Monday, August 23, 2010

Help Me With a Name (Again)

Last time I did this, you were all very helpful.  So let's try it again.

As discussed previously, two of the ways of looking at a Power are its Effect and its Category.  At least right now, there are seven Effects:
  • Attack
  • Alteration
  • Control
  • Defense
  • Meta-Power
  • Motion
  • Quality

And there are nine Categories (which are mostly used for the Random Roll Tables):
  • Body Powers
  • Energy Powers
  • Matter Powers
  • Mental Powers
  • Movement Powers
  • Object Powers
  • Sensory Powers
  • Super-Qualities
  • Training
Can you guess what my question is?
Yes, I have a Motion Effect and a Movement Category.  Isn't that confusing?  I think so.  So I turn again to my hypothetical readers for suggestions for changing one of them, hopefully to something that doesn't begin with an "M" (thus, "Motility" isn't that helpful).

9 comments:

  1. How about 'Spacial Powers'? Assuming they involve moving yourself or moving other things, that might work. Of course, then things like enlarging/shrinking might also be found under them... Well, it's a thought.

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  2. Hmmmmm... How about "force" powers, as in the Force = mass * acceleration variety? You already have mass (matter) and acceleration, so it fits, I think.

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  3. "Kinetic"? Or does that open the door to confusion with other kinds of energy?

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  4. Change Movement Powers to Travel Powers

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  5. Travel Powers include getting better accommodations, upgrades, and hitting on your cruise director Julie. :)

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  6. That's an upgrade to the Travel in Style Powers

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  7. Travel in Style Powers also prevents Snake on Plane Power occurances

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  8. How does Motion differ from Movement in this case?

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  9. As it is (but I want to change the terms), Movement is a Category of Powers on the Random Roll Powers Chart, while Motion is a Power Effect. Of course, they pretty much overlap.

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