06-06-2016, 12:38 PM | #11 | |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Canada
|
Re: Generic Term For 'Magic' Items?
Quote:
For the first part: Are you looking for "the word that means an object with powers or capabilities that are added to that object via non-technological processes"? That's a REALLY broad term and I'm pretty sure "layperson" English doesn't have a word for that. An archaeologist would likely call it a "ritual item", but that's because archaeologists call everything with an unknown use or use beyond its mundane function a "ritual item". To the point where I suspect "art objects" and "executive desk toy" kind of pointless fiddly objects are being labeled "ritual items".
__________________
All about Size Modifier; Unified Hit Location Table A Wiki for my F2F Group A neglected GURPS blog |
|
06-08-2016, 01:21 AM | #12 | |||
Join Date: Mar 2013
|
Re: Generic Term For 'Magic' Items?
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
|||
06-08-2016, 06:08 AM | #13 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Canada
|
Re: Generic Term For 'Magic' Items?
I have a Hellboy figurine on my bookshelf. It doesn't serve a ritual purpose - it is part of no rituals. Decoration is not ritual.
Similarly, a stress ball is not used for a ritual (any more than chewing on pencils or finger-nails is a ritual). There are no rituals around the ball clacker toy, nor around dippy birds. It's not that archaeology categorizes toys and games as "ritual objects", it's not some sort of catch-all for "not survival related". Identified dice, game boards, childrens dolls, toy wooden horses and so on are not ritual items. It's not exactly textbook practice to say "I don't know what this is for, it must be a ritual item" - the problem is that it's common for archaeologists to do this. Archaeology is in part creating a narrative around the artifacts discovered; this is a bad trope that keeps getting re-used. Tropes are not wrong! There are ritual items, it's not a mythical category. It's just abused.
__________________
All about Size Modifier; Unified Hit Location Table A Wiki for my F2F Group A neglected GURPS blog |
06-08-2016, 07:39 AM | #14 |
Join Date: Feb 2014
|
Re: Generic Term For 'Magic' Items?
Fantastic. Works for magic or super-science.
|
06-08-2016, 04:27 PM | #15 |
Join Date: Mar 2013
|
Re: Generic Term For 'Magic' Items?
Bruno, I was talking about between "art objects" and "executive desk toys". That said, Ritual Objects might be a good one for Magic Items made via RPM
|
06-08-2016, 05:16 PM | #16 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Binghamton, NY, USA. Near the river Styx in the 5th Circle.
|
Re: Generic Term For 'Magic' Items?
I've seen a few fictional sources uses "Artifact" as a generic term for "magic/psi/holy" items; even "precursor artifact" is used in sci-fi to describe devices left behind by precursor races.
The Catholic Church uses the term "Relics" for items or body parts associated with Saints, often times believed to possess divine/magical powers.
__________________
Eric B. Smith GURPS Data File Coordinator GURPSLand I shall pull the pin from this healing grenade and... Kaboom-baya. |
06-08-2016, 06:12 PM | #17 |
Join Date: Jul 2006
|
Re: Generic Term For 'Magic' Items?
I like "weird". It can imply magic, psychic, supernatural, super-power, or super-science.
|
06-08-2016, 06:17 PM | #18 |
Join Date: May 2012
|
Re: Generic Term For 'Magic' Items?
go with Enhanced or Augmented. and don't forget
"Any Technolodgy Advanced Enough is Indigestible from Magic" or my favorite "Any Technology is Magic to those who do not Understand it" |
Tags |
magic items |
|
|