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Dungeon Master |Collective Nouns
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:32 pm
by Gambit37
While writing a small snippet of my Conflux 2 Quest of Legend, I called a group of antmen a "horde". But it doesn't sound right.
I wonder what a group of antmen should really be known as? Come to that, what would the collective nouns be for all the dungeon denizens? Let's base this on DM and CSB -- ignore Conflux 2's new names for now. And they have to be kind of new, or variations of exisiting nouns.
Here's a couple for starters:
A thicket of screamers
A tribe of trolin
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:14 pm
by andyboy_uk
What is a group of ant's called. Is it a farm.
That sounds a bit naff as well though.
http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?r=2&q=horde
Maybe that will help.
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:30 pm
by beowuuf
antmen: a clan, a clique (click, geddit), a club
worms: a confusion (RTC), a slithering, a can
gigglers: a gaggle, a nusiance,a plague
mummies: a groan, a dryness, a dust
ghosts: a haunting
wasps: an infestation
skeletons: a creaking, a clattering, a smile, a calceration (whatever the finished state of soemhtign becoming calcareous is)
rats: a pain, a plague
couatyls: a flap, a procession
munchers: a denture
knights: a terror, a flurry (think how many hits do you get from them!), a clanque (clank)
golems: a wall
help me, i don't want to go back to work from lunch!
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:37 pm
by andyboy_uk
"I dont want to go back to work from lunch"
Say whatever you ate made you ill and go home.
Nice work BeoWuuf
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:47 pm
by beowuuf
Yup...if i can leave by 3 i can see LOTR:ROTK!
I have a feeling i might just work instead though
Eventually
Maybe
rock monsters: a blockage, an avalanche, an obstruction
slime: a flubber, a congealing, a crust
wizards eye: a beauty, a stare, a gaze, a float
vexirks: a jabber, a posse
scorpions: ARGH! RUN!
black flames: a fire, an inferno
water elementals: what else - a flood
oitus: a screech, a scuttling
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:21 pm
by Gambit37
I thought this would appeal to you fuzzface! I love the scorpion and the swamp slime: a flubber of swamp slime!
A jabber of vexirks -- he he.
These are all very cool! But be thankful you're in work -- unemployment isn 't all it's cracked up to be (though it's giving me some time to play Conflux 2 which is cool....)
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:39 pm
by beowuuf
yes, good luck with the searches, you have the cool website to back you up at least : )
that is the final one, right? cause it looks good
oh, and i forgot my favourite - a sussuration...worms or scorpions, anything that makes a nice whispering noise as it walks..or maybe for the ghosts...
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:06 pm
by zoooom/sigi
legion the things you only see in the csb intro carrying the flag and snoring...
cohort thorax antmen skels
trunk branch screamers
chuuuu mummies
quarrel query stone heap
wing quetza couatl
insubstantial mass
silent service ghosts shapechanger
obstacle scorpions
band of running-contest-competitors gigglers
chaos private pets pain rats
chaos´ jesters gigglers
waves tides water elemental
swarm fleet stinger wasps
bog poison ball throwers
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:20 pm
by beowuuf
i like thorax, cohort, quetza and bog the best : )
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:24 pm
by gobleteer
Antmen - maybe a hive? What are antmen?
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 11:11 pm
by beowuuf
bees have hives, whcih is why they need all that ointment
ants have farms, and produce the bees oitment for a reasonable price
i fell asleep through the rest of primary school, and the next thing i knew we were learnign calculus, so i missed one or two minor details about the rest
and antmen are the blue meanies in csb
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:04 am
by Relig
Here's a little thing that you might find interesting
Monster: The ancient Romans believed the birth of a deformed
animal was an omen of bad things to come. The word “monster” comes
from monstrum, the Latin word for “warning.”
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:08 am
by beowuuf
usually it's a warning that you are going to lose some health.