> >Noooo. Not even if the item is a Swiss Army Knife. This makes named
> >items a means for expanding your initial list of abilities in 25 word
> >chunks. Since you can introduce an named item in 3 words, a player
> >could in effect have an 800 word write up.
>
> I'd be pro, provided you couldn't get extra abilities from the 25
> words.
> You could use them to describe and define the follower or item.
Something I've toyed with during character creation is let the player count a name as one word for purposes of "the 100 words." So, rather than saying "She is followed by her guards, Gunner and Snorri," they can be "Gunner the Scornful and Cooper-Snorri" without the player feeling that they have to sacrifice functionality for color. After all, it's much cooler to "flee the scorn of Gudren of the Six Herds" than have "Gurdun hates his guts."
Peter Larsen
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