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Why is the Aesthetic Warrior soldier alternate class ability from the Character Operations Manual called "aesthetic?" Though I'm absolutely in love with the mechanics of it, I'm kind of hoping that the name is an auto-correct typo gone wrong and that it will be fixed in the next errata.
Perhaps there is an alternate meaning that I am unaware of?
I for one can't seem to find, in any dictionary, where it might have something to do with martial arts, monasticism, or anything else that seems to make sense in the context of killing people with your bare hands.
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I've definitely just been assuming it was supposed to be "ascetic"
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“You don’t understand. If I were to use weapons, it would totally ruin my aesthetic.”
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And here I thought it was a charisma based warrior archetype.
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Some dev was listening to too much lo-fi jazz and/or hip-hop beats to study to. :>
I believe this sums it up.
Because beating someone to death with your fists is an aesthetic choice.
I've definitely just been assuming it was supposed to be "ascetic"I asked as much on the book's product thread, and I believe "ascetic" was indeed the intended word. I've seen "ascetic" used too many times in the context of unarmed combat in RPGs to think otherwise...
The "aesthetic" error goes all the way back to the 1st edition AD&D monk, if I recall correctly. I am really surprised to see this error being revived so many decades later.
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I've definitely just been assuming it was supposed to be "ascetic"I asked as much on the book's product thread, and I believe "ascetic" was indeed the intended word. I've seen "ascetic" used too many times in the context of unarmed combat in RPGs to think otherwise...The "aesthetic" error goes all the way back to the 1st edition AD&D monk, if I recall correctly. I am really surprised to see this error being revived so many decades later.
I for one am under the impression that this is one of those moments in history whereby the word is changing the definition in real-time much like how recently "Literally" came to also mean "Figuratively" by definition due to how often it was misused.
No, I'm not kidding, this was recently added/changed in modern dictionaries and I believe this very well may be the same type of thing because Paizo is far from the only publisher, printer, or company that does this for these two words.
No, I'm not kidding, this was recently added/changed in modern dictionaries
Example?
Example?
No, I'm not kidding, this was recently added/changed in modern dictionarieshttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
Definition #2
I meant an example of aesthetic blending into ascetic. I’m quite sure that isn’t happening, simply because ascetic is such a rare word. But I see I misread the original claim, thanks.