Banish _?Banish?

[Timo Pietilä]

I don't care what gets renamed, as long as the same word 'banish' isn't used for monster deletion and monster teleportation. I can't think of a better synonym for monster deletion assuming we can't use genocide for sensitivity reasons. Do you have any good suggestions for what to rename monster deletion?

"Deletion" could be interpreted as teleport level because you don't get any XP from them. Monsters can do that to you, so you should be able to do that to monsters. Problem with it is more that you do it in mass every time, there is no teleport level only one monster. Wording is a difficult one since there is already teleport level which teleports player, not monsters.

Teleport race from level and teleport area from level? Maybe also teleport monster from level as single-monster equal of that one (like teleport other, but removes from level and requires more mana).

[Timo Pietilä]

Annihilation?

That would create another conflict with priest spells, there is Annihilation which is bolt-spell that affects living (weak spell for its cost, needs to be redone).

[ehertlein]

That would create another conflict with priest spells, there is Annihilation which is bolt-spell that affects living (weak spell for its cost, needs to be redone).

That's a real shame as it seems very appropriate.

[Derakon]

Rename Annihilation to Eradicate and make it more powerful (e.g. flat 300 damage/cast against any target, instead of the current "only living targets" restriction). Then you can use Annihilate for genocide effects.

[nppangband]

I don't care what gets renamed, as long as the same word 'banish' isn't used for monster deletion and monster teleportation. I can't think of a better synonym for monster deletion assuming we can't use genocide for sensitivity reasons. Do you have any good suggestions for what to rename monster deletion?

Some choices:

Extinction
Elimination
Exclusion
Explusion
Extermination
Abolishment
Eradication


That's just a quick check with a thesaurus. Of those, I think I like "extermination" the most.

[Timo Pietilä]

Rename Annihilation to Eradicate and make it more powerful (e.g. flat 300 damage/cast against any target, instead of the current "only living targets" restriction). Then you can use Annihilate for genocide effects.

I like that. That spell is pretty useless anyway, so it needs rework and changing name is not a bad thing when you change what it does as well.

[Timo Pietilä]

That's just a quick check with a thesaurus. Of those, I think I like "extermination" the most.

Exterminate! Exterminate!

Too bad we don't have Daleks as race...

[Tiburon Silverflame]

I like Expulsion, or Expel, depending on the part of speech one prefers. It's quite accurate. Or if we want to be colloquial, we can go with the baseball umpire's call...You're Out of Here! is the spell, and leave the scroll as the Scroll of Expulsion.

Other colluquials...if baseball references are perhaps too American...

Bring Me A Shrubbery!
Red Card (soccer ejection...might be best for single target or beam version, if we want one of those)
GO AWAY! (in all caps, with punctuation )

Another variation:
Tsunami (for LOS only Mass Banish)

Another term might just be Bane, for Banish, and use Expel for Mass Banish.

[Malak Darkhunter]

One thing though banishment is very useful against pesky fleas and critters of that sort, mass teleport would be good if it removed them from the level. Mages and priest really don't need the scrolls, but it would be valuable to warriors though.

[Tobias]

I have always seen Mass Banishment as Mass Level Teleport Other.
So the banished monsters just end up on another dungeon level.
After all, all other explanations imply you getting XP for the banished monsters.

Maybe an intermediate option would be level teleport other. ( Teleports a monster / ray to another level).
Or Mass teleport other.

[ekolis]

One thing though banishment is very useful against pesky fleas and critters of that sort, mass teleport would be good if it removed them from the level. Mages and priest really don't need the scrolls, but it would be valuable to warriors though.

In that case, may I suggest the name "Bug Off!" ?

[Therem Harth]

Excommunicate?

Just an idea... :P

(Not really appropriate alas, since it's mages that get Banishment, not priests.)

[Malak Darkhunter]

In that case, may I suggest the name "Bug Off!" ?

That would have to be an artifact of course- can of ( bug off).

[d_m]

Rename Annihilation to Eradicate and make it more powerful (e.g. flat 300 damage/cast against any target, instead of the current "only living targets" restriction). Then you can use Annihilate for genocide effects.

Just found this thread. I like this suggestion pretty well. Maybe Annihilation instead of Annihilate?