D&D Makes it to DIII.... - Page 5

Non-Hindering Selective Self Petrification of the Epidermis?|||Quote:








hmm if I have skin...and I decide to harden it and make it like stone...

I dunno what else to call that




Skinstone!|||Quote:








hmm if I have skin...and I decide to harden it and make it like stone...

I dunno what else to call that




Harden! No, wait, that was Metapod...

I like the little references. After all, what would we call Lightning? It's used, but should it be "Shock Line"? Somethings just can't be feasibly different in terms of names.|||You guys are just diverting the problem. As I mentioned, it's not about words that are in the dictionary, like 'lightning'. Lightning is fair game for anyone to use.

Stoneskin is not in the dictionary; it's in D&D. It's a D&D creation. So it's kind of like you make a TV show for kids and the host is a big purple dinosaur named 'Barney'. But didn't someone else already do that? Aren't you just copying someone else's success?

They say leech is not in the game. I don't know about that. Looks like Blizzard is leeching from other's successes. Not that they have to, which makes it sad.

Anyway, I admit plagerism might not be the right term for what's going on, as we can't see the credits in the game. But the fact remains that many D&D spells are put in d3. Why?|||Well, then someone should complain about the FF XI spell Stoneskin, since apparently Square Enix is also leeching off of DnD.|||Same as 3D0 and countless other software brands, not to mention fantasy novels. We can't even be 100% certain that D&D invented the term..|||Quote:




Anyway, I admit plagerism might not be the right term for what's going on, as we can't see the credits in the game. But the fact remains that many D&D spells are put in d3. Why?




Homage.

Respect.

Reference.

Tribute.

Reverence.

Fandom.

The reason they named these spells that way is so that people would recognize the names. That's not a behavior a plagiarist uses. The whole idea is that they adapted a bunch of DnD spells so people would look at it and go, "Hey, cool, check this out - Blizzard people play DnD!"|||Quote:








The reason they named these spells that way is so that people would recognize the names. That's not a behavior a plagiarist uses. The whole idea is that they adapted a bunch of DnD spells so people would look at it and go, "Hey, cool, check this out - Blizzard people play DnD!"




Yep...

That's why no spell is called Vizjerei Blast or something... spells need generic names...

And Stoneskin is not a blurry odd name... I mean, if you say 'Stoneskin" you can already imagine your skin turning to stone...

Another names could be "Stone Form" (which sounds more like a metamorphosis) or "Living statute" (Which sounds like a summoned", but both names are way mor unclear than "stoneskin"..|||Quote:








But all that would be necessary, for me anyways, is a very simple name change. Like instead of magic missile, why not call it, idk, bone spirit? Bone spirit is definitely Diablo. They could just make up some excuse in the lore/description as to why it behaves a bit differently and why it does arcane damage unlike the necro's bone spirit, like the wizard altered it to her liking for her own selfish purposes, yadda yadda.

Maybe bone spirit was a bad example, but I'm sure there are lots of good names for it besides magic missile. I suggested this in another thread, and everyone said "Well it's a missile and it's magic; what do you expect them to call it? There are no alternative names!" Then, people came up with stupid sounding names for it on purpose just to support their argument. But how about nice sounding names like arcane missile? Would it be so hard to find an original name for it?

And look at stone skin. Would it be so hard to call it steel skin? Blizzard workers are being paid to come up with stuff, this is their big chance to come up with cool names, and instead they just swipe the most famous D&D terms--the cheapest, easiest thing Blizzard can do.

Basically, I agree with the OP about simple renames.




You're whining about the name of a spell. Honestly, what's wrong pal? By the by, if they called it Arcane Missile then you would be whining about how similar it is to WoW.|||By the way, in reply to an earlier post by stillman, Steel Skin is already a druid spell in D&D. Basically a weaker version of stoneskin.