeat myself, but why did you again call the "non-descriptive" labeling a problem again, after we just went through that whole thing on why that is a good thing? I know you disagree, but why assume it's a problem in a conversation where you already know folks don't necessarily agree with that assumption?If it's in the title, and it's (as you say, in a very baiting manner) "goofy", then it's not confusing.  "Tactical" might be flavor.  "White Raven", which as you say is not in itself descriptive, is obviously not confusingly similar to names which might be descriptive or might be just flavor, like "Tactical".</blockquote>

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