So I’m super pumped about this game. I’m getting the hardcover and I can’t wait to give the quick start a spin.
I do have a concern about the names of actions. I noticed that every action’s name was a verb. Except for mayhem. I’m an editor and am easily bothered by these things.
I’m not sure what it could be changed for to promote a more parallel structure, or even if it should (mayhem being mayhem and all), but I thought I would still bring it up.
Yeah, Alex, it bothers a little, too. I polled all the playtesters about it and everyone voted to keep Mayhem. It’s just too good a word.
That’s fair, it is a great word!
You can always make it work as a verb.
Q: “What do you do?”
A: “I mayhem.”
Sure, it’s not great English, but then it doesn’t have to be.
Batter
Bludgeon
Thrashing
Aggrieve
Maul
I like batter
I could see Rampage as an alternative.
“To havoc” used to be a verb. Rubs me the wrong way though.
I like verbing. Verbing weirds language.
Riot? Brawl?
honestly tho mayhem is still pretty great
Mayhem’d!
I lay out some mayhem. I think I may have actually said that at some point in my life.
Misbehave…. Firefly flashback….
Riot, wreck, ransack, ruin, trash, or rumble were all I could think of for roughly equivalent verbs, but carry different connotations (and most happen to start with r).