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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

WORD OF THE DAY! 4/2/13!

thaumaturge [thaw-muh-turj]
noun
1. A magician or a worker of miracles.

EX. It is difficult to be a hero in a fantasy world without killing literally thousands of creatures that were just in the wrong place at the wrong time and trying to defend their wrong home from the wrong invader (you're the invader). Remember, every time that your lowly thaumaturge shoots a kobold in the face with a magic missile after invading a temple-- a temple that may have been their home for dozens of generations-- that you were the one who decided to go dungeon diving. Those kobolds probably had a culture and, by killing them all and destroying their home by taking trinkets, you probably left little for future dungeoneering anthropologists to discover. You didn't just kill the kobold. You killed the idea of them. When you die, most likely, your memory of them will be lost alongside those of every other creature you killed that was just trying to mind its own business until you killed it to root around in its burrow. But, hey, they're being total dicks, right?

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

WORD OF THE DAY! 1/17/12



failsafe / fail-safe [fayl-seyf]
adjective
1. guaranteed to work; reliable.
noun
2. something designed to work or function automatically to prevent breakdown of a mechanism, system, or the like.

EX. Few fail-safes are reliable in life. Whether short-sighted, short-term, short on time, short on cash, or short on ideas, what makes sense to you after spending a decade build a complex labyrinth that you only know the layout of and raising a 12-legged beast who never sleeps to roam the halls, odds are you are gonna slip up somewhere in the final stages of your five-year-plan.

Monday, November 28, 2011

WORD OF THE DAY! 11/28/11




transmute [trans-myoot]
verb
1. to change from one substance, nature, form or condition into another; transformation.

EX. No one enjoys the transmutations of a warlock.