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ThinkMinty
2016-04-20, 07:22 PM
As you may or may not know, collective nouns are nouns that refer to a group of similar entities. A bench of aldermen, a congregation of alligators, a bloat of hippopotamuses, a lechery of priests, a flourish of strumpets, etc.

Now, do the various character classes have collective nouns? If not, does anyone have any ideas? I have a few.


A library of Wizards.
A chord of Bards.
A gymnasium of Fighters.
A talent of Sorcerers.


If there's some that already exist, or if you have any, leave 'em around. Or don't.

Belac93
2016-04-20, 07:57 PM
I would probably say a Squad of fighters.
A Coven of warlocks.
A Brotherhood of clerics.

IntelectPaladin
2016-04-20, 10:09 PM
A Clergy of paladins.

Also, Happy to contribute to the thread.
On that note, Here are a few others:
A Troup of bards.
A Clan of barbarians.
A Famine of ideas.

Draconium
2016-04-20, 10:54 PM
A Chorus of Bards.
A Glamour of Sorcerers.
A Branch of Druids.
A Whisper of Rouges.

Just throwing some ideas out there.

Steampunkette
2016-04-20, 10:57 PM
A School of Monks.
A Quivering of Swashbucklers.
A Wilding of Druids.
A Zoo of Druids.
A Calling of Shaman.
A Warding of Eldritch Knights.
A Forward of Rangers.
A Hand of Tricksters.
A Line of Sorcerers.
A Chaos of Wild Mages.
A Wing of Dragonblood.

eru001
2016-04-20, 11:30 PM
A Platoon of fighters
A Vanguard of Rangers
A Battery of wizards
A Hospital of Clerics
A horde of Barbarians
A Section of Sorcerers
A Forest of Druids
A Rash of Rogues
A Thrill of Necromancers
A Murder of Assassins
A Nuisance of Paladins (sorry, they mean well)
A Stomp of Giants
A Party of Halflings
A Doom of Dwarves
An Annoyance of Elves (not sorry, pointy eared jerks)
A Radder of Ghasts (yes, yes I did)
An Oder of Ogres
A Century of Centaurs
A Mob of humans
A Maze of Minotaurs
A Gnot of Gnomes (no regrets)
A Rite of Ritualists
A Hogshead of Zombie Pigmen (there are many derailments but this one is MINE)
A Craft of workers
A Dash of Swordsmen
A Staff of Warlords
and
A Punchline of Bards

Draconium
2016-04-20, 11:55 PM
A Doom of Dragons
A Crypt of Necromancers
A Shamble of Zombies

TeChameleon
2016-04-21, 03:38 AM
A bicker of wizards (alternatively, a pedantism of wizards)
A cacophony of bards
An explosion of gnomes
A crafting of artificers
A damnation of warlocks (or maybe a bunch of creepy buggers, sod off! of warlocks :smalltongue:)
An oops of wild mages
A (self-)righteousness of paladins
A brawl of fighters
A skeet of pixies

goto124
2016-04-21, 05:15 AM
A colony of penguins.

What, Penguin isn't a class? It should be!


A Whisper of Rouges.

A Blush of Rouges.

Sorry, had to.

Agrippa
2016-04-21, 05:00 PM
How about this.


A Syndicate or Gang of of rogues.
A Coven of witches.
A Circle of druids.
A Consortium of wizards.
A Concert of bards.
A Holy Order of clerics.
A Pack of slayers, hunters or rangers.


That's all I can think of for now.

Agrippa
2016-04-21, 06:09 PM
How about this.


A Syndicate or Gang of of rogues.
A Coven of witches.
A Circle of druids.
A Consortium of wizards.
A Concert of bards.
A Holy Order of clerics.
A Pack of slayers, hunters or rangers.


That's all I can think of for now.

quinron
2016-04-21, 06:22 PM
A Class of Wizards
A Band of Bards (a bit obvious, but it hasn't been said)
A Swarm of Rogues
A Pride of Paladins
A Morass of Warlocks
A Happenstance of Sorcerers
A Conclave of Clerics

Kane0
2016-04-22, 01:00 AM
A miracle of clerics
An oath of paladins
A bundle of rangers
A pocket of rogues
A curse of warlocks

An invasion of humans
An embrace of elves
A wall of dwarves
An explosion of gnomes
A trip of halflings
A fall of tieflings
A hoard of dragonborn

A murder of hobos
A calamity of adventurers

BWR
2016-04-22, 01:54 AM
A gaggle of courtiers.

The_Snark
2016-04-22, 01:58 AM
A murder of hobos
A calamity of adventurers

I was going to suggest a looting of adventurers, but that works too.

Lord Torath
2016-04-22, 07:49 AM
A convergence of psionicists.
A paternity suit of bards.
A crash of cavaliers (also rhinoceroses).

Deophaun
2016-04-22, 08:29 AM
There actually is one for wizards already: an argument.

Similarly, unicorns are a blessing and dragons are a flight, unless you're on Pern, where they're a weyr.

A chain of binders.
A *******1 of truenamers

1 Requires a DC 50 Truespeak check to say, and any truenamer may instantly teleport to the speaker's location regardless of local conditions.

IntelectPaladin
2016-04-22, 08:43 AM
A (self-)righteousness of paladins



A Nuisance of Paladins (sorry, they mean well)

It's beginning to become depressing how often the opinion on
paladins is brought so low by the zeitgeist of the world.

Not to mention the fact there there are "paladins"
who enjoy and spread the imbecilic playstyle that caused this opinion.
I don't want to be above or below anyone.

And now back to our scheduled thread-relevant content!
A Brutality of barbarians.
A Murder of assassins.
And lastly,
A Diversity of multi-classers.

eru001
2016-04-22, 11:25 AM
It's beginning to become depressing how often the opinion on
paladins is brought so low by the zeitgeist of the world.

Not to mention the fact there there are "paladins"
who enjoy and spread the imbecilic playstyle that caused this opinion.
I don't want to be above or below anyone.

And now back to our scheduled thread-relevant content!
A Brutality of barbarians.
A Murder of assassins.
And lastly,
A Diversity of multi-classers.

Sadly so. Paladins are the most well intended of classes. but players are bad idea factories. and the most dangerous thing in the world is a man with good intentions and a bad Idea. This is why paladins take so much flack. too many paladins become Miko, not enough act like Ochul.

AAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNND Backontopic

A Detonation of artificers
A Rout of goblins
A Kicking of Kobolds
A Glaring of Kashike (who has done nothing, why you do this)
A Misplacement of wherebeasts (I REGRET NOTHING!)
An Ensemble of Harpers
A Pride of Elves
A Mountain of Dwarves
A Dangit We Did the Real Work of humans (Pointy eared jerks stealing all the glory)
A Hill of hobbits
A Conservation of Ninjas

Gildedragon
2016-04-22, 02:10 PM
A mumbling of truenamers
A covenant of binders
A faction of factotums
A synod of clerics
A quest of paladins
A workshop of artificers

Deophaun
2016-04-22, 04:45 PM
Maze of Beguilers
Salvo of Warmages
Plague of Necromancers
Mirage of Illusionists
Summoning of Conjurers

TeChameleon
2016-04-22, 10:13 PM
It's beginning to become depressing how often the opinion on
paladins is brought so low by the zeitgeist of the world.

Not to mention the fact there there are "paladins"
who enjoy and spread the imbecilic playstyle that caused this opinion.
I don't want to be above or below anyone.

And now back to our scheduled thread-relevant content!
A Brutality of barbarians.
A Murder of assassins.
And lastly,
A Diversity of multi-classers.
Thus the brackets in my groupname idea- a righteousness of paladins works for the O-Chul types, and a self-righteousness of paladins works for the "paladins".

Although I feel compelled to point out that the blame for the paladumbs doesn't fall entirely on the players (although a good share of it certainly does)- the way RAW comes out, many a DM has had a PC paladin fall for too much good, not enough lawful, or even the ever-wonderful 'results matter more than intentions, and these factors you had no actual way of knowing about make your results bad. Have fun being a fighter with no feats!' (no, thankfully not personal experience talking :smalltongue:)

And a Murder of Assassins would be wonderful if they were all Kenku :smallamused:

And, in yet another attempt to get back on topic...

A Smite of Avengers
A Foot of Monks
A Headache of Psions
A Scribble of Runepriests
A Censer of Invokers
A Mischance of Sorcerors

goto124
2016-04-24, 01:47 AM
A feat of fighters.

Fallen paladins need not apply :smalltongue:

IntelectPaladin
2016-04-25, 10:22 AM
Thus the brackets in my groupname idea- a righteousness of paladins works for the O-Chul types, and a self-righteousness of paladins works for the "paladins".

Although I feel compelled to point out that the blame for the paladumbs doesn't fall entirely on the players (although a good share of it certainly does)- the way RAW comes out, many a DM has had a PC paladin fall for too much good, not enough lawful, or even the ever-wonderful 'results matter more than intentions, and these factors you had no actual way of knowing about make your results bad. Have fun being a fighter with no feats!' (no, thankfully not personal experience talking :smalltongue:)

And a Murder of Assassins would be wonderful if they were all Kenku :smallamused:
Well. Since you've mentioned this,
I now consider myself very lucky to have had a DM that, I kid you not, said
"I respect you're attempt to be the good guy." Didn't bring up any of those reasons, thankfully.
If I may ask, is there a thread where I can post character-Player life stories?
(Or continue this conversation? I get the feeling that the moderators are annoyed.)

I feel like I need to say it somewhere, Especially now,
Since the other D.M. was a creep that tried much, Much worse.

A feat of fighters.

Fallen paladins need not apply :smalltongue:
Wow, I attracted the attention of the Mighty Goto, Comrade of the famous Digo.
I didn't fall, Thankfully,
And it's nice to Sort-of meet you, Goto.

And now, Back to our regularly scheduled thread-related content:
A Monastery of monks,
A Shadow of ninjas,
A Forest of druids.
And lastly,
A WELP of Tarrasques.

Thank you for reading this!
I hope that you have a nice day today,
And that if it isn't, You make it one. Apply headlocks as necessary.