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Re: Soldiers of Valhalla - nominations and discussion

The revised Specters are very cool! I look forward to seeing where this goes.

Is this the right place for a couple of notes on the text for DEATHLY TOUCH? If so, here they are:

Grammar: The last comma (after "this turn") should be deleted; a comma must not separate subject from verb or verb from object (unless part of some other construct like a parenthetical phrase). The core sentence is "any figures subtract 1," not "any figures, subtract 1."

Word meaning: "Deathly" and "deadly" sound similar, but have distinct meanings. Someone or something that is sickly/dying/etc. is deathly. An action or situation that is lethal/fatal/mortal is deadly. (This is why existing units — Migol Ironwill, Minions of Utgar, Omnicron Snipers, and Zetacron — all use deadly in their SP titles.) Likewise, although the target of a specter may become "deathly" if enough skulls are rolled, the SP title is referring to the specters' touch, and that touch is actually deadly but not deathly. Naturally there will be a desire to keep the word "death" or a synonym in the title, so other possible alternatives might include TOUCH OF DEATH, MORTIFYING TOUCH, or something like DEATHLY PALLOR which could preserve "deathly" while using it appropriately to describe the Specters themselves.


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