Re: what is "malus"?
 

I've seen the word used on other gaming boards, but never by someone whose first language was English (AFAIK).

Re: what is "malus"?
 

the word is commonly used in French, probably other European languages as well.

Re: what is "malus"?
 

Malediction and Malicious?

Re: what is "malus"?
 

What troubles me most is that the plural of the English "bonus" is "bonuses" instead of "boni". Brrr.

Some game system used "boon(s)" and "bane(s)" instead of "bonus" and "malus".

Re: what is "malus"?
 

Hmm, interesting. My first language is English, so you've seen it now. (Although I don't use it consistently, and usually would use a real word like "penalty". I'd probably only say "malus" if I had used "bonus" in the same paragraph.)

-Max

Re: what is "malus"?
 

Blame William. When the French Vikings were imposing Latin on the Germanic tongue of the Britons his advisors suggested grammatical rules were more important than unifying the lexicon.
Little known fact, but the rebellion in the North was entirely an attempt to avoid generations of British schoolboys being forced to spend five years of their life attempting to distinguish between nouns, pronouns, gerunds, participles and infinitives.