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If this committee has the power to remove words from the english language, I would propose that we set our sights higher. "Impactful" has long been a scourge upon the language, and should be purged!
Also, if there's some sort of button we can push to ban these words, I'd like everyone to know that I'm available to guard said button and prevent other, less honorable posters from deleting words willy-nilly from the English language...
You have an Impactful argument there, Sebastian. Unfortunatly, I have a feeling that we are immune to such an Impactful statement.
Who cares. So some people don't like the slang that other gamers use. I don't use gish and think it sounds stupid and wouldn't use it for any character I create, but you guys sound even more ridiculous for getting upset that other folks are using a term that you don't like. Let them use it!
Spellthane sounds like something forced from a bad fantasy novel, btw, ugh- mush worse, at least gish came about organically. Spellthane is like in Mean Girls when the one character goes "That's so 'fetch'" trying to make "fetch" a new cool word, forcibly, and it's not happening, that's what I hear when someone writes "Spellthane".
And now, I'm just as bad because I posted on this forum... hehe... off to work!
Nah, gish was just forced from a bad fantasy naming of a specific species' caste of warrior mage.
See, and the thing is, the first person to use "gish" meaning anything but a fourth level multi-class githyanki fighter magic user was doing EXACTLY what you ascribe to the dude trying to make "fetch" cool.
;)
Agreed. I wish I could unread that Urban Dictionary entry.Hey now, I like the Smashing Pumpkins and as it happens that album was recorded in my home town of Madison, Wisconsin.Look up the common uses of "g%#~" your never look at it the same again
Yeah just think of the confusion it causes non-gamers overhearing it. Also some of my players are new and do not know the history of the word in game but know of it's common uses...they got confused fast looking online
Yeah just think of the confusion it causes non-gamers overhearing it. Also some of my players are new and do not know the history of the word in game but know of it's common uses...they got confused fast looking onlineAgreed. I wish I could unread that Urban Dictionary entry.Hey now, I like the Smashing Pumpkins and as it happens that album was recorded in my home town of Madison, Wisconsin.Look up the common uses of "g%#~" your never look at it the same again
There's a point to anything in the Urban Dictionary? That site made my head hurt.
Spellthane sounds like something forced from a bad fantasy novel, btw, ugh- much worse, at least gish came about organically. Spellthane is like in Mean Girls when the one character goes "That's so 'fetch'" trying to make "fetch" a new cool word, forcibly, and it's not happening, that's what I hear when someone writes "Spellthane".
Stop trying to make spellthane happen! It's not going to happen!
Spellthane sounds like something forced from a bad fantasy novel, btw, ugh- much worse, at least gish came about organically. Spellthane is like in Mean Girls when the one character goes "That's so 'fetch'" trying to make "fetch" a new cool word, forcibly, and it's not happening, that's what I hear when someone writes "Spellthane".Stop trying to make spellthane happen! It's not going to happen!
Heh. Mean Girls. I love it.
As a side note, I just opened a random pack of the new D&D miniatures and found a "Githyanki Gish". It looks like the term is pretty official, at least over at WotC.
So folks are upset that people are bastardizing the official term to mean any "best of both worlds" magic user/warrior class?
Pretty much. Players have been using the term as such for years, but there's a school of thought that's along the lines of "NO!! A Gish is ONLY a Githyanki that does that~!!!!"
Yes the name is old school, it was a cast of Githyanki . A type of fighter/mage
The name does not mean fighter/mage, although if you use it your dead at level 16...she will find you
Arcane warrior is a better name, gish is not, it sounds like fish and sounds like your forcing a name to mean something else like if I used "cocktail" to mean monk, does not mean it is a monk, but if I get alot of folks using the term "cocktail" for monks. It makes it no less silly even if it becomes a common slang for it
On a related note, I get annoyed by terms that have "blade" or "sword" in them.
In the waning days of 3.5 splatbooks, I lobbied unsuccessfully to issue a moratorium on the words "blade" and "war" from all class and prestige class names. I was tired of mageblades and bladesingers and runeblades and duskblades duking it out with warforged warmages and warchanters and warshapers and warpriests, with those pesky warblades playing both sides.
On a related note, I get annoyed by terms that have "blade" or "sword" in them.In the waning days of 3.5 splatbooks, I lobbied unsuccessfully to issue a moratorium on the words "blade" and "war" from all class and prestige class names. I was tired of mageblades and bladesingers and runeblades and duskblades duking it out with warforged warmages and warchanters and warshapers and warpriests, with those pesky warblades playing both sides.
I agree with this, save the bladesinger, which as far as I know was first. But when it became trendy to add blade and war to everything it got a bit much
On a related note, I get annoyed by terms that have "blade" or "sword" in them.In the waning days of 3.5 splatbooks, I lobbied unsuccessfully to issue a moratorium on the words "blade" and "war" from all class and prestige class names. I was tired of mageblades and bladesingers and runeblades and duskblades duking it out with warforged warmages and warchanters and warshapers and warpriests, with those pesky warblades playing both sides.
Here Here... the war and Blade class names have run their course but good.
On a related note, I get annoyed by terms that have "blade" or "sword" in them.In the waning days of 3.5 splatbooks, I lobbied unsuccessfully to issue a moratorium on the words "blade" and "war" from all class and prestige class names. I was tired of mageblades and bladesingers and runeblades and duskblades duking it out with warforged warmages and warchanters and warshapers and warpriests, with those pesky warblades playing both sides.
You forgot warbarian.
Here Here... the war and Blade class names have run their course but good.On a related note, I get annoyed by terms that have "blade" or "sword" in them.In the waning days of 3.5 splatbooks, I lobbied unsuccessfully to issue a moratorium on the words "blade" and "war" from all class and prestige class names. I was tired of mageblades and bladesingers and runeblades and duskblades duking it out with warforged warmages and warchanters and warshapers and warpriests, with those pesky warblades playing both sides.
The compound adjective-noun and noun-noun names ran their course LONG ago...
The warbarian's darkleaf armor (built from the leaves of the Shadowfell gravetrees) is supergreat, negating extradamage from bigswords and awesomespells.
Yes the name is old school, it was a cast of Githyanki . A type of fighter/mage
Which was never really addressed/given any meaningful attention until a few years ago...
Arcane warrior is a better name
Not really. A wizard is an arcane warrior. A sorcerer is an arcane warrior. Anyone who uses arcane magic and fights is an arcane warrior.
...sounds like your forcing a name to mean something else...
It makes it no less silly even if it becomes a common slang for it
Good thing THAT has NEVER happened in the history of language.
