The Tavern

Of the last five races to be added to the game, four have latinized names that are unevocative and sound much more biology class than fantasy. Say in the case of Felid, it evokes in my mind no specific creature, but instead an abstract genus used for taxonomy. House Cat, Panther, Tiger etc might sound lame, but they are decidedly less lame than Felid in my opinion because they evoke something. Likewise with Formicid (ant) and Octopode (octopus/squid/kraken). Now that "Barachians" are in trunk I feel that the trend is getting out of hand. Let us have Blink Frog, Mountain Frog, High Frog rather than another bland Latin name. Vinestalker has been the only exception to this trend and is a pretty cool name.

I also wish Uskayaw and Hepliaklqana could get name change but can't give any reason except for they don't sound good. Old Kiku has a ridiculous name too but it has charm to it for some reason (could just be familiarity).

I'm ambivalent about species names but I will say I am so, so over purposefully unpronounceable god names. I don't care that earlier gods already have annoying names, that doesn't mean the problem should get worse... it makes not only searching for the god you want on learndb and stuff like this a pain in the ass, it also makes actual casual conversation about the game annoying. Maybe RL players aren't used to talking out loud about things, but even via text it can be a pain.

What, you don't like saying Uski-uski-uski-beki-stan?

Or Hepatitis?

FR: Rename Xom to Hepatitis.

Hepatitis is called "silent killer" in my country.

uskayaw is (a) perfectly pronounceable and (b) a reference to an actual relevant word in malaysian (?), iirc

hepliaklqana is 100% indulgence on my part, but i put quite a lot of work into getting the god running, so i will forgive myself. you are, of course, free to make your own judgement on the matter

I am actually totally fine with uskayaw because yes, it is pronounceable(and spellable without looking it up). my judgement on hepliaklqana(as a name) is it's maybe the only thing you have put in the game which I dislike, and when I was writing that post I actually was thinking of how annoyed I got when you said... on the forums, or irc? (somewhere) that it's a messy pain of a name on purpose like other god names that are already in crawl, or something to that effect. sorry but that sucks really bad!

FR: rename Barachian to Froglodyte.

No! Name them Frogtaurs!

Nazi frogs imo

FR: rename Human -> Homo