>> Well the OED is hardly a garden word quality of word source. I had to
check
>> five non-business dictionaries before I found any definition of the term
and
>> it did agree with the OED as far as the two separate definitions go.
>I'd have said the OED (just the concise, mind you, in case you had
>visions of me under dozen-tome mega-volumes) is a quality source of
>garden words, if that amounts to the same thing...
All you'd need is the compact OED and a magnifying glass or be really near-sighted.:-) I was inferring a compliment to the OED (even the concise version) that it often rises above the garden quality word in it's inclusions.
>Dictionaries are
>often patchy on multi-word phrases, it must be said.)
Too true.
>To abstract something isn't necessarily to ignore it. HW abstracts
>a lot of things about say, combat, but the point is you're supposed
>to "add back in" what's significant in any given fight in the
>descriptions (and sit-mods, etc), rather than having to have a "system"
>to account for them all, under every possible circumstance. Same
>with wealth. You don't have to audit a character to find out that
>so many "wealth points" or lunars or cows "worth" of each of these
>things to understand that such factors play a part in their purchasing
>power, and can be teased out as such as part of a narrative description.
Too true, it all boils down to how abstract a set of rules you can live with and it's looking like I can't live with that aspect of the rules. (Interestingly I polled my players on Saturday and it looks like we may be dumping HW for good ole RQ3, guess old war gamers never die...)
Oliver
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