[spoon-discuss] A name for... things

["Orc In A Spacesuit" <orcinaspacesuit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have many things in the ruleset.  Players.  Gremlins.  Societies.  
Entities.  Objects.  The Yeti.  Etc.  One thing that would help with 
standardization would be a term that could be used for "Anything that acts 
on its own/does stuff/performs actions".  This would include players and 
gremlins and societies and such.  And an adjective to put out front would be 
good, to show those that are on the grid.

I have searched long for such a term.  In the Uber, I defined "entity" as 
having that meaning.  But I have found a term that may be better, whether in 
the Uber or not:

Volitional.

That means, roughly, "acts of its own volition".  A definition I found 
elsewhere, is: "An object that has the ability to move, and/or talk. Usually 
it refers to humans, and other sentient and sub-sentient races, but it could 
also refer to a talking statue or a walking enchanted table."

So... it's a long word, but considerably shorter than "player, gremlins, the 
Yeti, Barney..." etc lists all over the ruleset, list that will have to 
change every time a new type of volitional pops up, if they don't use a 
standardized term.

What do you think?  Should we define certain kinds of things to be 
"Volitional"?

Orc in a Spacesuit

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