On RPG.net, Ethan Skemp of WW (not speaking for WW) commented this on the Mike Mearls thread. link
The philosophy behind using specific names like "Golden Wyvern" would be a lot better received if it were a more euphonic and descriptive term, I betcha. Right now it's got just a bit too much of the "Find a term nobody else is likely to have used before in order to establish clear IP" ring to it. Something that rolled off the tongue a bit better (two words that end in downbeats and the very neutral "n" sound? Not jazzy) would be less distracting.
(Yes, I am mulling over things like meter and consonant selection in a two-word name. I do these things. Don't you judge me.)
I gotta admit, I love the meter/consonant commentary.
The need to establish a clear IP is almost certainly one of the strongest motivating factors behind many of the conceptual and nomenclature changes in 4E.
The need to establish a clear IP is almost certainly one of the strongest motivating factors behind many of the conceptual and nomenclature changes in 4E.
Interesting, and I think accurate, opinion.
My sense is that WotC is consolidating their hold on all things D&D, and is trying to squeeze out other publishers. I feel this so strongly that I was literally shocked upon discovering they intended to release an SRD.
Not to get all conspiracy-theory, but I might add that no one's actually seen an SRD.
Regards :)
The need to establish a clear IP is almost certainly one of the strongest motivating factors behind many of the conceptual and nomenclature changes in 4E.
...hehe..."Golden Wyvern Adept"...I'd bet money that if anyone did some serious searching, they could already find this in some anime/manga out there. Stringing a verb, noun and adjective together in some way just REEKS of americanized anime. Can't you just see a blue haired, effiminant 'guy' with purple eyes and a sword that looks like it weighs about 350lb jumping up into the air as those 'flash-lines' whizz by, screaming "GOLDENNNNN WYVERRRNNNN ADEPT!" as he slashes downward? C'mon...4e is starting to scream 'cheap anime' more and more.
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The need to establish a clear IP is almost certainly one of the strongest motivating factors behind many of the conceptual and nomenclature changes in 4E....hehe..."Golden Wyvern Adept"...I'd bet money that if anyone did some serious searching, they could already find this in some anime/manga out there. Stringing a verb, noun and adjective together in some way just REEKS of americanized anime. Can't you just see a blue haired, effiminant 'guy' with purple eyes and a sword that looks like it weighs about 350lb jumping up into the air as those 'flash-lines' whizz by, screaming "GOLDENNNNN WYVERRRNNNN ADEPT!" as he slashes downward? C'mon...4e is starting to scream 'cheap anime' more and more.
Which Exalted is already doing better.
Now lets hope they manage to retain the D&D feel.
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I hope (pray?) it's more than anime moves. While I don't plan to get 4th, I want the franchise to succeed.
Really I'm hoping that the names work more like the swordfighting styles in the Princess Bride.
*fireball goes off, toasting the necromancer's goblins but leaving the fighter intact.*
"Necromancer arcs an eyebrow and sends to the wizard* "ah, you are a Master of the Golden Wyvern school."
"No, just a humble student."
"I suppose you expect me to counter with Basilisk's Gaze, considering the rocky terrain." *Necromancer casts a spell, causing a number of medium earth elementals to rise from the ground.*
"Naturally, but I find Purifying Rain style cancels out Basilisk's Gaze, don't you?" *Wizard casts transmute rock to mud, the elementals start to disolve*
"Unless one has studied Alchemist's Centerfuge." *Necromancer claps his hands and the muddy elementals split into a mix of small water and earth elementsls.* "Which I have."
I feel this so strongly that I was literally shocked upon discovering they intended to release an SRD.
This didn't shock me. I don't remember how Mona put it, but it was something to the effect that 5E probably won't be OGL and 4E is the transitional between the two. (Or at least I think it was Mona that said it. It might be something he said that lead me to think that. I don't know.)
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I hope (pray?) it's more than anime moves. While I don't plan to get 4th, I want the franchise to succeed.
Really I'm hoping that the names work more like the swordfighting styles in the Princess Bride.
*fireball goes off, toasting the necromancer's goblins but leaving the fighter intact.*
"Necromancer arcs an eyebrow and sends to the wizard* "ah, you are a Master of the Golden Wyvern school."
"No, just a humble student."
"I suppose you expect me to counter with Basilisk's Gaze, considering the rocky terrain." *Necromancer casts a spell, causing a number of medium earth elementals to rise from the ground.*
"Naturally, but I find Purifying Rain style cancels out Basilisk's Gaze, don't you?" *Wizard casts transmute rock to mud, the elementals start to disolve*
"Unless one has studied Alchemist's Centerfuge." *Necromancer claps his hands and the muddy elementals split into a mix of small water and earth elementsls.* "Which I have."
Awesome.
I hope (pray?) it's more than anime moves. While I don't plan to get 4th, I want the franchise to succeed.
Really I'm hoping that the names work more like the swordfighting styles in the Princess Bride.
*fireball goes off, toasting the necromancer's goblins but leaving the fighter intact.*
"Necromancer arcs an eyebrow and sends to the wizard* "ah, you are a Master of the Golden Wyvern school."
"No, just a humble student."
"I suppose you expect me to counter with Basilisk's Gaze, considering the rocky terrain." *Necromancer casts a spell, causing a number of medium earth elementals to rise from the ground.*
"Naturally, but I find Purifying Rain style cancels out Basilisk's Gaze, don't you?" *Wizard casts transmute rock to mud, the elementals start to disolve*
"Unless one has studied Alchemist's Centerfuge." *Necromancer claps his hands and the muddy elementals split into a mix of small water and earth elementsls.* "Which I have."
<applauds>
God, I love that scene.
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I suppose I should add:
Wizard grunts as rays scorch him "I admit it you are better than me."
Necromancer smiles, moving in for the kill, "Then why are you smiling?"
Wizard smiles as a rod slides from his sleeve into his hand, "I am not 4th edition." *Quickened sudden empowered sudden maximized polar ray, followed by Power Word, Kill.*