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Help me find a new name for “Warrior, Rogue & Mage”

WR&M As you probably already know, “Warrior, Rogue & Mage” is a rules-light fantasy RPG created by me. The whole design process was under 24 hours, so I didn’t really bother with finding a proper name.

I am thinking about working on a revised edition which contains new player option, additional equipment and more background information on the Imperium of Vaneria. I also plan to fix some errors I noticed and add in the houserules Will mentioned in his playtest report.

But I am not really happy with the name of the game right now. WR&M doesn’t really roll of the tongue that easily and it sounds pretty boring. Since I always have trouble coming up with cool sounding names, I decided to ask my readers for help. What would you call this fine game? And while we are at it, what would you add to make it a more interesting game? Please share your thoughts in the comments below!
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Michael Wolf is a German games designer and enthusiast best known for his English language role-playing games blog, Stargazer's World, and for creating the free rules-light medieval fantasy adventure game Warrior, Rogue & Mage. He has also worked as an English translator on the German-language Dungeonslayers role-playing game and was part of its editorial team. In addition to his work on Warrior, Rogue & Mage and Dungeonslayers, he has created several self-published games and also performed layout services and published other independent role-playing games such as A Wanderer's Romance, Badass, and the Wyrm System derivative Resolute, Adventurer & Genius, all released through his imprint Stargazer Games. Professionally, he works as a video technician and information technologies specialist. Stargazer's World was started by Michael in August 2008.

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Roger

'Three heroes'

And I really like the three basic attributes. Great idea to use the character classes as a defining metric of the character.

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Coffeelove

"hack, stab & cast" idk, first thing I think of with those three character types…

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Joshua Macy

Hack, Sneak, Cast is a clearer distinction, I think. Also I think it might emphasize that characters are expected to do all three; I know when I first read the rules I was surprised to find that it was a classless system.
.-= Joshua Macy´s last blog ..What about Don’t Rest Your Head? A review… =-.

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Stargazer

Briggzee on the #rpmn IRC channel came up with "Swords, Stealth & Sorcery" which also has a nice ring to it.

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Will

Swords, Stealth, & Sorcery sounds kinda nice. Still a little long, but I like it.

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Stargazer

I think I will keep Warrior, Rogue & Mage for now. A lot of people seem to really like the name.

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Tim

Three Amigoes?

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