And I'd love to use it, but since the whole discussion started because I and others used that as a generic term and people then assumed we meant it specifically... :( shame.
> I believe I said, at that time, that the problems
> was in using
> game-specific words to discuss non-game specific
> concepts.
> If that conflict is not resolved clearly, all
> subsequent discussion
> will be fraught with unnecessary heat.
Agreed - but then on this list at least, surely we're sticking to game concepts? We may need to distinguish between rules-based and in-character, but then as you say, the in-character discussion would never happen anyway.
> GAME VOCABULARY
> The need of the game was to have differentiating
> terms, not unifying ones.
Yep. And we have them, and they're reasonably clearly defined.
> Thus I took modern spiritual terms and narrowed them
> down intensely for specific game use.
And a very good idea too. Though re-using the terms that have been used in Glorantha gaming for decades was perhaps more important.
> I?d suggest one term that is precise and exact, will
> not be mistaken for something else,
Yes!!! Especially that last.
> and is perhaps just well enough
> known to not be entirely alien.
> ATMAN is that word.
As far as I'm concerned that is entirely alien - and that's a good thing. No way anyone can confuse its game meaning with any coincidental RW meaning, when for anyone but a non-specialist, it *has* no RW meaning. Perfect. Will that perhaps now go into some glossary or something on the glorantha.com website?
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