Q: Dr. Doom, now that you have your ultimate goal, what are you going to do next?
A: We have an expert for biology, psychology, nature, evolution, and technology. This project calls for an expert on Snarfs.
Since my wife has photoshopbic grand mall epilepsy and PTSB, I can testify that this is a great time. Black out curtains are a wonderful creation, noise canceling devices don't work like marketed.
One common feature about RPGs is that characters will need to travel from where they currently are to where the BBEG is. While most of the time this gets waved away, it can be the source for many mini adventures. In addition to the common bandit, raider, monster, whatever, what are some things that you have used to make travel more interesting and unique?
The way that I have always seen the difference: writer.
The torpedoes in system a have these attributes while missiles in system b have those attributes. Break each down and discover that both are effectively identical in every way, except six.
Example: ST torpedoes are matter/antimatter reaction resulting in powerful explosive that travels at light speeds. B5 missiles are more nuclear in nature, delivering the same damage, travel at the same speeds as ST.
As a result, however you choose to define your attack will be correct within your system. Just remember to keep everything consistent.
I wonder how long it will be before our common English words disappear into trademark. In the past, I was told that words by themselves cannot be trademarked, but if incorporated into a logo, design, etc then it becomes trademarkable. This is because the word is a component of some larger image, not the image itself. Now it sounds as though the word is all that is needed for the trademark.