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A cool sounding word meaning Strength or Power beginning with D

Started by antema, December 12, 2018, 09:00:34 AM

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antema

An odd request I know, but I'm looking for a cool sounding word that means either power or strength (or something similar) that begins with the letter D. It could be from some foreign language or completely fictional.

As for the reason. I run a homebrew RPG in which character level is tied to their dice. PCs are almost always d20, and weaker enemies could be anything below that (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d14, d16, d18). And similarly stronger enemies could be anything higher (d22, d24...) As you can see, I've bought quite a few specialty dice.

The problem is that we quite often find ourselves talking about these power levels in-character, and I'm trying to help this matter by including an in-universe explanation for this system. Such as: "In the ancient times heroes of great power measured their strength and power with the 'D levels'." The problem is of course similar to the much more common level systems where characters have numbered levels.

Thanks for any and all help.

EDIT: I'm not looking for an English word, any other language or even fictional gibberish is fine though.

Steven Mitchell


NeonAce

These words may have shadings that aren't quite to your liking, but a few that come to mind:

Durability: Related to endurance, could be said to be the ability to power through things.
Dynamic/Dynamo: "a force that stimulates change or progress within a system or process", a Dynamo also converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
Dominion: To hold power over something.

antema

Oh, I should have clarified. I'm looking for a word in a language other than English. Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, German... But not English.


Simon W

You could go for something like "Destroy", "Destroyer", "Destruction", "Destructive(ness)". Other options "Demolish(er)" or "Demolition". Durfte means "might" in German (but its the wrong sort of might....)



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Azraele

According to google translate, "strength" translates to "Dýnami" in Greek. Sounds pretty baller.
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tenbones

Doughty, Deft, Drive, Dauntless, Dynamism, Dominance, Durable.

Thats all I got.

Azraele

Quote from: tenbones;1068343Doughty, Deft, Drive, Dauntless, Dynamism, Dominance, Durable.

Thats all I got.

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tenbones

Oh shit. Hell yeah! I FEEL stronger now.

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